All my photo albums are empty

I upgraded to Photos Beta fine and everything worked, all my albums were ok but then suddenly last night all of my albums were empty on my Mac, iPhone and iPad. The album folders were there but no photos inside. All of my photos were still in the All Photos section though.

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I've tried unchecking the option in iTunes to sync photos, syncing, then rechecking the option, and syncing again. Problem still exists.

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iv tried plugging into laptop and going to my computer then iphone but it only brings up photos taken on the phone. Any help would be great.

The iPhone will temporarily store items in iCloud as a backup, but only those photos taken with the phone.Even then there are limitations. iCloud: Photo Stream FAQ - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
iOS5: iCloud: Backup and restore overview - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4859 - "The following items are not backed up to iCloud. You can sync these items with a computer using iTunes:
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    * Podcasts and audio books
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One of these might help:
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MusicRescue - http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/products/musicrescue/ - Mac & Windows

I have iphoto 08 version 7.1.5. I copied photos from recent - last import into albums. I then deleted the photos and emptied the trash. Today all the albums are empty and the photos are nowhere in the library. Have I lost them all?

I have iphoto 08 version 7.1.5. I copied photos from recent - last import into albums. I then deleted the photos and emptied the trash. Today all the albums are empty and the photos are nowhere in the library. Have I lost them all?

OK, here are a set of screenshots with my step by step - maybe you will be able to spot where I've gone awry:
I find a photo in the Library that I will delete from an album:
I go down to my Albums and find the picture in one of them:
I hover over the pic so the little down arrow appears in the bottom right-hand corner. I click on it, then click on the Trash Can in the window that drops down:
Gone from the Album:
Gone from the Library:
In the Trash:
Whaddup with that?
GB

Photos missing from new albums. We just spent days making up new albums, now albums are empty!!

A little backround as we're new to this.
We imported all our photos onto our new Macbook pro from our old Macbook.
Then created smart albums for each year to sort the photos.
Then copied photos from each year into normal albums, so we could delete and edit the photos.
We then deleted the smart albums after we had finished copying and pasting the photos we wanted.
Everything worked fine until we went on holiday, so I shut the computer down.
Now I've started it back up and all the new albums are totally empty?!!
Please help!!!!

We imported all our photos onto our new Macbook pro from our old Macbook
Did you import the library from the old MB into a library on the new MB? If so that was the wrong way to move your library from the old MB to the new MB.
Then created smart albums for each year to sort the photos.
Then copied photos from each year into normal albums, so we could delete and edit the photos.
The correct way to move photos from a smart album into a regular album is to select the photos in the SA and use the File ➙ New Album menu option. That immediately create a new album with the contents of the SA. No need to copy or paste (if that's that you did as that would duplicate photos rather than point to the orignals. Remember albums are like playlists in iTune. Just pointers to the tracks and not actual files.
We then deleted the smart albums after we had finished copying and pasting the photos we wanted.
How did you go about this? Did you delete just the smart album or the phtoos in the SA? If it were the latter then you deleted the photos from the library entirely including from all other albums, slideshows, books or whatever they might have been in. That's because what's in albums are pointers to the original photos in their Events.
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Hi, I need help. yesterday I copied one of my photo albums from my computer to Ipad 6 , using itunes. The album was successfully copied but my already few existing photo albums are suddenly empty, The album title is there but no photos inside.

Hi
Need your help. Some of my photo albums are showing as a blank after copying a photo album from my computer to ipad 6 using itunes. Can anyone help., Those albums were my treasure and i do not have any back of those.

It's better to post the URL of the feed (as you have subsequently done) than the contents of the feed .
From the FeedValidator report the feed is basically OK for iTunes. There are several occasions where 'content:encoded' sections (following immediately on 'guid' tags) should be enclosed in
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You should really have a language tag, e.g.
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(you have a dc:language tag but that's for a different system). This should be placed in the top section, before the first 'item' tag.
It's advisable to have an 'itunes:explicit' tag for each 'item' -
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it's not compulsory if you have no adult material, but you must have a 'yes' if you do.
You can check your feed by subscribing in iTunes from the 'Advanced' menu - this has the same result as clicking the 'Subscribe' button on the Store page. If it works OK there you are ready to submit it.

