Iphoto quit -- All Albums are gone

I organized all my photos into Albums. When I was working in iphoto, the program quit. I went back into iphoto and my albums are gone? Any hope of getting them back

Unfortunately the only way to save that information is to make a backup of the entire iPhoto library. If your hard drive has sufficient space without impinging on the recommended 15% or 10G minimum free space, then that's what you can do. Then using a backup application, I like Synk, you can backup from folder A ( the original library) to folder B (the duplicate copy) frequently and all you'll be copying are any newly added files or any changed files. Takes very little time. A good reason for this approach is detailed in A Tale of Woe and a Lesson to be Learned. It applies no matter what platform you might be on.
OT

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Not sure why they did that, surely it makes more sense to place all the albums directly under the album tab instead of a sub folder... but hey, whats an extra click...
Albums in Photos are not the same as Events in iPhoto. For those users that had dozens or even hundreds of Events, it's a blessing that Apple grouped them into a single folder. Gives the users the opportunity to organize (or delete) them as they wish.

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no I do not have a bckup

What size if the Library as indicated in the Finder? If it's large enough to be holding your photos then your photos are probably still in there but the library is damaged. If the tags you used indicate iLife 11 then try the following:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
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Click on the Add Library button,
navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
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If the above falils to recover your photos continue with this:
Starting over from scratch with new library
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3. Drag the subfolders of the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from the open iPhoto Library package into the open iPhoto window a few at a time.
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OT

Imported photos, transferred some photos to new album, deleted originals, ones in album are gone. How do I retreive them?

Imported photos, transferred some photos to new album, deleted originals, ones in album are gone. How do I retreive them?

Check the iPhoto trash - if they are there select them and right click and restore to library
If they are not there then they are gone
You really should take the time to learn how to use iPhoto - photos exist only in one place - in your events - albums, keepsakes, etc are just pointers to the actual photos in the event - deleting from an album does just that - deletes from the album - deleting from an event removes the photo and therefore all albums, keepsakes, etc
watch the videos as a starter - iPhoto help menu ==> iPhoto help and watch the video
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Hi were you able to resolve yours?
I was very worried losing all my medical stuff on my iPad Air 2, plus i have nothing to use for the next day! So i have to try all the possible things i read on the internet!! And this worked on my part (Thank God, and thank you Google)
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Albums are gone after upgrade from iPhoto 2 to iPhoto5.0.4?

Are you kidding me? I have read everything I can get my hands on, and looked at every 3rd party software. We have over 3.5 GB of photos that I was hoping to import from an older computer. Everytime I tried to import them, I lose all of the album information. I have tried to rebuild the iphoto library. I have checked the permissions of the iphoto library I copied to the desktop. I have tried to open iphoto.db within iphoto (says iphoto does not recognize the file).
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I know it is frustrating when you do everything right and it still comes out wrong.
I find out that the times when things don't upgrade to perfection is when going from a version 2 library to a couple of versions up.
I went from 1 to 2 to 4 to 5 (there was no 3 ) and my albums were saved each time.
If Albums is the most important thing to you to keep I would suggest making sure every image on the older iPhoto library is in an album. then make sure you don't have images in more than one album.
Next export each album to a folder on the desktop with the name of the album.
Drag those folders in a new library just created open iPhoto viewing window.
Now you albums will be imported as rolls, which can easily be made into albums again.
-Another thing to try and I don't know how keywords transfer in an upgrade, so this is a maybe too:
In the old library, give every image in an album a keyword pertaining to the name of the album. Keywords should be short and you can even give each album a number keyword to identify them.
Now bring the library folder over into the Pictures folder and launch iPhoto.
it should open that library and tell you it needs to be upgraded to work with the new version of iPhoto. Let the upgrade happen and hopefully keywords will be preserved.
Now do a search for keyword is and select all from that search result window and go to File>new album from selection
-another way, and I am not sure on this either,In the old library name all the images in each album with the album name and a number appended. I know you can do this easily in iPhoto 5 with the batch change function. I don't think version 2 had this though.
Then when the library is transferred and upgraded you can do a search for the album name, then select all and do File> new album from selected images.
This is all speculation on my part because I don't have a version 2 iPhoto and library to test with.
i hope one of the suggestions might help you.
Lori

I burned iPhoto to a folder and now my folders/albums are gone in iPhoto

I decided to burn a folder of all my photos in iPhoto as I was having a problem with iPhoto creating new,untitled subfolders everytime I put photo's in a folder. I thought that I should back everything up and then take the next step to reloading iPhoto. I have had a problem with iPhoto since I bought my computer and took it into the genius bar twice and they they remotely came into my computer. It seemed to stump all of them, although the remote session was the best help. Since I have over 32,000 photos, I think it is time to find out what is really going on with this particular iPhoto. I have been using iPhoto for a very long time on previous computers and never had a problem. I need help before I regret doing something I can't reverse.

