Develop Adjustment no longer connected to original photo

[frankc94110352]

All photos contained in a file folder in lightroom that have previously been processed via Develop no longer display with those adjustments.  Only the original raw file is shown.  How can the develop adjustments be disassociated from the raw file?  More importantly, how can I re-associate the develop adjustments with these photos?

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

Are you sure you are using the correct catalog?

[frankc94110352]

Thank you, I was using a different catalog.  I found the older one and the developed photo files were there.  Now I just need to figure out how to successfully combine them.

[Rob_Cullen]

Your situation is now this-

1. Current working catalog- Photos have no edits.

2. The 'old' catalog- has the Photos WITH edits.

The quick answer is to use the menu function "Import from another Catalog", but it is a little more complicated than simply this.

The process is fully detailed in this link- https://www.lightroomqueen.com/partial-restore-backup-catalog/

Where Lightroom Queen refers to a "Backup Catalog"- you read it as your 'Old' catalog.

The method selects the 'edited' photos in your 'old' catalog, chooses "Export as a Catalog" to a 'temporary' catalog, then in your current catalog- "Import from another catalog" selecting the 'temporary' catalog to merge in the edits.

DO NOT DO any Exporting or Importing of Photos/files!