Comments In this episode of the Complete Picture, (How to Migrate Lightroom to a New Computer), I explain how to transfer all of your Lightroom Catalogs, backups, presets, preferences and supporting files from one computer to another. I will also provide tips on how to re-link any missing files and folders if the paths to your images change along the way.
Julieanne, that’s exactly what I need. I’m about to put a new HD in my old PC and was scared of losing everything in LR3. Thank you, SO MUCH!!!!!
Hello Julianne
Your presentations are the best. You are always so thorough!
Here’s something though that either I haven’t found you discuss or perhaps doesn’t exist. It’s how to migrate Identitiy Plates to a new catalog.
I frequently create a new catalog for each wedding I process and sometimes I want LR to carry my Logo at the top. However I haven’t discovered a way to make this happen in my XP machine. Is there a way?
Hi Carlos, Unfortunately neither the Identity plates nor the watermarks are transferred to a new catalog. Although, as a work-around, I have seen photographers who use a-catalog-per-client workflow create a “template” catalog with the presets, watermarks identity plates etc set up in the template so that they don’t have to recreate them every time.
Thanks for this! You’ve saved a lot of rework!