Everything (well, almost) is gone.
In an effort to speed up a painfully slow Mac, I did a mass deletion. Unfortunately, some good went with the bad.
After some monkeying around, this is the situation:
-A have a recent back-up of the catalog (v11.lrcat) and all the pictures on an external disc.
-I have a "My Lightroom Photos" folder on my desktop with all pictures. There is no catalog, as there normally would be.
-When I open up Lightroom, it's completely empty. No catalog, no photos, BUT the file structure is intact.
How do I move forward? I searched the web for answers to what seems like a common peoblem, but got no help. I could restore everything from the external disc and manually handle the 2 percent of photos that weren't backed up. I could copy the catalog, put it in the "My Lightroom Photos" folder and restore it that way, I could do something else. But I don't know how to do anything. I hate to ask you pros to dumb yourself down but you're dealing with a new level of technical incompetence.
Please help this old lady across the street. It's not worth much but you'll have my undying gratitude.
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