Apps no longer in Library after upgrading to 10.5.1.42 - help!

Question

After I upgraded iTunes to 10.5.1.42, all my apps disappeared from my iTunes library.  The one sone that was there has disappeared as well.  It's as if iTunes lost the entire library.  Any suggestions on how to recover?

Answer 1

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. First, you should not be editing any files inside the iPhoto Library folder without going thru iPhoto. That's committing the cardinal sin of iPhoto - Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder.
To try to get your library back on its feet download and run BatChmod on the iPhoto Library folder with the settings shown here, substituting your account name for mine. You can either type in the path to the folder or just drag the folder into that field. See if that won't bring the thumbnails back and let you edit the full sized images in iPhoto.
To use PS with iPhoto you should go into iPhoto's General preferences and select PS and the editor to use when you double click on a thumbnail. Then when you do, that file will open in PS and you can edit. There is one caveat to that system: if you make a layered file or do any edit that makes PS want to save it as a psd file you must either flatten the image and save it as a jpg with the same file name and in the same location OR do a Save As and save it to the desktop. There you can import it into the library as a new file. Those workflows are required for iPhoto to know you've edited a file, create a modified version in the Modified folder and update the thumbnail.
The reason you couldn't import those files into iPhoto is that they are located in iPhoto's Library folder and it won't import any files from there because they are already in the library.
The BatChmod should clear up the thumbnail issue. If it doesn't I suggest you use iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild the library. It creates a new library and copies the files and any needed data from the old library, leaving it intact.
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