Libra messed up my library

Hello,
I installed Libra yesterday and it converted my main library to the new secondary album I created. I still have all my playlists, but the DB file seems to be gone because I lost all my play counts. I tried using the iTunes DB file off the iPod to restore my iTunes to how it was before but no dice. Any ideas?

This fixed it:
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Messed up my library!!

I'm a fool!
Stupidly, I've messed up my photo heirachy.
I decided to use Backup 3.01 (the .Mac application) and clicked on the iPhoto quick key. It backed up quite fast so I thought I'd check the size. It was only about a Gbt. When I pressed get info on the user/pictures icon it showed about 8Gig.
So. I entered the dreaded user/pictures folder (big mistake) and it had a lot of albums and other weird named stuff, several years and a photo library folder and another photo library_1 folder. (the larger of the two - probably more recent?)
The photolibrary folder was exactly the size of the Backup target.
So. I decided to rearrange everything. I moved everything from the photolibrary into the photolibrary_1 and moved the photolibrary to the trash, then renamed photolibrary_1 as Photolibrary so that the Backup would find the right 'target'
Now I just get the frame outline of the photos and no content.
Is this recoverable?
Thanks.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

hi Steve,
looks like you have fun in that folder!
First thing to tell you. Don't trust Backup to backup your iPhoto Library. I don't. I manually burn my iPhoto Library folder in the finder to DVD, copy the iPhoto Library folder to my iPod and copy the same library to my iBook. if you have an external drive you would copy the entire iPhoto Library folder to the external. Backup.app does a full backup first, then incremental backups. I am not comfortable with that for some reason.
Backing up your iPhoto Library
1. Burn the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder to a CD or DVD
This method will give you a burned iPhoto Library folder that can be copied back to your computer to replace a damaged library. You can also use this method to backup an old library when you want to create a new Library to use as your current library.
insert a blank CD into your internal or external CD-RW drive and copy the iPhoto library to the CD icon on your desktop. When you drag the CD icon to the Trash/Eject button in the Dock, you are given the option to burn the CD. Click Burn and the CD is created. To burn a DVD backup of your digital images, use iDVD and a SuperDrive-equipped Mac
2. Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library to an external drive formated for a Mac. Do not use this as your only back up as the external can also go bad.
3. Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library to your iPod in disk mode
4.Creating your own CDs and DVDs for viewing in iPhoto
This method is a great way to back up Albums of older photos or even your entire library if it is small enough to fit on a DVD. This method will give you a library that will mount within iPhoto in the source column to be viewed. To import any images from this library they need to be dragged into your library in the source column.
Second thing, if you go into your Pictures folder there is one iPhoto Library folder there by default. You had to have created another iPhoto Library at some point in time. do you remember doing that? It must have been when using an older version of iPhoto. I think doing a rebuild does that for you and the new rebuilt library has the _1 extension on it.
The Pictures folder you can put any other folders in with images, etc. these do not affect the iPhoto Library folder that iPhoto uses. The only thing you shouldn't touch is the iPhoto Library folder in the Pictures folder. iPhoto has its own way of organizing thing s and changing anything in that folder will, well, give you what you got.
Now to recover...it depends on what you mean by recover.
if you mean to get your library back to the same state it was in before, then that is a maybe. If you can put everything back in the same exact place, then yes, maybe iPhoto will open that library. Most likely not, but it wouldn't hurt to try.
I will post a screen shot online so you can see how it is organized and this will help you try and reconstruct it.
This is a view of how the iPhoto Library looks in the Finder.
It is organized by Year folders. Inside the Year folders are Month folders. Inside the Month folders are the days of the Month. Inside the day folders are the photos you took on that day. If you imported video clips and RAW files on that day they will be in an Originals folder. If you have edited any photo imported on that day, the original will be in that folder also.
Once you reconstruct it, name it iPhoto Library and put it in the Pictures folder.
Launch iPhoto and it will try to open a folder called iPhoto Library by default if there are no other iPhoto Library folders in there.
Like I said, this is a long shot.
The easiest thing to do would bite the bullet and create a new library, then import the images from the messed up library.
Close iPhoto
Rename your messed up iPhoto Library to "iPhoto Library_old"
Drag this library to your desktop
Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
This is the window you will get
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library
Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
Go to File>add to library
Navigate to the old library on your desktop and choose it.
iPhoto will start importing the images from your old library
This is what to expect:
Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
Once all you images have been imported, check through the library and make sure everything looks ok.
You can now start making your Albums, and do your keywords or any other organizational steps.
You can also delete the old library on the desktop.
It is also a good time to backup this new library to CD/DVD by burning the iPhoto LIbrary folder in the Finder, or copying the iPhoto Library folder to an external drive formatted for Macs, or copying the iPhoto LIbrary folder to an iPod.
Good luck!
Lori

