Iphoto recovery

Lost entire iPhoto library while downloading new update. Thoughts please...

Do you mean you found the iLife 08 disks? If so it's pretty straight forward to do a custom install for just iPhoto. You'll have to delete the current application and all files with "iPhoto" in the file name that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder.
If it's the system install disk first try the Software Restore disk with Pacifist and if it's not there then try the other.
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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IPhoto recovery photos function

Every time I open Iphoto the system identifies 2 very old pictures that were not imported properly and creates 2 recovery folders one for each picture. However, no pictures are in fact added to the Recovered Photos folders. And that happen irrespective if I select not to import the pictures again. Since this happens every time I open iPhoto, the system has created hundreds of recovery folders. iPhoto and its library design are not the most friendly place to organize and handle a large photo library.
How can I identify where those 'corrupted' pictures are and permanently remove them so iPhoto does not create the recovery folders?
Also, I have about 40k pictures in the system right now and some of them are duplicates. What are the best options to a) delete my entire photo library so I can rebuild it without the duplicates or b) which is the best software out there to identify duplicates and be able to precisely identify the pictures to be deleted? I used Twin-Mini and it does not show the picture location within iPhoto events/subfolder structures so in some cases I ended up deleting the wrong picture.

Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for a Folder called 'Import' or 'Importing'.
Drag it to the Desktop. Make no other changes. Start iPhoto. Does that help?
If it does then look inside that folder on your desktop. Does it contain anything you want? If not you can trash the folder.
I'd be very, very cautious using Duplicate Finding apps on an iPhoto Library. Many claim to work but actually damage the Library.
Some apps for dealing with duplicates in iPhoto
iPhoto Library Manager
Duplicate Annihilator
Decloner
iPhoto Duplicate Cleaner

IPhoto- Recovery of deleted photos.

I used a disk cleaning software and accidentaly deleted all my photos on iPhoto. Then I deleted all the files in my trash. Is there anyway I can recover them?
I use a mid 2012 MacBook Pro Running on OSX 10.9.1
Please help me on this.

Well it's unlikely to be very successful but you can try a file recovery app like File Salvage - you can download a free trial and it will scan the disk for you and tell you with might be recoverable. Actual recovery will require that you purchase the app. There may be many files with the same or similar names. Always recover the largest file size.
There are other such apps. Search on Macupdate or the App Store

IPhoto Recovery Needed!

Hi there,
Some time ago I needed to format my drive in order to perform a clean installation. So I started the back up to DVD option and backed up more than 5000 photos on a DVD.
Then I formatted the HD and when it was time to restore those photos back into iPhoto, it said there is problem with the DVD! My only chance it whatever data that has been recorded correctly on the DVD but I don't know where to take it to? Can I send it to Apple and they help me with the recovery?
If anybody can help me as what to do and were to take or send the DVD so at least some of the photos can be recovered I really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Fred
Message was edited by: Fred37

Hi, drpinks. On Stellar Phoenix's web page, the following sentence appears:
Phoenix Photo Recovery Software works with any type of digital card reader or storage media *that can mount as a volume*. (boldface added)
If your Canon camera, like most Canon cameras, prevents the card inside it from mounting (appearing on the desktop) when you connect the camera via USB cable, the camera itself is undoubtedly what's interfering with the operation of your recovery software. Why Canon has adopted this dunderheaded mode of operation throughout all or most of its camera line is beyond me.
Buy a $10 card reader, remove the card from your camera, and insert it in the reader. Then connect it to the Mac and use your recovery software on it. This will get your camera out of the way and should enable you to recover your pictures quickly and easily, as long as you haven't written anything new to the card since you formatted it.

Iphoto recovery, help needed

I recently decided to export my photos and videos from iphoto to make space on my macbook pro. What I was unaware of was that when exporting the files needed to be switched to 'original'. Now realizing this mistake I have quite a few video files on my back up hard drive that are all a single black image. Because I removed them entire off of iPhoto and my laptop I can no longer view the videos.
Does anyone know of a way of retrieving the videos based off of the files I still have?

