IPad Photo library pics not on MAC

At my wits end with this! Photo library using 1.6GB of info on my Ipad. Trying to delete pics from IPad but when I try to sync with ITunes to delete them - the pics don't show up as being on my IPad or in ITunes. These pictures were all originally imported to my IPad from a camera. They are safely tucked away on my computer in a separate folder in MY PICTURES so I no longer need them on my Ipad. How do I get the darn things off my IPad to free up much needed space? Thanks.

Well like I said, the photos will not show up in iTunes because that's not how it works, but are the photos actually still on the iPad?
Did you try using the second method that I described? Open the album and tap on the edit button, select the photos that you want to delete and then tap the red delete button?
Have you considered importing the photos again and when given the option to delete the photos from the iPad, choose that option and delete them? I'm not sure how it works on a PC, but when you import photos on a Mac, you have the option to delete them from the device after importing them. You can always delete that new picture folder on the PC after you import them again.

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1. No, you haven't.
2. Back up the iPhoto library(this can be done through Time Machine or by dragging it to a drive, partition, or disk image formatted as Mac OS Extended) and then click Upgrade.
3. Aside from Time Machine and drag-copying items from your home folder, programs such as the Disk Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner, and SuperDuper can make backups.
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I recently upgraded my mac desktop to oxs 10.9.2 and when I open my i photo library there are no pictures. The message is "Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iPhoto after the upgrade.Scared to hit upgrade!!!

I recently upgraded my mac desktop to oxs 10.9.2 and when I opened i photo, it says the photo livrary needs to be upgraded to work with this version of I photo. Where are my pictures? The message is "Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of Iphoto after the upgrade. The upgrade process for very large libraries may take an hour or more to complete". I'm scared to upgrade!! Does this mean my photos can't be read once I upgrade? Where are my pictures?

First have you backed up your computer, if you have and your iPhoto library is in the back up you have nothing to be concerned about. If you are not using at least Time Machine to back up your system then you should be concerned because well frankly that is simply bad computing practice and you risking all of your data.
As for the message you received all that means is your system was using an earlier version of iPhoto with the version of OS X you previously had installed and now that you have updated to 10.9.2 (Mavericks) your version of iPhoto has also upgraded and needs to get ready to import all of your pictures. If you have backup then you should be confident the upgrade will go through smoothly, Apple generally has very good instructions and will not give bad advice, second guessing them may be cautious but is generally unnecessary.

Transitioning photo library from PC to Mac/iPhoto

I am just starting to acclimate myself to a new Macbook Pro, and I'm looking for suggestions on how to handle my photo library from my old PC desktop. Because of the limited storage on my laptop, my plan is to keep my photo library on an external hard drive.
All of the photos on my old PC are currently organized by year, then by month (a decade's worth of photos), and I'd love to take advantage of this switch to use keywords, faces, and other features of iPhoto for more specific tagging of my photos. But, due to my unfamiliarity with the way iPhoto handles its file structure, I'm a bit hesitant to dive in just yet. Does anyone have suggestions for how I should go about moving my photo library over to the Mac?
For reference, I'm using Mac OS X 10.9.1.

As well as changing from PC to Mac, you're also now thinking of changing the paradigm of how you manage your Photos. What does that mean?
Well this is file organisation:
All of the photos on my old PC are currently organized by year, then by month
You could use precisely the same structure to organise word processing documents, or powerpoints or whatever.
But that file is not your Photo. It is just a container - a box - for your Photograph. Think of it this way: In my iTunes Library I have a file called 'Let_it_Be_The_Beatles.mp3'. So what is that, exactly? It's not the song. The Beatles never wrote an mp3. They wrote a tune and lyrics. They recorded it and a copy of that recording is stored in the mp3 file. So the file is just a container for the recording. That container is designed in a specific way attuned to the characteristics and requirements of the data. Hence, mp3.
Similarly, that Jpeg is not your photo, it's a container designed to hold that kind of data. iPhoto is all about the data and not about the container. So, regardless of where you choose to store the file, iPhoto will manage the photo, edit the photo, add metadata to the Photo but never touch the file. If you choose to export - unless you specifically choose to export the original - iPhoto will export the Photo into a new container - a new file containing the photo.
The difference shows best in iPhoto, where you can search on the same things as the file manager, plus a whole lot more, you can organise in many, many ways, effectively and efficiently.
As you want to store your photos on an external then you need a HD, connected to your Mac via USB or Thunderbolt and formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
On that you create a LIbrary and import your Photos to it.
(And you'll need a second one (at least) for back up.)
You can work iPhoto in two modes: one it manages the files and the other you do. Use the first.
For more on iPhoto and file management see this User Tip:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6361
I strongly urge you to import a couple of hundred images to iPhoto and explore first. It's a good app, but it's not for everyone. So get some in and see what it does (and doesn't).
As for organising: Here's a canned answer that might suggest some possibilities:
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively. I title the pics broadly.
I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 50k library in a couple of seconds.
So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
File -> New Smart Album
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Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
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In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.
Finally, as an FYI:
For help accessing your photos in iPhoto see this user tip:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4491

