IPHOTO 9 PARTIAL BACKUP
After a bad experience using Time Machine with an external hard drive I decided to back up my photos to 2 DVDs, which I did. I would like to periodically backup only those items in iPhoto that have been added since the original backup, how do I select them and do this?
Backing up to Optical Disks (DVD, CD) is less conveninet. As I say above, they're on the way out. Soon, most Macs won't have an optical drive. That means you'll have to purchase an external burner to keep backing up plus to access your back up if you need it.
For the same cost - or less - you can purchase a couple of USB Hard Disks and make a couple of back ups - these back ups can be automated, updated easily and restored much more quickly.
Possible apps:
ChronoSync
DejaVu
Super Duper
Sync!Sync!Sync!
Search on MacUpdate or the App Store
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How do I restore partial backup of File Vault protected files?
Here's what happened.
Used TM on an external drive not big enough to do a full backup of my internal drive (with File Vault protected home folder), so I excluded everything but my Documents and Photos folders. I saw TM working, I could browse through old backups in TM and locate files. I know the home directory won't copy when you are logged in and FV turned on, and I never had the TM drive attached when I was logged off, but I didn't backup my home folder, just files inside it and like I said, I was able to view the files in TM.......before my internal drive died.
So now I got my laptop running again and can't restore from TM because I didn't have a full backup. And while I can open TM now and scroll back to previous backup dates, there's nothing in my old users directory except some Acrobat user data junk. I've looked at the directories in Finder and don't see any of the sparse bundle (?) files I've seen in other posts.
6000 photos. Gone.
Hundreds of dollars of iTunes downloads. Gone.
Please tell me there's a way to recover this. I don't care as much about the music, that's replaceable, but I really want to get those photos back. Is it possible? Was TM tricking me into thinking my photos were backed up when they weren't? I have to be missing something; I need help from anyone that can. It doesn't seem right to show me the files in TM if they really hadn't been backed up.stephenberk wrote:
I never logged out, only restarted after Software Update.
As I noted, TM only backs up a FV User folder after you log out, giving you a notice that a backup is about to start. If you never logged out and have never seen this notice then you have no backup of your FV folder.
The data may still be available on your HD and can be recovered with software and/or commercial data-recovery businesses, but being encrypted makes it much more difficult.
When I scrolled back through my backups, I could browse the Photos and Documents. I prevented TM from backing up Library and Public and couldn't browse those. Where are those partial backups? I feel beyond misled by Apple. How could I have seen (and still see the dates in TM the backups were done) all those things if it hadn't actually backed it up? I could have easily copied my files manually onto the firewire drive (as I was doing before I started using TM). But then I had to delete those backups to run TM on it. Unbelievable. This almost seems criminal. -
Hallo developers.
We are testing the partial backup procedure and we have some doubts.
We would like to know how the partial backup is made consistent; if during the operation of backup (the copy of the jdb files) the application writes to the last jdb file after a commit is there any problem of consistency?
In the guide is written clearly that you can copy the files during database operations: when you open the environment from the backup is the new environment reconstructed from the last chekpoint?
Kind regards
MassimoHi Massimo,
We would like to know how the partial backup is made
consistent; if during the operation of backup (the
copy of the jdb files) the application writes to the
last jdb file after a commit is there any problem of
consistency?JE uses a log based storage system. Once a record is written to the log, it is never overwritten again -- inserts, updates, and deletes are only ever appended to the log. In addition, there are never any "holes" in the log file. Therefore, if you copy log files from the environment directory in lexicographic order (essentially numerical hex order), and you copy the sectors in those files in ascending order, you will always have a consistent backup.
For example, if you have files 000000ab.jdb through 000000af.jdb and you copy them in order (ab, ac, ad, ae, af) you will have a consistent backup snapshot of your environment. If you want to do an incrental backup on top of that backup, then you should copy any files that have been modified since the last backup was started. In this example, if 000000af had been modified (as it probably would have been since it was the last file, but probably not completely full when the backup finished), you would copy that file and any ones after that (e.g. b0, b1, ...). When you restore, you would take the most recent (and most full) copy of af (as well as all the other files).