I am asking what happened to my folders and albums after backing up my photos by burning a folder to my desktop.
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In iPhoto are you speaking of folders and albums in the source pane on the left? Those are for organizing and are not places but albums are ways of viewing yoru photos and folders are ways of organizing your albums
Not sure what you mean by "burning a folder on the desktop? You "burn" CDs and DVDs - you "export" photos to finder folders on the desktop - is this what you did?
Then exactly what did you do next?
This makes no sense
Just went back to iPhoto and all of the albums and folders are gone. All the photos are present.
Exporting photos does nothing to a finder folder does absolutely nothing to the source photos within iPhoto
And export (if htat is what you did) is not a way to backup iPhoto - it does backup your photos but not yourorganization
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LN

Sync'ed iPod to pick up a new album, and now all others are gone

Background:
I'm a long-time iTunes user and am on my third iPod and third iBook on the same libary, which is over 1500 songs. All either purchased from the iTunes store or uploaded from my CD collection. The libary is stored on an external Firewire hard drive. Sometimes I've lost several albums, and upgrades and re-syncs discovers them again. Today I have a specific example to inquire about here.
I have all of the albums by the same artist--eight or so--and was given her latest, so I uploaded the CD to iTunes. Today I realized I hadn't synced it to my iPod (30gig newest gen) so ran a sync. Now I have the new album, but all of the other albums from this artist are gone.
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I'd like iTunes to just manage my music library, regardless of size. One would expect that original function to work by version 7.

While that may work9I do not think it will) with iTunes purchased music it will not work for other music.
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iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
- For other music you will need a third-party program like one of those discussed here.
Copy music

IPhoto keywords and comments are gone

I just bought the new iMac G5 (iSight) to replace my G4. Before I sold the G4, copied my 6000-picture iPhoto folder to the G5 using a Firewire cable. I then used the Migration Assistant to do the transfer from the G4 to the G5, again using a Firewire cable. Them I sold the G4. When I first launched iPhoto, it was empty. I then relaunched iPhoto while pressing the Option key. I told iPhoto where my album was. It worked, but none of the keywords or comments made it through the transfer. Everytime I imported a picture, I give it some keywords (e.g. Christmas, 2005, etc.) and some comments. But all this is now gone. Any solution to me predicament would be appreciated!
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Daniel,
Is your short user name the same on the new G5 as it was on the G4?
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Highlight the iPhoto Library folder
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Back to the rebuild, depending on the size of your library it might take some time. When it is done, hopefully your photos will be there.
You might see some unexpected results as I did when I did a rebuild. Photos had been moved to wrong dates, video clips had lost their duration info and some were even orphaned from the jpg pointer file. It took me some time to straighten it out again.
This is the reason to make a duplicate before you rebuild, in case you do not like the result. If you don't like the result, close iPhoto, then delete the rebuilt library and drag the duplicate back into the Pictures folder making sure the name is iPhoto Library. Launch iPhoto and it should open the library in the Pictures folder.
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Lori

Iphoto 08 all the photos gone (even in Original and Data file)!

Hi,
I was uploading pictures to my new Iphoto 08 and suddenly all my thumbnails for the albums were gone. So I tried to rebuild the library and then found that even in Iphoto Library (that I opened with Show Package) there isn't a single photo in data nor originals--only the folders for my events. This is very frustrating since these are all my photos from past four years. And I haven't activated Time-Machine Yet. Please let me know what I can do from here.
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Lunacht:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Where were you importing the photos from? Are there any files in those event folders? Do a search in your home folder for "Library6.iPhoto" and see what you find. If there's more than one then you have another library somewhere.
Happy Holidays
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.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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First of all: before you upgrade, always make a backup of your device in iTunes!
The following happens when upgrading to iOS 5 (this is different from previous system upgrades!):
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