Skip to main content
5
5omeone
Known Participant
July 2, 2024
Answered

Import of home folder by accident / How to deal with?

  • July 2, 2024
  • 1 reply
  • 311 views

Dear LR community,

 

Unfortunately, my wife accidentally imported not only the desired images from the hard disk yesterday, but also many other images, e.g. from programs, due to the "Include subfolders" function. We suspect that she imported the "Home" folder, but she can no longer say for sure.
We do have a backup of our Mac, but we don't want to completely rebuild the system.

Do you have any ideas on the best way to deal with this? That would be great.

 

Thank you and best regards

This topic has been closed for replies.
Correct answer JohanElzenga

If that is the case, then a restore of your entire system (or just the home folder) using a Time Machine backup is probably easier than trying to find all these images and manually move them back where they belong.

 

1 reply

5
5omeoneAuthor
Known Participant
July 2, 2024

I need to add that the issue is now, that multiple picture from apps etc. have been moved to the LR catalougue folder. And we are talking about LR classic. 😉

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
JohanElzengaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
July 2, 2024

If that is the case, then a restore of your entire system (or just the home folder) using a Time Machine backup is probably easier than trying to find all these images and manually move them back where they belong.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
5
5omeoneAuthor
Known Participant
July 15, 2024

Thanks Johan for the quick reply. We decided to go for the Time Machine Backup. It was quite an effort to ensure that changes after the wrong import were correctly captured. But it looks like it's the only way... 😕😕 Issue has been solved with this.

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices