IPhoto update to 9.4.1 and lost all albums and photo event history

I madethe suggested updates on the 8th OCt. 2012 and then today, first opening after upgrade and much to my surprise all my photo albums and event/import history is gone. Please tell me this is recoverable.

If you're are truely opening your main library after following leonieDF's suggestion do the following:  make a temporary, backup copy of your library if you don't already have one (Control-click on the library ande select Duplicate from the contextual menu) and  apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #1, followed by #3 and then #4 as needed.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager  to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
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 File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next  window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
OT

Similar Messages

  • I synced my phone to my computer. When updated with iOS7.0.2 I lost all my contacts, photos and music. I lost everything? How can i get them back? Is there any backup?

    I synced my phone to my computer. When updated with iOS7.0.2 I lost all my contacts, photos and music. I lost everything? How can i get them back? Is there any backup?

    Everything should be on your computer.
    You should be syncing contacts and calendars with your comptuer regularly.
    You should be transferring all itunes purchases to your computer regularly.
    You should be importing all pics taken with iphone to your computer regularly.
    Most especially before any update.
    Have you failed to do this?

  • I inadvertantly reset my Ipad and lost all of my photos and I don't think it was backed up. Anyway of retrieving my photos?

    I inadvertantly reset my Ipad and lost all of my photos! I don't think they were backed up. Is there any way I can retrieve them.
    Thank you

    If you have backup then, sorry, the photos are gone.

  • I accidently deleted my iCloud account and lost all calendar and iPhone phone numbers.  Can you help retrieve them?

    I accidently deleted my iCloud Account & lost all Calendar and Contacts List data.  Can you help me retrieve my account and data?

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    Just log back into your account.

  • I recently changed from MobileMe to Icloud and lost all of my Calendar events

    hello all i recently changed from MobileMe to Icloud and have lost all of my Calendar events, is there a way to recover these events and if so HOW???
    my work day is shot lol

    At the top it does say All contacts, when I select that I only get my Exchange contacts. On the Groups page I have All Contacts, then Exchange and at the bottom All iCloud. If I select All icloud I only see one contact, mine?!
    I do not see any list with my [email protected] My contacts were initially on MobileMe, when I got my iPhone 4 I transfered them to the phone so they were stored on both. I was synching with my me.com account and when I was on iCloud the contacts were nowhere to be found.
    I just spoke to an Apple "genius", they told me I probably messed up the backup on outlook, my contacts are lost forever. Starting to wonder why I chose Mac, in this case I got done just like with Microsoft!!

  • Updated to iPhoto 9.6 and lost all of my photos

    Hello, I just updated to iPhoto at its prompting and lost my iPhoto library. I am trying to restore it from TimeMachine, but the finder has been saying it is "preparing to copy Pictures" for several minutes with no progress. Help! I've seen other users with this issue, it is insane that this happened, reminds me of windows updates from the 90s.

    I am trying to restore it from TimeMachine, but the finder has been saying it is "preparing to copy Pictures" for several minutes with no progress.
    How are you restoring from Time Machine? Don't use the Finder to copy, that will not work.
    Enter Time Machine with your Pictures folder selected.  See this Help text:
    iPhoto '11: Restoring from Time Machine with iPhoto '11 (9.2 or later) and OS X Lion 10.7.2 (or later)
    http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202321

  • I did IOS 5 update as per onscreen instructions and lost all my data, photos ,music , everything. Thus is the worse experience . Now iTunes crashes on startup.

    I use iTunes for my iPhone 4 and iPad 1 . When I did the ios5 update on my iPhone iTunes reported that threvwas a problem , tgatvsone of my data did not get copied . Well none of my data got copied , ios5 got installed ok but I lost all my photos , music , books , apps. What a horrible situation. I cannot get iTunes to run . It crashes after about  45 seconds , reports that something is preventing it from running . I repaired iTunes with a fresh iTunes 10.5 file but to no avail. Oh , and iTunes installed all my apps on my iPhone . Mean apps that were for my iPad and iPod touch. It installed about 300 apps on my iPhone. This is insane . That **** IOS 5 is a ruinous upgrade. What do I do ? I can't sync my iPad any longer no iTunes. I don't know.......

