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Where can I find Lightroom database documentation?
I am sure there is no official documentation - Adobe does not really want us poking around in there. Having said that there are a few blog posts with information around the contents of the catalogue ...
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How to best keep Lightroom catalog backups?
Hence what is the best way to organise catalogs and the relative photos in order to easily being able to work on them when needed?
For the Lightroom catalog, set a backup to a Network Storage ...
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How to make Lightroom accept metadata added to photos externally?
The Save Metadata to Files / Read Metadata from File functions will do what you require.
Lightroom provides a facility for writing library metadata out to XMP files alongside the original images, so ...
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is there a catalogue in lightroom of all photos that can be used for migration?
one method could be -
Create a new catalog pointing to all your photos, if you have one main parent folder, just import it. This will be the catalog of all your photos.
You can then copy the catalog ...
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Folder-Organising Photos already Imported and Edited in Lightroom
There are a few things you can do to sort out your photos. To preserve as much work as possible, do everything inside of Lightroom, so you won't waste time exporting and then reimporting again your ...
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Folder-Organising Photos already Imported and Edited in Lightroom
Create a folder in Lightroom, then simply drag them in Lightroom to the new folder. Lightroom will move them on disk and keep the edits.
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Folder-Organising Photos already Imported and Edited in Lightroom
For a few photos, it's certainly viable to do this manually in LR, but if you have to organize some hundred picture, it's easier and faster to let the computer do what it's best for, ie. automate ...
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What is a good alternative to Adobe Lightroom on macOS?
May I suggest RawTherapee?
Darktable in my opinion has very poor noise reduction algorithms. The best of them makes the picture very painting-like if taken using a high ISO level.
RawTherapee ...
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How can I share and edit images in my library across multiple devices with Lightroom Classic CC 2019?
Lightroom Classic CC uses a SQLite database called ‘the catalogue’ to store references to all images, metadata and edits. This database is meant to be used on one computer at a time.
To overcome ...
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Where are Adobe Lightroom (not Classic) edits stored?
In Lightroom edits can be stored on two different places:
In specific LR database, named Catalog. Here you will find all the changes, history of edits, created duplicated, etc. on images.
Another ...
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Adding same description to many files in Lightroom
If you want to add/change meta information to more than one photo (when more than one is selected) you should select "Selected Photos" in Library module, specific meta window:
Unfortunately ...
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Where are Adobe Lightroom (not Classic) edits stored?
I am using the latest version of Lightroom classic; it has not changed. Wherever your catalogue is stored there are three files created by LR. One is .lrcat-data which are the AI masks. The other is ....
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Where are Adobe Lightroom (not Classic) edits stored?
It appears that edits are stored in a file called Managed Catalog.mcat. On my Windows 11 device, the file is stored at ...
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Mac ~/Library/Caches/Adobe Camera Raw: Ok to delete?
I agree with Alaska Man that things may depend on settings and, as a general rule, you'd better know what you are doing.
That said, I regularly delete this folder (on Windows) without ill effects. (I ...
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Converting old photos to JPEGs in Lightroom?
Keep your DNGs! I don't see any reason why you couldn't export all 30k photos to jpg using the export dialog built into Lightroom. Store them in a different folder than your DNGs for faster browsing, ...
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Lightroom CC says it can migrate a Lightroom 6 catalog only once - why?
This is not warning, but required action because LR Classic work with new/updated format of catalogs. And AFAIK you can't avoid this action and skip the step. You can continue to use LR 2015 with old ...
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Sync Smart Preview of Master Catalog
Lightroom Classic CC is already behaving that way. A few important things to note:
You can only ever set up one catalogue to sync with Lightroom CC
It won't sync the full catalogue, you need to ...
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How ignore video when import media to Lightroom (not uncheck every time, full ignored)
I believe that's the only way right now, until Adobe adds an option in the future to auto ignore video files.
It takes a second using the option/alt key, can understand why it was never really ...
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What is a good alternative to Adobe Lightroom on macOS?
I prefer to use Capture One. I find the catalog feature is better than Lightroom. It is also a bit faster, and you can work with layers in Capture One, which Lightroom.
The focus mask tool and loupe ...
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How to handle RAW file storage across devices in Lightroom?
One YouTube video suggested storing the Lightroom catalog itself on Dropbox (or Creative Cloud), but this doesn't work for me, because the RAW files are not located in the same folder between my PC ...
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Recovery of LightRoom library following file system corruption
Ok. I managed to sort my way out.
Following some reverse engineering and trial and error I managed to use Python (which I had absolutely no knowledge of before I started) and data mine the LightRoom ...
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problem while importing a lightroom 5 catalog in lightroom CC(6)
Generally speaking you do not want to "import" your catalog when moving to a new computer with also having a new version of lightroom, but follow a series of steps to ensure everything is preserved ...
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Where can I find Lightroom database documentation?
Looking for such information recently myself I found a few websites providing Lightroom database information:
Lightroom Unofficial Database Table Reference
Dive into Lightroom catalogues
LRcat format
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Where can I find Lightroom database documentation?
Here are some Python bindings to the database published by a user:
https://github.com/bzimmer/openroom
Tables are modeled in the openroom/model.py file, including some foreign keys. For example, the ...
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How can I make Lightroom always backup on exit without the dialog asking everytime?
Short answer: You can't.
Setting an option like this is also not a very good idea for the following reason: Catalog Backup in Lightroom also means "Optimizing" the catalog for faster access on future ...
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Same Lightroom Catalog changes colour tone on different machines?
Open one image on both machines and compare all slider positions in all tabs in the developer module. If something is off, try to figure out why (defaults, process version etc.)
If you have custom ...
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Lightroom to show images of particular resolution
I think you can find your answer in aftermarket plugins. Jeffrey Friedl has been writing plugins for a long time, and has one called a Data Explorer which may be worth a try. It lets you filter based ...
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Lightroom to show images of particular resolution
There is presently no metadata filter in Lightroom that looks at image dimensions. Below is what is currently available. Aspect Ratio only considers the relation ...
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Lightroom adjustment/cleanup of settings for historically imported pictures
If you have identified the 2000 images that you want to keep intact among your 80 000, the following steps will do the trick:
Create a new catalog (if you want/need to);
Import the 78 000 images in ...
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