How to restore a previous version of lightroom database

I messed up and mistakenly removed an image from lightroom ... is there any way to recover that version of the image that was in the lightroom database via a restore process? I've been backing up the database each time I start the program. Thanks.

If you have now found the mislocated database file the simplest method would be to copy and paste it into the location that you really want it. Once in the new location, double click it and LR will open up (as if by magic) or, alternatively, start up LR and point it to this database location. The image that you then accidently removed from LR should show up in Red in the left hand panel and in addition a thumbnail image of your image will appear in the main window with a question mark in the top right hand corner. Click on this question mark and point LR in the direction of where the image is located. All then will be fine and your image will still have any previous edits applied that were contained in the database. The 'preview' file that you found and mentioned in your post contains as you might have guessed - the image previews. This file can be deleted at any time and LR will rebuild it as and when required.
To prevent this happening in the future, select carefully where you want the database backed up to and LR will then always backup to this location unless you change it - which is what I suspect you may have done accidently last time around, hence database backups in two different places.

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