Goodbye EM2

[Garth Wunsch]

EM2 has just added "the last straw". I was in the process of "converting" a few images, which I have done many times. Up comes a warning that EM2 has detected a problem with the catalog and is attempting to recover it. After the dust settled, I'm informed that 2,500 images (out of 24,000) could not be recovered, and some metadata may be missing from the recovered files and I should examine each one individually., AS IF! I think I have the entire catalog on DVD's. I've been pretty diligent about creating them. All of the catalog sets have also been wiped out - no names whatsoever, but I do have the keywords still intact. Each time I access the catalog, I'm getting the same message and the same recovery process. There is a Cancel button, but it doesn't work. This is a #%#@$$#@ inexcusable disaster. Anyone else have this issue, or any thoughts as to how I might recover the entire catalog and catalog sets? Thanks
Garth Wunsch

[roberte]

Hi,

Only from the last back up of your catalog. PITA and I've been there too.

FWIW all databases can will eventually corrupt whether the app is Lightroom, Portfolio, whatever.

-- Robert.

[Paul_S]

Hi,

Only from the last back up of your catalog. PITA and I've been there too.
 
FWIW all databases can will eventually corrupt whether the app is Lightroom, Portfolio, whatever.

-- Robert.

+1

My catalogue databases are kept in the My documents folder which is backed at 5.00 pm every day by free backup software and therefore I never lose more than one days work, you mean to say you have not taken this simple precaution? 

[JoeThePhotographer]

Did you lose the actual files or just the catalogue?

[billseymour]

Also- If you have been Sync Annotating your metadata to the original media files, you can at least begin to reconstruct a new catalog with that metadata. (I believe that PNG files would still be a problem, since metadata is not written to them.)

[billseymour]

(forgot signature!) --Bill