IPhoto deleting images?

I'm not sure if it was the most recent combined update or something else, but all of my images have been deleted from the library. They are still in the database, but not on the disk and not in the trash. Luckily, I have a recent backup, but I'll still have lost all my thanksgiving and Christmas photos. I did a spotlight search on my disk for images, but no luck...
This is definitely not something I did either on purpose or by mistake (I always check the trash before emptying it).
What is going on here?

first you must have a minimum of 10GB of free disk for the Mac to operate correctly plus any extra space for special programs - do not continue operating until you have adequate space - many bad things can happen if you do not have adequate free disk
as to these photos you may be able to recover them using a program like media recover - http://download.cnet.com/MediaRECOVER/3000-2242_4-42741.html
in the future never allow any computer to automatically delete photos from your camera - import them and properly disconnect your camera and be sure everything is good (I wait for at least one backup cycle) and then use the camera reformat command to erase the media card and renew its format
LN

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Fix #1
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what do i do when iPhoto Deletes my recent pic's all the way to 2010????? i opened the program and it said i needed to update my library otherwise i wouldn't be able to view the images that were not updated…… and now they are gone!!!!!! WHat do i do!!!!!! Is this some type a virus???? my mac is protected!!!!! tried to chat with an IT person but they keep asking if its like a tech problem and it is just iphoto

You should get your keyboard checked as it's repeating on a lot of keys and makes you look silly.
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- What version of iPhoto.
- What version of the Operating System.
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- History: Is this going on long? Has anything been installed or deleted? - Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
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I can not delete images from iphoto. When I try to move pictures to the trash they do not move, and if I try to delete them by pressing "right click> Trash" they do not move! pretty much the only way I can delete pictures from iphoto is to delete the library.
Can anyone help me? I'm about to permanently delete iphoto from my macbook pro.
it is nerve-wracking!

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1 - from the Event or Photos mode: select the photo(s) and use the Delete key to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the iPhoto Trash bin as follows:
2 - from an album, smart album, book, slideshow, card, etc: select the photo(s) and use the key combination of Command+Option+Delete to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the trash bin as above.
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3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
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rix foto
Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
I tried deleting images and thumbnails from the iPhoto folder in "pictures" only to have those show up as empty rectangles in the iPhoto library. If I click on one of the empty rectangles I get all the usual information concerning the missing image in the iPhoto menu box but no image.
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You can try rebuilding your library using iPhoto and if that does not work using iPhoto library manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - but probably you are going to have to start over
Reinstalling iPhoto will not help because you have corrupted the data - the program is fine
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In the future never modify anything in the iphoto library and do not try to delete more than a small number (say 100 ) photos at a time
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LN

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Hello,
I need help on importing iPhoto libraries.
I have 22 iPhoto libraries (iPhoto 8.1.2, 140GB total for all libraries) on an iMac 27, OS 10.6.8, and am importing into Aperture 3.2.2. I imported each iPhoto library separately and rebuilt their thumbnails before each import. It was my understanding that Aperture would import the original iPhoto images as well as the edited images along with metadata. Now I have discovered that in my case it does this sometimes but not always. When it does work Aperture shows two images in a stack, the iPhoto edited image (with the keywords "iPhoto Edited" added, and the iPhoto original image (with the keywords "iPhoto Original" added). This is what I would expect. However, there are many images that I edited in iPhoto that show up in Aperture as just a image, the one that was edited in iPhoto. The iPhoto original image is not there. Aperture has added the keywords "iPhoto Converted" (whatever that means) and "iPhoto Original" (which it is not) to this photo. If I go back to these images in iPhoto and do a revert to original, iPhoto reverts the edit back to the (true) original image. So,both the original and edited images are in iPhoto.
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Hello Leonie,
You were right on - many thanks! I thought I was facing having to start over again.
I have found Apple's Aperture User's Guide very useful but nowhere in its 907 pages have I found your instructions described or "iPhoto Converted" defined.
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