That he can't do anything with. Best to move on and not torture yourself with previews that you can't do anything with.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 03:17:02PM -0400, David Parsons wrote: >> Why bother? > > So that he can at least look at his last five years of photos. > >> >> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> David Parsons Photography >> http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com >> >> Aloha Photographer Photoblog >> http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ >> >> -- >> 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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
