IPhoto froze deleting photos off camera, files are empty
Hello,
I came home from New York and imported all my photos. When it was done I told it to delete the originals - the card was nearly full. I got a spinning beach ball and the program froze. Thinking it'd be much faster to simply format the card from the camera, I force-quit iPhoto and formatted the camera.
The next day, after taking a bunch more pictures at the 4th of July Fireworks, I tried to open my photos in iPhoto, and found that approximately half my photos were present. Further investigation inside the "Library" package revealed that they were there, but all files, save for 14, were listed as "Zero KB".
I suppose I was stupid for having such a lack of patience and I should have let it finish, but is there anything I can do to get my photos back? I've already grieved for them (the good ones were the Empire State Building and the Cloisters, which I'll miss dearly).
Any ideas or help are absolutely welcome. Thanks!
Some people have found the photos in the import (or importing) folder in the iPhoto library - go to your pictures folder and right click (control click) on the iPhoto library and choose show package contents from the menu that appears. Look (do not touch - if you change anything inside the iPhoto library you risk corrupting the library and losing more data) and see if there is a folder named import or importing - is there is drag it to the desktop and look inside - if your photos are there you can import them otherwise something like media recovery is your only chance
In the future it would be good to use a USB card reader to import your photos and after they are imported and checked then format your card in your camera. This eliminates problems like you had and insures that the card is correctly formatted.
LN
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