Despite my efforts, I seem to have lost part of my collection of negative scans. During a laptop crisis last month, I had to reinstall the operating system (actually, the Apple service people did that). I did make backups of everything right before the occurrence, so I thought I could simply continue where I left off. However, the backups appear not to be complete, so I have to revert to my backup-backups (offsite backups).
These are not too recent (missing scans from about 5 or 6 negatives), and what is worse: these backups also do not contain the edits I may have done to the photos in Lightroom. Lastly, they are overcomplete: there are man