Recovered photos after hard drive crash, but not the edits of those photos.

[photosnap]

My hard drive crashed over a month ago, and after an extensive firmware data recovery I just got all of my photos back. The problem is that when I opened the folder I needed it was the original images without the edits I had spent 2 months on prior to the hard drive crash. I am assuming that the edits are saved in a separate folder, but have had no luck finding them.

I have a new hard drive, and re-loaded Lightroom 2. I am assuming that my edits might be saved in lightroom files from my old hard drive, but have had no luck with any of the ones I opened or imported. Can anyone help me with where to find my edits?

 

[Kiwigeoff]

Well, you are in a pickle aren't you!!Welcome and hopefully we can help.First thing to do is back up all your files to a second drive to avert this happening again!!Did you have everything on one drive? Catalogs and images........You need to search for files with .lrcat.Let us know what you find.

 

[MarkNicholas]

If your originals are RAW files did you save the edits to xmp sidecare files. If yes then you should search for those as well.

 

[Kiwigeoff]

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If your originals are RAW files did you save the edits to xmp sidecare files. If yes then you should search for those as well.
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If a catalog is found, that will have all the edits anyway but worth a look!!

 

[ThomasB]

Good luck, and BACKUP - BACKUP - BACKUP! On an external drive, daily, automatically. This will let sleep you much better.

 

[Brad Snyder]

Just summarizing the above. Search for files of type *.lrcat (that's an 'L', LRCAT) and files of type *.XMP. Let us know what you find.