Comments on: It’s ‘Dump Your Outdated Lightroom Backup Catalogs” Friday!

By: Rob Sylvan

Rob Sylvan — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:04:39 +0000

In reply to Kenneth Nwosu. There was an issue with unzipping large backup files on Mac when using the built-in unzipping utility in the Mac OS, but I believe that has since been fixed, and all you need to do is use a different tool to unzip the backup copies. You are making a big mistake by not backing up.

By: Kenneth Nwosu

Kenneth Nwosu — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:12:48 +0000

I just found out that basically all my back ups are useless. According to Lightroom all my back ups are corrupted. Apparantly an issue with zip extraction. So I don’t backup anymore.

By: Larry P

Larry P — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:44:53 +0000

A caution before deleting your back-ups- Check the location of your active catalog (Lightroom: Catalog settings:location). My active catalog was in a back-up folder over a year old and I inadvertently deleted it.

By: Wes Mason

Wes Mason — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 03:09:02 +0000

In reply to Myles Clark. He's European.

By: Myles Clark

Myles Clark — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 18:37:33 +0000

Just a curious observation: in the backups above (noting the article date of Aug. 2020), how’d you get one for 2020-12-7 (dec?) – – and better still 29th month (2020-29-06)?

By: Philip Holt

Philip Holt — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:33:28 +0000

OK. I know I have back up my catalog many times & I looked but I have not found any folders titled “Backup” what I have found is Folders that are labeled
2017-12-27 1328 Lightroom Catalog.lrcat.zip

So .. is that what you are talking about & then do I just go back & dlete ones from the past?
Thanks,
Philip