Thanks Moose,
There are converging suspicions that the sidecar xmp files are the culprit.
Now, the question remains : how to retrieve them, and resynchronise the whole
batch …
I’ll do some research and question him on the exclamation marks and will ask
him to right-click to try and find where the sneaky Xmas hide :-)
Thanks again.
Amities
Philippe
> Le 28 févr. 2021 à 21:20, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> On 2/28/2021 11:34 AM, Philippe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’m trying to help one of us on the lists to solve a problem with LR and
>> would hate myself if I gave him wrong advice that might cause the loss of
>> some, or all, of his precious stuff.
>>
>> He’s using LR6 (not that different from the LR CLassic I’m using from what I
>> see).
>> He says he lost the adjustments he made to about 20,000 files … (tough!)
>> The RAWs, DNGs are still on his computer disks.
>> Oh yes, he’s an I-Mac guy.
>>
>> I asked him when he lost them, and how, but he doesn’t know.
>> I also conducted to check if he still had the previous saved catalogs on his
>> HD. He does, back to three years ago, which gives me some hope.
>
> First question: are the original files still on disk, separate from LR, or
> have they been absorbed into LR?
>
> If the former, look at the thumbnails. If there is an exclamation point,
> upper right, there is a loss of sync between what's on disk and what's in the
> catalog. IF editing changes have been saved in sidecar files, right clicking
> on any such file, or selection of files gives the option to read metadata
> from disk.
>
> I do very little editing in LR, what I do do goes on into PS, and us usually
> saved as the bottom layer of a PSD file, so I admit to knowing little about
> these things in LR.
>
> Might Help, or Not Moose
>
>
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