On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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… Ya’ll may remember my losing my entire database. Long-ish story if you don’t remember. But I used a different plug-in by Rob Cole <http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAndServices/PreviewExporterLrPlugin/> that sounds very much like the one described above. It took me a while, I got everything back. As noted, the images are smaller but better than nothing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than they are of lies.” - Nietzsche -- 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.
