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Photo Edits of lost catalog file.

Alex Yakas

Hello,

I recently lost the catalog file and backups dew to disk drive failure. I was using the referenced workflow which means I still have all my photos in their original place in my disk drive.

Problem is that when I re-imported all these photos to a new catalog, all the edits were gone.

Is there any chance to get my edits back?

Thanks

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  • SFA

    All of the edits will be in the Catalog file.

    Do you have any backups of the catalog file that were NOT on the failed disk drive?

    If not, do you know of any good data recovery companies that might be able to do something to get at the data from your failed drive?

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  • Alex Yakas

    I see, I was kind of hopping the edits are stored on sidecar XMP files like in LR.

    Do you have any backups of the catalog file that were NOT on the failed disk drive?

    Unfortunately not. Everything was on the same drive. Clearly not clever from my side but I thought edits are "hand-by-hand" with photos.

    If not, do you know of any good data recovery companies that might be able to do something to get at the data from your failed drive?

    Is the the last option I have then?

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  • Ian Wilson
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    I was kind of hopping the edits are stored on sidecar XMP files like in LR...I thought edits are "hand-by-hand" with photos.

    In sessions they are stored that way (though in .cos files rather than XMP files) but in catalogs they are stored in the catalog file.

    Ian

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  • SFA

    Alex,

    If you don't have any form of backup that is not on that problem disk (another disk, cloud backup or whatever else there may be) AND you were indeed using a catalog then I can't think of any options that would be generically available to you.

    As Ian has already mentioned, if you use Sessions the edits are stored locally to the Images in subfolders. Obviously without those being backed up if the Image storage drive fails the edits will go as well as the original images - so you would have the same sort of problem in that event but not your current problem.

    Are you sure you did not have a backup of some sort (Time Machine or similar, even the internal C1 backup option) that was saving a catalog backup somewhere other than the problem disk drive?

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  • Alex Yakas

    Thank you both for your replies. Unfortunately I have no backup of the catalog (I do now on another location). It’s a lost case, I just have to digest that :) Thanks again!

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  • Ian Wilson
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    ... unless, as suggested, a techie somewhere can recover files from the drive for you.

    Ian

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