I lost all my photos!

I have an iPhone 3 or 3S.  I had about 500 photos on it.  I connected it to iTunes, and it started to restore.  I unplugged it.  Now all my photos are gone.

iTunes will not simply start to restore unless you tell it to do so. If you did not have the photos backed up already, they are gone.

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    Hello,
    I lost all my Photo's in IPHOTO today
    I will try to outline what I have done. Some months ago I took old photograph-files of my windows computer by means of an external hard disk. Afterwards I had the following experience: each time that I started Iphoto I received a note "13 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library that were not imported." Then it tells me "The photos have been placed in a folder. The folder is stored in my file/images/library/no..... it counts up every day. Today it reached no. 56. I tried to throw away all that garbage. By means of finder I have gone to the images/library and saw those 56 items listed there. I wanted them all thrown away at the same time. I have slid them then all 56 in each other, then you hear a sound of 'plik' every time and when done I dragged to the dustbin. As I returned to Iphoto, everything was empty 244 folders with over 28,000 photo' s. The files are all grey. If I select a photo then I get a light grey screen with !-sign. What remaine are the file-names and the numbering of the 28,000 photo's. So I have 28,000 grey screens but without the photo's that correspond with them.
    I tried to import Photo's with the Iphoto- archive-import button from the library in finder. But there were only the 56 files with the 13 photo's that could'nt be opened every time I started Iphoto.
    I already tried to restore it by finder, but the photo's are not listed there.
    I'am desperate. I hope that someone can help me.

    FileSalvage will only find image files. You won't be able to recover your library as it was previously.
    The Originals folder will be inside the iPhoto Library package. You can open the package like this. Look inside the Originals folder and it's subfolders for your image files. If they are not there then continue with FileSalvage. If you find that your image files are still inside their subfolders you can partially recreate your library as follows:
    Creating a new library while preserving the Events from the original library.
    Move the existing library folder to the desktop.
    Open the library package like this.
    Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
    Drag the Originals folder from the iPhoto Library on the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
    This will create a new library with the same Events as the original library if you have the Finder checkbox unchecked in the Events preference pane.
    In the future NEVER go inside the iPhoto LIbrary package from the finder and consider using the tip at the end of my signature below.
    TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
    I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.≤br>
    Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

  • I just came back from a family vacation and tried to sync my phone to my laptop. It didnt recognize my phone, and did i want to add device or restore to old device.  i chose to restore and in doing so, i lost all the photos taken on our vacation.

    i just came back from a family vacation and tried to sync my phone to my laptop.  It didnt recognize my phone, and did i want to add device or restore to old device.  i chose to restore and in doing so, i lost all the photos taken on our vacation.  is there a way to retrieve photos?  the completely disappeared from my iphone altogether. I am using iphone 5. I did not have any backup since I was about to download the photo. Please help me. Thank you

    See:
    Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities

  • Lost all my photos in iPhoto after rebuilding iPhoto libraries is there a way to get them back?

    Lost all my photos in iPhoto after rebuilding iPhoto libraries is there a way to get them back?

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  • For reasons best left unsaid, in a recent rebuild of my iMac andTime Capsule, I lost all my photos. I do however currently have them on my iPad. Is it possible to retrieve all my photos from the iPad back to iPhotos (now Photos) on my iMac?

    For reasons best left unsaid, in a recent rebuild of my iMac and Time Capsule, I lost all my photos. I do however have them all currently on my iPad. Is it possible to retrieve my photos from the iPad back to iPhotos (now Photos) on my iMac?

    have the photos on the iPad been taken with the iPad camera or imported using the camera connection kit?
    Or have they been synced to the iPad with iTunes?
    You can download any photos to your mac by connecting the iPad by USB to to your Mac and import to Phots, but this way only photos from the Camera Roll will be imported.  If your photos have been synced with iTunes, you can only mail them to your mac.
    See:  iOS: Syncing photos using iTunes
    You can't reimport pictures synced from your computer to your device back to your computer. You can only import pictures taken by your device, or saved to it, from your device to your computer. If you need to retrieve synced photos from your device, email the photos from the device to yourself. Then download the photos from the emails to your computer.

  • Lost All My Photos! "Error occurred while trying to save .."

