On Jan 15, 2014, at 09:16 , Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> 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… > I had to do this when a botched backup process resulted in me duplicating a blank DVD backup with another blank DVD backup and then toasting the source folder. No biggie, just the month my daughter got married. I was able to extract "pretty good" copies from the LRDATA file... but I've never screwed up that royally ever again! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
