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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 451020" data-attributes="member: 9240">Just to be very clear here, yes you can have both versions co-existing on your computer with no issues, but once you convert the catalog you cannot unconvert it, and you cannot share one.&nbsp; When I opened LR CC for the first time it converted my catalog and it did so in place.&nbsp; In other words, the catalog file was updated and saved with the same name.&nbsp; Since then I've gone back and converted older catalogs and these have been given a '-2' designation.&nbsp; This may have changed in the patch that was uploaded in the first week for precisely the purpose of allowing people to go back if they didn't backup their old catalogs.What I'm saying is that if you're not sure about LR 6/CC then perhaps it's best to do only new work in that as you can always save the XMP files and load back into LR 5 should you abandon it.&nbsp; Otherwise, purposefully back up the LR 5 catalogs before converting because you can never convert a 6/CC back to 5.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 451020, member: 9240"] Just to be [I][B]very[/B][/I] clear here, yes you can have both versions co-existing on your computer with no issues, [B]but[/B] once you convert the catalog you cannot unconvert it, and you cannot share one. When I opened LR CC for the first time it converted my catalog and it did so in place. In other words, the catalog file was updated and saved with the same name. Since then I've gone back and converted older catalogs and these have been given a '-2' designation. This may have changed in the patch that was uploaded in the first week for precisely the purpose of allowing people to go back if they didn't backup their old catalogs. What I'm saying is that if you're not sure about LR 6/CC then perhaps it's best to do only new work in that as you can always save the XMP files and load back into LR 5 should you abandon it. Otherwise, purposefully back up the LR 5 catalogs before converting because you can never convert a 6/CC back to 5. [/QUOTE]

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