Thanks so much everyone for your comments. Some of you have the gist of things right but others don't, it is in fact 3 separate issues essentially but all relating to Adobes products so I wasn't sure if it was a general problem that can be fixed but sounds like its not. Issue #1 - PS presets/actions/workflow setups were all lost but I got these back off the old computer Issue #2 - Bridge/ACR (my preferred editing workspace was showing RAW files that had been edited within ACR as the defaults, i.e. no edit attached to file Issue #3 - LR catalogs not opening (these are independent to the above files, so edited within LR and XMP's enabled for viewing within bridge after. No backup of any of the above programs was done as I would have thought my computer tech would do/sort all this but it seems not. So yes the LR catalogs clearly have associated files missing so I will see if I can retrieve them off old hard-drive/computer thanks Tony, Theresa + Chuck. John + Just shoot me, you haven't quite got it right with whats happening but thanks for the comments. ssprengel - You're onto it, that is not the case, these are separete jobs, edited differently, i.e. some in ACR, some in LR. It's multiple jobs over the years. In LR when I try to open one of these problematic catalogs it gives me messages about "relaunching and using newer updated catalog or old", I've tried both options but no luck. I also tried your "right click" scenario above but that didn't work either. I have the catalog duplicated and saved in different places so tried with original as well as duplicates. I'm guessing now I can't get back to the edits as these were all on external hard drive not old computer. Thanks again all!
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