You should have your old LR3 catalog on your disk. Point some sort of image importing software at the previews folder there and you should be able to at least salvage the preview images of your old catalog.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 05:54:09PM -0400, Eric Weir wrote: > > I've upgraded to LR 5 in my new computer from LR 3 on the old one. You will > recall---if not, take my word for it---I lost my entire photo database. It > actually happened back at the turn of the year, but I only discovered it a > couple weeks ago. Nevertheless, in LR3 I could still see the images even > though the database was missing. > > I've imported my old catalogue into LR 5 following instructions I got on the > web [Laura Shoe video]. When I open up LR 5 and navigate to the empty folders > I no longer see the images. Only empty slide frames. Is that as it should be? > > It shouldn't matter. The files are gone. I couldn't do anything with the > images in LR 3 anyway. But at least I had reminders of what I had. > > [Or maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe there are things that could be done with > whatever it was I have in my LR 3 installation. I'll be surprise if that's > the case, but of course also delighted.] > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" > > - Mary Oliver > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
