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CS4 RAW adjustments lost

PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:39 pm
by 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 :shock: . 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?

Re: CS4 RAW adjustments lost

PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:12 pm
by 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.

Re: CS4 RAW adjustments lost

PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:31 pm
by agriffiths
It seems to be ok now, although I have lost all the work I did on Monday :cry: .

Re: CS4 RAW adjustments lost

PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:48 pm
by 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.

Re: CS4 RAW adjustments lost

PostPosted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:59 am
by 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.