Lightroom files

[dbarnett]

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My hard drive with images crashed and cannot be revived.

 

However, I have a backup drrve with images including Light room Catalog.Ircat file. When I bring up the catalog the images appear but the editing of the past several years is missing. How do I get the editing to be reconnected with the files?

 

Doug

[vdb]

Did you back up the edited files as well? If you were only backing up the original files during import, then editing on you internal HD, then the edited versions were not saved.

[wda]

My hard drive with images crashed and cannot be revived.

 

However, I have a backup drrve with images including Light room Catalog.Ircat file. When I bring up the catalog the images appear but the editing of the past several years is missing. How do I get the editing to be reconnected with the files?

 

Doug

Doug, Welcome to the Forum! I see you resurrected a thread started by me four years ago. Life has moved on a lot since my early queries. So has Lightroom! But the requirement for regular backing up of source files and LR catalogues becomes even more important. I assume you have these backups somewhere. It sounds as if you have them

 

If you have copies of the picture files, they should show up in your catalogue with a question mark in upper right corner. Click that '?' and read the dialogue which gives you the option to point LR to the location of your backup files. Once you have linked one thumbnail with the correct picture file in the backup location, all other files will be automatically linked. Then you are back in business! Good luck!