What happens if I have to Format my drive?

I am new to Lightroom and I have and Lightroom 2.  I store all of my photos on an external hard drive and want to work in Lightroom it.  If I go through all the photos of my adding of keywords and attributes and create collections what happens if my computer crashes and I need to format my hard drive, will I lose everything and have to start over when I reinstall Lightroom?

Hi, mrbbump.

In this case, having a good backupstrategy is essential. There are many different possibilities to do so. One of the most simple should be:

  1. Get a backup disk (I recommend a portable 500Gig USB-Drive)
  2. Backup your LR catalog on a basis regular and make shure that this backup is saved in your backupdrive.
  3. Get one of the free backuptools a lot (I use Allway Sync)
  4. Tell the backuptool for save your Imagefolders on a regular basis for the backupdrive
  5. In an emergency, you can easily restore your files and the catalog.

It's my way, others may have different suggestions.

Cheers, Phil

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