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another no backup corrupted catalog case...

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tadaoo

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Lightroom Classic version 11.1
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  1. macOS 11 Big Sur
Hi and Happy New Year to everyone,

I just joined the forum, searching for answers after spending the day trying to recover my newly corrupted Lightroom catalog.

I have started using Lightroom relatively recently (2020), without a problem, and to my demise, without regular backups. My last backup is from October 21, before the update to LR11 for my M1 Mac Mini. Since October I have 130GB of files lost in that corrupted catalog. Well let's say I still have the unmodified DNG's and the JPEG exported after editing, but I would like to get my full catalog with the edited DNGs back if that is possible.

I went through the Sqlite steps only to get the same error messages as everyone else: "UNIQUE constraint failed", and " no such table".

Is there a workaround that can be done, or is the option of sending the catalog for checking and eventually repair to the good people of the Lightroom Queen still available?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide and keep the good things flowing!

Cheers,

R
 
Zip up the catalog - just the lrcat bit - and use www.wetransfer.com to send it to [email protected] and I'll forward it on to the good people at Adobe. Whether it's recoverable though, remains in doubt.
 
Hi Victoria,

Thank you so much for your reply; I have set the catalog "Lightroom Catalog-v11.lrcat" via we transfer as per your message.
Hopefully something will come out of it!

Thank you again!

R
 
Hi yall
I received and tested my catalog and Adobe ant The Lightroom Queen seem to have worked their magic!...
Thanks a million to Victoria and Paul for following up with me!

Have a great one!

R
 
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