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Lightroom catalog corrupt, can it be recovered?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
May 5, 2017
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I have tried to run the sqlite and I am getting nowhere. I am probably making a mistake in the script as my catalog is stored on an external hard drive. Can anybody help me here? If I had the exact script written for me, I could maybe recover? Please help, too many photographs to lose.

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Catalog does not hold your originals only previews and instructions, metadata. Your originals are stored where you save them not in catalog file.

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So, I created a new catalog. I am importing all the images that are in the corrupt catalog!

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Have you been backing up catalog every time you close?

Inspiring

Any backup (ideally).

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No, unfortunately my backup is very old. As raw images how can I extract?