LR 2.6 deleted 23,000 pictures - HELP!!!
Lightroom deletes 23,000 pictures in 2 seconds. Can you give me any pointers on how to get them back?
I've never had a problem before and this morning like a shot of lightning, while switching back and forth between an archive catalog and this active catalog, now my picture are all coming up with those little ? in the corners telling me it cannot find the images. I know I exported one image from the catalog to Flickr using Friedl's exporter, pressed the cancel button halfway through the export, switched to a different catalog and when I came back to this catalog, everything was gone.
The LR catalog is fine, but poking around on my HD revealed that the folder structure for the images is completely gone. Nothing shows up in the recycle bin, but Windows still shows these 300 GB of files as being used so I'm sure they are still out there somewhere. I tried an unerase utility to see if a simple restore was possible, but I don't see the top level folder anywhere. I have been very careful to not mess around too much as I don't want to ruin my chance of recovery. Windows has not done a check disk on this drive yet,
For reference, Win XP 64 bit with LR 2.6 64 bit, and a very active catalog. Files are backed up every 2 weeks, but it will be a very nasty job to restore everything. As luck would have it, a backup was due to run, so my restore will be 2 weeks out of date on this very active catalog. Only the last 6 months of pictures is on this computer.
My 500 gig drive is partitioned as follows.
Drive c:Windows partition 50 gig
Drive d: All data including pictures here 450 gig (300 gigs of pictures are nowhere to be found but the space is still showing as used)
My Pictures
Pictures 2010
Jan
Jan 2 2010 Concert Shoot
Jan 3 2010 Smith Wedding
Feb
Mar
etc.....
I just read the thread now, but even just reading the original post, I wasn't worried for you, because LR can't delete 23,000 files in a few seconds. It would take a much longer time to do that. There was obviously just a catalog shift within Windows and outside of LR, so that all your files were still there in a new folder location. Remember that LR is at heart, in terms of photo management, a database program consisting of pointers that it records, stores and uses to locate your files. (iTunes works in a similar way with .mp3 and other music and video files.) If you use LR to move a file, LR should reset its pointer to the new location. If you use Windows to move the file, LR's pointer is now incorrect and it can't find the image any longer. The solution, as you found, is to restore the file to the location where Lightroom knew it last was.
Nonetheless, you are wise to treat this incident as you did, as a warning shot across the bow, and install real-time backup since your photo files are important to you. Keep checking to make sure the backups are working as you expect. The only thing worse than not having backups is having a backup system that lets you down when you need it most.
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