When the recovered databases are opened, JE runs a recovery (as usual) and makes the transactional state consistent. So if your backup included records from a transaction had not yet committed, and the backup did not copy the commit record, that transaction would be rolled back at recovery time.
Now what causes a problem is if the cleaner is running. I won't go into a lengthy discussion of it here, but you can read about it at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/je/index.html
under the javadoc for com.sleepycat.je.util.DbBackup.
The net result is that you should use the DbBackup utility class for your backups.
In the guide is written clearly that you can copy the
files during database operations: when you open the
environment from the backup is the new environment
reconstructed from the last chekpoint? Correct. Because the log file is append only, when you copy files you will see a consistent, although possibly not most-recent, state of the database. By the way, a checkpoint is really just a performance improvement -- it is possible that there are no checkpoints in the database to recover from, but JE will still be able to recover the Environment.
I hope this is useful.
Regards,
Charles Lamb -
HT3275 Time Machine Performs Partial Backup
I am using the Time Capsule as my backup drive. It stopped backing up about 3 weeks ago (returns immediately to the "waiting to backup" state). I deleted my hard drive image on the time capsule, and it backs up about 25 GB before going to "waiting to back up" again. Further attempts to backup show only about 300 MB of progress before it goes back to "waiting." I've tried partitioning, rebooting... pretty much everything I've found online so far. Everything leads to the same result: a partial backup of about 25 GB.
Anybody had this problem before?It is likely something is corrupted.
How old is the TC?
Load the widget so you can find log messages from TM to find out what is happening.. TM doesn't always give rational explanations.
A1 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Also try a reset of TM.. A4 and certainly a drive verify. A5.
Did you upgrade or clean install ML onto the Laptop??
Wireless is a real issue if you upgrade installed.
Try doing the backup by ethernet.
Make sure the TC is not in Join a wireless network mode otherwise that won't work. But you should if all else fails extract the TC from the network.. do a full reset and try again completely isolated by ethernet only. When you do this turn off wireless so only ethernet is working. -
When I try to view my iPhoto backup I get the error: "The folder “iPhoto Library backup 1/2007” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents."
I tried opening the Get Info box and changing my access from no access to read only, authenticated with current and old admin passwords but access does not change.
Help!In that case reset the ownership and permissions on the iPhoto Library as follows:
1 - download and launch BatChmod .
2 - drag the iPhoto Library into the BatChmod window.
3 - set the ownership and privileges settings to that shown in this screenshot:
Click to view full size
4 - launch iPhoto and see if that helped.
OT -
Partial Backup in Time Machine - How to Get Files?
Hi everone:
So, while I was backing up my HD for the first time (I know, I know) the system froze, and now the original hard drive is kaput. The backup did, however, get about 2/3 of the way through, and I can see the "in process" time machine file, and even browse its contents. I can't, however, copy the contents onto my new hard drive. I get unexpected error -1426.
So, is there a way to get these files off the external drive and onto my new hard drive? I can even use the files in the partial backup, but I can't copy and paste them to the HD.
Any ideas?
ThanksYou may be out of luck.
First, do a +Repair Disk+ on the TM drive via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
Then try this: sign on as the user you're normally going to be using on your Mac. Via the Finder, select Get Info on, say, a file in the first level under your Home Folder on your TM drive (like Documents).
Assuming it shows you don't have access, click the padlock at the bottom, then enter your Administrator's password. Then at the lower left, click the plus sign.
That should bring up a screen for you to +Select a new User or Group.+ Select your user and click Select. That should give you Read rights to the folder, and a small box where you can change that to +Read and Write.+
Then click the "gear" icon and select +Apply to enclosed items.+
That should allow you to copy the folder to your hard drive. If it's a large folder, it may take some time, so be patient.
Repeat on whatever folders you want. For your Applications folder, however, just copy any 3rd-party apps, as you should already have a whole new set of Apple apps. If you'd installed any plug-ins, move the new app elsewhere and copy the one from TM. It may or may not work. For any of your 3rd-party apps, you'll probably have to re-enter license codes.
