I am having a disastrous day at the office! I have discovered that 3 of my weddings shot this year, edited in Lightroom3 and since transferred to LR4, have lost all their develop history. All the xmp files are now dated with the date of the shoot and I am back to square one.
It is quite a bizarre situation. Here are a few points that don't add up.
1. At some point before exporting i renumbered each project. Now, a couple of images that were obviously stacked with Tiff edits in the data base were not renamed. THESE FILES HAVE NOT LOST THEIR DEVELOPEMENT HISTORY!! I have the data for these files and the XMP files show the true date of the last edit. It's quite bizarre and unbelievably frustrating.
2. One particular wedding was shot with a second shooter who happened to shoot NEF files on his Nikon. Again, these files are intact and safely have their edit information.
3. With two of the weddings even the database entries were in correct, with the libraries showing the original file names and not the new renamed files
I wonder if any one else has come across this problem on their travels? As I say, I have recently upgraded to lightroom 4.3 and was about to further upgrade to 5 when I discovered this issue. For now that plan is on hold!
If anyone can advise on how to deal with this problem, perhaps whether the original develop data may be retrieved I would be mot grateful indeed , itherwise there's a lot of rework to be done!!
Many thanks.
Phill
P.S for your information I'm running on PC, Windows 7 64bit, Intel I7, 10gb Ram. LR4.3 and 3.6 and CS6