    The passcode is defintely doing its job, denying access to your personal info from unauthorised users. The way I look at it is if there was another way to bypass the passcode then whats the point?. You would then have a passcode just for show, that didn't protect anything. Anybody and everybody would have access to all your data.
    I understand your frustration in regards to losing data, thats one of the worst things that could happen with devices now days that hold so much information. I do not believe the issue was your fault but your colleagues. In saying that it would have been wise to make frequent iTunes back ups or enable automatic iCloud back ups as that is what they are there for.
    As already explained this is a user to user forum, Apple does not comment or review the information. If you believe Apple should have another way to protect their devices or another way around this issue then please provide them with feedback here:
    http://www.apple.com/feedback/
    All the best.

  • I updated to the new 5.0 and lost all of my photos and some of my apps. how can i get them back

    lost my pictures and some apps with update. how can iget them back?

    Sync with iTunes to recover these things.
    Connect the iPad to your compter and launch iTunes. Select the iPad on the left side of iTunes and then click on the Apps tab. Go down through the list and select all of the apps that you want to put on the iPad. Do the same thing with the photos. Make sure that the headings - Sync Music and Sync Photos have been selected and then sync again.
    If you have changed the configuration - you will have to click on Apply in the lower right corner of iTunes.

  • Update from 10.5.6 to 10.5.8 and lost all users and their home directories

    My server has been working flawlessly for many months. I did the upgrade to 10.5.6 and everything has been fine. I decided to do the software update to 10.5.8. When it was finished I could not log in as admin or anyone else. I finally got in as root...then it gave me an error in Workgroup Manager. Said I was not logged in and there was an error of -14008.
    All my users are gone and so is their home directories....I hate to say it but this is ridiculous...doing a simple update and losing all the users? I expect this from Windows but not my xSERVER.
    Does anyone have a fix to correct this? I really hate having to tell all the users tomorrow morning a simple update wiped all their data.
    Carl

    Hi
    I saw your issue and I feel your pain. I did the same upgrade path to 10.6 and found that I had no users!. This is not your typical apple upgrade, the same as all other 10-X from day one. I cheated and used a new drive as I feel that upgrades may cause issues and I also used that as an opportunity to upgrade to a larger hard drive. After booting up on the new system with the upgraded drive I found the same issue to be true. I used the original drive, modified all my users to allow my new admin account to have rights to a user that I called 'move' on the old system. I booted up the old system modified all the users to allow user 'move' then I copied them to the new directory I set up that I called 'move' on the old drive, The next step I set up a new user 'move' on the new system drive and copied all the data from the old system drive 'move' to the new system drive 'move' I created all of my users on the new system drive. I set up all of my user accounts with a simple password 123456 on the new system I copied the users to there new directory. You could restore your backup on spare drive or an external drive with the old OS loaded. Postits on all the users monitors for Monday morning and... grumbling users with all of the data from Friday, get KrispyCreams and leave by the coffee pot [this step i forgot]. The users will talk about how nice it was that you brought doughnuts and not how there login is messed up [ha ha....}
    I know that this is not an elegant or a quick solution but it worked for me and my 36 user accounts. If you know Unix script or Python or Apple script the procedures would be faster as you could batch the whole mess.
    Hope this helps and good luck.

  • In an effort to try to do a slide show through my apple TV and my computer I have lost all of my work in iPhono for the past 5 years. I upgraded and lost my albums and books. How do I get everything back the way it was?

    In an effort to try and show a slide show through my apple tv I upgraded my iPhoto app now I have lost all of my books albums and photo's over the last 5 years. How can I get it back the way it was 2 hours ago?

    to know your version of OS, click on the apple, then  " About This Mac".
    Same thing for your version of iPhoto: in iPhoto, click on "iPhoto" then "About iPhoto".

  • HT203167 This is the third time asking this question! I got a new computer and lost all downloads and icloud says my apple id is valid but not for icloud how do I get my downloads back?