Whatever was being backed-up when your HD failed is likely a partial copy, so although you might be able to copy what's there, it's likely incomplete and may cause most any kind of failure, including a system crash. -
Repeat: My time machine back up freezes at a partial backup. I keep cancelling and restarting a new back up and it will again freeze up at a slightly different point. Last freeze shows 485bytes of 246.16 GB. My last backup was Sept. 1 !!!!! Help!!!!
Also: am running OSX 10.6.8 on an iMac8,1
TimeMachine had be working well on a 1TB WD MyBook Ext. H.D. .
QUESTION: ANY SUGGESTIONS OR SOLUTIONS?????See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.
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Photos missing from iPhoto/TM backup but with a twist.....
So, there is a challenging twist associated with this case of missing photos and I hope an expert can provide some advice. Note: This is not related to upgrading from iPhoto '09 to '11 thank goodness!
Here is the story in condensed form, with additional details below:
MBP stolen but backed up with TM
Used TM on the replacement MBP to browse backup of iPhoto backup of stolen MBP
Restored iPhoto library to new MBP
Open iPhoto on new MBP and browse library
Everything looks OK except *FIVE* Events which show in the Event viewer as blank grey squares. However, the Events have the correct titles and show the correct number of pictures in brackets in the title. In addition, using the trackpad to scroll over the Event there are no thumbnails visible. If I click on the Event all the photos are greyed out but they do have the correct titles and keywords below the grey boxes. If I click on an individual photo I get a black exclamation mark in a grey circle. Interestingly the LAST IMPORT folder in iPhoto DOES show the thumbnails for ALL the missing pictures, all arrange with the correct Event titles. Of course, clicking on any individual picture gives me the same exclamation mark detailed above.
After reading these support forums I have tried the following:
1) Viewed package contents ---> the blank Events DO NOT show up as folders in the Finder window
2) Used COMMAND & OPTION to launch iPhoto and checked the following boxes in the REBUILD DIALOG BOX: rebuild small thumbnails/rebuild all of the photos' thumbnails/recover orphaned photos/examine and repair permissions ---> Issue persists
3) Download iPhoto Manager and tried EXTRACTING all the photos from the library --> Photos from missing events still not showing up. Not really surprising given that the VIEW PKG. CONTENTS in #1 above didn't show them either.
4) Used iPhoto Manager to REBUILD LIBRARY --> still doesn't show them
5) Used TM to browse the backup directly --> missing photos have blank placeholders only.
It appears for what ever reason the photos have been deleted from the backup. I say "deleted", as opposed to "not backup up", because iPhoto has the remnants of the photos (i.e, Events, thumbnails, titles, keyword, etc.). Any suggestions on how to possibly recover these missing pictures. How about the thumbnail versions at least, even in their their low resolution form. Although, I admit I don't know how/where thumbnails are dealt with in iPhoto as they don't seem to show up in the Library package contents.
Additional info:
OSX 10.7.5, iPhoto '09 is version 8.1.2, and iPhoto library is 75GB, 139 Events, 28,000 pics
The day before the MBP was stolen I downloaded a number of photos and did some editing. That night plugged the MBP in and noticed that the Time Machine did a number of backups through the night, although the iPhoto library seems untouched but can't be sure. The following morning, the computer was used for a few hours and thus had plenty of time to complete any backups necessary.
The *FIVE* Events that are affected seem to be the most recent ones, worked on the night before the MBP was stolen.I cannot say for certian but it is highly likley that YES, when the person finished editing they just closed the lid of the computer and didn't actually quit iPhoto. So would this explain why there are fragmenst of them in the backup (i.e. Events, keywords, thumbnails, etc.) but not the actual image files? Any way I can at least save the extremely low res thumbnail versions?
I'm also going to try Data Rescue on the camera memory card to try and recover them that way.
Thanks. -
Iphoto 8 backup is black in Time Machine
I have a terrible problem: imported pictures after February 09 disappeared in iPhoto AND also backups earlier than today in Time Machine. Is it possible that the pictures have vanished? What can I do?
