I accidentally deleted some lightroom folders and sub folders with around 2000 images that were not showing their files when I opened them. The original raw and edited files are safe on my harddrives, so its just lightroom they've been deleted, along with all the editing processes I presume that I would love to restore.
I understand thanks to user Johan Elzenga reply below I can just close the program then open a back up catalogue, lightroom doesnt find my back up catalogs when I direct it to them. see attached photos. So I need help connecting my back up catalogs to LR classic so they recognise them again
photo 1 shows the location of the catalog back up
photo 2 showing its properties to check its the right file
photo 3 shows lightrooms response when trying to open the catalog
Im not backing up or working on anything in LR classic until I have resolved this issue.
Many thanks in advance!
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First, you should ALWAYS know where your catalog file and backup catalogs are located. I put my backups into a folder immediately under the root level on an external drive, named "Lightroom Backups" so there can be absolutely no doubt where they are. I don't bury it several folders deep. There is no chance that I won't remember what folder they are in, and no need for me to do a search to find them.
Having said that, the backup location is shown on the dialog box that appears when you exit Lightroom Classic.
so Ive located my back ups but when I try to open them through LR classic, it says there is nothing there to match my search but yet there is. so its not recognising the catalog. any ideas how to solve this?
I am on windows and here is a screen capture. the folder greyed out holds over 380gb of photos on my harddrive and many of the subfolders are no longer visible on my lightroom.
If I go back to an old catalog back up that has those folders, what happens to all folders and edits created after that old back up, ie all my work since that back up?
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