Rebuild catalog from a cache file?

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• Is it possible to recover a file to project from the cache files?

  Hello!

  Recently, I lost my project files and auto saves in first Pro CC 2015.2 due to a hard drive failure.

  I was wondering if it is possible to generate a project file from the cache of files stored locally on my Mac?

  
  Thank you.

  Short answer: No.

  Make it a habit to save a copy on another drive.

• Cannot start a catalog from a backup file

  Hello

  Back up files from my iMac to an external hard drive, including all the photos and the Lightroom Catalog by using time machine.

  And now I'm on my way with my MCBook Air, it seems I can't launch the catalog (Lightroom Catalog.Ircat) from the backup file on the disk hard ext, he says that "the catalog cannot be used because the parent folder"xxx"does not allow files to be created in the breast of this".

  Wouldn't be because the original catalogue was in my iMac hard drive not in this backup ext hard drive? Does it really matter?

  However, I can open the Preview.Irdata file catalog Lightroom in Lightroom and import them into the current Lightroom Catalog, that I created in my Macbook Air. When I export the file, the file size appears smaller than usual.

  So my questions are:

  1 is there a way I can start the Catalog.Ircat with Lightroom file on the backup ext hard drive?

  2. If the answer is 'no' to the above question, will I create a new lightroom catalog in this backup (for my iMac) ext hard drive, and then import all the pictures once more?

  3. I found there is an option to "Import an another catalog" in Lightroom, it will work for my situation? He did not try as I worry I'll make a mess, and I guess if I can't start this catalogue in the disk hard ext, I am not able to import as well.

  3. the Preivew.Irdata file does not allow me to have the larger size of file to export is that correct?

  4. Finally, what is the suggestion to resolve all these long-term problem? Will I pass all (both from my iMac and Macbook Air) photos on a disk hard ext, and then export the current catalog to my Macbook Air on the same disk hard ext and import photos from my iMac in this catalogue (that is, a single catalog LR)?

  Thank you for sharing your experience and your suggestion so that I can better manage the LR catalog and smoothly in the future.

  See you soon,.

  Chuen

  Hi Chuen,

  It seems that the external hard drive does not write the changes on it and that's why the error that says "the catalog cannot be used because the parent folder"xxx"does not allow files to be created in the breast of this."

  The error is not related to your original catalog being located on the hard drive in the Imac.

  I suggest that you copy this file .lrcat and .lrdata from your local external hard drive to a location on your hard drive and try to launch it from there.

  If this does not work, then you can go for the option to create a new catalog and 'Import from another catalogue'

  Let us know if this is useful or if you need additional assistance.

  Kind regards

  Claes

• Lightroom - how to restore backed up files (not the Lightroom Catalog) from one external drive to another?

  How to restore backed up files (not the lightroom catalog) from one external drive to another.

  I've recently saved my photo files to one external drive to another. The backup (carbon copy clone) pointed out some files corrupt on the original drive.

  I deleted these files and find good copies of Time Machine backups.

  I want to get rid of the original external drive; use the recent backup as my main outside and then save it to a new disc.

  I'm not sure how everything is point lightroom for backups so he knows look on the new drive instead of the old drive and all points of exclamation and question marks go away.

  There are close to 60 000 images in several files with a 'parent folder."

  My best guess is Lightroom Help - create and manage folders - locate missing files

  Can I point to the folder of one of their parents, and all of the subfolders will return?

  This is the process for recovering files in lightroom and there will be a problem with so many photos?

  http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

• All of a sudden my 5.7 LR on win10 64-bit start fails with the error message something like "error reading from the cache of the preview... Please restart." reboot, repair, reinstall, or rename SLCache helps to repair.

  All of a sudden my 5.7 LR on win10 64-bit start fails with the error message something like "error reading from the cache of the preview... Please restart." reboot, repair, reinstall, or rename SLCache helps to repair.

  

  Hello

  Greetings!

  Close to Lightroom.
  Navigate to the location where the catalog is present (default value is within the pictures folder lightroom file)

  And delete the file previews.lrdata.

  Note: do not delete the catalog with the extension .lrcat file.

  Concerning

  Jitendra

• How install CC Photoshop and Lightroom does affect my current catalogs, previews and caches?

  I'll subscribe to the Adobe Creative cloud photography Plan. How can I keep (import?) and use my current catalogs, previews and caches of my current installation of Lightroom? Or will I have to start again once installed the new version of Lightroom CC?

