Are you absolutely certain that the original image files are gone? Where on your system are/were the imported image files saved to: the Mac internal drive or one of the external drives?
If you somehow altered the pathname to where Lr expects to find your imported originals, you get the ?? thing, as I expect you know. As for avoiding loss, besides the internal drive, Time Machine can be told to backup other attached drives and that's how I use it. I have a 1 TB Time Machine drive backing up an attached 2 TB drive plus the 250 GB internal drive and it's keeping stuff way back to last November. On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > Hadn't done any photography for several months. Went on a hike up in North > Georgia mountains yesterday. Wanted to see what my images were like. Opened > LR just now and there was a '?' in front of every folder and image. Went > looking for my database in the finder. Couldn't find it. Not even in the > trash. Not even by searching. > > I have Time Machine. I kept going back in it till I could go no further. > Still no database. Time Machine goes back further than the last images I > uploaded. I don't understand how it could be missing from a backup prior to > that. I am sick. > > Thought I had a good system. Two hard drives in addition to the one on which > I have Time Machine. Backup one to the other and then the hard drive on my > MacBook to the first. By the end of the second day, whatever was deleted the > previous day is gone for good. Stupid. > > How could I have avoided this? > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > eew...@bellsouth.net > > "Our world is a human world." > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
