Computer crashed. On restart, LR4 opened yesterday's catalog. I can't find TODAY's work I did? HELP!
I spent the morning do Massive edits, renames, and photo ordering on some 700 pictures. Suddenly, my computer went down. When I rebooted, my LR4 opened up my last backup- which was yesterday. Now I cannot find ANY of the work I did all morning. Is it gone, or somewhere I don't know about. HELP!!! This is a massive, massive bummer!! I'm sitting here totally freaked out.
Any help would be so incredibly appreciated.
Thanks so much,
Deb
Hmmm... I don't think I was writing metadata, but I certainly could have been. I mean, that happens every time changes are made, and I was certainly using the metadata panel for changing naming structures and files, etc.
Now, when you ask if I was actually using my operating system to search for the .LRCAT files, I can't say for sure. I simply looked in my LR backups and double clicked on the last date listed, which was yesterday. That automatically opened LR to yesterday's catalog.
But, I just ended up sitting there for the rest of the day and searched through my recycle bin and found deleted copies, and rebuilt the catalog. It was a nightmare. But fortunately, I had saved a bunch of the catalog in different files and was able to re-create what I needed. Out of nearly 800 pictures, I only truly lost one processed image, but the unrecognized file names and gray boxes sent me on a VERY complicated goose chase all day. Still, I think I'll do a backup more than at shut down after I've done so much work. This experience has been a hideous waste of time.
Anyway, thanks for your help. You've been very kind.
Deb
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