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

[Doug Herr]

Only sympathy here as well :(  

I’ve gone to manually backing everything up on three separate drives, one is always off-site.  Everything: RAW files, converted TIFF files, adjustments in the form of layered PS files, final flattened files.  Daily if necessary.  Software that uses hidden and/or cryptic sidecar files is banned on my computer.  It’s a system that has worked well for the last ten years and I’ll continue to use until dementia makes it unreliable.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com <http://www.wildlightphoto.com/>


> On Mar 2, 2021, at 2:12 AM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
> 
> Just sympathy, from here I am afraid. I lost a lot of photos in
> Photoshop just before the YB deadline including many of last year's.
> Still trying to re-sync. :-(
> 
> Good luck to you and him/her
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 28/02/2021 19:34, 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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> 
> Dr. Peter Dzwig
> 
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