Lightroom Classic Question!

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Graham
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Hi Folks.
I had a hard drive fail with all my photo's on (3.5TB worth.) and my computer was so out of date that I couldn't update my Adobe App's
Any way, I now have a shiney new computer with up to date Lightroom Classic and have imported all my peviously backed up photo's.
I have the original pics along with the saved jpegs but not the edited RAWs I'm assuming this is the bit where I have to "Re-Link" to the catalogue?
How do I do that and which file? Here's a screen shot of the folder with the saved catalogue files. There's folders of "lrdata", various lrcat-data files (In red and in black) and the folder marked "Backups" contains a zipped file from 4.10.25...probably the last time a backup was taken...so which file should I use and how do I link to it?



I hate computers! :headbang:


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In Lightroom Classic under "File" select "open catalog" and add the latest catalog from your drive. Which looks to be Lightroom Catalog-2-2-v13-3.lrcat , the last file in your screen shot.
Thanks Steven and sorry for the slow reply.
Tried that and it failed, I suspect due to "Onedrive" which installed itself on my new comp' and started interfering with my files, I removed it but when I then linked to the newest catalogue Lightroom couldn't find my pics (One drive still showed in the file structure (I think that's the term.)
Anyway I removed all my pics and re-imported them... 2-2-v13-3.lrcat now shows at the top left of my screen but still no edited RAWs...I'm not really bothered about that as I have all my edits saved as JPEGS and I can always re-edit with the newer fuctions available to me if I need to.
I'm assuming I can delete all but the most recent lrcat files and start again.

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