Import already developed photos

Hello there, please can you help me to import again my photos with all the settings which i had already brought to my work. It happened that my cat walking on the keyboard changed the name of the disk where lightroom used to point. Working with Lightroom 3, mac osx 10.5.8. Thanks in advance

Hi and welcome to the forums,
but I'm afraid that you posted this question in the wrong forum. This is the forum for Adobe Captivate, not for Lightroom nor Photoshop. I cannot move your question, but here is the link to the Lightroom forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom
Lilybiri

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my-wedding-foto.de wrote:
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Tony:
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bedophotonfilms wrote:
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