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Lightroom Book Module_Recovering Lost Book

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nIkedoni1a

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I uploaded a book to blurb and had it printed. Upon receipt of the book I noticed I had misspelled a word so I went back into the book module and corrected it. I neglected to click create saved book and now it is missing from my collections. Up until the point that I uploaded it to blurb lightroom always saved it automatically. I suspect that once uploaded to blurb lightroom considers it a done deal and treated my modification as a new book because now it is missing from my collection.
I do have a backup dated one day prior to the day I uploaded it so I know I can go back and see it, my question is how to go back grab the book and then bring it back to today's catalog. I don't want to just start using the older catalog version and lose the work I did between then and now.
 
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Victoria has a blog article (link below) that details a method.
In your case, you would
1) Open the 'Backup' catalog (after extracting from the ZIP) Select and [Right-Click] only the Saved Book Collection in the Collection panel
2) [Export as a Catalog], You do not need to include 'Negative files' in the Catalog Export procedure.
3) re-open your master catalog and [Import from another Catalog] to "bring it back to today's catalog".
RESTORE PARTIAL from backup catalog?
View attachment 16135
Awesome! I really thought it was going to be more convoluted than this. Thank you so much for taking the time to post this explanation.
how to go back grab the book and then bring it back to today's catalog.
Victoria has a blog article (link below) that details a method.
In your case, you would
1) Open the 'Backup' catalog (after extracting from the ZIP) Select and [Right-Click] only the Saved Book Collection in the Collection panel
2) [Export as a Catalog], You do not need to include 'Negative files' in the Catalog Export procedure.
3) re-open your master catalog and [Import from another Catalog] to "bring it back to today's catalog".
RESTORE PARTIAL from backup catalog?
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Victoria has a blog article (link below) that details a method.
In your case, you would
1) Open the 'Backup' catalog (after extracting from the ZIP) Select and [Right-Click] only the Saved Book Collection in the Collection panel
2) [Export as a Catalog], You do not need to include 'Negative files' in the Catalog Export procedure.
3) re-open your master catalog and [Import from another Catalog] to "bring it back to today's catalog".
RESTORE PARTIAL from backup catalog?
View attachment 16135
Awesome! I really thought it was going to be more convoluted than this. Thank you so much for taking the time to post this explanation.
 
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