Elle Elle
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Hi All! I'm new here, but hoping for help...
Last night I accidentally deleted a massive folder within my lightroom catalogue - one containing loads of subfolders relating to images over the last 5 years, all ratings, keywords, edits, etc, etc. I meant to delete an empty subfolder within it, but somehow clicked the parent folder..and the whole directory is gone!
Does anyone know how to get this back? I realised what had happened immediately & tried clicking undo but to no avail. I can't believe that with one slip it can just be gone?! Surely this must still be stored somewhere??
Just to be clear - this has not deleted the images from the hard disk - just a big section of my actual lightroom catalogue.
..And..Unfortunately I have been bad about backing up the Lightroom calatogue itself - so backups are way way out of date (lesson learnt!)..so restoring a backup is not going to be a great solution if that's my only option.
Also to say I havent saved the catalogue since I did this, in the hope that there might be a way to go back to the version that I opened when I started the session? Don't know if that is possible though as it saves & updates the catalogue automatically when you close?
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it!! This is quite an old version LR5..
Last night I accidentally deleted a massive folder within my lightroom catalogue - one containing loads of subfolders relating to images over the last 5 years, all ratings, keywords, edits, etc, etc. I meant to delete an empty subfolder within it, but somehow clicked the parent folder..and the whole directory is gone!
Does anyone know how to get this back? I realised what had happened immediately & tried clicking undo but to no avail. I can't believe that with one slip it can just be gone?! Surely this must still be stored somewhere??
Just to be clear - this has not deleted the images from the hard disk - just a big section of my actual lightroom catalogue.
..And..Unfortunately I have been bad about backing up the Lightroom calatogue itself - so backups are way way out of date (lesson learnt!)..so restoring a backup is not going to be a great solution if that's my only option.
Also to say I havent saved the catalogue since I did this, in the hope that there might be a way to go back to the version that I opened when I started the session? Don't know if that is possible though as it saves & updates the catalogue automatically when you close?
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it!! This is quite an old version LR5..