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

[Philippe]

Thanks Jayanand

The most recent backups don’t hold these « edits » he’s lost, that’s the main issue.

Now if he uses the older or oldest catalog, he then will have lost all the edits he’s made since the mishap (that occurred at an unknown date btw).

Hence my idea of merging the current catalog with the older ones, strating from the oldest and incrementially going towards the current one, all in a new catalog for safety.

The question is; do this make sense?

Thanks again

Amities

Philippe



> Le 1 mars 2021 à 08:13, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
> Philippe,
> Why don't you just restore it from the most recent backup?
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 12:38 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Frank
>> 
>> We knew where the older catalogs are, found them before.
>> 
>> The problem is not related with finding a missing file. Rather, it’s where
>> have these f… « edits »  gone , and incidentally why did they hide in the
>> first place.
>> 
>> Thanks again
>> 
>> 
>> Amities
>> 
>> Philippe
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Le 1 mars 2021 à 02:29, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a
>> écrit :
>>> 
>>> To find the lost catalog, go to the file finder and type in
>>> *.lrcat
>>> 
>>> The asterisk is a wildcard.  This way you do not have to know the actual
>> catalog name you are looking for.
>>> 
>>> I am a Win-doze type so the specific Mac commands is not my cuppa.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Frank Filippone
>>> BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
>>> 
>>> On 2/28/2021 9:34 AM, Philippe via LUG 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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