    Hi. I'm in total panic mode right now as it appears I have lost all my photos.
    I did a quick search here and came across a couple of threads, but I'm not sure if the info contained in them is going to help me.
    I was using iPhoto and double clicked on a photo to enlarge it to show it to a friend and then I got the following message: "An error has occurred while trying to save your photo library. Some recent changes may be lost. Make sure your hard disk has enough space & that iPhoto is able to access the iPhoto Library". After this, all my photos in all the events & albums disappeared ... no status bar indicating anything was being processed ... nothing.
    I have my iPhoto Library on my 1TB Western Digital Hard Drive and the drive kept whirring as if processing something (this sound is common but it just kept going). I quit iPhoto, put the iMac to sleep & a minute later woke it up. The HD started whirring again & I opened up iPhoto ... still no photos. I dragged the external HD to the trash to eject it & unplugged it. I then re-connected it & still nothing. I have two "my book" icons in the left panel when I open up my Mac HD and one of them I can't get rid of as it says the volume can't be found. I'm guessing this is from when I tried to eject the HD. I am going to try re-starting my Mac. I also right clicked on the iPhoto icon to check the properties & even though I have no photos, it spent a couple of minutes (like it usually does) trying to calculate the size of the library ... so I'm hoping that the photos are somewhere.
    I have 16gb left on my iMac HD & 476gb on the external HD. I have no clue what happened and I had over 160gb in my iPhoto Library.
    Where should I look to try and find the photos if they have just been hidden (I hope) or am I totally out of luck? I have backups of some of the photos but not everything ...
    If anyone can offer some suggestions I'd be very grateful.
    Thanks for your time.
    Take care,
    Brent

    Brent
    You’re having two problems there, I think. One is with the disk. You’re not going anywhere with the other until you can get that to mount.
    Assuming you can, it sounds like the database has been damaged:
    Try these in order - from best option on down...
    1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
    2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords 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.
    3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
    To create and populate a new *iPhoto 08* library:
    Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
    In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
    Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
    Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
    Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
    When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
    In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
    Regards
    TD

  • When I updated to iOS 8.3 I lost all shared photo albums on my iPad Air. Other devises which I shared to still have access to photo albums but my iPad does not, therefore I can no longer add or delete to shared albums. I can create new shared albums.

    When I updated to iOS 8.3 I lost all shared photo albums on my iPad Air. Other devises which I shared to still have access to photo albums but my iPad does not, therefore I can no longer add or delete to shared albums. I can create new shared albums.

    Hello JimS19,
    I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues with your iPad. If you are having issues accessing your Shared Albums from your iPad (but not from your other devices), you may want to double-check your iCloud Photo Sharing configuration as outlined in the following articles, just to make sure it hasn't changed:
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    Get help using iCloud Photo Sharing and shared albums - Apple Support
    Sincerely,
    - Brenden

  • My daughter used her friends apple account to login on her ipad and then the mother of her friend thought it was being hacked and consequently tracked the ipad and my daughter lost all her photos.  Can we get these back?

    My daughter used her friends apple account to login on her ipad and then the mother of her friend thought it was being hacked and consequently tracked the ipad and my daughter lost all her photos.  Can we get these back?

    Your iOS device backup only includes data and settings stored on your device. It doesn’t include data already stored in iCloud, for example contacts, calendars, bookmarks, mail messages, notes, shared photo albums, iCloud Photo Library beta, My Photo Stream, and documents you save in iCloud using iOS apps and Mac apps.

  • My computer crashed and got a new hard drive. I synced my Ipod to the new computer and i lost all my photos. Is there a way i can get them back. I do not know if my cloud worked.??

    My computer crash and i got a new Hard Drive. I synced my Ipod to my Itunes and then lost all my photos that were on my ipod. I do not know if my cloud backed it up. Is there any way i can get my pictures back??????

    - If the photos were synced to the iPod they are gone
    - If they were taken by or saved to the iPod gp to iTunes>Preferences>Devices and look at the date/time of the iPod backup. If it is when you synced then restoring from backup should get the photos back.
    - If you had turned on Settings>iCloud>PhotoStream, then set up PhotoStream on the computer and get the last 30 days of photos from PhotoStream.  You should also be able to get them back by simply turning one Photostream on the restored iPod.

  • HT4623 Recently updated my iphone 5 with IOS7 and lost all my photos - Help!?

