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Unable to import new lightroom catalogue

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Attempting to import a catalogue made using lightroom classic fails.
It counts the number of images correctly (~37k), and imports the collections, however it quits after importing the first file.
According to the results page, there were no failures, just only one file imported. Nothing that I could see in the event log either (If there are further log

I tried importing an older version from some months ago and that seems to work fine, but obviously is very out of date in its contents.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    I have this problem too. The importer on version 11 has all sorts of bugs.
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  • Ian Leslie
    I am hitting a similar issue. I thought things were good because, as you said it counted the images correctly, but it only actually imported 12 000 images instead of the 74 000.

    I am going to do it again and record the details and open a support case.

    If there are images that are tripping things up I will gladly skip them. Hopefully support can help figure out what is wrong and find a workaround while they fix the bug.
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  • Ian Leslie
    [quote="IanL" wrote:
    I am hitting a similar issue.


    Just reporting in that things are working better now. In response to my case the support team suggested that I split up my LR catalogue and import them separately. I am only a quarter of the way through but it is working! Yay.

    I store my photos in <year>/<date><job> folder structure so I am spitting off a year at a time (combining some early years where the counts are much lower) and then importing them. So, far my verifying has shown that nothing has been missed and I am plugging away at it.

    Collections get imported under <lrcaralogname>/collections... so even though I have many collections that span years they do not conflict and all I have to do is add the newly imported photos from a collection to the new ones I created at the top level in the C1 catalogue.

    Clearly being able to handle the big catalogue wold be preferred I can deal with doing this with a bunch of smaller ones as a one time cost.
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