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Okay, you’ve returned from the trip with a laptop full of photos and the laptop’s catalog full of data. The first part of your (imaginary) process is to get these photos and the catalog data from the laptop to the desktop computer. Here are the steps for one way to do it:

1 Open Lightroom Classic on the laptop.This opens your temporary working catalog from the trip.

2 Expand the Catalog panel in the Library module and click All Photographs.For this example, you’ll want to export all the photos in the laptop catalog, and this is the easiest way to gather them up. You’ll see the thumbnails of all imported photos appear in the content area.

3 Choose File ⇒ Export as Catalog from the main menu.Doing so launches the dialog shown in Figure 2-9.

4 Choose the location where you want the exported catalog and photos to be saved.The goal is to get the data from the laptop to the desktop. High-speed external drives are great for data transfers of this size. You can export across a network, but a high-speed external drive may be faster if you’re moving a lot of data. I like using external drives so I can do the export before I get home and then simply connect the external drive to the desktop for transfer. The choice is yours.

5 Enter a name in the Name field.

6 Configure the check boxes at the bottom.Figure 2-9 shows I am exporting a catalog with 1108 photos and 4 virtual copies (more on virtual copies in Chapter 5). By clicking All Photographs in Step 2, I told Lightroom Classic I wanted to export everything, so I don’t want to check Export Selected Photos Only (this option appears only if one or more photos were selected before invoking the menu). The Export Negative Files option means that Lightroom Classic will include a copy of every imported photo along with the exported catalog, so that needs to be checked. (This is how you move the photos from the laptop to the desktop.) Including available previews is not required, but it will enable you to see the thumbnails when you import this catalog into the master catalog. There isn’t a need to create Smart Previews now, so leave that unchecked.

7 Click Export Catalog.Your export begins.

FIGURE 2-9: The dialog that appears when exporting a catalog on Mac. In Windows, the dialog box looks like a File Explorer window but functions the same.

When the progress meter is complete, a copy of your catalog has migrated to the new location you chose. It’s a fully functional catalog containing all the data the master catalog has on those exported photos. Look in the exported folder, and you see the folders containing the photos alongside the catalog file. Phase 1 is done. Time to connect that catalog to the one on your desktop computer.