Hi. My iPhoto library is 27gb however when I add it to iPhoto on my new MacBook Air, nothing shows up.
My iPhoto library went haywire last week on my old snow leopard White Macbook (07), and although the library is 27GB, nothing was showing in my iPhoto when opened.
I have yesterday bought a new MacBook Air (running Lion) and have moved my iPhoto library on an external harddrive across to my the Air, however when i try to have my iPhoto use this library (still 27GB), nothing shows up in program and it says zero photos.
Any ideas on how I can rectify this issue?
Thanks all!
Greetings,
Do you have a backup? It sounds like your iPhoto Library database has become damaged and the cleanest way to resolve this would be to restore from your backup from a point in time before the issue started.
If you don't maintain backups of your important data, its time to start. Read here for how to backup: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
If you don't have a backup of the library before this issue occured then lets try rebuilding the library.
Open iPhoto while holding both the command and option keys on the keyboard.
Once you get the rebuild window below, put a check in each item listed in numberical order 1 at a time, clicking "Rebuild" after each one until the issue is resolved.
Let us know if that resolves the issue for you.
Cheers.
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