Deleted "events" 5000 photos gone!

Ha ha ha, ha ha.
Upon launching iPhoto 7 you get a bunch of event folders made from the library.
I merged all of them then deleted by command delete as suggested by iPhoto help.
Voila! All photos disappeared. Rebuilding did not replace them.
Fortunately, I got a copy of my old iPhoto library from my HD clone and started over.
So what is the recommended way to get rid of these event folders?
Will they go away nicely if you delete one at a time?

events are what (sort of) used to be rolls -- all photos live in an event so if you delete the event you delete the photos that live there
It seems pretty intuative to me and I don't really see why you are concerned about the "events" -- you used to have all those rolls
larry Nebel

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5000 Photos Gone

This may be an external drive questions, but I thought someone could help.
I downloaded most of my iPhotos from iPhoto to a new Iomega external HD. I also donwloaded some other files. Took like 45 minutes. Made sure files were on external HD.
I then disconnected the external HD and deleted most of the photos in iPhoto to free up space.
I then plugged the external Iomega HD back in to make sure the 5000 photos were there. Only the 450 remaining that I did not delete were on the external HD. The other files I put on HD were there. What happened? What can I do to get all photos back? I know Iomega has a data recovery deal, but i was hoping there was something simplar
Any info. would helps. Most of the photos are of my kids.
Thanks.

I downloaded most of my iPhotos from iPhoto to a new Iomega external HD. I also donwloaded some other files. Took like 45 minutes. Made sure files were on external HD.
What version of iPhoto do you have?
How did you do this?
The correct way is to drag the iPhoto library as a single entity to the desktop and then drag it to external hard drive and (if you have iPhoto 4) launch iPhoto and it will ask for the library location
I then disconnected the external HD and deleted most of the photos in iPhoto to free up space.
I then plugged the external Iomega HD back in to make sure the 5000 photos were there. Only the 450 remaining that I did not delete were on the external HD. The other files I put on HD were there. What happened? What can I do to get all photos back? I know Iomega has a data recovery deal, but i was hoping there was something simplar
You probably just deleted old photos from the library on your internal hard drive - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library to the desktop and launch iPhoto -it should ask for the location of the iPhoto library - point to the one on the external hard drive
LN

Iphoto: How to safely delete or move photos. I have over 7000 photos. When I deleted some, I found that the event still shows up with a blank frame. Can I move some photos to an external hard drive but leave the pointer in iphoto?

iphoto: How to safely delete or move photos. I have over 7000 photos. I would really like to move tsome of the older photos to an external hard drive. (They are backed up in Time Machine, but I like the immediacy of having them available.) So question 1 - is it possible to split the iphoto library so that the directory tree points to an external drive in some cases? And if that doesn't work--I am willing to export and delete some of these photos. However, an earlier delete left me with events that have a name in the event folder, but no photos. Question 2 -- How do I properly delete photos so that all references disappear?
example:

Warning: Time Machine is not an Archiving application. It keeps rolling back ups. That means if you delete something from the source Mac it will eventually be also deleted from Time Machine. How long that takes depends on the amount of disk space TM has. So, remember, backing up in Time Machine is not the same as Archiving.
For the blank thumbnails: This can happen if you try delete too many photos at one go. Experienced users suggest you should delete in batches of 100 or so.
Yes you can split the Library, where some of the Masters are stored locally and some on an external disk, but really, you don't want to do that. iPhoto's file management tools are limited at best, and if the path to the files changes then you could find yourself repairing the links to the files - all of them, one by one.
Better: Have your entire Library on an External Drive.
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
If you want to have a smaller library on your internal disk:
Here's one way to do what you want:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
Now you have two full versions of the Library.
3. On the Internal library, trash the Events you don't want there
Now you have a full copy of the Library on the External and a smaller subset on the Internal
Some Notes:
As a general rule: when deleting photos do them in batches of about 100 at a time. iPhoto can baulk at trashing large numbers at one go.
You can choose which Library to open: Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
You can keep the Library on the external updated with new imports using iPhoto Library Manager
Regards
TD

How do I delete "Events from my Mac" from my iPad photo library?

I usually sync images from Aperture via iTunes. And though I've unchecked all the boxes so that no photos were to be synced, the pad still has a ton of photos that show up in the Events or Moments.
I've now turned off Photo syncing in iTunes, which should have deleted all the photos, but the pad still has this huge album of images titled, "Events from my Mac". How do I get rid of these images? They're taking up piles of space. I can't trash them as no trash icon shows up. ?
Help!

More info:
So under the iPad preferences in General/ Usage:
Camera roll = 69.0 MB
Photo Library = 7.96 GB ? !!!!
Photo Stream = 345 MB ? PhotoStream is turned off! ?
I just don't understand.
iCloud is turned off on the Mac. It's on on the pad but Streaming is turned off, both personal and sharing.
In iTunes there are no pictures from Aperture to import or sync.
So what gives?
Help!

