Recover Photos

[briahnaw091617]

Help!! I imported photos onto my external harddrive and several days later, that hard drive was undetectable. We did a check disc on it and when it came back up, 3 days worth of photos were missing. We were able to recover 7 1/2 of the sessions lost from deep scanning the memory card that were formatted, but 1 1/2 of those sessions were already written over. Now I have the previews in lightroom still, but they are blurry and won't clear up. Is there any way I can recover these photos, or clear up the previews so I can use them?

[Mohit Goyal]

Hi briahnaw,

You can extract these previews as jpeg files from the Lightroom. please refer: Script to extract previews of lost or deleted photos

Let us know if that helps.

Regards,

Mohit

[briahnaw091617]

That is an awesome feature however, they are still blurry. Is there a way to clear them up? I can get 2 of the photos from those sessions to load and clear up but the rest of them are blurred.

[Mohit Goyal]

No, I don't think so that there's any other way to fetch the missing images out from Lightroom.

Regards,

Mohit

[ManiacJoe]

Unfortunately, no.

That is the catch when pulling things out of the cache. The cache only contains the most recently used files, and only the format of the files that was recently needed. Because you probably did not get around to viewing the hi-res version of every image in LR, LR did not create a hi-res version in the cache of all the files.