How to recover data in iPhoto?

How to recover data from iphoto?

I haven't done any conscious backup.
Time to start. Now. Using a computer without a back up is like driving without a seat belt. You'll be fine as long as nothing goes wrong, but if something does go wrong it'll be a much bigger mess.
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.

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Once a hard drive goes bad (cannot get into the computer), is there any hope of recovering any data from it? If so, how?

Do you mean the hard drive is mechanically broken for sure? It's not a data corruption issue that is causing a problem with starting up the Mac, but maybe not be a bad mechanism?
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So that probably means the hard drive in question is the internal drive? If you don't know for sure that the hard drive is physically broken, you can try starting up using your Mac OS X installation disc. Insert disc in optical drive and start up with the C key held down. When you get to Installer's screen, go up to the menu bar and run Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Does the internal drive appear in the Disk Utility sidebar?
Alternately, if you have another Mac (that has FireWire), you can try starting the Mac with the problem in FireWire Target Disk Mode,
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If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive. Two free alternatives are Disk Drill and TestDisk. Look for them and demos at MacUpdate or CNET Downloads.
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Hacked account? How to recover data?

My emails all gone. My contacts all gone. I hope my iclouds docs etc not gone still have to check. How to recover this data? Already reset passwordsetc.

Hi, Artiomike, and welcome to the Community!
Fortunately, there are other means to authenticate your ownership of the account; please see this information:
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10920/What-can-I-do-if-someone-has-taken-over-my-account
In any event, please file with Skype Customer Service we in the Community are not authorized to resolve account-related matters.
Here is more information:
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How to recover date from i phone 4

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I would like to know if I am eligble for an out of warranty replacement. Do I have to buy the same mobile or is it possible to upgrade to an i phone 5.
And - more important - how can I retrieve or at least, is there a possibility to retrieve some data I had on my phone.
Any suggestion how to recover the data is more welcome. Maybe there is a programme ?
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"I would like to know if I am eligble for an out of warranty replacement. Do I have to buy the same mobile or is it possible to upgrade to an i phone 5."
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"And - more important - how can I retrieve or at least, is there a possibility to retrieve some data I had on my phone."
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How to recover data and system in MacBook Pro?

I have a MacBook Pro. I have now problem about booting the system. The GRAY logo comes with blinking by a "Stop" logo and the system can not open. When I use the Mac Installation DVD (Snow Leopard) all my data goes to be erased after installing a fresh one.
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diakomacdiako wrote:
If I couldn't recover and was forced to install a fresh OS, is it possible to recover data after having the fresh installation?
Not much, but you can install OS X on a extenral drive, boot from it and recover files, then do the erase and install.
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LaCie drive won't power. How to recover data?

I have a LaCie, 500Gb drive that I use for movies and photos. Tonight while working on an iMovie, I noticed that the edits were taking a long time, so I restarted my iMac. However, it would not restart, just showed a blank white screen for a very long time. Finally, after 20minutes, I hit the power button and shut it down. A powering on with the same button produced nothing but the white screen. I tried to boot from the installation disk, but it just kept asking me to select a startup disk. After about three tries, I got my Mac to boot itself. It came on fine, and 3 of my 4 external drives showed up, but not the 4th. System profiler called it an 'unknown device.' All the drives are Firewire, connected to each other and lastly to this LaCie drive, which is connected to my Mac.
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Yes, I got a new drive with all my files on it. I think all the iMovies are intact, but I had three quicktime movie clips that were not completely recovered. Two of them are not important, but one is a slideshow that I have put into one of my iMovies. It plays only to about the halfway point. I have the entire thing on a DV tape, so I have just reimported it for the iMovie. I did call Drive Savers to complain about it, and they were very nice, will work on it again. I think they should, for the price!
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vycon wrote:
...I did use iTune to update. But I chose upgrade without backup.
I am not sure what will happen if I click restore now.
Most likely, you will lose everything. Data, photos, installed apps (they still are in iTunes, btw), etc.
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hope to get help from someone knowledgeable out there. I have a macpro and recently experienced a failed drive. I set up that failed drive as part of a mirrored raid, this set is not my primary drive and so my computer is stilling up and running but now am wondering how I access the data from the mirrored drive. Should the mirrored drive automatically mount on my desktop whereby I would be able to access the files? This is my first drive failure and I was under the impression having a mirror would duplicate my data and allow me to access it in situations like this. I'm a bit of novice in this area and not sure if the data is truly on the "mirror" or if there are things I need to do.
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Even with a mirror, you still need a backup.
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OK- here is the pinch:
I have a Western Digital My Book 500GB Studio Edition which, though visible in Disk Utility, fails to mount, even when I try to do so via Disk Utility. I have tried all the usual- unplugged, repowered-up, changed the order of Mac to external drive power-up/plug in etc etc. It will not mount, end of.
Then I changed the housing, in case the issue was with that. No change.
Then I had a friend use his PC's software to recover the data and he pulled off what appears to be ALL of it (it was close on being the 500GB as the drive was full) but it is not usuable and the Final Cut Pro and iMovie files I am needing to recover, appear to have been "downgraded" to MPEGs and MP4s (how IS that even possible?!) with a few MOVs of which the bulk are unreadable. Oddly the clips are transitions only- no full three and a half minute (most of them are of music, songs of about that length) clips ever.
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Could that ^ be something worth pursuing? I cannot ask on the thread as it is from 2006 and, obviously, archived.
Hoping for some good news but am resigned almost.
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Did you try using a powered USB hub?
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The external drive is a powered SATA, currently residing in a powered SATA to USB housing, no extensions. No, the drive is actually just not supported anymore and was not mountable before.
Also use the Mac version of Data Rescue for file recovery, it knows the Mac file formats better than PC file format recovery.
I cannot recover anything with a Mac because the Mac will not read it. It is not supported due to something my friend did with his PC:
This is only since he had a go at recovery. Before then it was supported and appeared fine- just not mountable.
Obviously what happened is it took the MPEG portions of the Mac files as it understood that and discarded the rest.
Yes, I gathered that and explained as much to him. It discarded the entire 120GB FCPro project file I kind of would like to recover.
Not sure what now...
You had mentioned cloning/imaging etc. which you edited out. Could that be something which can be done with a PC (I am not a PC user but I guess I could have a go) and then I use said image on the Mac to copy the bits I need to transfer to the Mac-formatted storage device? Or- with a different Mac? Not sure why that would make a difference but I am happy to try anything!
Thank you to you both christopher rigby1 and ds store- means a lot not to be completely up the creek without a paddle. I just wish that I had not been overwhelmed by the offer of assistance from a PC user and had had more of a go myself. I suspect it would not be this difficult now.

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I have no idea where to start with this, does anyone know how I could accomplish this myself? Thanks in advance for any tips.

I hope that will work out for you, but I have very little confidence that all will go well that way.
Your situation is one in which it makes very good sense to ignore the warranty on your hard drive, replace it yourself at your own expense, and thus be able to keep the old drive — which Apple will keep, if Apple replaces it. Once you have a new drive in your MBP and an OS up and running on it, then you can connect the old drive to it and see what can be recovered. If you hand the machine over to Apple for the replacement and lose the old drive, and then you discover that some of your files in Mac-only formats have been corrupted by being written to a Windows file system on your HP computer, you'll have no chance of recovering them.
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You go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974674 and download the package for Windows 7 that Microsoft has published specifically for this!
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I've always heard that data is never really gone from the hard drive even after you delete it. How do I recover that data? My problem is some photos (my honeymoon photos) have been deleted from my computer and they have also been deleted from the recycle bin. I sure would like to recover them.

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