Thanks for doing this video. As time consuming as the process is, you explained it in a very simple straight forward way. It's taken me 2 days but I have been able to transfer my Lightroom catalogue from my old computer to my new computer!
This is something I have been wanting to do for a long time, but have been too daunted to attempt. Your explanation is very simple and easy to understand. Thank you.
In this video I demonstrate how to move your Lightroom catalog and images from one computer to another. I demo using Mac computers but this will work the exact same way with Windows Machines. If you like the video, please "Share" and "Like" it. If you would like to support free UA-cam videos like these, please consider making a donation. More info here: onlinephotographytraining.com/you-can-help/ Thank you!
Thank you so much!! I had already done all the hard parts but wasn't having any luck opening my catalogue on the new computer until I found this video. You're a life saver!
Thank you so much for your easy to follow instructions. I'm moving my LR catalogue from my old PC to my new Macbook and you helped make this process so much less stressful!!!
Great tutorial. I have to do this before my current machine dies. Thanks for making it easy to understand.
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hi Anthony! great video, I already know how to do it but i watched it just in case i missed something :D I think you forgot to explain how to backup all the catalog settings such us file name templates, slideshows preset, etc etc... also, with the new version of Lr the profiles and stored in a different folder and the develop presets too... i took me one day figure out where the hell Lr save those files because if you have a new computer, is also nice to move all the adjustments, plugins profiles and presets you have... for me this is very important, but i think this should be a different video maybe for a more advanced user. Thanks for all your videos, i love them! big hug!
Thanks so much, Anthony. A very well presented tutorial that has refreshed my memory about how to migrate to a new PC with greatly increased confidence. Cheers.
Thank you Anthony. You have taken the “mystery” out of this process. I’m moving to a new M2 Mac Mini, and needed a boost in my confidence on how to do this. Well done.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was completely frustrated watching other vids about this. After watching this video I solved another problem I was having with finding my catalog and photos.
Thank you Thank you Thank you. Just purchased a new iMac to replace an ageing MacBook pro that couldn't cope with photo editing really, Was dreading losing all my work. This made it so easy and all my images are safely back in lightroom on the new iMac. Thank you again.
Brilliant - thank you. I'm about to move about 300K images from a MAC to a PC and was worried that I may have to re-catalogue everything. Again - thank you.
Thanks for this! I copied my lightroom catalog and Images to a new secondary drive on a new pc and when I opened the catalog file, it prompted for an upgrade of version, but it found all the pictures in their new location without any assistance. Very slick!
Thank you so much for making this video. I'm trying to switch from Photoshop to Lightroom for my photo editing and this helped me so much in understanding how Lightroom manages files.
Great tutorial. Was concerned about moving my LR from an external drive to my hard drive as generally when I do something like that I end up with an epic fail. Not this time thanks to the very straight forward real-life example by Anthony. Many thx!!
Absolutely the best explanation I have seen on the process. Thanks so much. The only question is......If you want the location of the originating pictures to be in a new location on your desktop how would you change lightroom to see the new location?
The same way he did. Once you moved the original photos to a new location on the same computer, they will be "question marked" again. and then you need to right click on the parent folder and click on "Find Missing Folder". Same procedure.
Hi Tony, remember that if both computers are in the same network you can copy all the files directly, tou don't need the external HDD. Someone reply complaining about presets and others stuff. I export them to a folder, then I import on the new one Rgds
The #1 reason why I keep all my images on an external drive, no need to move/copy images (waste time) from one internal to the new/other computers internal drive .. I do have several backups of the external. My question when I installed LR to new computer it automatically created a LR catalog in C drive pictures. When I move the original catalog from other computer to the new computer do I install it in pictures, and remove the one that was automatically created when I installed LR on new computer. Thanks for the refresher Anthony, much appreciated !!
Great video. How does the process change if your Lightroom catalog exceeds 4 GB. Adobe says something about using a program like StuffIt to open the folder, which sounds like double clicking to first get into Lightroom will not work. I have a new macbook pro coming, but my catalog has hundreds of thousands of images over a number of external drives. I am unsure if this simple method will work.