Sometimes after creating an event folder on iPhoto, all my pictures in that event will be gone the next time I open iPhoto. Why is this happening? Is there a way to retrieve the missing photos?

Sometimes after creating an event folder on iPhoto, all my pictures in that event will be gone the next time I open iPhoto. Why is this happening? Is there a way to retrieve the missing photos?
Most events I make on iphoto will still be there the next time I open iPhoto, while other event FOLDERS will be there, but pictures in it gone.

What version of iPhoto? Assuming 09 or later:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
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.
Regards
TD

Iphoto deletes events when adding events from flagged photos

Dear community,
Whenever I use flagged photos, previous events get deleted. I don't know whether this is because the photos can only be in one event at a time, or that this is erroneous behaviour.
In my logic, there should be possibility for as much events as you deem possible, yet it is mind boggling, that you don't have an automatic option, that makes you put photos in two events. Also it is mind numbing that you can't just copy & paste the pictures anywhere you like. You can paste in albums, but not into events.
You have an option to "Create event from flagged photos", yet not an option to add photos to an existing event, you must flag them first.
Then there is the sudden discomfort of brain pain, when you find out the previous events you've created stopped seizing to exist, and you have to sift through 500 photos, just to find 3 photos you've flagged in the creation of a previous event. Which defeats the purpose of creating them.
The albums work good for this purpose, yet I want to be able to pin albums to the back board, where the events are. Or have events that will not disappear, may contain doubles with other events, or/and aren't restricted to copying into them. It would save a lot of time, to just CMD + C, CMD + V.

You're confusing Events and Albums.
In my logic, there should be possibility for as much events as you deem possible, yet it is mind boggling, that you don't have an automatic option, that makes you put photos in two events
A photo in two Events is using twice the disk space. An album just references the photo in the Library and can be in as many albums as you like while wasting no disk space.
You have an option to "Create event from flagged photos", yet not an option to add photos to an existing event, you must flag them first.
Eh, you have to flag photos first before you can create an Event from them too...
Then there is the sudden discomfort of brain pain, when you find out the previous events you've created stopped seizing to exist, and you have to sift through 500 photos, just to find 3 photos you've flagged in the creation of a previous event. Which defeats the purpose of creating them.
Flagging photos does not delete Events. Emptying an Event deletes them.
You can't have what you want.

How to empty 5000 photos from iPhoto's trash

hi guys
a friend of mine - a newcomer to Mac OSX.. - has piled up 5000+ photos in iPhoto's trash & when he tried to empty it , iPhoto simply freezes & has to be closed using ''force quit''.
he asked for my help but, no matter what i tried i simply didn't find a way to do it - one other thing, when we open his iPhoto & select ''trash'' to view it's contents, it doesn't show any thumbnails just little white outlined squares where the thumbnail's should/would normally be - is this normal ?
the reason i tried to ''view'' iPhoto's trash content is that i read on MacRumors ( i think.. ) a suggestion of ''tagging'' the trash photos, create a smart folder with that tag to it, move the photos back into iPhoto's Library & THEN delete them in bunches of 50 or 60 at a time from that smart folder
so my obvious question is : any suggestions on how i can get iPhoto's trash to empty ?
according to him his computer ( a 27'' iMac i7.. ) has started showing the spinning beachball a lot lately - could this trash situation be related to this ?
i have ran out of solutions so, any help anyone could provide would be MOST welcome
hoping to hear from you guys soon, many thanks
Nuno

iPhoto has a well known problem with trying to delete large numbers of photos at one time.
Make a temporary, duplicate copy of the library and try the three fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your Home/Library/Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache files that are located in your Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
3 - reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding the the Option key. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
Fix #2
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library.
Select the options identified in the screenshot.
Fix #3
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
Once you get the library to open in iPhoto try the following:
1 - select all of the photos in the trash and assign a unique keyword, say "Delete", using the Keyword pane:
Click to view full size
2 - then drag all of the photo in the Trash bin onto the Photo icon in the left hand pane to move them back to their original Events.
3 - create a smart album with the criteria "Keyword" is "Delete".
4 - not select about 100 photos at a time, drag to the Trash bin and empty.
This should let you delete all of the photos safely.
OT

Have I deleted all my photos?? Help, please!

I received an email with some jpg attachments that I wanted to save. So, I saved them to my pictures folder and then moved them to iPhoto. Then, once I had them in iPhoto I went back to my pictures folder to delete them from there but I think I accidentally deleted the iPhoto folder too. When I open iPhoto, I can see the list of events and photos - all the file names are there, it knows event names and how many photos are in each event, they all seem to be there under photos, even the folders I've made are there - with the correct names and number of images. BUT.... I can't see them. I go to open each image and I get nothing. I just can't believe that they're all gone, if I can still see their file names??? Oh - and I pulled the iPhoto folder from trash so it's not in there anymore. Can you tell I'm new to all this?

