Comments on: Why You Should Use Lightroom’s Catalog Backup Feature Even If You Backup Your Whole Computer Daily

By: Rob Sylvan

Rob Sylvan — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 19:50:50 +0000

In reply to Patrick B Dolan. Unzip the Lightroom catalog from the most recent backup copy. Move that unzipped catalog file (it will have a .lrcat extension) to a new location on your drive (such as a folder within your Pictures folder). Double-click that catalog file to open it into Lightroom.

By: Patrick B Dolan

Patrick B Dolan — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 18:11:08 +0000

I had a take my PC in for some issues. I end up installing a new SSD drive and making it my primary drive. I still have a secondary SSD drive as well as a 1TB hard drive. They were unable to clone my files to m new primary SSD, So I have had to reinstall all of my programs including Lightroom. When I launch Lightroom my catalog is not there. I can see my backup catalogs but I can’t get them to open or be recognized.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:55:10 +0000

Lightroom backup, does create a backup of your catalog, in addition to checking for integrity. Once in a while it’s good to check the folder with backups and clean it up to free up some space is needed. On large catalogs it takes a while to do the backup…so I switched to backing up once a week instead of every time I close Lightroom.

By: johan Schmidt

johan Schmidt — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:30:26 +0000

Terry’s got a very simple and understandable way of presenting – never knew LR makes a new catalog backup each time – nice tip to save some HD space

By: Cliff Baughen

Cliff Baughen — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 07:47:41 +0000

Sounds like there is an opportunity for Adobe to enhance LR CC with a catalogue backup cleanup facility