Lightroom :: Backing Up LR Photos
Jan 15, 2014
I need backing up my lightroom photos onto an external drive. I understand you need to backup both your catalog and your photos. I have been backing up my catalog to a folder on my external hard drive. Does this automatic catalog backup include presets, edits and XMPs/metadata to the photos?
My main problem is I am super confused about backing up my photos. I have to admit I haven't done it for about 6 months since it was such a hassle last time. Here's my situation. 6 months ago I manually backed up everything I had from lightroom 3 at the time. Now, I want to back up the photos I've taken since then however I dont know how to do this without deleting my previous backup and then rebacking up everything again. If I just export my catalog into my external hardrive will that be sufficient? Also if I need to do it manually where do I even find my LR photos? Also, now I have lightroom 5 and I'm worried that if I just backup lightroom 5 then my presets and edits from lightroom 3 will not be backed up.I've heard that Microsoft Backup and Restore can automatically backup my files. How does this work? Will it automatically back up everything I need from LR (photos and all)?
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Oct 27, 2012
does photoshop elements have a cloud to back up to, and if so, how is the back up done?
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Jun 13, 2013
I have been using PSE9 for awhile. Imported around 3000 photos from camera card.
I didn't realize that I should have made a copy of the original photos. Now they are stored in the Organizer along with all the changes.
How can I copy/backup the original camera photos at this late date?
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Jul 22, 2013
I shoot a Canon 5D Markiii which produces large files and take a long time to upload to my cloud backup. But when I make Lightroom changes only the XMP file changes. If I convert to DNG does that mean the entire file must be backed up whenever I make a Lightroom change?
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Dec 27, 2012
I am getting Lightroom. I want to work out the best backup system. I keep hearing, over the years, of people backing up their photos without doing ANYTHING to them as a first backup, right out of the camera. Then they work on the photos which this first backup was taken from. Is this inherently the best way to archive photos for long term quality?
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Mar 15, 2014
When I first installed LR4, I watched a video that said I could place my catalog on my mac's hard drive or use an external. So, all my photos are on an external. I'm trying to figure out how to backup those images, original & edited versions to another HD. Time machine to my knowledge only backsup my computer itself. I do back up my LR5 catalog upon closing it after use & it is stored in my users picture folder but my photos are all on a HD. So if my external fails, my photos will be gone
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Apr 13, 2013
I just wanted to know if there was anyway to have lightroom 4 backup catalogs upon launching the program instead of upon exiting? I know in previous verisons you were able to do this..
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Apr 21, 2013
What is the best way to back up my data?
I normal export the entire catalog about once every two months (I'm not a heavy user) to an external hard drive and the catalog file (lrcat) too. Pluse I also back up the catalog file (lrcat) about once a week to the internal hard drive.I am not sure if this is the right way to go about backing up.
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Sep 6, 2013
I am running LR 5.0 on OS X 10.8.4 and everything was fine until a couple of days ago when I started getting this error message when backing up Lightroom. I have repeatedly restarted Lightroom, restarted my iMac, and nothing gets fixed. Do I even have a functional backup?
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Apr 13, 2013
I have a catalog that is just under 5gb, if I navigate to the folder where it is stored and copy paste it onto my backup drive it copies in under 2 min. However, if I chose to backup my catalog on exit from inside lightroom it takes over 30 minutes (not counting testing etc). Obviously I can backup my catalog manually, but it would be nice if the built in backup feature worked like it's supposed to.
I'm running win 7 64 lightroom 64 same probelm in 4.3 and 4.4 the catalog and lightroom are stored on a ssd drive backing up to a NAS ( my typical transfer speeds are 60-80 MB/s)
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Mar 20, 2014
I have managed to have to re-load my Lightroom 5 catalog which unfortunately is a month out of date. During that month I changed my folder structure and whilst I can see the folders and images on my hard drive, my Lightroom 5 catalog is as it was a month ago without the new folder structure and with a lot of photos missing. Obviously the link between the images and Lightroom has been lost because I changed the folder structure without backing up the catalog. re-link my photos and album structure to Lightroom ?
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Jul 25, 2012
I must preface this by saying that I am new to LR4 and I have been trying to follow instructions in a popular book as to creating collections, etc. I have been trying to create collections and organize photos. I recently shot a wedding and went through about 900 photos and whittled it down to 350 and now today for some reason I decided to back up a previous catalog and now everything I did yesterday appears to be gone and the only photos that I see in LR are those bridal photos in that catalog.
I know that this is the most amateaur of questions, but what in the world have I done, and can I recover that previous import and the changes I made to them?
