_If_ the xmp files exist (its optional in LR whether to create them or not)
then it’s an almost trivial exercise to rebuild the database catalog.
If they don’t exist then it will be a job of going back over old backups to
find the most recent one with an intact database.
Sorry Moose - I don’t know what you mean by “have they [the image files]
been absorbed into LR?”
The images are _always_ just sitting in an operating system folder on a
disk.
Good luck Ph,
Jez
On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 at 20:31, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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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