You have taken the plunge and bought Lightroom 5. In the video below, I show you how to upgrade. I discuss how you can find your old catalog if necessary, how to ensure that your new Lightroom 5 catalog is named appropriately and that your presets come along, and how to remove your old catalog and software.
For higher quality video, hit Play, then click on the sprocket wheel in the bottom right and choose 720/HD.
(For those of you more experienced users wondering why in this video I have users who store their presets with their catalog rename their catalog later, it is because if you do it in the upgrade dialog, it will put the catalog in a new folder, which will separate your presets (i.e. your Lightroom Settings folder) from this new catalog. If you choose to go this route, copy your Lightroom Settings folder into this new catalog folder.)
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Great video, although the first time i run LR5 the “Upgrade Catalogue Wizard” didn’t came up, so I wasn’t able to do the upgrade from LR4 on the Mac.
I realize that for people that run Lightroom 5 Beta suffer from this, all they have to do is delete previous LR5 Beta catalogues and do as you explain in the video.
Thank you and regards,
Miguel Garcia
Thanks, Miguel — you’re right – I forgot to cover this scenario!
Hey, thank you very much for posting this procedure. I just downloaded LR5, and will follow your directions!