Lost Hard Drive

[BryanHansel]

I recently lost a hard drive. I lost it before I backed-up my most recent changes and keywording to images. I have all the images. My Lightroom catalog is fine and it shows the recent keywording and changes to the images, but none of my backed-up images have a sidecar file written to them. I would like to apply the changes and keywording from my Lightroom catalog to the recent images when I restore them from my back-up location.

Is there a way to have Lightroom apply those changes and keywording to the files once I restore them to a new harddrive?

Thanks.

[DarkPenguin]

I recently lost a hard drive. I lost it before I backed-up my most recent changes and keywording to images. I have all the images. My Lightroom catalog is fine and it shows the recent keywording and changes to the images, but none of my backed-up images have a sidecar file written to them. I would like to apply the changes and keywording from my Lightroom catalog to the recent images when I restore them from my back-up location.

Is there a way to have Lightroom apply those changes and keywording to the files once I restore them to a new harddrive?

Thanks.

Don't you just do a "Save Metadata to File"?

[BryanHansel]

I was wondering that, but I don't want to lose any of the changes in the catalog when I restore the lost files.

[DarkPenguin]

I would worry about re importing the files or doing an update from the files.  But definitely save a copy of your database before doing anything.  Just in case.

[DarkPenguin]

Did you solve this issue?  If so what did you end up doing?

[BryanHansel]

I haven't, because I've been waiting for the new hard drives to show up. They arrived today, so I'll have a chance to test it out in the next few days. I'll let you know how it comes out.

[BryanHansel]

It worked fine. I just put the backed-up images into the same file structure that was in my catalog, and everything worked out fine.