Lightroom froze, lost all my editing..is there a fiX?

Diane S

Ok, this is NOT my week for getting any lightroom 2.1 warm-fuzzies. I just spent close to 3 hours of editing images for a wedding, then my lightroom froze up and wouldn't let me do anything, so I closed lightroom, reopened it up, and ALL MY EDITING WAS GONE, EVEN THE 5 STAR PICS WERE NOT SHOWING. The original raw images were there, but NONE of my editing, nor my stars. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I thought Lightroom saved everything as you worked on images.

Has this happeded to anyone else before? Is there a fix? Is ithe editing lost for good and I have to start over?

I want my 3 hours back...

signed, frustrated

pathfinder

XP, Vista, Mac? How much RAM, software up to date? - hardware and software are all relevant pieces of information to answer this question.

There are a number of links for these issues here on Adobe's website

Good luck. I had a hang with LR2 on my Mac, and when I deleted the Pflist for LR2 everything was fine, and I did not loose any data. I hope you are as lucky.

pyry

Make sure you have LR set to write the changes as you make them in the catalog preferences.

Otherwise you'd have go through the 'save metadata to files' routine...

(this is for LR1 at least)

Diane S

pyry wrote:

Make sure you have LR set to write the changes as you make them in the catalog preferences.

Otherwise you'd have go through the 'save metadata to files' routine...

(this is for LR1 at least)

Thanks for your input... I checked the preferences in LR 2.1 and I don't see anywhere where it gives me the choice to write the changes as I make them... possibly it is an automatic default?

Anyway.... I went ahead and re-edited all the files, what a bummer.. another 3 hrs of work.. but at least it's done.

Thanks for all your help.
Diane

pyry

Diane S wrote:

Thanks for your input... I checked the preferences in LR 2.1 and I don't see anywhere where it gives me the choice to write the changes as I make them... possibly it is an automatic default?

Anyway.... I went ahead and re-edited all the files, what a bummer.. another 3 hrs of work.. but at least it's done.

Thanks for all your help.
Diane

It should be called 'Automatically write changes to XMP'
It's in Catalog settings > Metadata in LR1

I'm not sure about LR2 but try Preferences > File management

Normally the changes are written into the catalog as they happen, this will also export them to xmp sidecars or embed them (for jpegs and dngs) without further commands.

digismile

pyry wrote:

It should be called 'Automatically write changes to XMP'
It's in Catalog settings > Metadata in LR1

I'm not sure about LR2 but try Preferences > File management

Normally the changes are written into the catalog as they happen, this will also export them to xmp sidecars or embed them (for jpegs and dngs) without further commands.

Same place in LR2.

Edit->Catalog Preferences->metadata

3rd checkbox under editting

Slinky0390

I was under the impression that all your editing and ratings were stored in the lightroom catalogue.lrcat file. I know when I copied my Lightroom folder from my powerbook to my new macbook pro and first fired up Lightroom, it imported everything including my changes.

pyry

Slinky0390 wrote:

I was under the impression that all your editing and ratings were stored in the lightroom catalogue.lrcat file. I know when I copied my Lightroom folder from my powerbook to my new macbook pro and first fired up Lightroom, it imported everything including my changes.

They are in the catalog - the changes can also be written to the individual image files themselves, so that when you move those, your changes aren't lost.