OK everyone, mark your calendar. I basically agree with Godfrey. BTW Rick, what happens when you revert to an older backup version of your lightroom catalog? In addition to the weekly backups in the catalog, I periodically just copy my whole catalog. At the beginning of the year, I'll copy my working and "everything" catalogs to ones with a date of basically 1 Jan 2026 in the name, and switch over to those.
But if I were to have your problem, I'd simply open older and older backup catalogs until the missing files showed up in the catalog. Then I'd go to my current catalog, export to an external catalog every file that had been edited since then, and basically do a merge. > On Dec 28, 2025, at 3:00 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > I went through a period of looking for alternatives to Lightroom, as I used > to do periodically just to keep abreast of what's out there, about two years > ago. I tried ON1 PhotoRAW, Affinity Photo, and probably half a dozen other > image processing/management apps. All of them failed my testing for one > reason or another. > > I continue to use Lightroom Classic (since 2004, and since LR Classic was > introduced as separate from Lightroom) and have had few to no issues with it. > I've moved my catalogs and image file repositories through at least seven > Apple macOS systems and from one drive to another as I scaled up for more > space; it's now running on a 2024 Mac mini with latest macOS. And I've had no > problems at all. The annual cost for Lightroom Classic plus upgrades is > pretty much the same as what I'd be paying for any other app and its updates, > so I see no big win there. > > As much as I nearly hate to admit it, LR Classic simply does what I want as > well or better than anything else I've tried. And I'd rather just do my > photography than fuss around with trying out, learning, and adapting all my > workflows to other applications. My current LR Classic setup (two main > catalogs, several more specialized use catalogs) has over 350,000 image files > in it. 63,000 files is practically nothing for this software ... Two of the > clients I had in my working days when I offered services for photography had > upwards of 800,000 files in their catalogs. > > The larger question, to me, is why Rick is having these problems with LR > periodically. That suggests some instability or configuration issue, either > hardware or software, with whatever system he's using. I'd investigate that > if I lived on the east coast and went to help him relocate his image files. > > Godfrey > — > "A bigger hammer has a limit." - Walt Brown, NASA/JPL manager > > > >> On Dec 28, 2025, at 2:35 PM, Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I agree with Ralph. I've been using ON1 PhotoRAW since its inception. Even >> if you upgrade to the newest version every year the cost isn't exhorbitent. >> If you take some time to smoke out the coupons available it's even better. >> Give it a try... > >> On Dec 28, 2025, at 1:49 PM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am 28.12.25 um 22:25 schrieb Rick Womer: >>> Which non-Adobe photo editors should I look at? >> >> You might try ON1 Photo RAW. The 30 day test version has no restrictions >> whatsoever. >> >> I've changed from LR to ON1, years ago when LR went ransomware. Looking >> back, I'm quite happy with it but the savings are rather small. One keeps >> buying the yearly new versions because of the new features, so lastly the >> cost is only marginally lower. >> > >> On Dec 28, 2025, at 2:31 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't know where she is, but perhaps you mean Victoria Bampton? >> >> https://www.lightroomqueen.com/ >> >> I've been low key wanting to ditch lightroom for about 10 years now. I >> tried ON1 a while back, primarily because it claimed that it could transfer >> lightroom catalogs. Unfortunately, that didn't work so well, and there were >> too many features I used that worked so much better in LR. >> >> Ever since I started using LR, I have been storing my photos in a directory >> tree that didn't rely on the LR data base to find things, so that when I do >> change, I'll be able to find things. I know that when I do change, it's >> going to be a hellish process. >> >>> On Dec 28, 2025, at 1:25 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I am running LR Classic 15.1 on a Mac, with an up-to-date OS. >>> >>> For no apparent reason, LR has again ost track of about 10,000 of my 63,000 >>> photos. This first happened a couple of years ago. After a few weeks of >>> struggle, I contacted a Lightroom expert that my wife somehow smoked out. >>> Neither of us can find her contact information, though. >>> >>> Does anyone know of such a person? She lived on Long Island. >>> >>> Which non-Adobe photo editors should I look at? >>> >>> Rick > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > __ Larry Colen from Lothlorien [email protected] -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
