Cant find photos on time machine

My hard drive crashed and now is fixed. I can't find photo library from time machine to retrieve them. I had about 700 photos for 08 and cant find them.

Were the photos in iPhoto? You should be able to open iPhoto then enter Time Machine and browse your iPhoto library for any date for which you have a backup. If the missing photos are not there, are there other photos there or is your entire iPhoto library mia?

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    Another option is to hold down the option key when launching iPhoto. This will allow you to select a different iPhoto library to open, or to create a new one.

  • Can't find photos in time machine on my external hard drive

     

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    Only right side of TM, your name etc. does not show.

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    I just bought a new MacBook Pro and find that time machine is not allowing me to retrieve photos from Time Machine through iPhoto like it used to.  How do I do that now?

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  • HT1338 How to restore iphoto photo with Time Machine?

    I am trying to restore a single photo in iPhoto from Time Machine.
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    Apple used to support restoration of photos via the iPhoto interface with Time Machine, but has halted this support. I believe the reason was the feature was corrupting people's libraries, but I cannot be certain. Your options here are to restore either the entire library or manually go into the library in the Finder and use Time Machine to browse through file histories that way. Alternatively you can access the Time Machine backup directly in the Finder and manually copy the needed files out of it (do not restore in this way, but instead copy to the Desktop and then re-import the image as a new photo).

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    since I upgraded to OSX 10.7 I can not browse my photos in Time Machine.The instructions in Help do not help.

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    I have a Time Capsule as router running my gigabit network and as a Time Machine backup device. When I want to retrieve a file from the past via the Finder interface to Time Machine, I hear a lot of noise from my Time Capsule (about 6 feet away), and more importantly, there are long delays (at least 10-15 seconds) in getting a response from the date scale on the right side of the screen (i.e. being able to click on a different date) and in displaying the contents of the folder at a new date in time.
    Are such delays to be expected? Is there anything I can do to speed things up?

    Well personally I've had basically no problems with Time Machine and the Time Capsule. But looking at these discussions there are certainly a lot of people with: endless preparing, endless backing up, endless finishing, hanging the system, knocking down internet when backing up, unable to mount, unable to find backup, unable to find TC, unable to copy, .........
    Sure in some instances some of these can be worked around fairly easily, but I perceive some fairly serious flaws both in implementation and in documentation.
    As I see it far more time is spent backing up than restoring, for me I'm not disturbed by the delays....

  • I have just started using Time Machine. I was thinking about deleting old E-Mails on my Mac to clean. Does Time Machine back up the E-Mails , if so how can I find them in Time Machine ??

    I have just started using Time Machine. I was thinking about deleting old E-Mails on my Mac to clean. Does Time Machine back up the E-Mails , if so how can I find them in Time Machine ??

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    I never tried this so i'm not sure to find them in Time Machine. To browse in your backups simply click the Time Machine icon in your dock. In the right bar, you can select an backup. Than you can browse in finder, in your backkup.
    EDIT: Just browsed and CT above was right. This topic might help you:
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/20154303#20154303

  • I accidentally erased a sticky from my Dashboard?  I don't know how to find them in Time Machine.

    I accidentally erased a sticky from my Dashboard?  I don't know how to find them in Time Machine.  Any ideas how to recover it?

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  • HT4710 how to restore/import photos from Time machine while using Lion

    how to restore/import photos from Time machine while using Lion

    Launch Time Machine, go to the time you want to restore from and select what you want to restore and click restore - once the photos are restored improt to iPhoto - or restore the entire iPhoto librarhy and use it
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  • HT201250 How do I restore photos from Time Machine?  All of my photos have been imported within iPhoto and therefore are exported to Time Machine via an iPhoto file.  I can't figure out how to break individual photo files out of the iPhoto file.  Any idea

    How do I restore photos from Time Machine?  All of my photos have been imported within iPhoto and therefore are exported to Time Machine via an iPhoto file.  I can't figure out how to break individual photo files out of the iPhoto file.  Any ideas?

    You might post this query on the iPhoto forum and perhaps someone there can provide an answer.
    I tried this on my MBP and it seems that you have to restore the entire iPhoto Library.  What I did was put the current library in a separate folder on the desktop and then I restored the library from a prior date.  If you were to do that, you then could extract the desired photos and then delete the restored library.  Then place the current library back to the original location and import the desired photos.
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