Corrupted photobook.Or is it the library?
Problem: have made photobook (100 pages) however, every time i open it to edit it, a number of photos disappear, font style changes, sometimes coloured blocks appear where a photo used to be or photosize shrinks does not even fit the set size box. i have "finished" it 3 times and redo it only to reopen it and find it has again gone barmy.
History: have amassed an enormous photo library over the years, decided it was necessary to migrate it to an external drive as I had not enough space on my computer to do anything let alone edit movies.
I recently purchased Aperture (which I am hating) and have tried to import the iphoto library into the aperture library.
Tried: rebuilding iphoto library
Suspicion: iphoto library is corrupted
Other stuff: Am using iphoto v9.2.3 running on Mac OS X v10.6.8 on a desktop mac with 2.4GHz intel core 2 duo, 21.4 GB left of usable space. Its a few years old. i have time machine on an external drive but have not been able to restore the iphoto library as it won't let me go back to a previous date. Probably is another way of doing it for the more technically savvy...
Also, I have another photobook which is half finished which I can not open, it crashes the whole iphoto (arrrgh!!!!).
Can anyone suggest miraculous recovery of my many hours of work?
Kind thanks for reading this far!
Catiepie
If the Library has spent time on the FAT disk then this could have caused the corruption you're experiencing.
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
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.
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1. Opening the iPhoto Library package in Finder. All the folders for the earlier dates are there, but they are empty. I notice no incorrect or impossible dating, which seemed to be a common problem among users who's libraries where corrupted during the upgrade process.
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I am eternally grateful for any answers that might help me recovering my photos!
//Teodor Nilsonb) I split up my photo collection into two iphoto libraries. One for the new photos stored on my internal HD and one for photos older than one year stored on my external HD
And exactly How did you Split up your iPhoto library?
c) I used Migration Assistant in an attempt to access the Time Machine backup of my old MBP from my new MBP (by inheriting the backup). When I made my backups, I made sure Time Machine included the external HD. But Migration Assistant could only find the backup of my Internal HD with the library of new photos!
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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