Iphoto to Lightroom??

Hi there.. I changing from iPhoto and Aperture to Lightroom.... I have followed all the instructions from Adobe of how to import the photos from iPhoto etc   - but it just causes Lightroom to freeze...  has anyone else experienced this and found out a fix... Thanks

You can also import individual images from iPhoto by drag&drop.
Be aware though that any changes you make in Lightroom will be stored as a set of processing instructions in its database rather than as a modified image. That means edits in LR won’t be reflected in iPhoto. For that you’d need to export the modified images from LR and import them back into iPhoto.
If all you want is to migrate your images to LR *for good*, this obviously won’t be a problem.

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