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December 18, 2016
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I deleted some photos from my HD but now I need to find them in Lightroom's previews. Is it possible? How can I do it?

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I deleted some photos from my HD but now I need to find them in Lightroom's previews. Is it possible? How can I do it?

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    Correct answer dj_paige

    First you should restore photos from backups. You do have backups, don't you?

    The next things you should try:

    1. Look in recycle bin
    2. Try an undelete utility
    3. As a last resort, you can recover the previews using this plug-in Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Jeffrey’s “Extract Cached Image Previews” Lightroom Plugin

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    Legend
    December 18, 2016

    First you should restore photos from backups. You do have backups, don't you?

    The next things you should try:

    1. Look in recycle bin
    2. Try an undelete utility
    3. As a last resort, you can recover the previews using this plug-in Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Jeffrey’s “Extract Cached Image Previews” Lightroom Plugin
    Participant
    June 3, 2023

    Is this also for Mac users? thanks!

    dj_paige
    Legend
    June 3, 2023
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    Is this also for Mac users? thanks!


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