RonnieSue
New Member
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2015
- Messages
- 5
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 10.1
- Operating System
I have (had?) about 600,000 photos in my catalogue on my IMAC. I recently traveled and left the IMAC home and took my Macbook. I created a new catalogue on the macbook just so i could see my photos and post them while i was gone, fully intending to add the photos (which were on an external drive) into my catalogue on the IMAC when I came home. (I didn't mind losing any edits I did while i was away)
when I got home, i realized i can't find which LRCAT i used on my IMAC...i have so many 'test' catalogues and older versions. my photos are on my external drives (along with the xmp files) but not in any catalogue i open. if i do open a catalogue, it shows only about 160,000 photos and although i see the external drives, i don't see my older photos.
It gets even more complicated since i tried to open some of the many catalogues i have and it wants to update them, so i did that. now i have even more catalogues.
i checked the XMP files in hopes of seeing a catalogue name there, but i don't.
is there a way to recover from this mess. 10+ years of files are floating around as orphans, i think....
any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thank you
when I got home, i realized i can't find which LRCAT i used on my IMAC...i have so many 'test' catalogues and older versions. my photos are on my external drives (along with the xmp files) but not in any catalogue i open. if i do open a catalogue, it shows only about 160,000 photos and although i see the external drives, i don't see my older photos.
It gets even more complicated since i tried to open some of the many catalogues i have and it wants to update them, so i did that. now i have even more catalogues.
i checked the XMP files in hopes of seeing a catalogue name there, but i don't.
is there a way to recover from this mess. 10+ years of files are floating around as orphans, i think....
any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thank you