All Photos disappeared once I updated iPhoto!!!

HELP HELP HELP - I did this upgrade and followed the messages and now I lost all photos in my library 42,000+ photos are gone. Any help PLEASE?
I am using an external HD for iPhoto library. I am very sad and upset. WHERE DID MY PHOTOS GO?

Do the following:
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down to open the First Aid window. Be sure to follow the circled recommendation in the screenshot.
2 - run Option #4, Rebuild Database.

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I went to bed last night leaving my iphoto to upload 300 pictures to a mobile me gallery, when i can to my machine this morning all photos gone,
i have run my library from my time capsule, i have tried to open from my TC and nothing, any ideas what has happened ?

What connection do you have to the TC? Wired or Wireless?
As to recovery: My guess is that your Library db is damaged:
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
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3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
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Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
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Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
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I needed to restore my iMac after the hard drive crashed. I use TimeMachine and the restore process went OK. However, when I restored I noticed I had a new version of iPhoto. I previously had a really old version and now I had iPhoto 11. It appears that I have been updated to iLife 11. All was good, but I soon started to notice some issues:
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Anita,
“You have updates available for other accounts…” I have only ever had 1 account.
You may accidentally have created a second account.
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Hi!
I updated my Mac to OS X 10.10. Since opening iPhoto required an update to iPhoto 9.6, I made this upgrade as well.
When starting the new iPhoto, I accepted to upgrade the library to the new format. There a mistake was found and a repair was necessary. When the repair was done, all photos were gone. Still the library file had a size of 500 GB, what gave me comfort to see, that the photos must still be there.
Then I opened iPhoto in the repair mode and prompted the repair myself. After a little while it asked whether all found 212,000 photos shall be imported into iPhoto and I accepted. Then it stopped saying that the disk space will not be sufficient and I cancelled the process.
Now looking at the iPhoto library, its size is only 2.69 GB and there are no photos in the masters folder.
There is a new folder "iPhoto Recovered Photos" which includes 121,000 photos (243 GB) - without folder hierarchy, all in this one folder.
It has to be noted, that iPhoto regularly complained about inconsistencies before, which have been repaired.
Unfortunately, we made no backup of our photos ...
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What can I do to get my photos back?

1. Make a back up. Make a back up. Make a back up.
Using a computer without a back up is like driving without a seatbelt. You can drive for years with no problem, but the day you do have a problem the mess will be a lot bigger. Upgrading anything OS, Apps, whatever without first making a back up is drunk driving with a blindfold on and no seatbelt.
2. I'm not sure what you've got right now. Is the 500 GB library still intact? If not, then really you're next job is to start over from scratch. Make a new Library and start importing all those photos again.
3. If you do still have that 500 gb library intact, then try Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
4.
It has to be noted, that iPhoto regularly complained about inconsistencies before, which have been repaired.
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Suddenly all photos in iPhoto appear as gray squares with dotted-line borders, and their titles look like Chinese symbols. A partial screenshot is here:
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g80/melissa_sinclair2003/iPhotoscreenshot2.png
If I try to click on a thumbnail to edit a picture, again a gray square appears with an exclamation point in the middle.
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It sounds a lot like you have a corrupt iPhoto Data Base file. The only way to fix this is to create a new iPhoto Library unfortunately. You will lose any modified files, but retain all originals.. It simply means that you will have to re-create any modified photos or slide shows you previously had. (Unless you have a Back Up of your iPhoto Data Base file... "Library6.iPhoto") The good news is that all of your "Original" files can be re-imported into a new Library so not all is lost.
1. If you are running iPhoto 6, you need to take your "iPhoto Library" folder inside your ~/Pictures folder ~denotes your home directory. Drag it to the desktop. Launch iPhoto and it will ask you if you want to create a New Library or open an existing one. Choose Create a New Library.
2. Now go back to your iPhoto Library on the Desktop and take the "Originals" folder and drag it into the open iPhoto window. (You could probably use the Import option in the Menu Bar and then select your "Originals" folder if you like but dragging is fine too) This will put you right back to scratch, but at least your photos are intact. This is the best you can hope for.
3. If you are using iPhoto 7 (iLife 08') then the process is slightly different in that your iPhoto Library is now a Unix file in your pictures folder and not a visible folder. Don't panic, its just Apple's way of preventing people from getting into trouble by changing the names of folders when they SHOULDN'T. You still need to drag the iPhoto file to the desktop the same way as you would in the first step. All your iPhoto data is within that file. Again, Launch iPhoto and you will be asked to Create a New Library or Open an existing one. Select Create a New Library. Now go back to your iPhoto Library file on the desktop and either right click on it or control click and you will see an option to "Show Package Contents". Select this and you will find your "Originals" folder. Once again, simply drag your Originals folder to your Open iPhoto library and allow them to import. Once you have your library up and running, you can delete that iPhoto Library on the desktop. You can keep your modified Photos if you like but don't import them into iPhoto as you will have numerous duplicate issues due to a new Data Base file that cannot recognize them.
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Regards,
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I live in Germany. After my visit in the U.S. two weeks ago I ´ve got following problem with my MacBook Air:
I import photos to iPhoto as usual and after one day these photos disappeared. I tried to find them through "Finder" without success.
What I do get since that is the message: "Files will be uploaded to the Mediathek". And that needs days and days......
Never had this before and I am really upset, because I think about loosing all these nice holiday memories.
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I import photos to iPhoto as usual and after one day these photos disappeared. I tried to find them through "Finder" without success.
edihei,
what exactly happened when you imported your photos?
as usual
how exactly? You imported the photos from your card directly into iPhoto? And did you delete them from the card or are they still on the card?
Did you see the photos in events in iPhoto after import? Have you worked with them and edited them before you ejected the card and quit iPhoto?
"Files will be uploaded to the Mediathek"
What is the exact message (gerne auch auf Deutsch!)?
This message suggests that you may not have let iPhoto finish the import, before you quit the program and removed the card.
Regards
Léonie

