A 1Tb of images were accidentally quick erased (mac OSX) by a friend. ImageRescue did the job of recovering the images, BUT, and it is a BIG BUT, recovered them and gave them a different name. This makes the LR catalog of 30,000 images completely unusable. is there a way to recover the info at least either respecting folders and/or original naming? Any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks.

Unless they're DNG and have all the LR data in the file I think you're screwed. Even if you were writing that data out to XMP you're screwed unless you can match the XMP to the RAW file.

That said there should be SOME data in the file. Like dates and original file names. You might want to load them into a new LR DB and see what information you have.

Some "friend".

Try this app.


http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

It can sometimes get the names back....

Best of luck.

Ken

Don't get me wrong, it was not my images, but his. I am just helping. Thanks for the suggestions.