Charles Robinson wrote:
Last year (2008) I totally screwed up and lost (yes, lost) a whole month's
worth of images due to inconsistencies in my backup process.
I realized just recently that all of the 1:1 previews from May of 2008 are still in my Lightroom database (despite a setting which says to remove them after a month!).
Glad that this worked out for you but it demonstrates cleary what I
loathe about Adobe products. Why should this programme _duplicate_ the
full image file? Utter bloatware behaviour.
Which brings me to this question:
Is there a way to get that image data (which exists in the previews) exported
somehow? I know that doing a regular LR export, it will want to see the source
files (which don't exist).. so it might be tricky.
Going off to Google now, but if anyone has suggestions/ideas, I'm all ears. This
"missing month" includes all of the photos I took for my daughter's wedding -
otherwise I'd just let it go.
Well now. I just downloaded (free!) a utility which can browse your catalog, and export images from 1:1 previews that you still have. Fantastic.
It's called LRViewer. http://imageingester.com/index.php
So, question answered. And if anyone else finds themselves in a pinch, this is
a useful utility for not only that, but any time you want to browse your
library without all the overhead of running Lightroom. Hooray!
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