Iphotos has lost all my photos

Iphotos has lost all my photos, I've tried importing them from the libary but it keeps telling me it doesn't recognise it or the files can't be imported???? Ive also tried Iphone libary manager to retrieve the photos with no luck.

Sorry but you need to provide details
What version of iPhoto and of the OS? What recently changed?
With no information the only possible solution is to restore yoru backup from just before what ever happened happened
LN

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One event in iPhoto version 9.6 has lost all the original photo information, and views the photos as very small.

started in 2007 and transferred to my latest Mac in 2012.
How did you transfer the library to the new Mac?
How did you upgrade the iPhoto application and library after upgrading to Yosemite?

IPhoto just lost all my photos

I just lost all my photo albums on iPhoto. The program now opens up as if I am using it for the first time. Everthing is backed up on external hardrive via Time Machine. How do I restore my albums? Thanx

Perhaps you have more than one iPhoto Library?
What happens if you hold down the option key while lauching iPhoto?
Are you presented with more than one Library to choose from?
Matt

IPhoto has deleted all my photos

Help me please, all my photos got binned from iPhoto after the power ran out on my Macbook, I didnt intentionally let the power run out, i had scheduled it to shut down but it didnt for whatever reason. Once i got power to it and switched it on i didnt realise immediately but on connecting my iPod to transfere a pic their was nothing, ive been to forums and looked up for help but nothing has worked. Please help.

l. I only have or had one (1) album of photos.
Do you mean by "album of photos" your iPhoto library or that you now are seeing only one album in your library?
Have you checked the obvious places for missing photos - looked into iPhoto's Trash, checked if Hidden Photos" are disabled in the "View" menu?
If your library is not showing all albums that should be there, try if repairing or rebuilding your iPhoto library will turn the photos up again, see Old Toad's post on how to do this:
Rebuild iPhoto Version 11
If all this does not help, then tell us please, what happened before your photos vanished.
Did iPhoto crash?
Did you update software or install new software, that you used for the first time?
Did you move your iPhoto library somewhere else? To a new drive or cloud storage?
Did you import new photos?
Did you delete any photos that were apparently not in iPhoto? For example with a cleaing and space-saving application. like Clean My Mac?

IPhoto6 has lost all my photoes - HELP

I have posted a query on this previously, but not had any success.
I am using iPhoto6. The iPhoto library is completely empty. I cannot find my pictures anywhere, and have tried to use iPhoto Library Manager, without success. The very starnge thing is that I have imported photos into the Library from my desktop, just to see if that jogs its memory, so to speak - but when I close down iPhoto and reopen it, those "new" photos have disappeared too. Any suggestions on where they might have gone and where I can retrieve them would be really welcome, this is a heartbreaking loss.

Well given that iPhoto is not respecting these preferences and on your other thread you mention
There is one other, maybe minor thing - my Dock looks different (it is bigger and has icons in there that I had previously removed).
this also points to an issue with Preferences (for your Dock this time - it appears to have reverted to Factory Settings), and all of this suggests a Disk Issue.
Lets try something else - that photo in the iPhoto Window - edit it, anything at all - and this will make a new version. That version must be inside a Library somewhere. Once you've done the edit, do the Control-Click and this time select 'Show File' and see where that takes you.
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IPhoto has shrunk all my photos, please help.

I know this seems mad and I have looked up online and seen that everyone says this can't happen but it has.
My camera is set to take 12mp photos which come out as 3000x4000pixels when put into iphoto.
I looked at my photos today and they were 3000x4000 and vice versa when upright shots and my older photos from other cameras were differing sizes.
I took some photos, not changing anything on the camera and imported then to iphoto and they are fine.
But all my other photos taken with the same camera at the same settings as before and the older photos are now 360x270 and crap quality!!
I have checked the originals root folder etc and they are 360x270 as well!
These were not this size this morning.
Has anyone ever known this to happen?
I think I have a back up but if not is I will be very annoyed.
Thanks for any replies and help on how to retrieve.