Same as any mistakenly deleted file - if the trash has been emptied then either restore your backup from before the mistake was made or use file recover software like FIle Salvage or a data recover service
LN

HT201250 How to recover iPhoto Library after format of hard drive?

I've recently reinstalled Lion onto my hard drive but I forgot to backup my iPhoto library. Is there any way of recovering this library? I also have an external hard drive that had Time Machine Backups but that hard drive has since gone through formats as well. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you

SOLUTION : iPhoto folder recovered after formatting hard drive by mistake.
I was able for recover my iPhoto library ( intact ) after formatting the hard drive by mistake.
On top of that I formatted it in FAT32 format. My iPhoto folder was huge 100GB with file and movies of all sort of formats. I kept it on a secondary hard drive of 500 GB. one day I was formatting flash drive for somebody which was 500Mb, seems similar to my 500GB and I formatted my hard drive by mistake. I realized the mistake a week after the person called me and said there is nothing in flash disk and I find a single file on my hard drive. Needless to say the earth disappeared underneath me. All my pictures for 10 years , 8000 thousand of them, cherished memories all gone. But was I determined to find them back and I know they are intact somewhere. My biggest fear was that formatting on MS-dos format might have really deleted them , but they were there. and here is how I got them back.
First I tried the Data recuse 3 software. I got the photos back, but they were all jumbled up. Long numerical file names and original dates were gone. No way I could sort it out back to the way it was before . So my target was to recover the iPhoto folder intact.
- I bought an external hard drive with 1tb space to retrieve the data.
- The software which did the miraculous job is called " STELLAR PHOENIX MAC DATA RECOVERY" .
- I ran a deep scan all night and came up with many volumes. volume-1 was the MS dos , volume 2 was a mac system,
- I tried MS dos volume first and there was nothing on it.
- I tried the 2 volume with mac system. It got all my files and some other system file.
- I could see the iPhoto folder and click on that only to recover. After that I went for my doc and other files later.
- It took hours to retrieve my iPhoto folder intact, The folder size was right and file were there in master folder.
- I checked in FINDER , opening iPhoto with "show content " and all my picture file were there with original date.
- BUT when tried opening it in iPhoto , there was nothing. it keep showing the wait icon and nothing shows up. Empty iPhoto.
- I tired starting iPhoto , holding command -option and tried building and repairing database, nothing worked.
- Then I got this software " iPhoto library manager" .
- downloaded, installed it and pointed it towards my iPhoto folder.
- It asked for space to rebuild a new iPhoto library with existing picture and folder.
I had another external hard drive , I used it to make a rebuild iPhoto library.
and there I GOT IT. only took three night of pain.
IMPORTANT:
I never touched my original formatted hard drive. Don't write anything on it until you are sure you have recovered everything. open and see files with your own eyes.
- I recovered the iPhoto on another hard drive and then built it on another hard drive . Yes its pain in the neck but well worth fixing your stupid mistake of not making a back up in the first place.
I hope this helps all who are looking for iPhoto recovery and their lovely memories.

Just uploaded iPhoto 11, Version 9.2 to Lion 10.7.2: Crashes 100% of time

After upgrading Lion to 10.7.2 to enable iOS5 Update, (which works great), I uploaded iPhoto 11 version 9.2 and I am encountering crashes on all edits, shares.
Have used iPhoto recovery tool (Option Command on launch) and 1. Repaired iphoto data base, 2. Rebuilt iPhoto Data Base from automaticall saved version, 3. Repaired iPhoto file permissions. None have worked. Program crashes 100% of time when I edit or try to share image on soclial media.
Any suggestions. I Use iPhoto for real estate business (real estate broker) and this bug is a significant problem.

