After a time machine restore my iPhoto won't open

A few days ago my iPhoto went completely crazy. I had quadruples of some pictures and events. My photo amount increased at least 300 percent to 222,000 pictures. After reading about what to do I did a time machine restore to the iPhoto before this problem happened. After restoring my iPhoto it won't open at all anymore. I have version 9.5.1 of iPhoto. I have not yet downloaded the Yosemite upgrade because a program that I use often is not compatible. How do I get my iPhoto to open with the restores iPhoto?

How did you do the "restore?" Did you restore the library from the pictures folder?
Barry

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Thank You. This helps me alot to get into the masters and to see events and photos in a utilitarian way, but it is not as easy as viewing the normal iphoto format to find photos. Can I do something else or did I not do something right to not see normal iphoto in Time Machine ?

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I upgraded from an i5 to an i7 15" MBP and restored my files using my time machine backup. All seemed to go ok, except I had to use the migration assistant because on the initial boot the MAC didn't recognize the backup database on the USB device. MAybe this is a hint.
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Thanks... alas no one has responded.
I think I have the structure that you are recommending.
I have a root level directory (Final Cut Events) with the files in them.
The puzzling thing is that it used to work before the migration!.
Anyway I'm going to move the contents to the root and see what happens.
On a slightly different note...
I also posted a question about CPU utilization. Can I ask a question or two?
While rendering a short clip, I noticed burst of disk activity when the render started (likely loading the media files into ram since I have about 4Gigs available, then almost no activity while the render is happening, then more disk activity when its done.
However the cpu activity is not as high as I would have expected since rendering requires a lot of cpu.
What is your experience? I know some render is done by the GPU, but in my older i5 the CPU was about 100%, now in my i7 its about 50%.
Please look at the attached utilization for CPU and disk activity.
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Macbook Pro will not boot after full time machine restore

I have a 15-inch Macbook Pro, current model with the i7 processor, which I purchased in August 2010. Last week, when I tried to turn it on, it would not boot (just got to the gray screen with the Apple logo and spinning wheel). I took it in for repair and was told that it had a bad hard drive. The hard drive was replaced and I got the computer back yesterday.
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I also looked at this discussion (http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10924233) and it sounds like the person here was able to get his computer to work after doing the Time Machine restore in the same process I used, so I don't know what else to do.
I don't live near an Apple store, so it would be great if I could figure this out myself. Thanks for any help!

skylaneval wrote:
I have a 15-inch Macbook Pro, current model with the i7 processor, which I purchased in August 2010. Last week, when I tried to turn it on, it would not boot (just got to the gray screen with the Apple logo and spinning wheel). I took it in for repair and was told that it had a bad hard drive. The hard drive was replaced and I got the computer back yesterday.
Everything looked good, it turned on, so I did a complete restore from my Time Machine backup on my Time Capsule, following the instructions on this page: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15638.html
See #E8 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).

Cannot view photos after a Time Machine restore.

Hello,
I am running iPhoto 09 version 8.1.2. I attempted to install the SL 10.6.3 update on 3/31 and all of my CIFS shares become slow and unresponsive to the point they were not useable. I chose to do a full Time Machine restore from the TM backup I had initiated just prior to the 10.6.3 upgrade. Now the last 40 pictures I imported on 3/28 appear in the events but when i click on them I get the screen. I selected the iPhoto Library and exposed the contents of the package and the none of the pictures are in the originals directory. Why are the thumbnails still present but the photos are missing? i thought about performing a library rebuild, but it does not make sense if i cannot find the originals.
Your help is greatly appreciated

No there's no point in making a rebuild if the originals are not present. As to why this happened? More a question for the Time Machine folks.
Regards
TD

Lost events after Time machine restore of IPhoto library.

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Check inside the iPhoto Library package in the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder or the Originals (iPhoto 09 or earlier) folder to see if their subfolders actually are empty or do contain the original files. DO NOT RENAME, DELETE OR MOVE ANY ITEM INSIDE THE PACKAGE USING THE FINDER.
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Fix #1
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Select the options identified in the screenshot.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
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OT

How do i see my desktop and applications after a time machine restore?

