How to Migrate Lightroom Classic to Another Computer 

It worked really well for me. I wasn't sure when it came time to load the presets as there was already a folder by the same name. I deleted the folder that was there and pasted my folder in so there wouldn't be a duplicate. Worked great. It found my photos on the external hard drive. No finding missing files necessary. Thank you Julianne!

Very timely video as I’m just about to switch over to a new computer. Thanks very much!

Great video and timely too as I am migrating to a new laptop.

Thanks for sharing Julieanne, just bought a new MAC Mini, I thought it would be easier tbh, so glad I watched this first! I had the pleasure to meet you at The Photography Show in Birmngham, England recently (we were introduced by my mate Dave Clayton) it was great to get to chat with you. Keep up the good work! 😎

Wonderful video. Walked through the process with you step by step. All happy on my new computer.

Thank you for this! This helped me transfer my catalog from my old PC to my new laptop!

This has been very helpful, thank you

Thank you for this video, This helped me a lot.

Thanks for the video :) it is absolutely remarkable that it is this complex to move from one computer to another. I can migrate my whole phone ecosystem with all its apps and user settings using one log-in and 15min wait. but lightroom needs me to manually copy paste 10 different impossible to guess folders and files between two computers.

Dear Julieanna, that was the perfect help.Thanks a lot

Thank you very much, it helped big time.

Thank you, just had to do exactly this exercise, and following this , I learnt a lot, and saved a lot of time. Good reason to Subscribe. Thank You

Thank you Julieanne for the informative video. I wish my case was this simple. So I am currently running LR 11 on my old iMac with iOS Catalina. Just my bad luck that my photos are on a Drobo external drive, which is not supported on my brand new Mac Studio. So my question is: would you suggest doing the migration connecting a new external drive to the old iMac and LR 11 and copying everything from my Drobo drive through my LR 11 current version, and then launching the new drive on my MacStudio with LR 14? I guess I'm asking for more help when the migration includes hard drive and computer migration with different versions of LR... Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video! It worked for me, i simply moved the catalog over w/out the edits and i was confused on how to properly move to my new device. Do you know how to also move the developer edits as well? i believe mines were lost in transfer only on 4 folders strangely, i can't even find them on the source computer :(

Thank you

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. 🙏

Does this apply to normal users of the desktop version (Lightroom 6/non-cloud) ?

I purchased Lightroom 6 a few years ago and never had time to use it on my old PC. I now have a new PC and would like to use it on my new PC, but it won't let me install it using the DVD I purchased. Adobe tells me to be sure all Adobe programs are up to date (which they are). Any suggestions?

Adobe, please find a way to make this process easier

Does adobe make you uninstall the copy of lightroom classic on my current laptop before installing it on the new?