This includes al the Keywords, flags, colour labels and most annoyingly all the edits that i did previously. Everything appears to be working fine but i have lost all the metadata for all the NEF files. I now need your help! I recently migrate my Lightroom 5 from my macbook pro to my new iMac desktop.

Hi Victoria, this site has proved very useful tank you for your comments.

Did you find a backup catalog or the catalog you were previously working on? WHERE can you see a list of all your original work? OK… so sorry…. Oh my… have it doubled, triple saved everything and clogged up all my memory? We can go back and clean that up.

Also… I am have really complicated things because I read somewhere about building previews so i started that running on my computer. I do believe he did an import because I did notice that some of my edits, etc did not transfer over. So if you look in Explorer, can you still find your hierarchy of folders and subfolders somewhere? Yes… the husband actually has been very helpful in upgrading the system… just got into a little trouble transferring the LR stuff.