Thanks for your help!you might try posting this in the iPhoto forum too - I have not turned Time Machine on yet so can not help but the iPhoto forum has great resources available -- http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1192&start=0
Larry Nebel -
IPhoto album backups and duplicate photos
Hello,
After uprading to iPhoto 6, I went through the whole library and put it all into about 15 separate albums. I've only got about 2000 photos, but it was still a lot of work. After I had done this, I started making a calendar, which for some strange reason make iPhoto practically refuse to run, so I had to re-install. (ther people on discussions have had the same problem, and the common factor seems to be trying to make a calendar).
After the re-install, I re-imported all my photos back into iPhoto. I'm not going to try and make a calendar straight away, as before I do, I really want to back up my Albums.
Does a straight complete backup of the iPhoto library folder back this up for me? If not, can anyone tell me how this can be achieved?
Secondly, after re-importing all my photos, the photos that I had previously edited now are present in two forms; the original and the edited one. Unfortunately it is too late to re-import my library having deleted the folder "Originals". I didn't think of it at the time!
Does anyone know of a way to delete duplicate photos, or how I could at least get them all side by side, as a lot are spaced out and therefore it can be hard to compare and see if they are duplicated.
Any ideas would be hugely appreciated, as this is really stopping me using iPhoto that much at the moment.
Many many thanks for any help, it will be extremely gratefully received!!
Regards,
Adam DaltonHi Adam,
All you need to do is backup the entire iPhoto Library folder. This will preserve everything. If for some reason you need to use this backup then you would place it in the Pictures folder and launch iPhoto. iPhoto will launch and open the library. there is no need to import all your photos again.
If you have an iPhoto Library folder already in the Pictures folder, but you want to replace it or it is damaged, then drag that folder to the desktop and drag the backup into the Pictures folder, then launch iPhoto.
Bottom line...back up the iPhoto Library folder in the Pictures folder. do it often.
As far as the duplicates you have now, do you have your view set to film rolls? I would think since the film roll name is the same they would be next to each other. How about putting the name of the roll in the search field? You should get the contents of both modified and Originals from the rolls. You can then delete what you don't want.
Backing up your iPhoto Library
1. Burn the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder to a CD or DVD
This method will give you a burned iPhoto Library folder that can be copied back to your computer to replace a damaged library. You can also use this method to backup an old library when you want to create a new Library to use as your current library.
insert a blank CD into your internal or external CD-RW drive and copy the iPhoto library to the CD icon on your desktop. When you drag the CD icon to the Trash/Eject button in the Dock, you are given the option to burn the CD. Click Burn and the CD is created. To burn a DVD backup of your digital images, use a DVD and a SuperDrive-equipped Mac
The easiest way to burn an iPhoto Library folder in the Finder that is larger than 4.7 gig to fit on one DVD is to burn sections of the folder.
Drag the iPhoto Library folder to the desktop
Double click the folder to open it.
Drag each Year folder to the desktop.
You should be left with the iPhoto Library folder containing all the data files, and the Year folders.
Combine whatever year folders that amount closest to a DVD burn size on one DVD. Make sure that you have burned all the Year folders, then the iPhoto Library folder with all the data files.
If you ever need to use this backup, insert the DVDs into your computer and copy the folders to the desktop. Put all the Year folders back into the iPhoto Library folder. Then put the iPhoto Library folder back into the Pictures folder.
2. Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library to an external drive formated for a Mac. Do not use this as your only back up as the external can also go bad.
3. Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library to your iPod in disk mode
4.Creating your own CDs and DVDs for viewing in iPhoto
This method is a great way to back up Albums of older photos or even your entire library if it is small enough to fit on a DVD. This method will give you a library that will mount within iPhoto in the source column to be viewed. To import any images from this library they need to be dragged into your library in the source column.
If you just want to backup the images in your library:
1) Within iPhoto select the images, albums or rolls you want to backup. Go to Share>Export and export them to a newly created folder on the desktop. Follow the directions in the next link.
