This topic has come up a few times recently. I don’t recall what solutions were provided, but here is something that sounds good.
>From today’s Tim Grey’s eNewsletter, the situation is that original digital >files have been lost. Can anything be salvaged from the previews that had been >generated by Lightroom? Grey’s answer: > … Jeffrey Friedl has developed a plug-in that allows you to extract previews > from the LRDATA file (and a variety of other helpful plug-ins). After > installing this plug-in, you simply launch it within Lightroom, and all > current photos (such as in the current folder) will have the previews > extracted and saved to a folder of your choosing. You can even have the > metadata from your Lightroom catalog added back to those JPEG images, which > is a tremendously helpful option since the previews don’t contain any of the > metadata for your original photos. > > You can find the preview extraction plug-in (and a link to instructions for > installing) through Jeffrey Friedl’s blog here: > > http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/preview-extraction > > The JPEG previews for your photos are of course considerably smaller than the > original full-resolution captures. By default, for example, Lightroom creates > previews that are 1440 pixels on the long edge. That translates to an image > that consists of a little under 1.4 megapixels based on a typical aspect > ratio. So, quite small compared to most cameras, but of course better than > having no images at all. Hopefully this information is of no interest or utility to anyone here… stan -- 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.
