{"id":2087,"date":"2012-09-07T14:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-09-07\/2087"},"modified":"2012-09-07T14:02:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T05:02:52","slug":"new-old-plugin-my-preview-extraction-plugin-now-works-in-lr4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-09-07\/2087","title":{"rendered":"New Old Plugin: my Preview-Extraction Plugin Now Works in Lr4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Back in Lightroom 2<\/span><\/b> days I had<\/span> a plugin<\/span> to extract JPGs from a\nLightroom<\/span> catalog's preview cache, something really useful when trying to\nrecover something<\/i> if you had somehow lost the master images. It\nwasn't my most popular plugin, obviously, because folks would use it only\nwhen trying to recover from the double disaster of losing their images and\nhaving no backups.<\/p>\n\n

It was a lot of work and helped perhaps at best a few<\/span> dozen people, but\nwell worth the effort to help folks trying to recover years worth of\nmemories. It was my<\/span> only plugin to have no registration hangups to get in\nthe way of a panicked<\/span> user.<\/p>\n\n

Unfortunately, changes under the hood in Lightroom\n3<\/span> caused it to stop working, so the plugin hadn't received a\nmeaningful<\/span> update since 2009, and faded into uselessness as folks migrated\nto Lr3 and Lr4.<\/p>\n\n

But with a little under-the-hood help from Adobe, I've been able to get\nit to work for Lightroom 4<\/span>. Lightroom 3<\/span><\/span> is still (and will always be) unsupported,\nbut in theory you should be able to upgrade an Lr3 catalog to Lr4, then use\nthis plugin extract the previews.<\/p>\n\n

I hope you never need it, but if you do:<\/p>\n\n

Jeffrey's “Extract Cached Image Previews” Lightroom Plugin<\/a><\/p>\n\n

For Lr4 it now also extracts video thumbnail frames (which are quite tiny so probably of no practical use) if they exist.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in Lightroom 2<\/b> days I had a plugin to extract JPGs from a Lightroom catalog's preview cache, something really useful when trying to recover something if you had somehow lost the master images. It wasn't my most popular plugin, obviously, because folks would use it only when trying to recover from the double disaster of losing their images and having no backups.<\/p>

It was a lot of work and helped perhaps at best a few dozen people, but well worth the effort to help folks trying to recover years worth of memories. It was my only plugin to have [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}