Lightroom 3 windows to mac

How do I migrate from Lightroom 3 Windows to Lightroom 3 Mac?

ambienttroutmask wrote:
Install LR on your MAC. Copy your catalog file (.lccat) to a location on your mac and open it. You will also need to locate the image files on a disk connected to the mac, an external disk is good for this as you can use it on both machines. Once LR is open it will show ? on the files and folders. Right click on the highest level folder, choose update folder location and point LR to where the files/now folders are in relation to the mac.
I believe in order for both the Mac and PC to be able to see the image files, the external drive has to be formatted as FAT32. Another alternative would be to have the Mac and PC on the same network (connected via a router?) and share the disk on the PC where the images are. I assume you want to move the images as well.
Jay S.

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Hi, yes, the libraries are interchangeable! I have set up a quick/limited test of this but it isn't my regular setup, so don't know the ins and outs. I have used a MAC laptop with Win desktop. Same would apply for the reverse.
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In keeping with the process I started, I attempted to synchronise the data by using the same library file. The ONLY issue I encountered with using the same library and presets is that since the MAC and Windows file systems are different, I had to locate my folder in the Windows version after setting it up on the MAC. Eg. MAC->MyPics->XTi->2006-12-29 had to translate to f:\MyPics\XTi\2006-12-29.
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http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bc340dc
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I am writing to this forum to ask for help in determining whether Aperture will satisfy my needs when I switch from Windows to MAC in the near future.

I am writing to this forum to ask for help in determining whether Aperture will satisfy my needs when I switch from Windows to MAC in the near future.
I am currently using Photoshop Elements 8 on Windows 7. After several years of use, I am self taught and adequately proficient for an amateur. What I didn't realize (until I started researching my upcoming migration on the Internet) is that I actually use PE8 for two functions: digital asset management and digital editing.
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If, once I get Aperture, I find that it cannot enable the kinds of editing that I do, I would probably get PE11 in the future. However, if people in this forum tell me that Aperture will definitely not support the kinds of editing which I've described in the previous paragraph, I would prefer to get PE11 with my initial configuration (since someone will be helping me with my migration).
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I am concerned, however, about using a non-Apple Digital Asset Manager in OSX. I would really like to avoid integration problems. Is using PE11 to import and catalog my digital photos likely to cause conflicts?
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Amy,
Not so much conflicts as maybe a little less seamless integration with Apple software and perhaps some third-party software providers in the Mac App Store where some programs build in direct access to iPhoto and Aperture libraries for getting images into those programs easily. Typically, there is a manual command to go to Finder (think Windows Explorer) to browse folders.
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Hi.
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I'm about to buy the 13" Mac Book Pro (after ditching the Lenovo X301 because of a super slow processor, slow FSB, slow intel graphics).
But I have a couple of questions before I buy this Mac Book Pro.
NOTE:
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Hi.. and thanks for that answer... another related here:
I'm to buy this external drive:
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This page:
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Regards

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From a Google search and looking over topics in this forum, I've found other posts describing this identical problem for both Mac and Windows versions of Lightroom going back to the original introduction of Lightroom 5 over a year ago.
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I know that the slideshow functionality used to work back in Lightroom 3 and 4. I hadn't tried to use it in Lightroom 5.x until now, so I don't know when it became broken, but it's definitely broken now...and from reading various posts here on Adobe forums and in related non-Adobe forums, it appears that Adobe has yet to acknowledge that this problem exists...which I find surprising and disappointing.
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DETAILS:
Hardware: Mac Book Pro Retina -- fully loaded (2.6 GHz Intel Core I7, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB graphics card, External Apple 27" Cinema Monitor connected via Thunderbolt)
OS: Mac OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks
LR Version: Lightroom Mac 5.5
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1. spinning beachball for seconds to minutes depending on how many images are in current folder/collection
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1. Preparing Preview progress bar
2. followed by slideshow window turning completely black.
Pressing forwards/backwards arrows does nothing; pressing ESC or clicking mouse returns slideshow window to display of slideshow layout
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I’m disappointed
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Robert Kahn less than a minute ago
Update:
Just upgraded from Lightroom Mac 5.5 to 5.6.
Per my post above, creating an impromptu slideshow (CMD-Return) or using the Slideshow module produces either a completely black preview or a completely black full-screen slideshow.
While Adobe addressed other issues and bugs in Lightroom 5.x, they apparently did not address the slideshow functionality in this release, alas....

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Is it possible to move the license I have bought for windows to my new macbook?

You don't want to think in terms of moving anything. Just install the Mac version of Lightroom on the Mac and see if the serial number you have works to activate it.
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http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=113&platform=Macintosh

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Bonjours Il est vrais que je ne suis pas très doué en informatique.
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Bonjour,
Comme ce forum est en anglais on obtient beaucoup plus vite des réactions quand on pose la question en anglais.
Je m'imagine que vous arrivez à ouvrir le catalogue .
Est-ce que vous voyez des points d'interrogation devant vos dossiers?
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You're welcome.
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http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/features.html
Fast cross-platform performance
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http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/faq.html
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/5472570
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