Oooh harsh. If you have a backup all is not lost though. How have you been backing up? You can set LR3 to ask you to backup or to automatically back up the catalogue but you'll need to have backed up your actual image files somewhere too.
I use time machine to backup to one external hd and do manual backups to another 2. If my internal hd goes or (more likely) I delete something I shouldn't have then TM is my first port of call and then the externals which due to the way I work aren't as comprehensive.
Oooh harsh. If you have a backup all is not lost though. How have you been backing up? You can set LR3 to ask you to backup or to automatically back up the catalogue but you'll need to have backed up your actual image files somewhere too.
I use time machine to backup to one external hd and do manual backups to another 2. If my internal hd goes or (more likely) I delete something I shouldn't have then TM is my first port of call and then the externals which due to the way I work aren't as comprehensive.