Recovering LrC Images after a device theft

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May 20, 2025
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Theft: My laptop with adobe applications bridge lr ps etc was stolen in Barcelona by clever professionals. Is there a way to get all those photos back? I terminated the adobe in the stolen laptop, it had not been accessed since the theft. And I am working now throurg my account and setting up my photographies in the new laptop. These "stolen" photos were not stored in the icloud, but Im sure they are in the LRC for example. Just could not find them. Thanks for any piece of advice, and keep safe with your devices when traveling in the paradise of the thieves, such as Barcelona airport trains.

Correct answer dj_paige

If you have the LrC catalog and the raw images, then you have not lost your edits. You will have to export them to JPG again, but that's not really "lost", the JPGs are easily re-created.

JohanElzenga

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I'm sorry, but Lightroom Classic photos are stored locally, so if you did not create backups that you kept separately (and so they did not get stolen too), then I'm afraid there is little chance of getting those photos back.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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CloudyAtlanticAuthor

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Thanks JohanE, this is what I thought too. Luckily I have raw backups, but all my recent reportage photo sets were there in raws and to jpegs, waiting for the written stories be ready and sent further. So the lost work and lost intelligent property hurts, apart from the good laptop guarded well on the train but not enough against the cleverness of the thieves.

dj_paigeCorrect answer

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If you have the LrC catalog and the raw images, then you have not lost your edits. You will have to export them to JPG again, but that's not really "lost", the JPGs are easily re-created.

kglad

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