Very helpful but it is under my documents folder and I also have a lot of copies of the catalog in the same location. So instead of moving the folder, I really would like to know what I have to move
Holly Crap. I’m soooo intimidated. Just bought my new dream computer, but now I’m cringing. I’ll rewatch this, probably 11 timeS, but thank you for helping the computer challenged.
Anthony - I moved my Lightroom to a new computer - not how you showed in your video. BUT Though I have all my photos I DO NOT have the edited ones that are in my hard drive NOW what do I do???
The process sounds fairly easy, but my Lightroom Image Library is stored on a large external hard drive and backed up to a second hard drive. If I purchase a new computer, do I have to copy the image files from my external hard drive onto the new computer? Is it OK to leave the images on the external hard drive and just plug the drive into a USB port?
I can’t find a video explaining what I’m looking for. I’m good on the photo and preset moving to a new computer. Do you know how to move watermarks and print settings from an old light room to a new computers light room? Or do I just have to knuckle down and re-do all that stuff?
Anthony, I just moved from a pc to a Mac. I seem to have problems opening Sony raw files on the Mac in LRC. ANY IDEAS? Thanks for all your work on your videos.
Joe, I was using LR on a PC with my images stored on an external hard drive ....now I am using an iMac...if I plug the external hard drive to my iMac, I can see all my old “PC” images in the iMac LR, but I cannot modify them....I know there must be an iMac/PC file incompatibility .....do you know if there is a fix so I can use the PC images on the iMac and be able to make adjustments?? Thank you...
Yea, But where are your presets, styles, profiles etc? Why can't there be one export button that generates a zip file with everything except photos. Then just import that into the new lightroom and reconnect photos and done.
Anthony, I love your channel, can you do a vid on painterly settings in LR for portraits, you know that “ Belle Époque “ look as well as that low key luminous, low saturation / color grading look. Thanks , keep up the great work. By the way your channel is the first I go to on all things photographic.
Just moved my 70,000 images. One of the best videos on this subject because you kept it simple.
Thanks for doing this video. As time consuming as the process is, you explained it in a very simple straight forward way. It's taken me 2 days but I have been able to transfer my Lightroom catalogue from my old computer to my new computer!
This is something I have been wanting to do for a long time, but have been too daunted to attempt. Your explanation is very simple and easy to understand. Thank you.
In this video I demonstrate how to move your Lightroom catalog and images from one computer to another. I demo using Mac computers but this will work the exact same way with Windows Machines.
If you like the video, please "Share" and "Like" it. If you would like to support free UA-cam videos like these, please consider making a donation. More info here:
onlinephotographytraining.com/you-can-help/
Thank you!
Typical Morganti: clear, concise and truly the best; thank you Anthony
Thank you so much!! I had already done all the hard parts but wasn't having any luck opening my catalogue on the new computer until I found this video. You're a life saver!
Thank you so much for your easy to follow instructions. I'm moving my LR catalogue from my old PC to my new Macbook and you helped make this process so much less stressful!!!
This was perfect for a computer illiterate chap like me. Thank you for a wonderfully simple and understandable explanation.
Great tutorial. I have to do this before my current machine dies. Thanks for making it easy to understand.
hi Anthony! great video, I already know how to do it but i watched it just in case i missed something :D I think you forgot to explain how to backup all the catalog settings such us file name templates, slideshows preset, etc etc... also, with the new version of Lr the profiles and stored in a different folder and the develop presets too... i took me one day figure out where the hell Lr save those files because if you have a new computer, is also nice to move all the adjustments, plugins profiles and presets you have... for me this is very important, but i think this should be a different video maybe for a more advanced user. Thanks for all your videos, i love them! big hug!
Thanks so much, Anthony. A very well presented tutorial that has refreshed my memory about how to migrate to a new PC with greatly increased confidence. Cheers.
Thank you Anthony. You have taken the “mystery” out of this process. I’m moving to a new M2 Mac Mini, and needed a boost in my confidence on how to do this. Well done.
Thank you so much for this Anthony. Very clear and it has reduced my nerves about moving lightroom to a new computer considerably.
Thanks Anthony! You saved the day for me with this video!