Also, just a note. iMac PPC is about iMacs that were available up to early 2006. iMac Intel is for iMacs that were made available early in to 2006 to present. Forums for what you have in your profile include:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iphoto
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook
Please consider posting and reviewing those locations in the future when you have a question that pertains to one of those products. You'll much more likely get a resposne then. This is a user to user forum, and you have to seek knowledge in the areas that are most likely to have the topic of your interest.

Some iPhoto pictures missing after time machine recovery, were there errors reported during backup that I missed?

Hello. I used time machine/time capsule to automatically back up my sytem over the last 3 years and I used the backups to recover my system to a new hard drive when the original drive began to fail. After recovery, I noticed there are missing photos in iPhoto.
I'm curios where I should look to see why they weren't backed up, and why it wasn't obvious to me at the time that they weren't backed up.
Does time machine explicitly call out issues when it can't back up a file or does it just squirrel a message away in the system log?
I'd like to know because I'd like avoid this issue going forward.
Full disclosure & History -
The hard drive on my late 2009 27" iMac was exhibiting issues and started to go bad. No problem I thought, I'll get a new one and recover the system from my time capsule.
The full recovery was initiated from the OS install media. Upon recovery, the system wouldn't boot. After booting from the OS install media and reinstalling the OS on top of the recovered data the system booted and seemed to retain almost everything. This may not be the best way to recover but it seemed to work.
I additionally had to:
repatch the OS
reinstall iWork
relicense MS Office (otherwise office seemed to be intact)
When I started looking through my iPhoto libraries, there were some events with no pictures (mostly the newer events). I couldn't find the pictures on the time capsule either so I'm curios if there was anyway I could have known that backups weren't completing successfully. I had run a time machine incremental backup before pulling out the old hard drive and it seemed to complete successfully so I'm at a loss. I can understand that as the hard drive began to fail, there may have been issues backing up the data, but I somehow missed it if/when the problems were reported.
Should I go through the old system logs that were backed up on the time capsule and look for backupd messages/errors? Going forward, how do I know if there are backup issues?
It took me a couple weeks to realize the drive was failing. I had noticed that the system performance was getting bad, and the system would occassionally hang. It would come back OK after a restart. I thought it was because the filesystem was getting close to full (30GB left on a 1 TB drive) so I was chasing down cleaning up some data to make more room. There were suggestions in other forums to try and keep the filesystem 10% free.
While moving data from the internal drive to a new external drive (to free up space) the system would hang. I eventually found a couple disk0 errors in the kernel log and I actually witnessed disk0 disappear while running an iostat. I'm thinking it took me too long to know the disk was going bad, and so the pictures I imported over the last 3-4 weeks may be gone.
I still have the original drive so I'll see if anything else can be salvaged from it.
Looking for some suggestions on
1) the ability to know if time machine backups are successful and are in sync with my system
2) the ability to know when there are hardware issues that I should be aware of
If you got to this point, thanks for taking the time to read through all this.
Regards,
-mike

Hi Mike,
I just saw this post and saw no one has responded. You might have figured out but in case, I wanted to let you know what I found out. I had the same problem. Hard drive failure, they installed a new one and my iPhoto pictures were missing. I couldn't find them on Time Machine either which baffled (and frustrated) me b/c I just backed up my drive and I was missing pictures from over a year ago.
I found this article and it allowed me to at least find my pictures...so they weren't lost after all.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16029742#16029742
As for why they aren't showing up in iPhoto or Time Machine, the lady at the Mac store said it is probably an OS conflict. Which makes sense since I can see the actual pictures in the iPhoto content file (per the article mentioned above). However, I didn't have my computer with me at the store to have a Genius person help me resolve the conflict.
BUT, if you can find the pictures, then maybe you can reimport them into iPhoto? Just a thought.
Good luck!

