I inadvertently trashed my Iphoto library. Can it be retrieved like in Windows, you just go to a prior saved recovery point? It wasn't securely trashed, just trashed.

Question

I inadvertently trashed my Iphoto library.  Can I retrieve it, like one can restore to an earlier time period on Windows?  I trashed it but I did not use secure trash.

Answer 1

if you are running Time Machine - launch it and go back to the time you want, select the iPhoot library and click restore
Step 1 - launch Time Machine (either click on it in the DOCK or double click on it in the applications folder)
Step 2 - in the resulting window (which looks like a finder window) go back in time to when your iPhoto library had not been trashed
Step 3 - select the iPhoto library at that time (by default it is in your pictures folder)
Step 4 - Click on "RESTORE" and restore the iPhoto library from before it was trashed
Step 5 launch iPhoto (click on iPhoto in the DOCK or double click on it in the applications folder)
You do not copy or directly access the TM backup - as noted you use TM to restore the iPhoto library
Additionally, I would assume that I should start from scratch.  Access and delete/trash all the pictures that I've since imported from a disk that I had save them too a year ago, in effect leave Iphoto empty before attempting any restore/import of the file, if possible.  Yes?
No do not delete anything until this is all sorted out - and if you restore properly you certainly will not have to start over
LN