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aphale:
Do you see the photos when you click on the thumbnails in iPhoto? It may be that the Library.iPhoto preference file has been damaged. Try the following: move the AlbumData.xml file to the desktop and then launch iPhoto. If the library's dB file is not damaged it should rebuild the .xml file with your albums. If that file is damaged you'll have to recreate your albums.
Do you Twango?
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I'm using 3gs, after updating the OS with 6.1.3 version lost all my photo albums unable to retrieve through Itunes kindly help me in this regard.

Hi There,
A month ago I had 3gs with 4.1 OS version and I synced all my photo albums from my old laptop as I have planned to sell it off.
I sold my old laptop and accidentally kids at my home have pressed reset button and my phone got locked, now I got my phone permanently unlocked with a vendor and updated my OS to 6.1.3 version, thinking that my photo can synced again when I connect to Itunes, I bought my new laptop installed Itunes authorised it, it was able to restore my camera roll pics but not my album.
Please help me in restoring my lost album.
Thanking in Advance.

I'm sorry, but unless you hace a backup of your pics somewhere, they are gone. Photos synced to your phone are not part of an iPhone backup, & the photo sync is one-way: Computer to Phone. When you synced to a different computer, these photos were erased from your phone...by design, iPhone syncs iTunes content with one computer at a time.
Sorry, there is no way to recover this data.

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When I updated to iOS 8.3 I lost all shared photo albums on my iPad Air. Other devises which I shared to still have access to photo albums but my iPad does not, therefore I can no longer add or delete to shared albums. I can create new shared albums.

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I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues with your iPad. If you are having issues accessing your Shared Albums from your iPad (but not from your other devices), you may want to double-check your iCloud Photo Sharing configuration as outlined in the following articles, just to make sure it hasn't changed:
iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ - Apple Support
Get help using iCloud Photo Sharing and shared albums - Apple Support
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- Brenden

Albums are empty...

hi,
really stuck on this one. my albums are empty!!!
am moving an iphoto 4 library from one machine to another (running 10.4 and iphoto 5).
i have literally replaced the new iphoto library with the old one. after rebuilding iphoto (command+option on start) the pictures are all the in the library, but all the albums are empty.
can any one help sorting this out as i'm totally stumped.
thanks everyone
emile

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Possibly a permissions issue. Exit iPhoto. Then:
1) Locate the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder.
2) Select the iPhoto Library, then choose File > Get Info.
3) In the Info window, be sure that the checkbox for "Locked" is not selected.
4) Click the disclosure triangle next to Ownership & Permissions, as well as the one for Details (if it is not already open).
5) Make sure you are the owner of this folder and have read/write permission. If not, click the lock icon next to the owner name.
6) If prompted to authenticate, enter an administrator username and password.
7) Change the Owner and Owner Access settings if needed so that you are the owner and the access for the owner is Read & Write.
8) Click the button that says Apply to Enclosed Items.
9) If prompted to authenticate, enter an administrator username and password.

How do i delete all the photos that are in that Photo app? it is eating up all my memory

how do i delete all the photos that are in that Photo app? it is eating up all my memory

Photos transferred from your computer are removed from the iPhone the same way they were transferred from your computer, via the iTunes sync process. To remove all such photos, deselect Sync Photos under the Photos tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes followed by a sync.
Photos in your iPhone's Camera Roll can be imported by your computer as with any other digital camera followed by deleting the photos from the Camera Roll after the import process is complete.

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I have a MacAir recently installed with Aperture. All my photo's are currently stored on external hard drive in 100s of folders. How do I upload all these photos in their folders to iCloud. My iCloud storage is 200GB.

Wait, until MacOS X 10.10.3 has been released his spring. The Photo.app for Mac, that will come with MacOS X 10.10.3 will make it possible to migrate an Aperture library to a Photos Library and store it in iCloud, so you can use it from all your devices, see this link: Apple - OS X - Photos Preview
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1st - itunes downloaded to my ipod albums that are all fractured, compilation albums are seperated.This should not have happened but itunes felt it knew better. I do not like it.

