Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ouch ! Just a thought - LR allows for re-assigning a file to its place in a catalogue - if your old catalogue is still alive, you might just have to ask LR to do that on one file, and tick the box that says ? other neighbouring files too? ? Else, but it is a long and fastidious process, you can set the dates manually in the library module, so long as you know when ? and have time to ... Hope someone comes up with a safer/faster method for you to use. Fingers crossed for you. OTT : Next step might be a mac and time machine ? Amities Philippe > Le 15 nov. 2020 ? 18:16, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit : > > ...that I accidentally do. > > I am up to my eyeballs at the moment with legal cases relating to a couple > of building planning issues, so am rushed off my feet. Somehow, I managed > to delete all my photos - a long and stupid story. I then recovered them > onto an external hard drive using the new Windows File Recover tool - bar > a few that fell victim to the process. > > However, the recovered files are now all the same date and their filing > structures have gone. Lightroom has lost all its catalogs to boot, and > when I went to open it, asked me did I want to start a new one. > > Before I start bringing them back into the pc using Lightroom, has this > sort of thing happened to anybody here, and is there any way that I can > sort them by the original date taken? > > Thanks > > Douglas > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information