Lightroom - auto synced 'reset' to all my images... the entire catalogue

[sarahh42113001]

help - Lightroom some how reset all my edits of my entire catalogue. every single image it applied a 'syncronize settings" which reset the image and then applied to every image of the gallery i tried command + Z but it didnt undo. so far I have had to click on evet individual image and go back a step in the history.

is there any way other than going back in history on every single image to undo this mass disaster?

Its happened to a gallery before but never the whole catalogue.

im running an old version lightroom classic 10.4 (my mac is too full to upgrade)

[Sean McCormack]

Command + Z should've worked. 

Unless someone has a plugin that can revert back one step that I've not heard of, I don't have good news for you. Do you have a recent backup of the catalog you can revert to? even if you lose recent imports and edits, at least it's easier than going over every image in the catalog. 

[johnrellis]

Sigh, Auto Sync ends in tears again.

The late Rob Cole wrote a plugin Screw Auto Sync that could step all photos' history steps back one step. You can still download it from here:

https://github.com/DaveBurns?tab=repositories

Many of his plugins continue to work, though since Rob died January 2015, I wouldn't be surprised to encounter problems. I'm reasonably familiar with the catalog database schema with respect to history steps, and there's a reasonable chance the plugin would still work.  

If you try Screw Auto Sync, definitely do so on a copy of your catalog first!

[sarahh42113001]

Thanks so much for your help, do you have any idea how to install or use
it? Can you apply to a selection? ie the photos i haven't already stepped
backwards on yet?

these us where im at - do sure how to download
https://github.com/DaveBurns/rc_ScrewAutoSync/find/master

Thanks again



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[johnrellis]

Go this page:

https://github.com/DaveBurns/rc_ScrewAutoSync 

Click the green "Code" button and select Download Zip.  Unzip the download. Inside that should be ScrewAutoSync.lrplugin, which is the plugin you want to select in File > Plug-in Manager > Add.

See this archived page for hints about how to use it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150325122554/http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAndServices/MiscLrPlug... 

That's about all I know.

[john beardsworth]

John and Sean

For certain reasons I would not recommend installing this plugin.

John

[Sean McCormack]

Genius @johnrellis!