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Oct 11, 2012
When I upload NEF files to a LR catalog, they are converted to DNG images, but backed up to my external HD remain NEF. Other than copying back to the HD is there another solution
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Mar 14, 2008
I recently had a computer crash and lost all my tags and albums in Photoshop.
Is there a way to backup/store the tags and ablums outside of the photoshop default folder?
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Aug 5, 2008
Can anyone tell me where to locate the files which correspond to Actions which I create in CS3? I have searched my hard drive for "ATN" files and find only those which came with the program. I would like to back up these Action files and occasionally email Actions which I have created to other users.
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Oct 13, 2013
How do I back-up my Photoshop CC settings (i'm using Windows 7 Pro)?
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Apr 8, 2011
I have used a pc from the 1980s and never bothered much about formally backing up relying on saving to disk for important piccies etc. I have had several computer crashes over the years and merely reinstalled all. My problem is now this: I have recently taken on the job of official film-maker for a local club and so feel I should have some formal backup in place, for fear of losing my project file mid-stream before completion! backup prog particularly for Video work? I believe the opposition incorporate a back up prog into their software but I don't want to move away from Corel.
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Jan 10, 2006
every once in awhile i start up Photoshop and it acts like it has never been used before, all of the default windows are open, it asks me if i want to calibrate color, etc. The worst of this is that I lose of all my custom patterns and brushes that I have made.
Furthermore i can make a brush, name it "Zugzug" and close and reopen Photoshop and it is still there however when i run a search for "zugzug" on my computer it finds nothing. I have been using PS 6.0 when this was happening but recently got CS however I do not want to wait for this to happen again before i try to fix it.
Where are my custom brushes saved and why arent they saved with their names? I figure if i at least knew this it would be easier to save parts of my profile.....
I work on a networked machine and wonder if the profile is stored off of my c: drive. Is there a way to back up my 'profile'?
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Nov 16, 2003
I'm gonna format my hard disk and I would like to back up my Photoshop Actions and Patterns created by myself before doing so. I had been to Photoshop folder and found the Actions and Patterns folders but they don't contain my own created files. What should I do?
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Jul 1, 2005
Im having trouble finding cs2's Preference files for backing up purposes.
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Oct 2, 2012
I'm unable to drag a group of photos or even single photos to a publish folder. In this case it's SmugMug. What is the correct method?
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May 28, 2013
I copied photo folders from my hard drive to lightroom 4 and edited them but then accidentally removed these folders from lightroom. I then imported these folders again into lightroom but all the edits I made orginally in lightroom don't show up for the individual photo's.
I backed up the Lightroom catalogue regularily. Is there any way I can reattach these edits to their respective photos'. There is lot of photo's involved.
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Feb 13, 2014
When I merge LR5 catalogs the existing photos are overwritten by the incoming photos
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Nov 30, 2012
I'm using PSE/PE 11 with latest updates, Win7 64bit (again, latest updates). I7 cpu w/8GB ram.
When I attempt a backup of the catalog (EVEN after optimizing & reconnecting) to an internal HDD (SSD) with 188GB free - NO LUCK. Attempt another backup to a different internal HDD with 345GB free - NO LUCK - the app says I must free up some disk space/not enough space. My catalog size from System Info shows 21.6MB but within the Backup app of Organizer, it says it is trying to backup 612,678.10MB.
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Feb 8, 2013
I am trying to back up My Catalog to external hard drive.I get message "calculating total media size " it comes to 88% and then stays there for ever . I have repaired ,optimized and reconnected all missing files.I have around 30000 photos all nicely organized and tagged ,I want to back it all up to external drive without loosing all hard work on organizing them.
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Nov 16, 2012
I have 2 layers, a text layer on top, and a shape behind it. When I add a drop shadow to the text, the shadow shows up BEHIND the shape, instead of on it. If I choose mode "Multiply," then it shows up in front but is way too big.
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Apr 7, 2013
I add five photos to a folder in Lightroom 4.3. The photos are in the specified folder in Windows. Import shows the five photos as imported but greyed out and semi-highlighted. Library does not show these five photos. What can I do?
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Jun 28, 2013
All kinds of stuff: web icons, buttons, etc..., adds. Should I add them all or are there types or categories of photos that would be fine to keep outside LR? If so, what kinds of photos would you add or not add? (I guess this question could apply to my past photos as well as future shots but perhaps, the answer would change slightly.)
how to add/import but nothing on what to add/import.
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Dec 11, 2012
How do I put two (2) different photos together in one.
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May 21, 2013
I have a canon 5d mark 3 but cant get my photos to appear in lightroom.....
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Nov 19, 2012
When I go to import photos into PS from lightroom, I am losing my edits. Not sure what the deal is. I checked the color profile and also proof set up and they seem to be right... [URL]...
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