Restore a backup catalog, Locate missing photos – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC User Manual
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Managing catalogs and files
Last updated 4/20/2015
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Close the window and then quit Lightroom.
Restore a backup catalog
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Choose File > Open Catalog.
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Navigate to the location of your backed up catalog file.
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Select the backed up .lrcat file and click Open.
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(Optional) Copy the backed up catalog to the location of the original catalog to replace it.
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Locate missing photos
If you move image files in the Finder (Mac OS) or Explorer (Windows), the link between the files and the Lightroom
catalog breaks. When a catalog can't find a photo, Lightroom displays a Photo Is Missing icon in image cells in the Grid
view and the Filmstrip. The Photo Is Missing icon is an exclamation point (
) in Lightroom 5 and a question mark
(
) in earlier versions of Lightroom. In the Develop module, Lightroom indicates that the photo could not be found,
or is offline or missing.
Links between a catalog and its photos can also break if photos are stored on an external drive that is offline. If the drive
is offline, turn it on. If the drive letter has changed, change it back to the letter Lightroom expects.
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(Optional) In the Library module, choose Library > Find All Missing Photos to display missing files in the Grid view.