Getting my backed-up photos into iPhoto on the new external hard drive
I managed to use Time Machine to restore the back-up of my external hard drive (that died) to a new external hard drive, however, while I can see the .jpeg images that were in my original (ext. hard drive) iPhoto library on the new Passport Drive, they are no longer set up in an iPhoto library. I might have confused the system because I had thought I needed a shell structure iPhoto library on the new hard drive, so I basically moved the new "budding" iPhoto library established on my iMac's internal hard drive to the Passport drive before restoring the Time Machine backup. What I see now is 1. a 4GB iPhoto library existing on the internal drive. 2. an identical 4GB iPhoto library existing on the external Passport drive and 3. a folder named Simpletech with the entire contents of the failed hard drive including all the photos from my original 54GB iPhoto library that resided on the old external hard drive, which are accessible as independent .jpeg files, but no longer organized as an iPhoto library.
Would love to know the steps to having just one iPhoto library on the Passport external hard drive that contains all my images without accidentally losing/deleting any images and messing up pointers. I would not mind eliminating the iPhoto library on the internal hard drive either, provided I could get all the images into the main one.
Angie in Charlotte
while I can see the .jpeg images that were in my original (ext. hard drive) iPhoto library on the new Passport Drive
When you enter Time Machine and go to the Pictures folder do you not see the iPhoto Library in it at different dates?
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If you used Time Machine to backup your hard drive then the iPhoto Library package should be in it. If you did something different please explain in detail what you did.
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