Iphoto package contents is separate from iphoto after hard drive recovery

I have moved some of my previous iphoto libraries to an external hard drive. It fell and was not usable and did nor want to open any of my fikes. It was rceovered and I've received it back. The package contents are now seperate from the iphoto icon's on the hard drive. If I want to open it, it asks me to upgrade to the new maverick's version iphoto library. I click upgrade but then it saus that my iphoto library needs recovery and that it will quit and relaunch by itself. If I press quit the whole process starts anew. What should I do to be able to view my iphoto library? Please please help!

Dear Larry. Unfortunately I have just copied all my old libraries to this external hard drive and was about to back it up when it fell. This was still the previous Iphoto app before I updated my mac to mavericks. I now run OS X 10.9.2. The folder in which I received back this hard drive shows: folder "2012 iphoto". In this folder all the package contents lies together with the older iphoto app. In other words, if I right click on the iphoto icon, there is no option to "show package content:, because I assume it is not in it and is seperated. I hope I explained this correctly?
If I now double click on the iphoto icon, iphoto starts up and it shows me the following message: "Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iPhoto after the upgrade. The upgrade process for very large libraries may take an hour or more to complete.". I then click upgrade, and the following message appears: " An inconsistency in your database has been detected. The application will now quit, relaunch, and restore your database to a consistent state. This may take some time." It only shows a tab with "quit". If I pres quit, iphoto closes and reopens with the first message showing again. This continues untill I choose the option to not upgrade...
Please help

After update iMovie and OS Yosemite recovery, iPhoto icon disappeared. How can I find photos stored on iPhoto?

I am using iOS Yosemite 10.10.3. After update iMovie version 10.10.08 and OS Yosemite Recovery. iPhoto icon disappeared. I opened the Photos icon but all my images which used to be in iPhoto were not there. How do I access those images in iPhotos?

Go to Finder>Applications and open the iPhotos app.
Apple want you to use the new Photos app which now should be in your Dock. Photos will import your iPhoto library

Hard drive corrupted, recovery software threw iPhoto info files everywhere

Ok, so my hard drive got corrupted, and I got some of the data off of it, but not all. I think there is a lot of iPhoto files scattered about the folders in a "Lost Folder(s)," which the recovery software decided to do. (I used Stellar Phoenix) I watched the process of recovery happen, and I also looked through all those Lost Folders and saw that there was a few things that may be related to iPhoto.
I would like to know what files to look for and how they are organized in the iPhoto Library package. I do not want to rebuild my entire library like I already have to do with iTunes, especially with Faces.

I would like to know what files to look for and how they are organized in the iPhoto Library package. I do not want to rebuild my entire library like I already have to do with iTunes, especially with Faces.
You don't have a choice. There is no way you can reconstruct the Library - database files, Data, Original and Modified versions in precisely the correct locations and so on - from the assembled bits.
Regards
TD

How to recover iphoto library from recovery mode

My macbook pro suddenly went on Utility Disk Mode and can only be accessed through recovery mode. I cannot even view the files. I'm willing to let everything go except for the photos and videos in the iphoto library. I don't know how to access my photos on icloud and when I did, it was just my iphone's photos that are there. is there any way I can view my photos in my locked macintosh hd in other devices or computer?

Thanks for the response BDAqua, I did use Migration Assistant to transfer her data from the SuperDuper backup. Are you suggesting that I use Migration Assistant to transfer data from the Time Machine backup? Will that result in duplication? Sorry, but I've no experience at all with Time Machine backups and don't know whether you can 'pick and choose' what to restore from the Time Machine using Migration Assistant.
Cheers
Tricia

Photo recovery when iPhoto crashed while deleting imported images

I was importing images into iPhoto when it finished and asked if I wanted to delete originals or not. I chose to delete originals. As it was finishing the import/deleting the images, iPhoto crashed. I could see the images right before the crash. Upon rebooting iPhoto, the images were gone from my card and not showing up under last import. Where can I find them??? Thanks!