Cathy:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Open the iPHoto Library package like this, go the Originals folder and verify that the original image files are still in the various subfolders. Once you do that launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the first three options.
If that doesn't resurrect the library you'll have to start over with a new library and import the originals folder as follows:
Creating a new library while preserving the Events from the original library.
Move the existing library folder to the desktop.
Open the library package like this.
Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
Drag the Originals folder from the iPhoto Library on the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
This will create a new library with the same Events as the original library if you have the Finder checkbox unchecked in the Events preference pane.
To help recover from a similar problem in the future, damaged database file, see the tip at the end of my signature.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Deleting events: how?

I apologize if this topic has already benn discussed but I can't find any answer into this forum. I'm trying to delete some events from my iPhoto '09 but unfortunately they're still there (i did it by selecting the event and deleting all the photos into it).
TIA
Simon

Simon
If you’ve deleted all the photos the event should go away of it’s own accord. The usual reason why it might not is that there is a hidden photo in there. So unhide it and trash it, and that should see it gone.
Regards
TD

Iphoto crashed after "successful import" but during the "finishing import" stage - i had selected to delete the imported photos on my phone...iphoto crashed after 90% of the photos had been deleted. Now i can't see any of the photos on iphoto

Hi guys, I was importing about 5000 photos from my phone onto my computer. it said the import was successful but did i want to delete or keep the photos on the original device. I opted to delete photos. The photos started to count down as they deleted and the computer said "finishing import". Once it had deleted down to about 600 photos iphoto simply disappeared, and a message popped up to say it had crashed. I opted to reopen iphoto and saw that not one of the photos had imported! Not only that but now all the photos have been deleted from my phone. I'm really upset if i've lost the last year of photos/ videos....does anyone know what has happened/ if i can recover them?
thanks so much in advance x

Not sure where you got those ideas - simply import your photos and keep the rather than deleting - then after a successful import and at least one back up cycle you can format the card if you want or you can do what I do and keep the photos moving to a new card when that one is full giving you yet another backup - if problems occurs then trouble shoot them - no need to trouble shoot if there is no problem
ad personally I find removing the card and plugging it into my card reader is faster and easier than finding the USB cable and hooking it up, turning on the camera, verifying that tty e battery is charged, etc - and it eliminates a point of failure in the USB cable and the chance of the camera battery running out - but that is clearly a personal choice
You are overthinking this - it is simple
a best practice to is to never have any computer program (including iPhoto) delete the photos from the card but to import the photos and keep them and then after at least one successful backup cycle has completed and then reformat the card -- I use three very large (32 GB) cards in rotation so I do not reformat for typically a year or more giving me one more long term backup of my photos
LN

An uneventful year... (aka no events for photos taken in 2006)

Have just installed iPhoto 08 and it has upgraded my library and created events for me.
However, no photos from between March 21 2005 and February 1 2007 show up in the Events or Photos views at all! I can see these photos in their albums but there is a huge hole between 2005 and 2007 everywhere else, and it only lists '830 photos in 30 events' at the bottom of the window (I know there are a couple of thousand normally). If i select all the photos in an album and ask iPhoto to create an event it pops up a confirmation, I confirm and it looks as if it has created an event (in any case it won't let me do it again, the option is greyed out), but I still cannot see these photos in Events/Photos.
I tried deleting the album in case a photos can't be in an Event and an Album at the same time but this resulted in not being able to see the photos of that album anywhere! Luckily I have a backup...
I have tried repairing permissions, rebuilding the library, and restoring the library from backup to give iPhoto another shot at it but nothing seems to work!
How can I fix this?

Simon:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Threre are two ways to correct that.
1 - use the Photo's->Batch Change menu option to change the date to what you want AND write that date to the files as well.
2 - use the Photos->Adjust Date and Time menu option.
Both do pretty much the same. I've not figured out the real differences between the two but there's bound to be one. I've been able to do multiple photos at a time with each.
Do you Twango?
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HT2513 I can't delete events recurring annually...not part of birthday calendar, one's I've added manually. I've tried delete key, cut event, changing to no recurrence, they just revert to original recurrence and will not be removed from my calendar. Th

I can't delete events recurring annually...not part of birthday calendar, these are events I've added manually. I've tried delete key, cut event, changing to no recurrence, they just revert to original recurrence and will not be removed from my calendar. Events that occur weekly I'm able to delete, this is only happening with events recurring annually. Very frustrating. Thanks for any ideas.

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How do I delete pictures in PHOTOS app?

I thought I successfully deleted all the photos from my iPhone 4S by accessing the photos under Internal Storage using my Windows 7 laptop, and going into each folder, selecting all the photos and deleting them. I was unable to delete 'Local Disk' files, (aggravating), and when I checked on my phone, all the photos were gone from the Camera app, yet there were still many photos in various collections in the Photos app. How do I delete those? Sometimes, hitting Select and Select All on a Collection allows me to hit the Garbage Can icon to delete, but sometime the Garbage Can is not there. I don't know why that is the case.
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You can only delete photos directly from the Camera Roll and the Photo Stream. If the other photos are on your device because you sync'd them to it, you have to remove them the same way - via a sync.
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