Help ! Lightroom catalogue problems

By doing some stupid things I have managed to have to re-load my Lightroom 5 catalogue which unfortunately is a month out of date.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 Lighroom 5 catalogue 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 catalogue ( I now realise that was not smart) but can anyone help me re-link my photos and album structure to Lightroom ? Thank you.

What happens if, instead of opening the one-month old catalog, you use the most recent catalog, the one that was in use after you made the folder structure changes?
Look under File->Open Recent and see if any of those catalogs are the one you want.

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Do you have all the Photoshop updates installed?
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I have a private Adobe ID and I have a Lightroom Testversion running there! Now my university gave me access to Creative Cloud for Teams and I want to use my Lightroom catalogues with this ID! How can I do this?

Hi,
thank you, it’s done! The Chat helped me! Now I cannot go into this forum anymore with my old password, but that’s not a big problem.
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How to restore backed up files (not lightroom catalogue) from one external drive to another.
I recently backuped my photo files from one external drive to another. The backup (carbon copy cloner) pointed to some corrupt files on the original drive.
I have deleted those files and am finding good copies of them in Time Machine backups.
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Hoping someone can help - sorry if I'm being thick, I'm not very techno-minded!
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I want to back up my archived photos from the external hard drive onto a second external hard drive, then kept off-site, in case of failure / fire etc, backing up both the actual photos (DNGs) and the Lightroom adjustments etc. I thus need to update this back-up hard drive whenever I archive a new set of photos, the aim being to get a copy of the archive and get the back-up hard drive off the premises asap, to ensure I always have a back up of all my archived photos once they are moved off my Mac. Up till now I have been doing this by "exporting as a catalogue, with negative files", onto the second hard drive; however as my archived catalogue has now reached 14,000 photos, this latest export as a catalogue has taken 2 days.... Am I missing some easier (quicker) way to do this, please??? I don't just want a copy of the catalogue, I need the actual photos backed up as well. Hope this makes sense.

clvrmnky wrote:
BTW, at one point the advice was to not let Time Machine backup your catalogue file if Lr had it open. I'm pretty sure this is still a problem. Either always make sure Lr is not running when TM runs, or excuse the catalogue file via the TM preferences. There is a slight risk of corrupting the catalogue otherwise.
According to the Help documents, when Lr 3 is open it marks itself as private and therefore excluded from Time Machine backups. Once the application is closed down it can be backed up by Time Machine.
Re original question - use a purpose designed backup application as suggested by clvrmnky. Trying to do it any other way will get you into a world of hurt.

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