1st - itunes downloaded to my ipod albums that are all fractured, compilation albums are seperated.This should not have happened but itunes felt it knew better. I do not like it.
2nd - While trying to fix it, itunes made all albums and artists unknown
3rd - While trying to get an answer I am unable to contact anyone or even send an email requesting an answer.
4th - While trying to use the "fast lane" i ran into trying to find the product S/N, I went to my account and it was not there. I tried to see it on the back of the Ipod but had to find a magnifying glass to even read it.
5th -- The we will get back to you really ****** me off
6th -- I have wasted 2 hours to fix something that should not have happened and the situation is worse than when i started
7Th --- Itunes management of songs is terrible and there are NO instructions and even worse no support
8th ---- Apple is going down the toilet because the products are good, not great, and the itunes instructions are non existent
9th --- to even suggest i pay for product support is insulting and a sign that apple is desperate
10th -The suggestion for online feedback is this; BE ON-LINE SUPPORT, NOT WHATEVER YOU CONSIDER IT TO BE NOW.

I agree with stevejobsfan - (0123).
However, if what you actually want to do is to fix/sort out your problem, why no try posting a question on that subject?
For starters - you can re-name the tracks in your iTunes library, so it is possible to correct the changes that you must have made that mean that songs are now "unknown artists and albums."

TS3989 Where have all my photo albums gone ,I did an upgrade and am shocked????

I am disgusted with Apple,I did a upgrade and it appears all my photo albums have disappeared,,,I thought they were in cloud...any suggestions how I can retrieve,,I am so so sad,,,such memories wiped ...not a fan of Apple anymore,,please help me

Thank you for your reply.
I backed up on cloud.I am struggling here with all this,am a Silver surfer and was an avid Apple fan,Have IPhone also. ,but ,,,regret doing this upgrade.everythng different,,all my folders gone,,most important photos from the past 4 years.
I originally synced with ITunes on home pc ,but last week did backup on cloud.
Thank you for helping me,I am really upset and annoyed with Apple

All my photo's are missing from iPhoto and I'm getting a message "your photo library is either in use by another application or has become unreadable"

Yesterday when I opened iPhoto all of my photo's were missing. After many hours of frustrating time looking how to resolve, I decided to try again this morning. When I tried to open iphoto, I got the message I referenced above regarding the library is either in use or has become unreadable.
My photos are not in iPhoto anymore. There's nothing there. iphoto acts like its never even been set up. I have iPhoto '11 version 9.4.3. I have OS X Lion version 10.7.5. However, when I go to "All My Files" and then under "images", there are over 10,000 images. I see my photos (I guess it's all of them - i have no idea how many there were) and other "images" also. When i go to "pictures" I only see the 15 or so items I have scanned. In "iPhoto Library", there is 1 picture of what looks like a deck of playing cards with flowers on them - I don't know where that came from. But also in "iPhoto Library" under the heading "desktop", it shows a size of over 27GB and under "kind" it says "package". Still under desktop and "Photo Booth Library" it shows 53GB and under "kind" it says "Photo Booth Library". Before I opened iPhoto to view my photo's, I went to "empty trash" yesterday (not in iPhoto) and it showed over 65,000 items to delete. There were no more than 200 that I could actually see. So, I don't understand. I let it delete a couple of thousand before I stopped it because I didn't know what it was doing. I know - not too smart. I don't know if that has anything to do with iPhoto or not; I'm just throwing that out there. Today I went to "empty trash" and it now shows the 200 items that I can see in there. Don't know what happened.
I do have a time capsule but not sure if I’m using it correctly. If you were to tell me to restore to a certain point, I’d have to be walked thru the process.
I downloaded “iPhoto Library Manager”, not exactly sure how to use it, but got a message basically saying the library nor the database could be loaded and that album data file for the library “iPhoto Library” could not be read.
I’ve spent hours and hours and hours searching the web for answers but I’m scared to do much of anything thinking I could end up losing all my photos if I haven’t already.
Please help!
Thank you!
James

Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start
with Option #4 and then #1 as needed.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
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