  If you are currently using Lightroom 5 then switch to the creative cloud is really simple. There are those who say that it is not necessary to move to Lightroom downloaded from the creative cloud. But I did it. I use Windows, so I used the standard uninstall process to uninstall my standalone Lightroom. Then I installed Lightroom from the creative cloud. Once the installation is complete there is an icon for Lightroom (just like the other because it's the same program) on my desk. I double clicked on the icon and Lightroom opens the same catalog I used everything I had done before was still in place. You see, the catalogue and the previews and all other files are user files generated by Lightroom on your computer. But they are not part of the Lightroom program. So removing the Lightroom program does nothing to your catalog, previews or the preview cache. It is precisely the same program. This is just a license differently.

  If you use Lightroom 4 then 5 Lightroom you will find the catalog you used and invite you to allow him to create an updated copy of it that is consistent with the new database format. It is no different than the upgrade of the stand-alone version. So the short answer is that you should not lose all your work of switching.

• First, keeping the creation of media to the HARD Drive Cache files if it is full

  Hello

  I use the latest version of first. The problem is the same with the previous version 2015.3.

  I have a complete project of mp4 files. I edit a huge project with over 4000 hours of footages, but I only import footages that I am cut, so it should be no problem for first. Maybe the problem comes from those mp4 files, but I'm not sure.

  I tried many different types of settings but first always creates and re-creation of media cache files.

  You can see on the picture. It does exactly the same thing if I put media files in external drives.

  I tried to do a new project and re - import the files, but it does the same thing.

  My assistants working on different computers have the same problem.

  For now, the only way I found to remove the media Cache files when the disk got full, but recently, I have to do more than once day and my external HDD, SSD is 1 TB.

  Thus, it creates 1 TB of file cache in half a day.

  If someone has an idea to fix that, it would be really appreciated.

  Best,

  Matthew Laclau.

  

  In first preferences, according to the media section, you have a check mark next to "write XMP IDS to files? If this setting is not enabled, enable it. Usually helps in this scenario, especially if working with double media on different drives.

• I just buy the version 14 Photoshop loose and I can't seem to convert a catalog from the version 13, which contains no error and found indications pour this type of problem The nothing changed. Everything went very well Symposium pour UN a

  I bought a few days ago version 14 of Photoshop Elements. I already have 13 version on which I have 2 catalogs. I have no problem converting one of the 2 catalogs but impossible to convert the other. After checking this catalogue under the 13 version contains no error. I tried the proposals do pay conversion of catalogue errors but nothing helped. When I start the conversion everything happens normally is that at the end that I get an error message and my catalog has not been converted.

  Thank you pour your help because this catalogue features almost 10000 photos with many albums and I didn't want to rebuild.

  Try to create a 'minimum' suspect catalog copy of your.

  Pour CELA, locate the catalog of the constituent file (Help menu > system information).

  Create a new folder in which you copy the catalog.pse13db database only.

  If the database is not damaged, you can start the organizer with this reduced file by double clicking on the latter.

  In this case, you get the more important data, keywords, labels, albums, games versions, piles, captions, notes... but not recognition, data or Visual similirate projects.

  (thumbnails will be replenished automatically).

  Try converting this catalogue No. pour see if it's something else that is at fault.

  .

• Media Cache files too much space on my hard drive

  I wanted to know why my drive is almost full - my own generated content was far enough to fill it.  I used WinDirStat and he showed me that I had a whole bunch of cache files of my video editing going back 5 years.  They had been stored in a folder won't are normally shown in Windows Explorer - Cache files of the users/Richard/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Common/Media.  They are mainly .cfa and .pek files.  All these projects-related media files were backed up and deleted from the hard drive.  These cached files take 200 GB of space!  I can remove them?

  Yes, clean! First, go to Edit > Prefs > Media

  Find the Database Cache and click on the CLEAN button. This only deletes temporary files for projects that are more in line (including the offline reader).

  Thank you

  Jeff Pulera

  Safe Harbor computers

• Bad to lead the media to subfolders cache files

  Hi, I'm trying to redirect my cache files from media to subfolders, but for some reason that I can't access the subfolders. When I click on Preferences-Media-Browse, I can't access any subfolders. Does anyone know how to fix this?

  I use the first CC V.8.1 and OS X Yosemite v. 10.10. 3

  Thank you

  Hi Rio, thanks for your question. I ended up understanding. But to answer your question, Yes, I am redirected to an external drive.

  Thank you!

• How can I get rid of the cache files?

  Premiere Pro, cannot find the files in cache on Mac, not in the common, clean folder does not work, I know there are concerts of them on my drive.  How can I get rid of them?

