IPhoto deleted my new pictures

I attached my camera to the computer, as usual, and had downloaded the whole batch and "automatically deleted" the pictures off the camera. All the pictures were showing up in iPhoto and the process was done, but for some reason iPhoto froze. I waited for a bit, then I quit the program and restarted it. When I did, it said something about the last roll of pictures had not been imported, did I want to finish that process, so I checked yes and the pictures showed up but iPhoto froze again.
So I just rebooted the whole computer, and now the last roll of photos are NOWHERE to be found - they're deleted off my camera so I can't get them off again, and I can't find them anywhere on my computer. Where could they be? I really want those pictures!

You can recover them from your camera’s card with an app such as MediaRecover.
It’s never a good idea to allow anything to delete data automatically. You can reformat your card using your camera - takes a couple of seconds.
Regards
TD

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Hello, I just upgraded my computer to Maverick and now iPhoto isnt working and says I need to upload. I have the upload however I was wondering if it would delete all my pictures in the process?

Hello, I just upgraded my computer to Maverick and now iPhoto isnt working and says I need to upload.
Probably the error message was to "upgrade" and not upload, right? Older versions of iPhoto are not compatible with Mavericks, and because your iPhoto library has been created by an earlier version of iPhoto, it needs to be upgraded to a new format, so iPhoto '11 can open it.
Your photos are stored in the iPhoto library and not in the iPhoto application, so upgrading to the new iPhoto version will not delete your photos. But as a precaution make a backup copy of your iPhoto library, before you let the new iPhoto upgrade it, this is best practice when upgrading software - just in case, so you can revert to the previous version if need be.
What is the iPhoto version you are upgrading from? If it is iPhoto '07 or earlier, you need to run iPhoto Library upgrader first, before you can open the library in iPhoto '11, see this document:
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I just syned my new iphone through itunes and it deleted all of my new pictures. is there anyway to get them back?

Do you sync your iPhone with iTunes every once in a while? If yes, there are chances that iTunes has taken last backup of your photos, contacts, etc. that you want back.
Connect your iPhone with your PC. launch iTunes, right click on your device and click on "Restore from Backup". Choose the latest backup to proceed.
If you configured iCloud for backup before you restored your iPhone. Go to Settings -> iCloud - > and login using your Apple ID. Once you've logged in, all the photos, contacts, mail, messages should be back on your iPhone. This may take a while (depending on your network).
Alternatively, if you are only now setting up your iPhone, choose 'Restore from iCloud Backup' in the setup screen. Login with Apple ID and the iPhone will be restored from the latest iCloud backup.

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Before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Basic stuff:
- What version of iPhoto.
- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. What were you doing when the problem arose?
- Did it ever work properly?
- Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
Anything else you can think of that might allow someone else to understand your issue.
With this kind of information somebody can develop a starting point for troubleshooting the issue.
Posts that consist of "iPhoto doesn't work. Help" or "iPhoto won't print" or "Suddenly I have no photos!!!!!!!!!!" mean that any helper is simply guessing. With information, s/he may be able to get your issue resolved sooner.

My Iphoto deleted ALL my pictures after I did an upgrade

After I upgraded Iphoto to 9.6, i could't find my pictures anymore! The only reason i upgraded is because they wouldn't let me
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Do the following on your library:
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THANK YOU LARRY!! I did not realize that once you switch libraries, it kept you in that library until you switch back using the option key. I thought that the iPhoto icon would take me to the new library, and going through finder to the old library name would take me to the old one. I was actually in the new library the whole time, and all of the images I deleted were deleted from there. I just switched back to the old library and all of the photos were still there. I also tried deleting from the old library, which is what I wanted to do, and then switching to the new library and it did not affect the photos there at all. So, this was indeed the answer.
Whew, what a relief. You're a life saver. I might actually be able to get some work done now.
Thanks again so much.
Gail

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Press the option key (alt) key and launch iPhoto and create a new library and import a few photos into it - does that work
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When i delete photos from photo stream in iphoto .. The pictures are still there on my iphone's photo stream. They are both connected to the same i cloud account.. And i cannot update to ios 5.1 on iphone.. Any help ??

1) You asked "Does she need to reconnect to that itunes/computer and if so what do we need to do to remove this folder of pics from her ipod?" Yes, you have to connect the iPod to that computer and go to the Photos pane for the iPod in iTunes and uncheck sync photos and the click on synce/apply. In the future do not check sync photos.
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Create a NEW account for using these instructions. Make sure you follow the instructions. Many do not and if you do not you will not get the None option. You must use an email address that you have not used with Apple before.
Creating an iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store account without a credit card
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- Settings>FaceTime sign out of your ID and sign into hers. Make sure that under You can be reached at only her ID email address is listed
- Settings>iCloud and sign out and sign in with hers
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IPhoto always opens when the iPhone is attached even with no new pictures..

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Yes, let it import the camera roll pictures that are on the iPhone and let it "delete originals" and then let iTunes sync photos and you will have your pics but the camera roll will be available again.
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I have an iMac ...I would like to delete 70,000 pictures from my iphoto 11 trash but it kept crashing ...what to do?

