Hard Drive Crashed. Reinstalled LR-Corrupt Catalog-No edits on any photos

Question

Version 12- iMac Was Big Sur-now Ventura- My hard drive crashed in the middle of finishing up a session of photos. Took it to Apple. HD replaced. I had a recent Time Machine backup so I installed that today. As LR repopulated, the error message was that there was a corrupt catalog and it would be repaired. Well, the repaired catalog is missing photos and missing all of my edits from LR and from PS. Is there any way to get back the catalog that has the edits or am I screwed?

GoldingD · Answer

1 Proper backup of catalog

Where is your backup of your catalog(s)? And I do not mean Time Machine. What hard drive? And I do not mean the same hard drive as where the old catalog was.

2. What hard drive was replaced

You had a hard drive fail. Apple replaced it. Yet you had a Time Machine copy, was that on an internal hard drive, and as such not the hard drive that failed? Not fully aware of MACOS.

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