Creating a CD or DVD to be viewed in Windows or by a photo processing company -
Restoring iPhoto 5 backup to iPhoto 6
Hello,
I made a backup (version 3.0) of my iPhoto 5 library and now i've installed iPhoto 6 and restored my pictures from the 2-dvd backup. However, none of the files show up in iPhoto, but they are on my hard drive in the pictures folder.
How can i get my normal folder structure (and pictures) to show up in iPhoto 6?Were all your photos in albums?
Did you have any photos in more than one album?
You could try iPhoto Album extractor.
iPhoto Album Extractor
Or you can create a new library route....I have not tested how this is done for iPhoto 6.
Close iPhoto
Rename your messed up iPhoto Library to "iPhoto Library_old"
Drag this library to your desktop
Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
This is the window you will get
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library
Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
Go to File>add to library
Navigate to the old library on your desktop and highlight it in the window, then click the "open" button.
iPhoto will start importing the images from your old library
This is what to expect:
Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
Once all you images have been imported, check through the library and make sure everything looks ok.
You can now start making your Albums, and do your keywords or any other organizational steps.
You can also delete the old library on the desktop.
It is also a good time to backup this new library to CD/DVD by burning the iPhoto LIbrary folder in the Finder, or copying the iPhoto Library folder to an external drive formatted for Macs, or copying the iPhoto LIbrary folder to an iPod.
Good luck! -
Macbook pro iphoto 6.0.2 won't recognize iphoto library (backup from DVD)
Just purchased a Macbook Pro with iphoto 6.0.2. Had a G4 powerbook with iphoto 4.0.2 and backed up that iphoto library to 2 DVD's. I loaded the photos and albums from the 2 DVDs to the iphoto library on the macbook. when I launch the iphoto 6.0.2 it does not load any photos and states there are no photos.
Is this an issue of the DVD back up being made under iphoto 4.0.2? Is there another way to back them up if it is....any help would be appreciated....thanks in advance...-DHi kaiman,
I have all the advise in one post here (including Old toad's)so as not to confuse you.
Backing up your iPhoto Library
1. Burn the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder to a CD or DVD
This method will give you a burned iPhoto Library folder that can be copied back to your computer to replace a damaged library. You can also use this method to backup an old library when you want to create a new Library to use as your current library.
insert a blank CD into your internal or external CD-RW drive and copy the iPhoto library to the CD icon on your desktop. When you drag the CD icon to the Trash/Eject button in the Dock, you are given the option to burn the CD. Click Burn and the CD is created. To burn a DVD backup of your digital images, use a DVD and a SuperDrive-equipped Mac
The easiest way to burn an iPhoto Library folder in the Finder that is larger than 4.7 gig to fit on one DVD is to burn sections of the folder.
For an iPhoto 5 Library:
Drag the iPhoto Library folder to the desktop
Double click the folder to open it.
Drag each Year folder to the desktop.
You should be left with the iPhoto Library folder containing all the data files, and the Year folders.
Combine whatever year folders that amount closest to a DVD burn size on one DVD. Make sure that you have burned all the Year folders, then the iPhoto Library folder with all the data files.
If you ever need to use this backup, insert the DVDs into your computer and copy the folders to the desktop. Put all the Year folders back into the iPhoto Library folder. Then put the iPhoto Library folder back into the Pictures folder.
For an iPhoto 6 Library:
Do almost the same thing except there are three main folders to backup now. the Data, Originals, and Modified. Then the iPhoto Library folder and all the data files within it. It might get too confusing so it might be better to get disc spanning software.
You can also check out applications for disc spanning:
Disc-spanning software
DropDMG
Toast
Dragon Burn 4
Retrospect Express-comes with some external drives
Retrospect for Macintosh Desktop Edition
2. Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library to an external drive formated for a Mac. Do not use this as your only back up as the external can also go bad.
3. Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library to your iPod in disk mode
4.Creating your own CDs and DVDs for viewing in iPhoto
This method is a great way to back up Albums of older photos or even your entire library if it is small enough to fit on a DVD. This method will give you a library that will mount within iPhoto in the source column to be viewed. To import any images from this library they need to be dragged into your library in the source column.
