Out of Sync on LRC caused by re-naming.

Question

Hi,Recently for reasons that I'm not sure my partner re-named one his photo folders containing around 12 subfolders. Some weeks later it became obvious that he had not re-imported the folder into LRC so the previous 'work' on the photos in that folder had been 'lost'. (we do have backups covering that period).I've now returned the folder to its previous name but the current LRC 'work file' obviously no longer has the 'previous' work on that folder in it. My question! Is it possible to use a backup and point it directly to that one folder in order to bring it back into the 'current' work? Personally I cant see how but I thought I'd ask!Thanks, Andrew

Jim Wilde · Accepted Answer

LrC requires the image files to be stored on local drives. It's possible to fool it a little by having the images stored in a Dropbox/One Drive type of local folder, even if the local data is then uploaded to the cloud and only a link is left in the local folder. Such an arrangement can, and has in some cases, caused issues, so I personally don't recommend that. But by all means backup the local images to your iCloud if you wish, as well as Time Machine (you can't have too many backups!).

Jim Wilde · Answer

I don't understand this. If you renamed a folder outside LrC, that folder and all its sub-folders are flagged as "missing"....but the information regarding the images is retained in the catalog. In that situation, re-importing would be totally the wrong thing to do as you would end up with all the images being duplicated in the catalog, the original set has all the data but the images are missing and the new set has the images but has none of the cataloged changes.

The correct course of action would have been to point LrC to the original renamed folder by the "Find Missing Folder" option, or to rename the folder back to the original name (which is what you appear to have done)....but both options would preserve all the previous work. So if all that previous work has been lost, something else must have occurred between the original rename and the current situation if, as you say, the previous work has been lost.

Have you actually verified the work has been lost, or is that just an assumption?

To answer you question, if you have a catalog backup taken before the rename which does contain that work then you could open that catalog, select the folder and use the right-click option to "Export this Folder as a Catalog" (uncheck all the options at the bottom of the export dialog). Once that has been exported, open the current catalog and you can then import the exported catalog into it, which should update the images in that folder with the metadata from the exported catalog.

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