Could you do an image backup of your hard drive right now before doing whatever
you have to do to decompress the older backup?
Maybe make a copy of the older backup and decompress from that.
That way you'd have the status quo ante to return to if it somehow screws up
Lightroom and/or you wouldn't risk Lightroom corrupting the older backup with
whatever is going on with it.
On 12/22/2018 13:56:00, Rick Womer wrote:
Today I restarted the computer again, running fsck in the Unix shell on the
way. No problems.
Since the image counts and keywords are missing even in almost-2-year-old
copies of the catalog, it seems it must be a mutation in Lightroom itself.
My backups include LR6. Would I be inviting further trouble if I decompressed
and ran one of them?
Even dealing with the Kodak Labs in Fair Lawn was more fun dealing with these
computer problems.
Rick
On Dec 21, 2018, at 9:10 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I just went into my extensive backups and opened several .LRCAT files
going back to Feb 2017.
They don’t show the numbers of photos in the folders, and they don’t have
visible or searchable keywords.
I’m utterly flummoxed.
Any other suggestions?
Rick
On Dec 21, 2018, at 6:18 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com>
wrote:
Hi Rick,
I agree with the other responses: I doubt this had anything to do with
the Google API change. It certainly hasn't happened on my system, and I
got the notification when I clicked on the Maps module and found it no
longer worked.
First: I presume you've checked the folders on the hard drive and all the
files are still there. If you have used the "Metadata > Save metadata to
files" command, all your metadata, including keywords, are saved on disk
in the actual image files for DNG, TIFF, and JPEG files, and in .xmp
sidecar files for the native raw files. (I do this regularly, as I work
through a session, so that I don't have to do it en masse. So all is not
lost, if you've saved regularly as you work.
I would definitely load a recent backup of the catalog file and test
that. The likelyhood is greatest that something simply clobbered your
current .LRCAT file. If no backup .LRCAT works, you can always start LR
up, create a new catalog, and then have it import all the existing files
in ADD mode and recreate most of the .LRCAT that way, minus virtual
copies etc.
PITA for sure, but I wouldn't link it with the Google API change other
than maybe as a side effect of something that notified you.
G
On Dec 20, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote:
Godfrey,
The following things abruptly happened in LR6 and just about the time
of the API change:
- I have a “Photos” folder containing one folder for each year on an
external drive that I use as my “photo drive.” The number of photos
reported overall, and the number of photos in each annual folder, went
to 0. Oddly, most of the monthly sub-folders still display accurate
counts, though some (like all of them from 2015) report 0.
- My keywords vanished, almost every one of them. Some groups of photos
still have their keywords, but the search function can’t find them.
I tried quitting and restarting LR, and quitting and restarting my
computer and hard drives. No use.
Rick
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