    Hi, I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help? I updated my Iphone 5 with this IOS7 update a few days ago and seem to have lost all my photos.  I tried a 'Restore' and then 'Back up from restore' in itunes but the phone kept going round in circles.  It kept asking me [on the iphone] to select either 'Set up as new phone' or 'Restore from icloud' or 'Restore from itunes back up.'  I chose 'Restore from backup' every time and just as I thought it had finished, it asked me to do the whole process over again.  This happened several times.  In the end I chose to 'Set up as new iphone' and then I was able to do a restore but the photo's never appeared.  I did get all my Apps, Music and Contacts back on the phone. 
    I spoke with Apple today and they seem to think I didn't do a backup before updating to IOS7.  Normally my itunes automatically does a sync and a back up when I connect the phone and I will get a warning message to prompt me if not. I've searched for the photo's in my Pictures folder on my lap top but they are not there. I don't use icloud [don't quite understand it but I'm getting there!] and the Apple advisor checked my Apple account and couldn't find any of the photos there.  I've even tried to download a program to scan my phone for lost items but there's still no photos showing up.
    Have I lost these photos for good or is there any way of getting them back?
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    So why isnt this back up for August showing up in the list 'restore from back up'  when I'm connected to my itunes?? 
    Its so frustrating knowing that the majority of the photos I'm missing are actually still there somewhere.  Why do i have to pay another provider to get them back??

  • I was on windows 7 but changed to vista when i sync my iphone i lost all my photos music and apps can i get them back any how???please help me

    i was on windows 7 and i had to format my computer i put windows vista on and when i downloaded itunes and sync my iphone i lost all my photos music and apps that was on my phone,my itunes account says i have got to accounts on two computers?? is there anyway i can get anything back? please help me. i have tried restore to back up but it is the same????

    If they really meant that much to you, they would have been copied off to a computer at the earliest possible opportunity.
    I personally find it amazing that people get so upset when pictures "accidentally" get deleted and then scream about how important they are.  You wouldn't leave important paper work lying around to be lost/damaged/stolen, so why take a chance with important pictures on a device that can so easily be lost/damaged/stolen, or deleted by a child.

  • I synced my iphone 5 with my computer and save all the photos to my phone through itunes. i restored my mac and lost all my photos on the mac but i still have them on my phone. how do i get them on my new mac now?

    i synced my iphone 5 with my computer and save all the photos to my phone through itunes. i restored my mac and lost all my photos on the mac but i still have them on my phone. how do i get them on my new mac now?

    how do i get them on my new mac now?
    Be careful, when you connect the iPhone to your mac, unless you have saved the photos. Synced photos may easily  be accidentally deleted by syncing again. And do not enable iCloud Photo  Library (Beta), that will erase synced photos as well.  Synced Photos are not included in the device backups.
    Set your iTunes Preferences to "Devices > Prevent iPos, iPhones, iPads from syncing automatically".  Otherwise iTunes may launch and sync your iPhone with an empty iPhoto library the moment you connect it.
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  • Updating to iPhoto 9.5.1 lost all my photos. How can I retreive them?

    Updating to iPhoto 9.5.1 lost all my photos. How can I retreive them?
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    Directions for using Time Machine to restore are at the bottom of this article - Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support
    And note you NEVER use the finder to access your photos - you only access them using the proper tools - How to Access Files in iPhoto
    LN

  • HT201317 My phone was stolen and I lost all my photos. Is there any way I can get them back through iCloud as there were lots over 30 days old?

    My iPhone was stolen and I have lost all my photos as some were over 30 days old. Is there anyway I can get these back as they were on iCloud originally but i didn't put them onto my pc! :o( please can somebody help me get these back.

    Unfortunately iCloud only stores photos for 30 days, to give all your devices a chance to download them. After this period they are deleted from Photo Stream and can not be retrieved.

  • HT4623 I just updated my iphone 4s and lost all my photos except in the photo stream.

    I just updated my iphone, but lost all my photos except in the photo stream.... I did back it up before i updated.  Anyone know where they could be?

    /Are you using itunes or icloud backup?  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

  • HT201317 when I back up my iphone i lost all the photos in photo stream, where are they?

    while I was backing up my phone, i lost all my photos in Photo Stream, can't find them anywhere, where have they gone?

    Backuped photos on computer are part of data files and can't be viewed.
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