How to move your Lightroom catalog from Windows to a Mac

Published: June 11, 2008, 7:10 pm

Over the course of the week I've been moving all my data and other odds and ends off my old Windows PC and onto a new Macbook Pro and for the most part it's as simple as you would expect. The only times when things get a little more tricky is when you are trying to move application data that maintains paths to files on the system, such as Lightroom and iTunes do. Luckily in the case of Lightroom the move was fairly simple. Note: Adobe says that the official way to move files from one computer to another is to use the export catalog feature, move the catalog over, then import. Well, that's nice, but 20K raw photos would take forever to export and I didn't want to mess with that if I could avoid it. So, plan B was to simply move everything over to the Mac, open up Lightroom, and hope for the best. Here's what I did ... 1. Make sure that you have the same exact Lightroom version on both computers as there can be differences in the catalog between versions.

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