Thanks for reply.
In my iphoto library I had differing sizes of images, ranging from 360x270 to 640x426 (old pics with old camera and differing friends imports) to 4000x3000 (new camera I got in December for going on holiday to New York) This camera is set to take 12mp images and has not been changed since I bought it.
Yesterday, I looked at my images, including those of New York and they were all of differing sizes and my images of NYC were 4000x3000 and ranged from 2-4mb in file size.
When I import my images I do as I have always done for the last 3 years. Copy images into a folder on my desktop, named what they are (New York December 2010) then drag into iphoto to copy. This procedure lets me see in the root folder library what the folder is called, i.e. (New York December 2010) rather than "Roll 236" for example.
If this means that I imported thumbnails then why were the images of the proper size? 3000x4000 and 2-4mb.
So then I installed Snow Leopard, not a clean installation, so to keep programs etc.
Stupidly, I didn't take a back up of the new images of New York.
After the install I uploaded some images, exactly the same way as I always do, and as stated above.
The newly imported images are as I would expect 3000x4000 and 2-4mb.
However, my NYC pics are all 360x270 and 40-70kb now. This is both in iphoto viewer, the root folders (data, originals and modified).
If this is to do with the Snow Leopard install, which is the only conclusion I can come to, then why?
I know this is my fault for not doing a back up of the new photos, so any answers stating "do a back up", thanks, but that doesn't help me!
The reason is because every post I can find relating to the install of Snow Leopard and iPhoto is regarding the complete loss of images and data, not the resizing of images. So what I am hoping is that as the "New York" images are still there but smaller, there may be some way for someone who really knows what they are doing to get these back to there original size.
Is this possible?
Thanks for any help and replies.

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My pictures still appear to be in the folders where they are supposed to be. If I double-click on them they open in Preview. It's just that iPhoto 6 no longer knows about them.
How can I fix this? And how do I fix it without losing the newly imported holiday pictures that are the only pictures currently in my iPhoto library?

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Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
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I have a copy of the originals on a back up drive. Is it possible to restore from that and recover the titles?
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My macbook pro crashed after installing maverick. I lost all my photos however the iPhone iPhoto app still has these photos so how can i access the package contents to recover these photos?

We'll need to know more to beable to help. Do you want to try to restore your photos from your iPhone to your Mac, or try to recover the photos from the old iPhoto Library on your Mac?
What is the situation of your Mac now? In hat way did it crash? A hardware problem with the drive? Does the system not start properly? Does iPhoto not launch? Do you still have the iPhoto Library on your mac or a backup, so we could try to rescue the photos there?
What versions of iPhoto are on your iPhone and your Mac?
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On the iPhone you cannot access the "package contents" - IOS hides the file system from the users. To restore photos from your phone share all iPhoto photos to your Camera Roll, that are not already in the Camera Roll, and then connect the iPhone via USB and import the Camera Roll to iPhoto or Image Capture. Or use any of the other sharing methods described on thos manual page: see: Ways to share photos http://help.apple.com/iphoto/iphone/2.0/?handbuch#blnk7d8f763e
To retrieve photos from a corruptrd iPhoto Library on your Mac we need to know the version number and more about the "crash" you experienced, the state of your mac, the system, the data. Please post back with more details.
-- Léonie

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Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
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Is there an item named "iPhoto Library.photo library" or similar in your "Pictures" folder, showing with an icon like a fan of pictures?
Or did you store your iPhoto Library in a different folder, perhaps on an external drive?
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I have lost all my photos on iPhoto (Yosemite)

Hello everyone,
I have upgraded to Yosemite and also iPhoto, but when I open iPhoto I don't have any photo!!
Do you know what happened? Have I lost all my photos?
Hope your answer.
Thank you very much!

Hi I has to go to a mac store and they did help me and
could get my iphoto back!!!
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