Le Chef Posted June 13, 2020 Share #1 Posted June 13, 2020 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) I believe I "successfully" moved my images, catalogue and backups to a new external drive from an old external drive. But...on some images I still have history of changes made, yet on others there is no history. The computer is an older iMac running an older OS and LR5 Can someone explain what's happened and if there's a way for me to recover lost history? Edited June 13, 2020 by Le Chef Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 13, 2020 Posted June 13, 2020 Hi Le Chef, Take a look here Lost history data for some images in LR 5. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jaapv Posted June 13, 2020 Share #2 Posted June 13, 2020 How did you move them? A reliable program is Carbon Copy Cloner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Chef Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share #3 Posted June 13, 2020 I simply followed instructions from a set of class notes. (Create a backup set of images and then move them to the new SSD) The odd thing is that the originals and original catalogue etc. which are still on the original SSD have also lost their history. My suspicion is that I must have cleared something in the process. Is there a way to restore a LightRoom backup? Or could I do a restore from TimeCapsule? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted June 13, 2020 Share #4 Posted June 13, 2020 Perhaps you did not save the changes made in LR to the files. Separate sidecar files can easily be misplaced during moves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Chef Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share #5 Posted June 14, 2020 (edited) 22 hours ago, wda said: Perhaps you did not save the changes made in LR to the files. Separate sidecar files can easily be misplaced during moves. All saved. I’ve gone back and forth with Adobe to no avail. I’ve gone to an earlier catalogue backup and when I change locations of files it still shows no histories despite being there only 2 days ago. Time to look at Capture One I think. Edited June 14, 2020 by Le Chef Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Chef Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share #6 Posted June 14, 2020 Fixed! Went to a backup several days earlier and recovered all the lost histories. Now I just have to figure out how to get LR to see the images and folders that were added after that date... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted June 14, 2020 Share #7 Posted June 14, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) Well done! RIGHT CLICK THE FIRST FOLDER IN YOUR LIST (Sorry!) Select SYNCHRONISE FOLDER choosing appropriate options. Check results are as wanted and proceed through remaing folders in your catalogue. Time-consuming? Yes. Occasionally necessary. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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