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I flattened (reformatted) my machine and reinstalled Snow Leopard. I then connected to my Drobo drive with Time Machine, and searched the most recent backups and had it restore THE ENTIRE MACHINE. All applications, all documents, etc. Took about 14 hours.
I also created the same account (I think!) that I used before when I installed Snow Leopard.    However, when I reboot, my desktop looks like a fresh Snow Leopard desktop, and none of my applications or documents show anywhere. Yet, I am sure they are there, because when I went to later restore one file (Photoshop CS5), it said "this file already exists, do you want to copy over it?" I chose not to.
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From your description, it sounds like you may have more serious issues than a simple permissions problemand that you are now dealing with a dysfunctional "Frankensystem." Nevertheless, it is usually worthwhile trying something relatively fast and simple before going on to more complicated solutions.
You have not indicated what remedies you may have already tried outside of the setup Assistant Tip, so I am assuming you have not yet tried anything.
I have never faced this precise problem before, but in other situations involving permissions issues, I have often had success doing the following:
1) Do a "Get Info" on the folder(s) with which you are experiencing issues. In your case, this is pretty well your entire restored drive, since the Applications folder exists at the root level. So go ahead and do a "Get Info" on your internal hard drive.
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system=Read & Write
admin=Read & Write
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If this doesn't work, your problem may lie in the fact that upon your reinstall of Snow Leopard, you created a home folder with the same name as the one you are trying to restore from your backup, thereby creating a big headache. You might have to repeat the entire reinstall/restore process, but this time creating an account with an entirely different name when you install Snow Leopard, and then deleting it after the restore from backup.
OR
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This will eat up considerable time, but most significantly, it is machine time, not your time!
In my experience, the entire Time Machine process is a finely tuned one that does not take kindly to tinkering under the hood or straying from the blessed path, as you have just discovered.

Iphoto-time machine - restore the iphoto file on an external dirve

Hello Evrybody,
I'm trying to restore an ebook from timemachine on my iphoto library.
I'd like to restore only this file, but it doesn't seem to be possible.
Time machine is able ONLY to restore the entire iphoto library, just ofr on file.
Ok I decide to porceed in any case and restore the entire iphoto library( that is huge) but after hours of work timemachine sends the message"not enouth space on the hard disk, cannot restore the file". Of course I do not have such huge space available in my imac,
Would it possible to restore the iphoto library on an external driver? how can I tell to timemachine to not restore it on my imac but on the external driver?
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Try the following:
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Hi, you are not the only one to have this problem it happened to me the same thing. It was easy for me to fix because i had the disks i just installed over the top that was it. Without the cd key you are stuck you can try downloading the demo version again but i dont think that will work it may find your key and just install, download at http://www.apple.com/aperture/trial/ . Apart from that you say it was installed what on a new Mac ? if so contact apple and see they should have records of your purchase and help you out.

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How did you do the "restore?" Did you restore the library from the pictures folder?
Barry

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Ok, so I seem to have run into a problem that I've never encountered before and I don't know how to go about solving it.
I have a first gen intel 20" iMac which had been happily running Snow Leopard. I was attempting to restore to a Time Machine backup and, at about 98% completion (or so) this failed. Spinning beach ball. No progress even after leaving it there overnight. Not knowing what else to do, I restarted.
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Damaged files after a time machine restore

First sorry for my English. It is not my native language.
My brand new imac starts to have strange behaviours (not showing the pictures inside iPhoto sometimes, going backward instead of forward when looking at pictures etc) and I realized that he had a hard disk problem. Imposible to repair using Disk utility so I format the hard drive and restore my timemachine backup.
When it restarts it looks Ok but I have a Damaged files folder with 5 alias that don't show the original ones:
- com.apple.PowerManagement.plist-lock
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I'm scared that my iMac is still not OK (iPhoto continues not to show me pictures one time and if I close it, everything is restablished). I would like to be sure I'm not going to have problems in a near future so: are these alias important? Do I have to do something with these damaged files (anyhow I don't know where the original are...). What's your advice?
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cat burlow wrote:
First sorry for my English. It is not my native language.
You do just fine (better than many for whom it is).
- com.apple.PowerManagement.plist-lock
- flatfile.db-journal
- index
- index-journal
- com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
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Keep an eye on things; most likely it's not a big deal, but there's a small chance your internal disk may be developing problems.
By the way, don't be misled by ds store's anti-Time Machine exaggerations.
Clones are good; many of us use and reccomend them, but in addition to Time Machine, not instead of it. Since both types have advantages and disadvantages, that gives you the best of both, plus the extra insurance of secondary backups.
If you're not sure of the differences, etc., see Time Machine vs. Clones and Archives for an overview.

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