Hard Drive Crash. How do I rescue some of my hard work?

[BillShaw]

I had a hard drive crash. I still have the Archive disk of original unprocessed files. My Lightroom catalog has all the adjustment and editing information for the original work; just no files to process against. Can I load the archive files from my back up DVD and in some way apply the Lightroom catalog adjustments to these files?

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Hi Bill, welcome to the forum!

Sorry to hear about your hard drive crash.

To restore the files, it's just a case of putting them back where LR's expecting. That's the simplest option by far. Do your backups have the same filenames as LR's expecting?

 

[BillShaw]

Thanks Victoria. Since the original external drive crashed, I have replaced it with a new external drive. The old drive had the name 'mybook', the new is called 'bigbook'. Should I change the name of the drive to 'mybook' and then load the orginals into a folder with the old folder name and relative location, or do I only need to create a folder name in the new hard drive?

 

[Victoria Bampton]

It depends on what shows on your folders panel at the moment Bill. Do you know how to do a screenshot of your folders panel? Changing the name (if you're mac based) would be the simplest solution, but not necessarily necessary.