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Hi, I had a person come help me with cleaning up my Mac for more disc space. I'm fairly certain he didn't do much or anything that would have effected LR.

I am a LR and PS user. All of my images are stored on external HD's. But after he left I closed my LR Classic and PS and rebooted my computer. It didn't open in to my most recent catalog nor could I find it in the drop down menu. I opened all of the recent dates but it's not the one that has 14,000 Africa images on it plus 6 months of edits. I obviously have them on my HD but I need to find the most recent catalog for many reasons....I've tried everything.

Can you suggest something? Thank you.
 
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Where do you back up to? That should give you a catalog at the last backup.

Also, use Finder to search for .lrcat - find the one dated today, check size, etc...
 
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Paul McFarlane said:
find the one dated today, check size, et
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It should be noted that LrC does not always update the date you see in Finder or Windows Explorer on the catalog files/folders with each use. However, that date which is part of the folder/file names of you backups should be accurate.
 
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