After updating, my catalog is empty

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
January 16, 2025
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Hi.

Since LrC was updated I have not been able to access my work in earlier versions. When I open "recent catalogs", they contain no pictures, and I am asked to "import" to start. I wonder, where my previous work has gone. I have to edit every picture again with the new update and have obviously lost years of work. Can I do anything to regain it?

Kind Regards, Per Gade

Windows

AxelMatt

Community Expert

If @JohanElzenga answer doesn't help, try to restore the catalog from your recent 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 6 - Topaz Photo AI

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Per_Gade9290Author

Participant

Thanks for your help. But I Trier that, and the catalogue had beeg emptied and I was prompte to import pictures.

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Per_Gade9290Author

Participant

Sorry for bad spelling 🙂 tried - not Trier, been - not beeg, prompted - not prompte 😆

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Search your drive for files with an .lrcat extension. Those are Lightroom Classic catalogs.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Per_Gade9290Author

Participant

Thanks. I'll try that. Tryed to restere a previous catalog with the backup-file, but it had ben emptied.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Thanks. I'll try that. Tryed to restere a previous catalog with the backup-file, but it had ben emptied.

By @Per_Gade9290

If you try a backup catalog, then delete the 'catalogname helper.lrdata' in the catalog folder before starting Lightroom again. The helper info must be (and will be) rebuilt, because it no longer matches the replaced catalog file.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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