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August 8, 2017
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Accidentally lost all ratings for pictures

  • August 8, 2017
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Heya!

I somehow accidentally selected all my pictures and gave them a 3 star rating... Argl. I lost all my previous work on rating pictures.

I can recover a backup, but then lose all work I've done since then. Is there any other way? Ctrl+Z isn't going back far enough to heal this.

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    I have some scripts written for someone else who did the same thing. Contact me via a forum message or via my web site (in my profile).

    John

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    August 8, 2017

    I have some scripts written for someone else who did the same thing. Contact me via a forum message or via my web site (in my profile).

    John

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    June 10, 2023

    John Beardsworth, I was reading on here that you have transcripts from someone else that "Accidentally lost all ratings for pictures" (8/8/17 was the date of post). I have accidentally lost all ratings on 1396 pictures. I had selected all stars and then went to edit tab and selected invert all and somehow I accidentally hit a star on one of the unstarred photos which then gave all photos I was getting ready to delete a star. Now I do not know how to reverse that mistake so I don't have to cull through all photos again. I tried clicking unedited photos because I do not edit the unstarred photos but it only showed one photo! Can you please help me?! Here is copy of question posted that matches my problem:

     

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    Heya!

     

    I somehow accidentally selected all my pictures and gave them a 3 star rating... Argl. I lost all my previous work on rating pictures.

     

    I can recover a backup, but then lose all work I've done since then. Is there any other way? Ctrl+Z isn't going back far enough to heal this.

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    I have some scripts written for someone else who did the same thing. Contact me via a forum message or via my web site (in my profile).

     

    John

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    August 8, 2017

    I think there's no other way to recover from a backup.

    How often do you make a backup? I'll backup my catalog every time Lightroom is closed. I cancel the backup only when I don't made any changes in Lightroom.

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