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after reading the iPhoto Help files descriptions of Standard and Smart - Im after Semi - Smart.
Standard: You can also create an album by dragging a folder of photos from the Finder into an empty part of iPhoto's Source list. iPhoto creates an album with the folder's name and imports all photos contained in the folder.
- but what iPhoto 6 wont do is automatically update itself every time I add a new pic into the source folder.
Smart Folder: "You can make a Smart Album that contains only certain types of photos, photos with high ratings, or photos that match other criteria, including EXIF information, such as a specific shutter speed or camera model....
iPhoto automatically modifies a Smart Album when any photo that matches the album's settings is added to or removed from your library."
but what iPhoto 6 wont do is to simply capture the folder name as Ive named it in my source folder structure.
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a. drag a folder ( for example, cars, gemstones, Klimit art) into the iPhoto source pane, it becomes a semi-smart folder in that it watches every new change I make to the source files on my computer. I add a file, iPhoto 6 adds it. I delete one, it deletes it. I mod it - you get the game here.
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TIA

will try that out, thanks for the tip.
Who would want to have to use Automator or Applescript to make such a rudimentary function enabled within iPhoto ? I would guess 95% of Mac users never use those things. The whole point of Mac is to keep your life from having to descend into mundane technical details, thus freeing one for more time with life's higher level tasks. This should be basic from-day-one type behavior in any photo app.
Will chime back in on how difficult it get iPhoto to auto-update itself with every new pic I add/subtract to these watched folders.

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I really hope someone can help here as I'm pretty desperate!
My iMac, running OS 10.4.11 recently offered a software upgrade on-line to iPhoto, to iPhoto 8 (7.14)
I accepted and when I tried to launch it next it said it couldn't show any photos and quoted that it needed to update the thumbnails. I accepted that it should do so. Nothing seemed to happen and no pictures showed after the supposed re-build stopped.
On quitting and re-launching I found to my horror that it had lost all photos, events, folders etc. meaning I'd lost over 400 pictures of our 3 year olds.
I searched for advice and have tried some remedies to library failures posted here but to no avail. All I could do was copy in pictures from my hard disc back-up folder and my iDisk but these stop at July 2008. I'm gutted, my wife will kill me so what on earth can I do?
Plus, to Apple - thanks! How the **** can this happen?

There's no reason to panic. Simply you have a damaged database file.
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
To create and populate a new library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
Regards
TD

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