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August 3, 2024
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Accidentally deleted my Lightroom Desktop Catalog

  • August 3, 2024
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I was working on my laptop and I was clearing space off my mac. Not realizing I had accidentally deleted my LightRoom Catalog it was about 300+ gb. Is there any way I can recover this? I really need it back...The issue also was it didn't finish Synching 

 

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AxelMatt
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August 3, 2024

If the catalog file isn't in the trash I think you out of luck.

You have to restore the catalog from the latest backup.

 

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo
Participant
August 3, 2024

It isn't in the trash I had checked, would there be any other way ? even if I don't have the backup?

 

AxelMatt
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Community Expert
August 4, 2024

No, I think there's no way. If you don't have a backup you're out of luck.

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo