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Electric_hand5681
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January 7, 2025
Question

All image connections gone after file restructuring

  • January 7, 2025
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My HDD stopped working the other day (suddenly appeared as "uncategorized" in the drive manager and disappeared from the Win Explorer). I managed to rescue the files, however, they are saved in an arbitrary order in many (arbitrary) subfolders now. I managed to open the latest *.lrcat file, however all connections are gone as the file paths have changed.

 

What I tried:

Right-click on the top level folder in LRC to relocate the pictures, selecting the overarching "images-folder" in which all the rescued image files are stored.

Search for the raw file in Win Explorer and relocate a single image/ update the file path.

None did work.

 

Is there any way to re-connect the raw files to the LRC catalogue without re-building the originial folder structure (basically impossible looking at the amount of pictures/ folders)?

 

Thank you!

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dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
January 7, 2025

I managed to rescue the files, however, they are saved in an arbitrary order in many (arbitrary) subfolders now. I managed to open the latest *.lrcat file, however all connections are gone as the file paths have changed.

 

Arbitrary (random) subfolders? This is extremely difficult to recover from, you would need to re-connect the photos one-by-one. Don't you have backups of your photos in their original folders you could use?

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Electric_hand5681Author
Participant
January 7, 2025

Thank you for your reply. If I would have such a backup, I would use this for sure. The recovery tool created the folders. They seem to be in chronological order, but it is not the same folder structure as before. One-by-one reconnection has not worked as mentioned. Is there any other way to recover the edits? The edits are what matters to me, I can re-import the pictures and LRC will sort them, but then my edits are gone.

dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
January 7, 2025

Is there any other way to recover the edits?

 

The edits are still in your catalog file. So no need to recover them. But also no way to use them if the photos are not connected. If reconnecting is not feasible because of the sheer number of files, I think you are out of luck.

 

Perhaps you might want to select a small number of very important photos and re-connect those 1-by-1, the rest are not going to be recovered because there are too many, this is better than nothing.

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