Lightroom 5 trial - Missing photos HELP!

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I downloaded the lightroom 5 trial and within the catalogue I would say about 50% or more of my photo folders are missing.

Then I go back into lightroom 4 and because it has converted the library to LR5 I have nothing in LR4!

Has someone got some tips on how to sort this out?
 
Use one of the backup LR 4 catalogs - you get prompted every week to create one when using Lightroom, so even if you sometimes hit 'skip' you will have let it run through a few times and have something you can go back to?

Also, does the conversion process itself not create a backup? Looking at my own directory, it looks like the conversion process for upgrading from LR4 to LR5 didn't actually change the LR4 file, rather copied it and updated that. In fact I have Lightroom 5, 4, 3, 2, and what is presumably a Lightroom 1 catalog file still there.

Actually, I've just opened up LR4 and LR3 on this machine, and their catalogs are intact and load by default, even though I updated to LR5 on release, so I suspect the catalog may not be your issue.

Have you reorganised your library within Lightroom 5? Moved your folders around?
When you say you have 'nothing in LR4' do you mean that the catalog is completely empty, or your links to the pictures have been broken (ie. you can see the thumbnail, but when you try to view / edit, it's missing?)
 
lesson #1, never let a trial version of LR update your live catalogue unless youre certain you wont go back to the previous version.

when you say they are missing are they there but have a ? on the folder?
 
Do I actually need LR5? Version 4 doesn't recognise the Sony A7 and I'm an abject beginner at this malarkey, can I get an update for LR4 and put the camera details in that?
 
The only version of Lightroom that will read the Sony A7 RAWs is version 5.3 of Lightroom

If you convert all your RAWs to Adobe DNG format using the free Adobe DNG converter, then you can import those into Lightroom 4, but thats a 2 stage process.
 
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