Your photo library was not found. Do you want to find your iPhoto Library?

Your photo library was not found. Do you want to find your iPhoto Library?
Do you want to create or find?
This is the message I get when I try to open iphoto.
1. this is the first time since I've used iphoto that this has happened.
2. I would like to know why.
3. I am not sure which choice to make.
4. recent changes involving photos would be deleting several photos....I used a program called Grand Perspective and began to delete photos from there
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I would like to learn more about 'libraries'
Step one is to learn about iPhoto - it is not a photo viewer like Picasa - it is a photo manager and uses an SQL database - the content and structure of this database are critical (as with any database application) to the operation of iPhoto - any changes made to either the content or structure of the database using external programs including (especially) the finder can corrupt the database and cause you to lose data
recent changes involving photos would be deleting several photos....I used a program called Grand Perspective and began to delete photos from there
This is how you destroyed your iPhoto library and made it unusable
As to space - the iPhoto database contains at a minimum a copy of the original photo (in the default and recommended operating environment) and a small thumbnail. When any modification to the photo is made a modified version is created so there might be three versions (no duplicates) of a photo within the iPhoto library - none of them are extraneous and none of them can be removed without corrupting the iPhoto library
Once a photo is imported into iPhoto (assuming default settings which are strongly recommended) the original source photo outside of iPhoto can be archived, deleted or otherwise handles - iPhoto has no further need for it.
The iPhoto library can be located on an external hard drive so long as that hard drive is always available when iPhoto is running
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As to your immediate problem - you have destroyed you iPhoto library by deleting files from it. If you want to use iPhoto you will have to start over - find the originals folder within the iPhoto library and launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and create a new library - import the photos from the originals folder into iPhoto and do not go inside the iPhoto library or modify the contents of the iPhoto library in the future.
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Hi Everyone
First of all let me tell you i'm giving my very first steps con Mac after years on Windows. Although everything is way better than expected, i'm having troubles managing photos between my iPhone 5S, iCloud and my brand new MacBook Air.
For a few months I've been syncing my iPhone photos with iCloud keeping full versions on the cloud optimising iPhone storage. Now i'm using iPhoto on my Mac but i find no way of view my whole iCloud library. Just a few photos (the last ones I took). When i log on to icloud.com i see all the pictures.
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Twas quite a hassle if I am honest which was eventually resolved but I don't feel qualified to help anyone through the process as it required a trip to my local apple store and a genius bar appointment.
Personally, I would do anything like moving pictures out of folders etc. Certainly not creating a new users. i don't think that is an elegant solution
Try the following which MAY just about rescue the situation for you but if they don't work you may have to do something more drastic.
(1) Holding down Cmd & Alt at the same time, start iPhoto by clicking on the iPhoto icon. From the resulting menu choose Rebuild photo library by selecting all available options given to you and then pressing REBUILD!
If that doesn't work
(2) Fire up Utilities. Go to migration assistant. Chose 'From another Time machine back-up'. Open the 'Users' option that comes up next and from there select Pictures, then uncheck everything else like Applications etc (you don't want to do a full migration of everything) and click go.
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This may take a while. Once completed, re-open iPhoto.
And that should (I stress should) cure it.
Good luck.

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