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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: sergio on September 17, 2009, 07:04:49 pm

Title: HDD quick formatted
Post by: sergio on September 17, 2009, 07:04:49 pm

A 1Tb of images were accidentally quick erased (mac OSX) by a friend. ImageRescue did the job of recovering the images, BUT, and it is a BIG BUT, recovered them and gave them a different name. This makes the LR catalog of 30,000 images completely unusable. is there a way to recover the info at least either respecting folders and/or original naming? Any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks.

Title: HDD quick formatted
Post by: DarkPenguin on September 17, 2009, 11:23:48 pm

Unless they're DNG and have all the LR data in the file I think you're screwed.  Even if you were writing that data out to XMP you're screwed unless you can match the XMP to the RAW file.

That said there should be SOME data in the file.  Like dates and original file names.  You might want to load them into a new LR DB and see what information you have.

Title: HDD quick formatted
Post by: LA30 on September 18, 2009, 01:15:57 pm

Some "friend".

Try this app.


http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php (http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php)

It can sometimes get the names back....

Best of luck.

Ken

Title: HDD quick formatted
Post by: sergio on September 20, 2009, 08:41:44 pm

 Don't get me wrong, it was not my images, but his. I am just helping. Thanks for the suggestions.