You'll have everything copied over to your new account and that includes your albums and edits.
What you need:
- A laptop or a desk computer (not possible on iPad or mobile)
- Lightroom Classic and lightroom cc installed.
- A fast internet connection with good upload speed (optical fiber or 4g+ with your mobile)
- A backup of all your photos on an external hard drive, NOT ON YOUR LAPTOP (you don't actually need it but you'll be happy to have done it if something goes wrong).
- Access to both of your adobe accounts (the old one and the new one). Do not worry If you do not have lightroom classic included in your plan, there is a free 7 days trial that you can use.
- Free space on your computer: 2x times the size of your catalog. For example, I had 350gb of photos, so I needed 700gb of free space on my laptop.
Here are the solution steps by steps (close all apps before starting):
1) Open the creative cloud app and log in with your old account (make sure both versions of lightroom are the latest available).
2) Download and install Lightroom classic if you do not already have it.
3) Open Lightroom cc classic and access the sync preferences (this is where you can choose where lightroom classic is going to store your photos), choose Edit (Win)/Lightroom Classic CC (Mac) menu > Preferences > Sync tab.
By default, Lightroom Classic CC desktop syncs your Lightroom CC ecosystem images at:
- (Win) C:\Users\[user name]\Pictures
- (Mac) /Users/[user name]/Pictures
If you already have enough space on your C drive, then don't change anything else you can use the following options to choose a preferred location (external hard drive or another drive)
4) Now you can sync Lightroom cc classic with Lightroom cc cloud. You just have to log in in the top left corner and start syncing (steps 2 to 4 of this tutorial: How to sync Lightroom Classic CC desktop with Lightroom CC ).
5) Wait for the download to finish (it can take a while)
6) Once it’s done you can close lightroom classic.
7) Open the creative cloud app and log out of your old account.
8) Now log back in with your new adobe account.
9) Open lightroom cc (cloud)
10) Now you need to choose where lightroom cc is going to store your images during the migration process: The migration process creates a copy of your images. If you're running low on space on an internal drive on your computer, you might want to connect an external hard-drive and specify a location on it as the custom location. See Local storage preferences. Ensure that there's enough disk space in that location to accommodate the original, full-sized images in the Lightroom Classic CC catalog.
11) Migrate the catalog into Lightroom cc. Steps 1 to 8 of this tutorial: Migrate photos and videos from Lightroom Classic CC to Lightroom CC
12) That's it you are done! Now you have everything from your old adobe account that has been copied onto your new account.
13) You can now delete everything from Lightroom classic and even uninstall it if you want to. (do not worry everything has been copied to the cloud so you won't lose anything).
14) Do not forget to unsubscribe from your old plan from the Adobe website.
If you need help transferring assets across accounts or profiles please visit: https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/transfer-assets.html.