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- Somerville, MA. USA
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I spent many hours cleaning up my keywords and building a new hierarchy. I accidentally applied a 4 star rating to all 105,000 photos. This wiped out years of work. Unfortunately I backed up my LRC before I realized what I had done. I could not undo the star ratings.
I have a previous backup of my catalogue that will have the correct star ratings. The changes I have made since that time have mostly been in the keywords list. I corrected misspellings. I changed the name on all of the dog pictures by added a suffix to dogs names ie "Hazel" was changed to "Hazel_k9-Bills". The - (name) is the owners name if I know it. These keywords are all applied to the appropriate photos.
Any thoughts on how to keep the keyword work I have done since the previous backup and bring back the star rating would be appriciated.
This is one way I have thought about fixing this.
* Export the keywords from my current catalogue. (The one with the incorrect star ratings)
* Restore the backup with the correct star ratings.
* Import the exported keywords which have been reorganized
Do you think this is a good approach
Will the the photos with keywords (including the ones I changed) show up in the new hierarchy automatically or do I need to apply them manually?
This mess has me stopped in my tracks.
I have a previous backup of my catalogue that will have the correct star ratings. The changes I have made since that time have mostly been in the keywords list. I corrected misspellings. I changed the name on all of the dog pictures by added a suffix to dogs names ie "Hazel" was changed to "Hazel_k9-Bills". The - (name) is the owners name if I know it. These keywords are all applied to the appropriate photos.
Any thoughts on how to keep the keyword work I have done since the previous backup and bring back the star rating would be appriciated.
This is one way I have thought about fixing this.
* Export the keywords from my current catalogue. (The one with the incorrect star ratings)
* Restore the backup with the correct star ratings.
* Import the exported keywords which have been reorganized
Do you think this is a good approach
Will the the photos with keywords (including the ones I changed) show up in the new hierarchy automatically or do I need to apply them manually?
This mess has me stopped in my tracks.