I have an iMac ...I would like to delete 70,000 pictures from my iphoto 11 trash but it kept crashing ...what to do?
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Best guess on this point, though my suggestions may be shot down to the very last ...
If Terence Devlin says I am an idiot, then I will have learned somwthing from his counter-points.
Your HDD may be running low on free space, at least enough free space to process 70K photos in a single shot (an entire library, all associated as one).
You need to see how much free space vs total disk capacity is left.
Then check the size of the files you are trying to "empty trach". If those two numbers are too close, you may need to try some gymnastics.
If you have not used CarbonCopyClone, you may want to get an external drive that is 2x your internal drive. If you have room enough, download (for free) CarbonCopyClone or SuperDuper (your call, both equally good). Make a clone of yuor drive onto this external single-partition drive, which should have more than enough free space without shutting down. You do this by booting holding the "option key" so that all operations are now on the external disk.
Then you can clone this external clone back with an empty trash. Then be more careful about how large the "trash gets", by disassociating bulks such as iPhoto.
This may be an overly dramatic approach and there may be ther ways to bypass "empty trash" usage of system resources. But nothing is destructive on your original disk until the last step of cloning back, and you have a new way of making an "emergency crash" bootable disk if even that does not work. I DO run with a CCC external bootable, by the way, so the "if nothing else" effect has value.

Transferring old/new pictures to iPhoto?

If I have pictures on my digital camera that have already been transferred into iPhoto (I just haven't deleted them off of my camera yet), and I also have NEW pictures on my camera (that haven't been transferred yet), will iPhoto transfer the old pictures so that I have doubles of the same pictures? Or will it only transfer over the new pictures?

I would echo what PhillyPhan posted. When you hit 'import' and iPhoto starts to upload your first duplicate picture a box appears letting you choose whether or not to import the duplicate photo. You can check a checkbox to have your response apply to all duplicates, if you wish. So, why am I ditto-posting?
Two points - I also like sometimes to have different versions of the same photo cropped differently or one pre-modification otherwise since as my wife knows, I'm pretty obsessive about saving stuff. Instead of re-importing I tend, however, to use the 'duplicate' feature within iPhoto. That way the name comes up including 'copy' so it's clearer that I have two (or more) copies and they are next to each other in the roll. Second point is that I tend to have a rule (obsessive, I know) that all pictures are present on at least two hard drives before deleting from the original chip. In other words, I use the feature noted by PhillyPhan a lot. I hope this helps.

I wonder how pro photographers use aperture?I shoot raw and my harddrive is alreay full.I'm not able to import new pictures.Is it ok if i create a vault and delete all my projects in the HD.Can I use an external HD use aperture through the vault??

I wonder how pro photographers use aperture?I shoot raw and my harddrive is alreay full.I'm not able to import new pictures. I don't know what to do. I created a vault. My plan was to create a vault(put all my master files into an external harddrive) and then delete all my projects in my mac pro's harddrive. Is it the correct way to do it ? What should I do if I have thousands of raw files ? How should my workflow be? Can I use an external HD and use aperture through the vault,without keeping the master files on my computer's hard drive?? Or should I shoot raw+jpeg and store raw files in an external backup harddrive and import only jpegs into my aperture library?

There's a bit to learn. It will slowly make sense.
Aperture is an empty field. You're given a tractor and a whole bunch of attachments. What you grow, how, and where, is entirely up to you.
Vaults are for back-up and only for back-up. They have nothing to do with storing your working files.
When your Library outgrows your system drive (and for good performance, you should leave c. 20% of every drive empty), it's time to convert some of your image's Masters from Managed to Referenced. ("Managed" and "Referenced" refer to Masters, not to Libraries.)
There are hundreds of posts in the forum, and several pages in the User Manual on using Masters.
Many people run Aperture with the Library on their system disk, and most (or all) of their images' Masters on external FW drives. This is a good set-up. Note that you will likely have to take steps to back-up the data on your external drives.
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The choice of RAW or RAW+JPEG or JPEG depends on the kind of work you are doing. I capture RAW only -- but I don't do any commercial shoots. Pros on deadlines report that the RAW+JPEG works well for them. Capture JPEG if it saves you time. IMHO, there is not a good reason to shoot JPEG to save space (space is cheap; time expensive).
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I just transfered my Iphoto Library of 40k pictures to an external hard drive. I want to put them on a new desktop, how do I do that?

I just transfered my iphoto library of 40k pictures to an external hard drive. I now want to put them onto a newer desktop. How do I do that?

Drag the iPhoto Library from the External to the Pictures Folder on the newer machine.

HT201269 yesterday i plugged my new Iphone in to my laptop and connected it up with Itunes. Itunes then deleted all my pictures off my new phone and reset my new phone with all the settings of my old phone! how do i get my pictures back?????

yesterday i plugged my new Iphone in to my laptop and connected it up with Itunes. Itunes then deleted all my pictures off my new phone and reset my new phone with all the settings of my old phone! how do i get my pictures back????? Before you say Icloud they are not on there

Sorry you can't. Looks like your phone restore to an older backup.
future reference import your pics to your PC, that way you can always sync it back using itunes
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