If you just want to backup the images in your library:
1) Within iPhoto select the images, albums or rolls you want to backup. Go to Share>Export and export them to a newly created folder on the desktop. Follow the directions in the next link.
Creating a CD or DVD to be viewed in Windows or by a photo processing company
1.. If you backed up the entire iPhoto Library by burning within iPhoto or burning the folder in the Finder, make sure the burned copy is a good working copy before you delete the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder. You delete the iPhoto Library in the finder by dragging it to the trash when iPhoto is closed. When you next launch iPhoto it will create a new empty library for you to start anew.
2. If you burned just the images, be aware that that is all you are archiving. No metadata will travel with the images such as comments, keywords, etc.
You can then delete those images within iPhoto by highlighting them and hitting the delete key, then empty iPhoto's trash. Do this often and in groups so iPhoto will not choke on too many images.
And here is the info for transferring a library from one Mac to another:
Copy iPhoto Library folder from one Mac to another
-If the library is small enough, burn the ENTIRE iPhoto Library folder to CD/DVD.
Drag the iPhoto Library folder from the CD/DVD to your Pictures folder of the iMac.
-If the computers are networked, copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder of the other Mac.
-If you have an iPod, copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library folder to the iPod. Connect the iPod to the other computer and copy the iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder of the other Mac.
-If you have a firewire cable, copy the ENTIRE iPhoto LIbrary folder to the Pictures folder of the other Mac
Things to keep in mind:
-If the usersnames are different you might have to set the permissions on the iPhoto Library folder to Read/Write for the new user. Check the "apply to enclosed items" at the bottom of the "get info" window.
-If there is another iPhoto Library folder on the other Mac, change it's name so it doesn't get replaced by the iPhoto Library folder you are copying into the Pictures folder...or....drag it to another place on your hard drive.
Now that the library is in the Pictures folder, launch iPhoto and it will open the library. If the library you moved to the new Mac was created on an older version of iPhoto, iPhoto will tell you the library needs to be upgraded. Let iPhoto do the upgrade. -
I have passed the mark of putting in one dvd and clicking burn. Now it says it won't fit on one dvd, however when i deselect a couple of albums so it will fit....the burn zips done in one second and the disc is empty.
Is there way to get it backed off straight from iphoto and have the program "ask" for the next disc....so everything is clean and accounted for?
All the subdirectories make me dizzy in the iphoto folder.Thomas:
When you use the Share->Burn Disk option you're burning a mini library to that disk, complete with thumbnail, modified, original and database files. Those disks can then be mounted at a later date and viewed via iPhoto and copy those files back into the library if necessary. So the size you see displayed by iPhoto is smaller than what actually gets burned.
If you want to burn just the original files you need to select them and then use the File->Export->File Export method as shown here. You should export them to a folder on the desktop and then burn that folder to disk using the Finder.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto 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.
G5 Dual Core 2GHz, 2G RAM, 250G HD; G4 Dual 1Ghz, 1.5G RAM, 80G HD, Mac OS X (10.4.8) 22 LCD Display, 200G & 160G FW HDs, Canon S400, i850 & LIDE 50, Epson R200 -
After a disc crash I had to reinstall the OS and various apps. I restored my files from a backup done with Retrospect. I was able to retrieve all of the iPhoto images in the Library but I haven't been able to find any of the individual albums I had previously created. It would be tedious to redo the albums so the question is whether they exist somewhere in the back up and under what names. Any body have a clue?
Thanks.
G5 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8) iPhoto 5.0.4Hi dnomyar,
There are no Album folders of photos. The album info was in data files.
If you had a backup of the entire iPhoto Library folder, you just need to copy the entire iPhoto Library folder into your Pictures folder. Launch iPhoto, and everything will be as you left it, albums and all. -
Hi, I pretend to reinstall the whole OS and would like to do a backup of all my albums, there's a simple way to do that and, after, import them?
Thanks!chapita
Simply make a copy of the iPhoto Library Folder in your Pictures folder. Then after you've re-installed, just put the iPhoto Library Folder right back in the same place.
This will back up your photos, database files etc., which contain all your albums and other data.
Regards
TD
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