Lightroom catalog recovery

Hi people,

My Lightroom crashed. When I want to open it again it said: Lightroom-catalog demageded and can only be used when recover catalog.

Do I lose all my edited photos when I click Catalog recover..? Or does it erase any thing else?

thank you in advance!

regards Amber

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Catalogue doesn't contain images, just references to images and all the edits you made in Lightroom. Your images are separate.

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Recover catalog (if it works) ought to return your catalog to the state it was in before the crash.

Sometimes it doesn't work. In fact, a lot of times it doesn't work. In that case, you would need to restore a recent backup of the catalog file.

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