[Leica] Not yet upgrading to LR4

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Hi Henning,

being security-minded, I have all versions as far back 
as LR1 still installed:-)

I also keep duplicate catalogs on an external drive 
along with regular backups of images, so, if I'm lucky, 
it should be possible to simply connect the external to 
the new machine and let LR 4 grab the catalogs from 
there. The question is, can LR4 pick everything up 
without a legacy version (LR3) being installed on the 
new machine?

At least I hope it works that simply.

Best
Douglas

On 13.03.2012 17:41, Henning Wulff wrote:
> I don't have a direct answer either, but on Macs, when a new version of 
> Lightroom wants to convert the catalog to a new form, the old one is left 
> intact in the process no matter how you go about it. I would think it 
> would be the same on Windows machines. Just like if I update the program, 
> the older version of LR is left intact. So I can go back to using 
> Lightroom 3 minutes after I install LR4 and have converted the catalog. 
> This only applies to major version changes, of course, not to minor 
> updates.
>
> I have LR do a catalog backup every week, and then every couple of months 
> clear out the ones that are older than one month manually. That means I 
> have a duplicate catalog from no longer than a week ago even if I do 
> happen to screw up the latest one (which I never have, to date). Also, I 
> use Time Machine on my Mac, so I have another backup that is no older than 
> an hour. Plus some cloned backups of my hard drives that are older.
>
> The original images of course are a different matter. They don't ever get 
> touched, and stay where you first import them.
>
> Henning
>
>
> On 2012-03-13, at 8:04 AM, Robert Adler wrote:
>
>> Hi Doug,
>> Even if you get a yes from some (my answer is I don't know), I would think
>> it be wise to export your photos as a catalogue and then import that
>> catalogue on the (presumably) new machine. That way if something doesn't
>> work, you will still have your original catalogue and files.
>> Best,
>> Bob
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Douglas Sharp<douglas.sharp at gmx.de>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all you LR-experts
>>>
>>> As LR4 is apparently incompatible with XP - and all my images, catalogs
>>> etc. are on an XP machine - will there be any problems just migrating 
>>> these
>>> to a machine with Windows 7 and letting LR4 do the rest to connect up to
>>> them?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Douglas
>>>
>>> On 12.03.2012 18:15, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I loaded my copy of LR4 last night and it worked just fine.
>>>>
>>>> Gene
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Ric Carter"<ricc at embarqmail.com>
>>>> To: "Leica Users Group"<lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 10:14:53 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Uh Oh, do NOT use LR4?!!! Re: Why I am upgrading to
>>>> LR4...
>>>>
>>>> can you?--i've been scared to
>>>>
>>>> enjoying LR4 here
>>>>
>>>> ric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 12, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Brian Reid wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I know I can rename it;
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> Henning Wulff
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