  I started a first project I had worked before using an external hard drive but I forgot to plug in the external drive.  In a few minutes, the first loaded 5 GB of cache on my macbook pro drive OSX 10.8.6 files.  I have tried the following to free space:

  Trying to 'clean up' the file cache before the switch to the external drive - it only removed a small amount of 5 concerts created

  Tried to find files in the folder Application Support/Adobe/common - no hidden files not found

  Tried searching the Web for answers - no new info

  Tried searching my drive for files - can not find them

  Tried to restart the MacBook and the first with and without the external hard drive - no luck

  Now what?

  Post edited by: Kevin Monahan

  Reason: Please do a shorter, more concise title next time. Thank you.

  First of all, exactly what first version are you running? Not just body CC or CC2014 but the version number shown in the about box.

  I don't understand if you tell first cannot find cache files or you are unable to find them.

  I think that you are referring to the own button in the Media tab of the Preferences dialog box, which is also where you set the path to the cache files.

  Are you sure you're looking in the correct library - not one that is easily accessible under Macintosh HD, but that than Apple, it of infinite wisdom, hide from users. To access it, open the menu go to, then press Option.

• I can't import pictures from a card file or anything like that.  I get "could not copy a file at the location requested.  It's never happened before.

  I can't import pictures from a card file or anything like that.  I get "could not copy a file at the location requested.  I've never had this happen before.  I use a MacBook Pro

  well, I understood my question, maybe the same thing for you...    The catalogue was somehow the problem, I created a new catalog and everything works well again.  I assumed that the catalog has been damaged during the import failed because the network connection.   hope that helps

• Media cache files: first Elements 9 with SSD

  Hello you lovely people from Adobe.

  I apologize if this has been asked before, if so please could someone direct me to an answer?

  I have the first Elements 9 on Windows 7. My question is quite simple: my new shiny SSD becomes full of temporary files to the location of 'Files of Cache C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media' every time that I'm working on a project.  I put all the other elements of the cache that I can see in 'Préférences' on my mechanical drive, but I'm scared to see this folder filling with large files on my SSD. Apart from the useless reads and writes, it will be filled in no time. It seems in Premiere Pro, you can send this file to an external drive, but I can't find this option in Premiere Elements.

  Please tell me there is a way to move the media cache of the file to another drive than C:\ directory?

  Thanks in advance

  A Craven

  alistair78

  The answer is that you need answers to Premiere Elements for questions of Premiere Elements.

  Standardized audio files (cfa and pek) are stored in the media Cache files folder. By default, this folder is located in Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 64bits.

  Libraries/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Elements / 10 (if 10 is your version). You set the save location for media Cache files folder in first things Editor workspace Edit Menu/preferences/Scratch disks as well as 'Media Cache' category.

  The respected video files (CMPD) are accessible via the first elements Editor workspace Edit Menu/preferences/Media and its area of media Cache database. You will find a Clean up to a certain limit set and clear them. The real files (with a .mcdb file extension) can be found via the path in this field. This seems to be a static situation.

  Render the content of the timeline to get the best possible overview to read the back of the chronology of the content in the box monitor edition preview files are stored in the folder of files Adobe Premiere elements previews. By default, this folder is located in Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 64 bit libraries/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Elements / 10 (if 10 is your version). You define which record the location for the Adobe Premiere elements elements previews file folder to the first elements Editor workspace Edit Menu/preferences/Scratch disks and the category of video Previews.

  Please let us know if you are now clearly Premiere Elements and how it relates to media Cache and al.

  Ask if other questions about this or need any clarification.

  RTA

• removal of media cache files to speed up the loading of project?

  Hi all

  Here's a question about media cache files... Once again.

  My projects has recently begun to be slower to load than even light. Nothing has changed, but I noticed that I had 61 GB of data in the media cache files folder. I wonder if remove the contents of the cache of media AND media cache files folder stand in the place and bring my speed?

  Thank you.

  Serge

  This will remove the database only.

  Not exactly... This will remove the entries in the database and the files in cache for some media, that are currently not in use, e.g. offline media. It can also remove some entries from the database and the cache files for the media used in a project, on what an editor does not work currently, but the majority of them will stay. In other words, the "Clean" button should have been called "partially own something media Cache database randomly.

  So, in order to actually clean the media Cache database one should manually delete all the files in the folders as media Cache and Cache media files.

• Media cache files...

  Hello

  I have a folder on my C drive under data\adobe\common\ application called "media cache files". There is a huge amount of data in this folder.

  Then I put somewhere else, and is it safe to empty from time to time?

  Thank you.

  / Ulf

  See "Move or clean the media cache database".