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Lightroom Migration

David Orlando

I've read the instructions and watched the recent video on using the Lightroom migration tool, and it all seems pretty straightforward for a clean initial setup of Photo Raw coming from Lightroom. However, its less clear to me what I will end up with if I've already been using PR for a while on the same file set.

I have my raw files on an external SSD and it is cataloged in PR and now littered with ON1 sidecar files.  My LR catalog also is for that SSD.  My only goal is to migrate my old LR edits over to ON1 and end up in PR with associated sidecars for those files that have LR edits.  Is that all that will happen?  My {probably unfounded) fear is that running the migration will somehow conflict with, duplicate, or otherwise mess up my existing ON1 catalogs & edits/sidecars.  I did read an older article that said if I have already edited a file in ON1, then the LR edits for that photo will be ignored (I had hoped it would create a new "version" in that scenario).

If anyone has experience with this I'd like to hear what you found. Thanks in advance.

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  • Rick Sammartino Community moderator

    I've never done the migration myself. There are 5 articles in the library about it. You should check those out first.

    https://on1help.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/search?filter_by=knowledge_base&query=Lightroom+Migration&utf8=%E2%9C%93

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  • David Orlando
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    Thanks Rick.  I went ahead and ran the migration tool and don't seem to have had any problems.  Any photos that had edits in LR now have those edits (a facsimile of) in PR2023.  Some photos look remarkably close to how they were edited in LR, others don't look anything close.  But that is pretty much what I expected.  For any photos that had been edited in both programs, the ON1 edits were retained and the LR edits seem to have been ignored.

    The other thing it did was create a new catalog structure in PR2023 containing any folders from the SSD that I had not already cataloged.  I don't want that so just deleted it.  Folders I had already cataloged were not duplicated or effected other then adding the LR edits.

    It is still churning in the background and apparently will be for a while, I believe it is going through and applying the LR edits - until it is done most files have a "LR" tag in the lower corner and the LR edits get applied immediately when I browse or edit the individual file.

    Happy with the process so far.  Suddenly I'm a migration vet.

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