Great tutorial. Bet Joe is real proud of you. 👌 🍻
You are Great. Thank you. My English is not the best but I understood everything.
The best and most complete explanation I have seen so far. 😊
THIS is what I was looking for. Thank you so much.
A fantastic set-by-step guide. Thank you - just migrated 51k photos to a external drive!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was completely frustrated watching other vids about this. After watching this video I solved another problem I was having with finding my catalog and photos.
Thank you for your video! I am moving my Lightroom from the old mac to a new mac today. This was helpful!
Thanks very much, Anthony. I just moved everything from my laptop to a much more powerful desktop PC. Worked like a charm.
Thank you Thank you Thank you. Just purchased a new iMac to replace an ageing MacBook pro that couldn't cope with photo editing really, Was dreading losing all my work. This made it so easy and all my images are safely back in lightroom on the new iMac. Thank you again.
You give such clear instructions! I'm about to try this! I can't tell you how much I needed this help.
I can always count on you to have what I need to do and or learn. Thank you. Aloha from Maui
Thank you very much! Your videos are among the best!
Excellent explanation. Thank you very much.
This is just what I needed to know. Short, sweet and thorough.....
Outstanding video!!! You're my favorite go-to person for Lightroom tips and training. Thank you for all of the videos you post!!!
You explanations are extremely precise and detailed. Thank you so very much.
Wow Anthony, You helped make the transfer of my lightroom and over 8000 images so completely painless. I bow before you O lightroom god!
Brilliant - thank you. I'm about to move about 300K images from a MAC to a PC and was worried that I may have to re-catalogue everything. Again - thank you.
Fantastic - great clear video. Thank you
What a great tutoral.
Great explanation! many thanks for this video!
Thanks for this! I copied my lightroom catalog and Images to a new secondary drive on a new pc and when I opened the catalog file, it prompted for an upgrade of version, but it found all the pictures in their new location without any assistance. Very slick!
Thank you. I just upgrade back to Mac from Windows. Super easy tutorial.
Always enjoy your simple clear explanations!
Many thanks for this. I am going to move from my old PC to my new Macbook Pro with this method.
Excellent presentation and very useful information. What a calm, reassuring voice! Well done. Thanks for sharing!
Many thanks for the video. Very clear and simple instructions.
Life saver! Thanks for your simple explanation.
Anthony, I just like to say: Thanks so much for this fantastic video. That's what I've looked for. Greetings from Germany. Stefan
Thank you' explained very clearly.
Excellent "How To" video. Thank you Anthony!
Thanks so much for this. I needed the "Show Parent Folder" tip to get it done....
Thank you. The video saved me a lot of time and frustration.
FINALLY! This is what I've been looking for since I bought my new laptop. Thank you so much!
Excellent tutorial. Thanks for the clear description for Windows and Mac.
This is a super helpful video. I did not realize you need to resync the catalog. That was the piece that was not working for me. Thank you
Thank you so much for making this video. I'm trying to switch from Photoshop to Lightroom for my photo editing and this helped me so much in understanding how Lightroom manages files.
You made this process so easy, thank you 👍
Thank you very much for your guidance.
Thank you for this great tutorial. I just followed your instructions and it worked flawlessly. Thank you for a great video and you have a great style.
Thanks Anthony.
Thanks for making this. So far so good !
Very good instructions. Worked without problems!
Thank you for the simple instructions. As you say at the beginning, this is very easy to do.
Anthony, I love your videos, love using Lightroom and learning Photoshop too! From one Buffalonian to another, "Well Done!"
Wonderful video - answered all my questions. THANK YOU!
Thank you very much.A very clear concise video, as usual.
Great tutorial. Was concerned about moving my LR from an external drive to my hard drive as generally when I do something like that I end up with an epic fail. Not this time thanks to the very straight forward real-life example by Anthony. Many thx!!
All of my pictures are on a separate HDD. Can I simply take it out of the bay in my old PC and insert it in the new PC? Any help is appreciated.
Outstanding!
Very helpful video Anthony. It has saved a lot of time and effort. Thanks for making this video and sharing it with the world!
Thank you so much for this video! Definitely helped.
