My data hard drive crashed. It was the main drive I used to edit photos with in LR/Photoshop. I did however backup my pictures at the time of download to one additional internal drive and an external. My LR catalog as also on the non crashed internal drive. I've copied the photos back to a replacement drive same drive letter as the crashed drive.
My question is: 1) the xmp sidecar files from the backup are not updated as the photos were edited on the crashed drive. Does lightroom restore the xmp files data from it's catalog? My impression is I have lost only the externally edited files and not any of the lightroom edits.
2) The backup of the catalog - should it be on a 2nd drive? There is a folder called backups as a subfolder of my lightroom catalog folder does it have every backup of the catalog ever done?
3) What is the best way to sync all the edits to my 2nd internal and external drive?
4) Any additional good habits for backup?
My question is: 1) the xmp sidecar files from the backup are not updated as the photos were edited on the crashed drive. Does lightroom restore the xmp files data from it's catalog? My impression is I have lost only the externally edited files and not any of the lightroom edits.
2) The backup of the catalog - should it be on a 2nd drive? There is a folder called backups as a subfolder of my lightroom catalog folder does it have every backup of the catalog ever done?
3) What is the best way to sync all the edits to my 2nd internal and external drive?
4) Any additional good habits for backup?