Lightroom :: 4 - Recover Edits And Collections After OS 10.6.8 Reinstall?
Dec 21, 2012
After OS10.6.8 reinstall, my LR4 edits & collections are gone. Can they be restored from Time Machine?
Background.I had a kern_protection_error, that required a complete reinstall of the MAC operating system.
All applications and the operating system was/are on a boot drive on a MAC Pro.
All images are on a master hard drives (configured as RAID).
All images and the boot drive are backed up on backup hard drives (configured as RAID).
All drives are periodically backed up using carbon copy cloner to drives kept offsight. This was done the day before the system reinstall.
Unfortunately, LR was not additionally backed up using the backup feature in LR4.
All of my lightroom edits are now gone, as well as my collections. Is there a way to restore the the edits and collections from the Time Machine backup?
I have gone to my LR 4 lrcat ("open existing catalog" from drop down menu) but have not actually relinked the images from the master hard drive, until I understand my path forward.
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Dec 12, 2012
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To be clear, I expect to see images from 2013 that are rated > 1 star. If I select a folder with a single unrated image and then control click a "> 1 star" smart collection, it shows the image still. It doesn't seem to filter, it's showing both the contents of the smart collection and my one image.
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I recently converted all of my pictures to a new format. I want to make a new catalog, identical to the old one, with the new pictures. I imported everything, but I don't know what to do about collections and smugmug folders. I still have the old catalog, and all of the old pictures. But I need to reupload all of the new pictures to my smugmug site, same as before. So, I need to recreate every collection and add the new pictures like they were before. Is there a faster way to do this? Can I use my old catalog to somehow recreate the collections? I still have the old catalog, and all of the old pictures. All of the filenames of new and old pictures are identical. I also have a few collections that I would prefer not to manually recreate.
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Invoking filters while in the collection - either flagged items or items >+ 2* don't work - it's not just flagged or rated items - no filtering seems to work on my collection.
Lots of other unusual behavior in collections that I can't detail right now, but something is defintely wrong.
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