Comments on: How Often Do You Need to Backup Your Lightroom Classic Catalog? https://lightroomkillertips.com/how-often-do-you-need-to-backup-your-lightroom-classic-catalog/ The Latest Lightroom Tips, Tricks & Techniques Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:22:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Sam https://lightroomkillertips.com/how-often-do-you-need-to-backup-your-lightroom-classic-catalog/#comment-787056 Sun, 05 Nov 2023 13:24:27 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=17555#comment-787056 I don’t get it. The “Just this time” option changes Catalogs Settings > General > Back up catalog to “Never”. IMO, it’s a pretty stupid option to have on the Exit screen. It should be named “Just this time and never, ever again”. To have the option to backup your catalog at will, select “Every time Lightroom exits” from the Back up catalog choices, and click the Skip this time button when you don’t want to back up.

]]> By: Rob Sylvan https://lightroomkillertips.com/how-often-do-you-need-to-backup-your-lightroom-classic-catalog/#comment-785944 Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:10:43 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=17555#comment-785944 In reply to Peter Heuchert.

Hi Peter, Yes, if you completely lost a catalog but had been writing to XMP you could create a new catalog and then import all photos (use Add) to start over. In addition to collection membership, you would also lose flags, virtual copies, and individual history steps for each photo.

]]> By: Peter Heuchert https://lightroomkillertips.com/how-often-do-you-need-to-backup-your-lightroom-classic-catalog/#comment-785781 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:01:33 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=17555#comment-785781 Hi Scott,
my Lightroom does create XMP sidecar files. My Theory is, that a corrupt database can be rebuild with these xmp files. Not sure if this theory is true, I did not test it yet. The onliest downside is that collections are not stored in the xmp files.

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