Hi All,
I just got my copy of Lightroom 3. I've already been watching the new LR 3 tutorials from Michael and Jeff, and thought I would do the Catalogue conversion precisely as Jeff stated we 'should', meaning, exporting my current catalogue from LR2, then importing that catalogue in LR3. I did it exactly as the video tutorial says, however, what I get appears to be a new catalogue, with all the images (7203 images, only, thank goodness!) with the images indicating the proper size, names, etc, BUT...NO IMAGES! It appears as if the catalogue captured all the metadata, but not the actual images. The LR2 catalogue was 119.5MB in size, the new LR3 catalogue is only 84.3MB. Is this my first clue of what's wrong? All the individual images, and all the file folders, have question marks associated with them, as if the program thinks the images and folders are off line. But, this does not appear to be the case. As I said before, the catalogue appears to be there, just significantly smaller than the original LR2 catalogue. What did I do wrong? Oh, one thing of note, I anticipated that even the 7K images would have taken an hour or more to 'convert'. But, the process only appeared to take 2-3 minutes. Does this mean something in the conversion process didn't 'take'? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One more thing. After this problem occurred, I tried an alternate method. The Mike/Jeff video method said to use the 'File>Import from Catalogue' command to convert the LR2 catalogue. This is what appeared to not work. Alternately, I just used the 'Import' button on the Library page, and selected the exported LR2 catalogue (the same one I used for the process suggested by the video), and LR3 seemed to import all (well, most, anyway) of the images just fine. I don't understand the difference between the 2 processes, but Mike and Jeff seemed to indicate that there was some advantage in doing it their way. But...as I wrote above, their way has given me problems. I'd still like to get my new LR3 catalogue off to the best possible start, so I want to know what went wrong with the way I did it. HELP!!!
If it matters, I'm doing this on a MacBook, running Snow Leopard.