Also my maiden name is Morganti, I’ve never heard it elsewhere before!
Fabulous. Great information.
thank you for the wonderful , easy to understand explanation
Very helpfull....even today! Thank you.
Thank you! Excellent video & very clear how to do this intimidating procedure! I think I finally understand it.
Absolutely the best explanation I have seen on the process. Thanks so much. The only question is......If you want the location of the originating pictures to be in a new location on your desktop how would you change lightroom to see the new location?
The same way he did. Once you moved the original photos to a new location on the same computer, they will be "question marked" again. and then you need to right click on the parent folder and click on "Find Missing Folder". Same procedure.
Hi Tony, remember that if both computers are in the same network you can copy all the files directly, tou don't need the external HDD.
Someone reply complaining about presets and others stuff. I export them to a folder, then I import on the new one
Rgds
pretty helpful. thank you
Thank you Sir, That was just what I needed to now. Excellent
Very well explained- thanks!
Great video and very well & detailed explained. I really appreciate that. Thanks
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
PS Anthony I LOVE your videos. They are so helpful!
The #1 reason why I keep all my images on an external drive, no need to move/copy images (waste time) from one internal to the new/other computers internal drive .. I do have several backups of the external. My question when I installed LR to new computer it automatically created a LR catalog in C drive pictures. When I move the original catalog from other computer to the new computer do I install it in pictures, and remove the one that was automatically created when I installed LR on new computer. Thanks for the refresher Anthony, much appreciated !!
Thank you very much for this video. It really helps.
Thank you very much
Great video. How does the process change if your Lightroom catalog exceeds 4 GB. Adobe says something about using a program like StuffIt to open the folder, which sounds like double clicking to first get into Lightroom will not work. I have a new macbook pro coming, but my catalog has hundreds of thousands of images over a number of external drives. I am unsure if this simple method will work.
Thank you very much!!
Very helpful but it is under my documents folder and I also have a lot of copies of the catalog in the same location. So instead of moving the folder, I really would like to know what I have to move
Very well made vido
Thanks mate!
Holly Crap. I’m soooo intimidated. Just bought my new dream computer, but now I’m cringing. I’ll rewatch this, probably 11 timeS, but thank you for helping the computer challenged.
Wow that’s so helpful thank you 🙏
Anthony - I moved my Lightroom to a new computer - not how you showed in your video. BUT Though I have all my photos I DO NOT have the edited ones that are in my hard drive NOW what do I do???
Anthony, having a similar problem. I cant get the catalog to load
Thank you
The process sounds fairly easy, but my Lightroom Image Library is stored on a large external hard drive and backed up to a second hard drive. If I purchase a new computer, do I have to copy the image files from my external hard drive onto the new computer? Is it OK to leave the images on the external hard drive and just plug the drive into a USB port?
Question: if I want to keep the images on the external HD, how the catalog going to know that.
I can’t find a video explaining what I’m looking for. I’m good on the photo and preset moving to a new computer. Do you know how to move watermarks and print settings from an old light room to a new computers light room? Or do I just have to knuckle down and re-do all that stuff?
Anthony, I just moved from a pc to a Mac. I seem to have problems opening Sony raw files on the Mac in LRC. ANY IDEAS? Thanks for all your work on your videos.
Thanks
you can make the Lightroom Catalog inside your pictures folder, tahta way you need only copy one folder to the new computer.
Joe, I was using LR on a PC with my images stored on an external hard drive ....now I am using an iMac...if I plug the external hard drive to my iMac, I can see all my old “PC” images in the iMac LR, but I cannot modify them....I know there must be an iMac/PC file incompatibility .....do you know if there is a fix so I can use the PC images on the iMac and be able to make adjustments?? Thank you...
Yea, But where are your presets, styles, profiles etc? Why can't there be one export button that generates a zip file with everything except photos. Then just import that into the new lightroom and reconnect photos and done.
Anthony, I love your channel, can you do a vid on painterly settings in LR for portraits, you know that “ Belle Époque “ look as well as that low key luminous, low saturation / color grading look. Thanks , keep up the great work. By the way your channel is the first I go to on all things photographic.