How to I download my irdata to remap my photos in Lightroom Classic?

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July 18, 2020
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I had to wipe my pc clean and just re-downloaded Lightroom. How to I remap my photos in LR with my

irdata from before?

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GoldingD

Legend

Where did you keep a backup of your catalog?

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peelzyAuthor

Known Participant

I have it on another drive

john beardsworth

Community Expert

Forget about files with .lrdata extensions. On this backup drive, look for an lrcat file such as Lightroom Catalog.lrcat which is the file that contains all the references to your photos and work on them. Can you find it? When is the most recent copy of it?

GoldingD

Legend

Where did you keep your catalog?

GoldingD

Legend

What do you mean by irdata?

Ohh, did you mean lrdata?

That is the library oreviews, absolutly useless as to any restore, they are just a collection of small jpeg files, perhaps a few dng that are small images created from the results of edits.

Where is your LRCAT file? Where is a backup of your LRCAT file?

john beardsworth

Community Expert

Restore it from your backup.

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peelzyAuthor

Known Participant

I'm not sure what that means. I have all my photos in a separate drive in my tower. I saved all the irdata, but I'm not sure how to reconfigure to be mapped the same way. I've never had to do this before.

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