[Leica] TECH - HELP : LR experts' advice (much) needed - DON

[Philippe]

Thanks Don - Yes, the older one is 3 years old.

The current one works fine for the later period from what I understand.

What is queer is that he says he never created a new one … Go figure …

thanks again

Amities

Philippe



> Le 28 févr. 2021 à 21:16, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
> It sounds like your friend lost their catalog.   Look on the hard drive/
> drives for another catalog.   I am assuming that you have already looked in
> LR for other catalogs?
> 
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 1:34 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> My thought is that if he created a new catalog.
>> Then import both his current catalog, and the older ones (or the oldest
>> one) into this newly created catalog, he might (might) retrieve some of the
>> adjustments (edits) he’d painstainkingly made over time, and enjoy his
>> latest works as well.
>> 
>> What do you think of this somewhat non pro and makeshift procedure ?
>> 
>> Please, do not derail or hijack this thread, things are already somewhat
>> complex on my end to try to figure out what might help a real photog who
>> highly deserves it.
>> 
>> Thanks a zillion in anticipation
>> 
>> 
>> Be all well, and stay so.
>> 
>> Amities
>> 
>> Philippe
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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