I somehow hid every photo in every photo album.

I somehow hid every photo in every photo album. When you scroll the mouse over the albums, it still tells you how many photo's are in it. Once you double click the album, all the photo's show up the same. I somehow set a particular photo to show up instead of the real one. When you doible click on a certain photot, the real one does appear. They are not lost, but a big pain because you don't know what you're clicking on until you do. Any advise? The unhise doesn't work. I also spent 2 hours, draggig each album onto desk top and re introducing it into IPhoto. I shut down IPhoto and when I went back into it, realized it went back to the way it was!!!! Help!

Sounds like the library is damaged. make a temporary backup of the library and launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed to rebuild the library. Select the options to rebuild the small thumbnails .
If that does'nt correct the problem repeat the process but select all option.
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You do know, don't you, that your first post gave us absolutely zero information from which to work with in offering a solution. If you havn't fixed your problem yourself give us the following:
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If you have an iCloud account and if it's activated
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OT

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Garbage in = Garbage Out.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3603
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§s.
Mbonetj wrote:
I have read through the explanation provided but unfortunately you just explained iPhoto. I believe the original question was how do you import photos directly into an album and bypass "EVENTS" and "PHOTOS".
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how do I delete photo ALBUMS from my iPHONE 4?
I sync via icloud and I can not see any folders selected in itunes.
I searched the internet and basically there is no one who has the answer (so far)
to how you delete the iphone photo library and misc albums
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