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October 19, 2022
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Restore catalog without backup

  • October 19, 2022
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Hey everyone,

I just updated to the latest version of Lightroom classic and the catalog was deleted somehow, I never backed it up unfortunately....

is there a way to restore the catalog by any chance?

thanks you very much!

(im using windows 11)

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Per Berntsen
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Community Expert
October 19, 2022

If it's not in the Recycle bin, and you upgraded from version 11, your old v11 catalog should still be there.

Version 12 upgrades a copy of the v11 catalog.

If you don't know where to find it, do a search for files with the extension .lrcat on your computer.