Cause and effect in iPhoto

What would cause my photo library of several thousand images to suddenly go blank and become an unrecognizable format? When I highlight a blank "place-saver", the information block says it is a JPEG Image. I have several other libraries which have not gone blank. when I open them and highlight an image, the information block says it is a JPEG Image also. What would make the blank images produce a message that says "unrecognizable format" when in fact it is the same as images which did not go blank (JPEG image)? Please help me. I need the images.
Thanks

If when I put the curser to anyone of the dotted squares it identifies the photo by number, by date, by time, by format and by size, how does that happen if the images are not anywhere?
iPhoto is a database. What you're seeing there are the entries in the iPhoto database that correspond to the photos.
WHy do you assume that these drives are backing up your photos? Just plugging the the disks won't make a back up. Something is copying the Library to these disks.
File Recovery software - such as File Salvage- will scan the disks for recoverable files. Actual recovery requires a purchase.
Regards
TD

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Toomas

Toomas,
You are correct. No matter how many levels you create for your hierarchy, cause and effect will only work with Objectives.
Regards,
Bob

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Sorry no workaround as yet...
I too am now sick of the amount of expensive paper I have wasted due to the Preview app default print setting of 'Scale to fit'.
- No option to print at 100%, you have to manually input this information.
- No way to change this default in preferences, you can change the opening viewing size of a doc to 100% though.
- Doesn't remember the previous settings if you decide to reopen the doc and print another copy.
I also found that if I attempted to print an A4 doc with bleed and crop marks, it would set the default paper size to A4 and the annoying scale to fit would be set to 83%. If I then changed the scale by typing in 100% but don't hit enter for fear of the print starting and then simply use the drop down to change the paper to A3 and then change the orientation and then hit enter it ignores that you have changed the scale and prints your doc at 83% on A3 - Brilliant!
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Trash will not delete from trash folder! What can cause this effect?

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as chamar suggested look at http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html
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I have iPhoto 2009 and tens of gigabytes of photos, maybe 10,000 in all.
Currently, I have been dumping these photos into my Pictures folder, then importing them into iPhoto. My questions are:
1) What's getting stored, and where?
2) Is this the best strategy?
3) What about duplicates? Do I just delete them from my iPhoto library, and leave them in my Picture folder? For example, I have hundreds of shots that I created as both RAW and JPEG. That's what I want to keep on disk, but I don't need duplicates in iPhoto.
4) How do I go about organizing my photos? Should I have a maximum number of photos in a given folder? And how should I organize all this in iPhoto?
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the pictures in my Pictures folder have been copied into iPhoto, (into an enormous invisible folder somewhere)
Nothing enormous or invisible.
Since iPhoto 7 (iLife 08) the old iPhoto Library Folder is now a Package File. This is simply a folder that looks like a file in the Finder. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves.
Want to look inside? Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Standard Warning: Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
How the files are stored: You have three core folders
Originals are the photos as they were downloaded from your camera or scanner.
(ii) Modified contains edited pics, shots that you have cropped, rotated or changed in any way.
(iii) Data holds the thumbnails the the app needs to show you the photos in the iPhoto Window.
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I can be confident that they'll be backed up with Time Machine,
Yes, or any other Back Upmutility you choose
and they will remain in their original format (unless I edit within iPhoto),
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Yes, though the more correct way would be to export via iPhoto. Why? Because this will allow you to write any metadata you add in iPhoto to the files.
Regards
TD

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In the Styles and Effects palette, under Layer Effects, we seem to have lost
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Neon effects back?
Dave

I am going to hijack Beth Haney's answer to another question as she explained it so well, but I do want to credit her.
You don't say what platform you're using, so I'll give the instructions for both.
With Elements closed, click on the start up icon then make a QUICK grab for (Windows) Control, Alt, and Shift keys or (Mac) Command, Option, and Shift keys. Hold all three down until you get a screen asking if you want to delete Settings. Say Yes. If you don't get that screen, you didn't get the keys depressed fast enough, so keep trying. A new Preference folder will build as Elements continues to launch.
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How does the crop-lock and "Effect" settings logic work?

The crop lock and Effect setting have in common the fact that they are unpredictable with a strange logic I have yet to figure out. Questions:
What decision process causes the crop lock to remain locked, and then suddenly decide to stay open from one use to the next (Or the reverse).?
What makes the "Effects" decide to retain its last used settings, and sometimes not? (Usually the last customized setting is NOT what I want for the next photo in line to be edited).
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Thank you for the reply!
richardplondon wrote:
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This is difficult to describe. I think I've figured out the logic but cant understand why anyone would want it to work this way: If I choose a setting *before* making the first mark (i.e. new button) with the tool, those settings will persist forever until I change them (even if I change catalogs). If I change the settings AFTER applying the tool, they are forgotten even if I want to keep them. I never want a custom setting to persist into the next photo because the last tool/setting I used will not likely be the first tool used in the next photo.
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cauchy wrote:
Just tried it and got the infamous "System Overload"!!
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Thanks.
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im really wondering what's the deference between iphoto and just putting in a folder and using the preview to open things. i noticed that iphoto creates a smaller copy of the picture (if you search in the "all images" folder). which i think its rediculous cuz it just wastes space. i found out how to delete the copies but its a pain. any way of importing without creating that copy. or without using iphoto?

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Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
iPhoto is a photo management SQL database system that is very powerful and gives you many search and editing capabilities - if you think it is "rediculous cuz it just wastes space." then you should not be using it - and you certainly do not understand it.
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With image capture you can download photos and do what you want with them - or if you choose do nothng and your camera will mount ot the desktop as a removable disk you can just move your photos from the camera to where ever you want and do what ever you want with them
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