I synchronised an empty folder and Lightroom deleted 500 photos

[loganj85898217]

I just bought an SSD to edit on and made a folder in the SSD Drive. In Lightroom i created an SSD folder and put some photos in there. Then i synchronized it with the "EMPTY" (doh) folder in the SSD drive and it deleted the photos in the SSD folder. I ended up finding them in the in Lightroom but all the edits have been deleted from the photos. Can i get the edits back? Cheers

[john beardsworth]

You will be able to get the edits from a backup of your catalogue.

[cmgap · Accepted solution]

To restore from a backup catalog -

1. Choose File > Open Catalog.
2. Navigate to the location of your backed up catalog file.
3. Select the backed up .lrcat file and click Open.
4. (Optional) Copy the backed up catalog to the location of the original catalog to replace it.

How to back up catalogs in Lightroom Classic CC

[loganj85898217]

Thanks for you reply. I did what you said and extracted the older backup version... but when i open the catalog, the photos that i think i deleted are missing in the backup file too. The collections folder is there which is great but all the photos have an exclamation mark beside them. I even went back a few backups and it was the same there.

Please help, thanks.

[john beardsworth]

Click on the exclamation mark and tell LR where those files now are.

Then select those photos, and do a File > Export as Catalog - don't include originals or previews. This creates a mini catalogue with the information about the photos. Now open your current catalogue and use File > Import from Another Catalog to bring in the mini catalogue's information.

[loganj85898217]

Thanks, I'l give it a go and get bsck to you.