CS4 RAW adjustments lost

[agriffiths]

I recently upgraded from CS3 to CS4 and spent all of Monday going through making adjustments to images from a weekend shoot (480 total).

Bridge then displayed the images with corrections and showed the small grey circular icon indicating that the changes had been applied. Fantastic!

When I opended Bridge today the adjustments have all dissappeared and the icons have all been removed . I can see the XMP files in Windows explorer but have no idea where all the adjustments went.

My workflow was quite basic. Open Bridge, select a group of files, open and make adjustments in Camera RAW, select "Done" when finished.

Can anyone help?

[Murray Foote]

I don't know about Bridge but if it were LightRoom, it would be the catalogue file that automatically gets backed up (ends in *.irCat if I remember.

Does Bridge CS4 automatically back itself up or did you do a backup last night? Can you find such a backed up file?

In LightRoom you can refresh folders. Can you do that in Bridge?

Or maybe try reimporting a single file (as a test) and see whether than does the trick.

[agriffiths]

It seems to be ok now, although I have lost all the work I did on Monday .

[Murray Foote]

If the xmp files are still there, then surely the adjustments must be too. Maybe try opening an image again from Bridge and saving it in Camera RAW.

[agriffiths]

That's what I thought too. But no, it's all gone.

I just went through and re edited them all last night. 6 hours of my life I'll never get back.