    I lost all my downloads

    On your iTunes, Sign-in, Authorize the computer.
    Then go to the iTunes Store and select "Purchased" from the Quick Links side bar on the right. Go through all the tabs to download again for free

  • Upgraded to 3.1 and lost all users and groups.  How do we get them back?

    We ran the update to Server 3.1 (from 3.0) on our Mavericks Mac-Mini Server.
    Everything had been fine before the update, but now all users and groups have completely disappeared.
    The only user we have is the main administrator log-in.
    Since we verified that all of our data, wikis, and other items are still in place, it might be easier to just re-create the groups and users (and permission therein).
    But, we cannot log into Workgroup Manager, nor can we add users/groups in the Server app (because it is "grayed-out").
    Can somebody please provide a suggestion??
    We are a small engineering firm with only 5 users, so it's not like this would take all day.
    Thanks, Mike

    Have you tried
    sudo sso_util configure -r REALM_NAME -a diradmin afp
    (cf. Lion Server: AFP users unable to authenticate with Kerberos after upgrading)in Apple Support ?
    p.

  • I synced my 3G with itunes for the first time and lost all contacts and information on phone, help?

    I synced my 3G iphone with itunes for the first time, and lost everything on my phone. how do i get it back?

    You don't.
    You synced your iPhone with iTunes for the first time after how long?
    And this didn't happen by syncing only. This means you transferred the backup for another iPhone or you restored the iPhone with iTunes. It is not possible for everything to be lost by syncing alone. All iTunes content on your iPhone can be lost but not any photos in the Camera Roll and the same for contacts unless you synced contacts with an empty address book application on your computer.

  • Upgraded phone and lost all apps and music

    i upgraded via my pc to the 5.0 and now i have lost all of my apps and my extensive music library.  does anyone know how i can restore my info?

    If you didn't encrypt your backup and it still requires a password it sounds like your backup is corrupted.
    Aren't your apps and music still in itunes?  I don't understand why you can't just resync.

  • Help!!  My brother tried to load music on my iphone 5 and synced the wrong device on itunes and lost all contacts and photos

    My brother synced an old device to my iphone 5 from itunes and it overwrited all my contacts and photos with everything
    from the old itunes device.  HELP.. how can I get back all my photos, contacts and apps?  Would itunes have saved this
    somehow when the device synced?
    I'm devastated  - we just moved from Boston to Cali and loosing all my info. tonight has crushed me! Any help is so
    greatly appreciated

    If you've been using your phone as recommended in the User Guide, you've synched your contacts with a cloud service like Google, MobileMe or iCloud, or with a program on your computer like Address Book or Outlook. 
    Your contacts should still be safe in those programs and ready for resynching.
    If, on the other hand, you've relied only on the iPhone to maintain your contacts, then you have just learned a valuable lesson, and this is why is is NOT recommended by Apple. 
    Likewise, it's recommended that photos get uploaded from your phone to your computer for safe keeping.  Did you do this?

Maybe you are looking for

  • How do I get in contact with Apple?

    So I sent my iPhone 5s to them for repair after it stopped working.  Today they sent me to a page saying that it was water damage.  I'm sure it wasn't as I never split anything on it.  Anyway, so I've rung my insurance since I'm sure Apple will just

  • Cisco Unity Aging Policy Not workin as intended

         HI ,       We have cisco unity connection 8.5 integrated with call manager 8.5. We face issue on the aging policy values set. Permanently delete all secure message that are older than _ days, value has been set and is not working as intended,Onc

  • Reg:Standard And Movin Price change

    Dear Sir,    In Material master the standard price of a raw material is maintained as Rs 217 and moving price is maintained as Rs 210 I want to change the both price standard price as Rs 210 and moving price as Rs 208.How I will change this.In materi

  • Video tutor "layers"

    Looking for a video tutor that could help me with layers in Elements 8. I did find a few that were not that good.

  • Creating reusable components

    What is the best way to create a custom component that can be used by more than one flex application? For example, I've made a component that I want to be able to use in both a web flex application, and one the runs on AIR. Is there a way to add my o