Greetings,
Sorry to hear about the lost pictures.
My guess would be that there was something wrong with the import process (bad data / corrupt media card in camera, low battery power during import, bad connection with camera, etc.)
Try finding the images on the computer using the File > Find in the Finder as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1995 (maybe they just got misplaced / not fully imported into iPhoto).
Use the picture in that article as an example. Rather than having "Kind" "Any". Choose "Kind" "Image". This will locate any picture at all on your computer. You can then copy and paste the images (if you can find them) into a new folder and then import that folder into iPhoto.
If you haven't used the camera since you deleted the pictures there is a good chance you can recover them from the camera using data recovery software.
Here are a few examples:
http://joesoft.com/products/klix.php
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
http://www.macintosh-data-recovery.com/
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products _id=1
You can contact a local Apple Authorized Provider to see if they offer data recovery services: http://www.apple.com/buy/locator/service/
There are many nationwide / worldwide data recovery companies out there. Here are a few examples:
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com
http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/
http://www.totalrecall.com/
Consider using these best practice tips to avoid or minimize the impact of issues in the future:
Do not delete the images off your camera until you have imported your images to the image management program of your choice (like iPhoto), and then backed up your images (like with TimeMachine)
Reformat the camera's media card using the camera itself between uses (check your camera's manual for how to do this).
Ensure your camera has a full charge on the battery before you import (Or run off of AC if possible).
Ensure the date and time on the camera are correct before importing.
If you are using a media card reader and are getting regular failures, try using a different reader or the camera itself (The same is true about importing directly from the camera. Try a reader instead.)
Plug the camera directly into the computer with a solid connection, no loose cables. Don't use a hub.
Alternate between multiple media cards during photo shoots (trips, etc) so that if one card goes bad (they are just little bits of plastic after all) you don't lose the entire shoot.
Best of luck to you.

IPhoto deleted my entired library...recovery software is confusing

Last night I empied my trash bin and realized that it erased my entire iPhoto library. I've never put my library in the trash so I have no idea how this happened. I recently added a bunch of photos to iPhoto after my last backup so I am worried that they have been lost for forever. I tried using a recovery software (Mackeeper) but it recovered over 1000 files and I have no idea how to navigate through that much data to find the pictures that I needed. I looked in finder in the all photos category and it seems like some of them are there. I just want my library back and am curious if there is anyway to recover it? Any help is greatly appreciated!

No back up then?
1. iPhoto didn't delete your Library. Someone put it in the trash and then you emptied the trash. So you deleted your library. iPhoto has no ability to put its library in the trash.
2. Get rid of MacKeeper. Search this Disucssion site for much discussion about the quality of this app.
3. Use a reliable file recovery utility such as File Salvage
This will scan your disk for recoverable files. It can be set to scan for images. Actual recovery requires a purchase. At all times choose to recover the largest file size - it has the most likely chance of being a high qulity image.
Unfortuately, there is no way to sort through large amounts of data except manually.
Going forward, remember that with a back up this would not have been a problem.

IPhoto Library -Recovery Possible

Hello-
Yesterday my hard drive on my iMac died. Which ws unfortunate. What is more unfortunate is that it died while backing up my iPhoto library.
So now on the back-up disk the iPhoto library is a fraction of it's old size and only contains a few photos (i looked on a friends mac) is there anyway to recover the old iPhoto library before this botched back-up ? I'm assuming the pictures are still somewhere on the back-up drive, but they can't be seen.
Please let me know.

Without the Originals I'm afraid you're out of luck.
I'm sorry but I don't understand the rest of your post.
I'm guessing that you have a back up on this drive, and attempted to make a new back up by dragging the Library +on top of+ the existing back up. Is this the case?
Your next move is to try an file recovery utility such as File Salvage to scan the disk to see what is recoverable. This will do the scan without needing you to purchase, however, actual recovery will require that you buy.
Set it to scan for jpegs or whatever format your camera uses.
In the event of different versions of the same photo being found *always choose the largest filesize* - that has the best chance of being the original file.
Regards
TD

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