How to get my photo moments/years to an external hard drive or dropbox
Hello! I'm stuck. I apologize if my technical lingo is wrong. I'm trying to keep my head above water in understanding my predicament. Our home was broken into while away before Christmas, and my 2009 Macbook Pro and new external hard drive were stolen. Luckily I had just purchased a new Macbook Pro (it says here its OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.1 2.6 GHz 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3) and did I migration assistant on it prior to leaving. However all the photos and files from my old Macbook wouldn't fit on the new one. So I brought over files but not photos. I then backed up the old mac onto an external hard drive (which was later stolen). While away we kept getting a warning that we were out of start up space. So on the prompting of my husband that we don't need all our files on the computer and they should be stored back at home anyways we started deleting files to make room to download some of our travel photos.
When we got to home to find our home ransacked and computer and back up hard drive gone, I then realized most of the files left on the new mac that I hadn't deleted, which were brought over via migration assistant won't open. One computer guy told me that they are corrupted and without the original backed up hard drive there's no saving them.
So then I moved on to trying to move what files I have left onto drop box so that perhaps I could go back in time machine and get my files that we deleted while away. But now drop box says I don't have permission to move all the files, and has only moved new documents I've made since working on the new mac.
I do potentially have the option of trying to go back 28 days in my Time machine to before I deleted the files to make room on our trip, but one computer guy told me if I try this, it most likely will ask for the original back up hard drive. And I could risk loosing what I do have.
BIGGEST concern to me is all our family photos. Magically (and I say this thankfully!) I can still see all of our photos in the "Moments/Years" on my iPhone 5. However when I try to download them into iPhoto. It will only download the resent photos that have been taken in the camera roll. I really really hope some very clever angel has figured out a way to get all these photos from Moments and into dropbox. I should mention that I did try turning on iCloud today, but I get a warning that says "Photos synced from iTunes will be removed. Syncing photos via iTunes is not supported when iCloud photo library is turned on. 6,818 photos will be removed.
So really I'm at a loss of what to do next. And scared to try anything myself that may make matters worse. Most the computer techs I've talked to so far seem as dazed as I am about a solution. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
chevalierdurufle wrote:
My itunes library used to be on a PC - but shortly before the PC went to PC heaven I transferred the library onto an external hard drive
You mean you transferred the media, not the library...
Now I have a laptop - but I can't get itunes to pick up the library location
The library location is in your /Music/ oflder.
Your media files (not yet in your new iTunes library ) is on the external drive.
I have changed in advance preferences, but the library does not display.
Because you have not yet added anything to your library.
Quit iTunes.
On the external, create a new folder named My iTunes library (or something).
Hold Shift and launch iTunes.
Select Choose library... and select My iTunes library on the external.
Go into Windows Explorer and move all the media files on the external into /My iTunes Llibrary/iTunes media/Automatically add to iTunes/ folder.
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