No color labels shown after catalog migration in Lightroom

January 13th, 2010 No Comments »

Today I decided to migrate some of my Lightroom catalogs from my laptop to my iMac and for that I made a two step process:

  • Export selected pictures as catalog from my laptop
  • Import them back from my iMac
  • Everything went as expected excepting the color labels. After some time googling I realized they were there indeed, only in another language! My laptop install is in English while the other one is in Spanish, thus the issue.

    The simplest solution is to redefine the color labels in the new Lightroom install by going to the Metadata | Color label set | Edit… and redefine them as found in the files.