Export photos without the originals

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August 16, 2021
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Hi,

I apparently made a really annoying move and deleted 550 pictures of mine. I still have them on Lighroom Classic CC but obviously, I haven't made the dynamic previews yet on these ones.
The quality isn't the same because I just have the previews but I wanted to know if there still was a way to export these photos ? When I try to do so, it just doesn't work.

Thank you all !

Romain

macOS

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Correct answer Rob_Cullen

Extracting JPGs from the Previews is the best you will ever achieve.

EXTRACT JPGs FROM PREVIEWS

Restoring files deleted can sometimes be recovered by running 'recover' software- IF the data on hard-drives has not been over-written!

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

Rob_Cullen

Correct answer

Community Expert

Extracting JPGs from the Previews is the best you will ever achieve.

EXTRACT JPGs FROM PREVIEWS

Restoring files deleted can sometimes be recovered by running 'recover' software- IF the data on hard-drives has not been over-written!

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

R

Romain_LftnAuthor

Participant

Soo that's exactly what I was looking for and didn't find ! Thank you so much !!

dj_paige

Legend

Please understand that recovering the JPGs from the previews gives you low resolution JPG (not Raw) versions of your high-resolution original photos. Make backups from now on, no excuses.

dj_paige

Legend

Restore the photos from their backups. Then export.