I found my photos, but iPhoto can't
I was in the process of importing some photos from my "pictures" folder into my iPhoto - I dragged and dropped them into iPhoto - then I went into my finder to drag them into the trash - since I figured iPhoto had made a duplicate of them in it's hidden library - and I put MY ENTIRE LIBRARY in the trash (or at least I thought I did)- I realized this when all my photos inside iPhoto became black squares - the events and labels are all there - but the photo's are gone -
so I tried copying the photos from the trash into a folder and then getting them back into the library - but I have no idea where they go, and everywhere I put them, they turn into alias! So I begin searching and find them all somewhere else - apparently where they've always been, but iPhoto can't figure out how to link up with them..
Please help me - I have found my photos but I have over 1000 and want them to continue to be divided up in the events I've created as I imported them.
I have iPhoto '08
I found the photos in: HD>Library>Application Support>Apple>Automator>Workflows>Applications>iPhoto
I have NO IDEA what folder I put in the trash - nor any clue where those alias need to go - there in my iPhoto library right now in >iPhoto Selection
Please HelP!
Message was edited by: wesley.arnold
They were not in that folder.
I have no idea how, but they were completely removed from the iPhoto Library pkg file to the location I posted earlier.
Recently - I copied all 6K photos from the weird location into the library using the method you described, however - I put them in their own folder and then just imported them. This simply made one single event with 6K photos in it- and all my events are still empty with blank photos in them.
Would placing the photos all in the "Originals" folder prompt iPhoto to put them back in their place so they're organized like I originally had them?
There's no way I'm going to reorganize 6000 photos back into new events AND get the dates right...
Thanks
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