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Now that you have a folder containing your exported catalog as well as copies of your photos, you need to make it accessible to the desktop computer. In my example, I used an external drive that I moved from the laptop to the desktop computer. Here are the steps to import from a catalog:

1 Connect the external drive to the desktop computer.

2 Open the desired Lightroom Classic catalog on the desktop computer.This opens the catalog you want to import the data from the other catalog into.

3 Choose File ⇒ Import from Another Catalog.A file browsing window appears.

4 Navigate to the exported .lrcat file on the external drive, select it, and then click Choose (Open on Windows).Doing so launches the Import from Catalog dialog shown in Figure 2-10. Note: The name of the .lrcat file you’re importing from is shown on the Title bar of the dialog. If your photos aren’t visible in the Preview section, select the Show Preview check box.

5 Choose the Copy New Photos to a New Location and Import option from the File Handling drop-down menu.The goal is to copy files from the external drive to the internal drive and store them with all your other photos.

6 For the Copy To field, click the Choose button, navigate to a folder on the desktop computer drive where the photos can be saved, and then click OK.The selected location is entered into the Copy To field.

7 Click Import.The import process kicks off. The data from the .lrcat file on the external drive is copied into the .lrcat file on the desktop computer. The photos are copied from the external drive to the desktop computer as well.

FIGURE 2-10: The Import from Catalog dialog.

Once the progress meter is complete, you’ll have successfully transferred a group of photos (and all the work that has been done to them) from the laptop to the desktop computer. (Time to congratulate yourself.) By using Lightroom Classic to perform the data handoff, you ensure that the program never loses track of the source photos and that all your work makes it back home.

Note that there is an option for importing edits made to existing photos under Changed Existing Photos. If you include photos from your master catalog when you first leave on your (imaginary) trip and then edit them on the road, you can import the changes back to the master catalog. In this case, I didn’t have any existing photos, so there wasn’t anything to import.

The other thing to keep in mind in this scenario is that once you have everything safely transferred to the master desktop catalog (and backed up), you should delete the temporary catalog and photos from the laptop and external drive used in the transfer to avoid confusion and duplication down the road.