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Apologies if this is basic! I used LrC since 2009. I had a huge, sudden failure with my then desk top computer and think I lost everything. Consequently, I did not have anything backed up to an external source. I cried for a while & then upgraded to Mac. I began a new Lr cloud subscription. I just wondered if any of my images prior to the subscription service were out there somewhere in LrC? Would I ever have accesss to those lost images again?
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The photos itself are anyway not "in" LrC. That said, even if you can restore the LrC database (aka catalog) you won't get back the photos. Restore/Backup of the originals is out of LrC reach.
LrC does only sync collections that are selected to sync to the cloud. If so, it syncs SmartPreviews, not the originals.