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Lightroom Question
May 18, 2013 01:44:13 #
I am new to this forum. Have read topics of interest for months now. I am an old school film photographer. Jumped in to digital photography by going to Online classes. I am working toward my Associate of Science in Photography. I'm new to computers and digital photography. Steep learning curve! I was up til 2 am last night working in lightroom. We had to make a screenshot of six photos. Open it in Photoshop and then it was saved for the web to be transferred in pdf form. I started having trouble with Acrobat Pro X not letting me put photos and screenshots in the particular order that I needed them to be. I made new files and it worked. But now with all that moving of files it looks like I deleted my catalogs.They were backed up. Can I retrieve these files?
May 18, 2013 03:22:41 #
Whatever you do, don't shut off the computer before you have found the missing files.
Others here will help you with the details, I'm not familiar enough with your specific problem.
Others here will help you with the details, I'm not familiar enough with your specific problem.
May 18, 2013 11:27:43 #
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May 18, 2013 12:57:58 #
Lightroom has a tricky file system and anything you move MUST be moved within the Lightroom dialogue and file structure, not by moving it on your computer. This is especially difficult to understand if you're a mac person like me. Lightroom has a "find" feature to locate lost files if you can see the preview but are getting the "image not found" message. Search the lightroom Help file (a pdf you can keep on your computer) for "find lost files" and it will explain. The file system is the only thing that has a really steep learning curve in LR, the rest is pretty intuitive. But you will have to take a deep breath and sort the file thing out, decide on some basics that work for you, and stick to it, because the structure is unforgiving. I am new here too, but I think maybe you'd get more helpful answers in a different section.
May 18, 2013 16:05:28 #
Thank you so much for the information. I did find my older files once last night but can't find them again. This is the first time this has happened to me in the 5 months of working in lightroom. I know I will find them again I just have to learn the process. Thank you again!
May 18, 2013 16:11:23 #
To late for your advice. I had shut the computer down for the night. I did find them once last night so they are hiding somewhere. I just don't know where. But I will figure this out. Thank you for your advice.
May 18, 2013 16:14:07 #
Thanks. I hope to continue to learn from the many digital savvy photographers here in this forum. There is so much to learn.
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May 19, 2013 06:44:24 #
Phil249
Loc: Southern WV
Normally Lightroom will store files in Computer/C:/users/computer name/my pictures/lightroom/backup/2013-05-01 1234
hopefully this helps. Computer name is what you called your computer and the 2013-05-01 1234 is the year and month-day followed by file number
hopefully this helps. Computer name is what you called your computer and the 2013-05-01 1234 is the year and month-day followed by file number
May 19, 2013 08:43:56 #
May 19, 2013 09:42:46 #
Welcome to the UHH . Someone here will be able to help you since we have a collection of both photo and computer wizards .
May 19, 2013 23:52:22 #
Thank you so much for that file info. I finally realized they were not deleted. I just didn't know where they were stored. This helps a lot as I have to go back and retrieve these images for class. I was a little stressed thinking they were deleted. I have them backed up though. Thank you again.
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May 19, 2013 23:59:33 #
Thank you so much for the file info. I finally realized they were stored on the computer not deleted. I just didn't know where they were stored. This will help as I need to retrieve those photos for class. Thank you again.
May 20, 2013 04:35:32 #
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