On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 03:17:02PM -0400, David Parsons wrote: > Why bother?
So that he can at least look at his last five years of photos. > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > You should have your old LR3 catalog on your disk. > > > > Point some sort of image importing software at the previews folder > > there and you should be able to at least salvage the preview images of > > your old catalog. > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 05:54:09PM -0400, Eric Weir wrote: > >> > >> I've upgraded to LR 5 in my new computer from LR 3 on the old one. You > >> will recall---if not, take my word for it---I lost my entire photo > >> database. It actually happened back at the turn of the year, but I only > >> discovered it a couple weeks ago. Nevertheless, in LR3 I could still see > >> the images even though the database was missing. > >> > >> I've imported my old catalogue into LR 5 following instructions I got on > >> the web [Laura Shoe video]. When I open up LR 5 and navigate to the empty > >> folders I no longer see the images. Only empty slide frames. Is that as it > >> should be? > >> > >> It shouldn't matter. The files are gone. I couldn't do anything with the > >> images in LR 3 anyway. But at least I had reminders of what I had. > >> > >> [Or maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe there are things that could be done with > >> whatever it was I have in my LR 3 installation. I'll be surprise if that's > >> the case, but of course also delighted.] > >> > >> Thanks, > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Eric Weir > >> Decatur, GA USA > >> eew...@bellsouth.net > >> > >> "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" > >> > >> - Mary Oliver > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > > > > -- > > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > David Parsons Photography > http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com > > Aloha Photographer Photoblog > http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
