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Help!!!
I went to launch Lightroom to work on photos today and EVERYthing is gone! Recent catalogs, presets, everything is missing!! What do I do to restore it?!
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My first suspicion would be that you have opened a new catalog. If you are on a Mac then go to Lightroom->Open Recent and see if there is another catalog listed that you can choose.
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File->Open recent works on Windows too.
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Can you please post your LR version and OS platform thanks?
Also your storage strategy in practice : external disks etc.
Could it be possible that a system update occurred in the background in the time before last use?
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Yes, Lightroom definitely created a new catatog. If there is no 'recent catalogs' list, then the preferences could have been whiped. Just go into your Pictures folder and look for a folder with 'Lightroom' in its name. Catalog files have a .lrcat extension. Lightroom just created a new one, so look for one with a slightly older date and a bigger file size.