Lightroom 5 catalogue in lightroom 4

Hello,
Here's the deal. I had been using the trial version of Lightroom 5, thinking that I would be able to upgrade after the first 30 days. I have used Lightroom for years with school, and I wanted it for myself.
Financially, however, this was not possible. I spoke to my family, and they found a copy of Lightroom 4. I have about 2,000 pictures in Lightroom 5 right now, and I need to get them into 4.
There is one big problem with all of this- exporting the photos to a separate location is not possible. There isn't enough space on this computer or any of my jump drives to make it happen. I can't have a duplicate of all of the pictures around on my computer, and I know how specific Lightroom can be about the original file locations. What I really need is a way to transfer the LR5 catalog into LR4.

If you can't export the photos, you could write the edits and metadata to the files (or sidecar files in the case of RAW) and then import into LR4 (assuming you have enough space for that)

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thank you, it’s done! The Chat helped me! Now I cannot go into this forum anymore with my old password, but that’s not a big problem.
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I recently backuped my photo files from one external drive to another. The backup (carbon copy cloner) pointed to some corrupt files on the original drive.
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I want to get rid of the original external drive; use the recent backup as my main external and then back it up onto a brand new drive.
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Hoping someone can help - sorry if I'm being thick, I'm not very techno-minded!
I am working with Lightroom 3 on a Mac OS X 10.5.8. I archive photos from the Mac hard drive onto an external hard drive (linked to the Mac via an AirPort) every few months, moving them within Lightroom to keep them visible in my working catalogue, so I can continue to access them. The Mac is backed up using the Time machine function every hour, and my automatic Lightroom catalogue backup is saved to the Mac hard drive, thus being backed up onto Time machine automatically as well (Is this wrong?).
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BTW, at one point the advice was to not let Time Machine backup your catalogue file if Lr had it open. I'm pretty sure this is still a problem. Either always make sure Lr is not running when TM runs, or excuse the catalogue file via the TM preferences. There is a slight risk of corrupting the catalogue otherwise.
According to the Help documents, when Lr 3 is open it marks itself as private and therefore excluded from Time Machine backups. Once the application is closed down it can be backed up by Time Machine.
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I have 55,000 images catalogued in Elements 10 (took me three months to finish the job) and I now want to switch to Lightroom for editing whilst retaining my PS catalogue.
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