Lost my key words

I use LR 2.3 and have my files, the files in RAW and LR, formats on an external hard drive. So far it works very well with two PC with Win XP.

A few weeks ago, I got a new laptop runing Vista and installed LR. I have it configured with the settings on the external hard drive. It worked fine until the other night, when I open LR. All my keywords has been reset. They began with white beeing and the numbers to the right of the captain. Then up and down the East went gray and says zero.

The only handful of keywords that remained was these attached to peak imported on this laptop.

I tried with the last backup catalog - no result.

Can I restore my keywords, if so, how?

Please forgive my English is not my mother tongue.

Peter

You wrote "two parts".  You does not mean two PC with access to the external drive, you did?

The question is a bit like the question "do you know where your children are.  Do you know where are your pictures?  You connected the new CD-ROM drive to your new computer with the same drive letter?  And you know that your new images are stored in the same place as your old images?

The "last backup" is maybe not old enough.  How often do you back up?  When you say key words and figures were breed white and the numbers then went to zero.  Is it in one sitting so that you watched?  What did you do before he did it?

If you have old backups it should be possible to recover them, but to maintain the information for files that you have added since can be tricky.  Especially trying to explain what to do on this forum.  Also, I of course would like to understand what happened before I try to move forward.

Judy

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