HT1229 Lost pictures in I Photo albums in moving photos
I have IPhoto ver 9.5.1 on Mac Book pro OSX 10.9.5. I do back up on Time Machine. I tried to move my photos to a new location on my computer and then moved them back. I realized I had lost the pictures in albums. Can I restore them? The photos are still available in events and the albums are still there but they are empty. Do I have to restore from Time Machine?
And exactly how did you Move the photos?
To keep the organization you must move the library intact as a single entity to a drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN
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Lost pictures in sorted iphoto albums
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Hey léonie ,
Thank you for your response.
iPhoto version is 9.4.2 (710.42)
What she typically does is sort through all of the pictures in iPhoto (we both use the same account), and if she sees people x,y, and z in a photo, she will put a "copy" of that photo in a folder for x, a folder for y, and a folder for z. And by "copy" I mean that she clicks and drags the photo from what I believe to be from the events (it could be the "master" library that we view I'm not sure, as I don't mess with iPhoto all that often). She checks to make sure that the photos that she is moving make it into the folder for the designated person. She moves about this in a methodical manner, as she has 8 siblings, and therefore literally thousands of pictures. She doesn't want to lose any of this meticulous sorting after hours of work.
Also she just revealed to me that she had just plugged her phone into the computer (to retrieve more pictures off of it) and the computer started to run rather slow. After that iPhoto quit unexpectedly. It was reopened to find that the pictures were not in the folder she put them in. She states that the time that elapsed from the phone plug in to the crash of iPhoto was about a minute or two.
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Make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
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Select the options identified in the screenshot.
Fix #2
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And also launch a Terminal and have a look, if "facebook.com" is properly resolved:
Type
ping facebook.com
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^C
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dig facebook.com
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;; global options: +cmd
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;; QUESTION SECTION:
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I deleated pictures from my photo stream that were placed in albums. I did not know that by doing this I removed them from the albums as well. Is there any way to get this photos back?
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RobertHuh?
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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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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.
If neither of the above help you'll need to:
Start over from scratch with new library
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1. Open the library package like this.
2. Launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
3. Drag the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from the open iPhoto Library package into the open iPhoto window.
Click to view full size
This will create a new library with the same Events (but not necessarily the same Event names) as the original library but will not keep the metadata, albums, books slideshows and other projects.
Note: your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.
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With update of iOS 8 lost pictures and numbers...where did they go?
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Back up and restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iCloud or iTunes - Apple Support
iCloud: iCloud storage and backup overview
When your phone was connected to your computer, you should've seen an autoplay which would've allowed you to import your pics to your computer as you would a digital camera Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac or Windows PC - Apple Support -
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Thanks,
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You're damaging the Library doing that, and that's the cause of your problem.
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For help accessing your photos in iPhoto see this user tip:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4491
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