IPhoto & retrieving backed up photos
So I need to find some photos that I deleted over the summer. I believe they are on my portable hard drive (I back-up using Time Machine). I plugged in my hard drive and pressed the options key to direct the computer to a different library than my main one. I found the library on my portable hard drive and clicked on it. When I did this the same box keeps popping up about using the option key to select a different library.
I feel like I'm going in circles.
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help me.
I have iPhoto '09 on a MacBook Pro with OS 10.5.8
Since you're still running 10.5.8 and iPhoto 09 you can still recover individual photos from Time Machine.
Open iPhoto and go to the File menu and select Browse Backups:
You will be taken into iPhoto in Time Machine where you can search for and restore photos.
Click to view full size
The ability to restore individual photos was dropped with iPhoto 11.
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