Messed up my library IPhoto 2.0.1

I completely messed up my library after reinstalling the operating system a while back. I neglected to read the instructions for restoring the library and everything was in a mess. Today I decided to reinstall IPhoto 2 and its upgrade to 2.01. I cleared out the old library and the pictures folder in my user folder was completely empty. Now as I carefully import the photos one day at a time, I discover that the dates in the new library folder are incorrect. My old library stored on an external hard drive has the dates the photos were taken. The photos display IPhoto in the correct order with the correct dates, but in the pictures folder the new library folder seems to be sorting them by the dates the files were modified. Don't know what's going on here. I'd really like to have them all in the correct order. Any suggestions? Is it time for me to buy the upgrade?

In all my attempts to screw up iPhoto, I don't think I've ever lost a photo that was in the damaged library to begin with. That you can see your pictures in Albums, but not in the Library view is highly irregular. Are the images you see in the albums the full-size images, or are they just thumbnails of the original (that is probably no longer in the library)?
If you've ever enhanced or cropped photos in your old library, that would explain the duplicates. When an image is altered, iPhoto squirrels the original away in case you ever want to revert back to the unaltered version. When the library is rebuilt, depending on the corruption, those originals become orphans. iPhoto treats them as "found" images in your library, and they would show up as duplicates.

How do I fix a messed-up iPhoto Library?

I have been using iPhoto since version 1. In the early days when iPhoto's performance was severely crippled by large number of photos I used iPhoto Buddy (v1.3) to create separate Libraries. As iPhoto matured and got more efficient at handling large libraries around 2005, I decided to merge my separate (organized by year) Libraries into a single, large Library. I have obviously failed miserably since I now find photos scattered all over my hard drive.
In the Pictures folder I have five iPhoto Libraries: 1) iPhoto Library (7.5 GB, my latest photos) 2) iPhoto Library 2001 (360MB), 3) iPhoto Library 2002 (160MB), 4) iPhoto Library 2003 (202MB) and 5) iPhoto Library Archive (513MB). I understand that the underlying iPhoto Library architecture has changed over time and my earlier Libraries, generated prior to iPhoto '06, are fundamentally different from the more current Libraries (I am now using iPhoto '08 v7.1.5). The first two Libraries in the above list are packages (i.e., newer format) while the others are separate folders with subsequent sub-folders. My most recent photos are so deeply buried in my screwed-up file structure that it practically impossible to find individual original files. For example, here is the path-name to a recent photo: User/kmf/Pictures/iPhoto Library/2003/10/04/iPhoto Library 2004/Data/2008/November 21, 2008!!
How do I restore some order to this mess. My wife is mad at me because she can't find some of her original photo files without needing to drill deep into the file structure. Can a program like iPhoto Library Manager help, although it sounds very much like the iPhoto Buddy application that got me into this mess in the first place? Help.

Karl
Welcome to the Apple user assistance forums
first - you should never be using the finder to look at or move photos
I'd start by launching iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and using the select library option and see what libraries you can find that iPhoto likes - open each one and verify it - and then download iPhoto Library manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - and use the paid version to merge the ones you just found into one new library
Once you have a know good library that contains all of the photos from good libraries then back it up and delete the libraries that you merged to create it
Then spotlight "Originals" and see if you find any originals folders from old libraries - if you do take a look at them and see if it looks like you want the photo from them in your "new" library - if you find ones you want drag them (of the folder if you want the entire folder) to iPhoto to import them
Then if you believe there are still photos not in the new library you will have to use spotlight to find JPEGs that are not in the new library and import them
Once you get things like you want my personal suggestion is to keep everything in one big library - and back up often
I only use secondary libraries for projects (books, etc) and testing
Good Luck
LN

ITunes messed up my library...what happened?

Ok so I finally downloaded the newest version of iTunes the other day. Here's the problem...after it went thru the whole installation process and re-launched, my library was messed up because somehow everything got auto-tagged and most of it is wrong. Some of my albums have been duplicated and half of my songs are in one album and the other half are in the other. If you right click on one of the albums and choose "Get Info," all of the info for both albums is the same...its just that some of the ID tags were modified (capital letters, track numbers, etc.). A lot of artist names have been replaced with "Various," "Soundtrack," "Unknown Artist," and some are even in foreign languages. Does anyone know how to fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance....

kind of the same problem. A song from an album apeared faaaaar from the rest of the songs, and I've come to a pretty dumb issue:
When I order "Album by Artist" the songs of the multiple disc albums mix up. i.e.:
any two disc album: shows the track 1 of both discs together, then track 2 for both discs, etc. etc.
Was not like this in the previous versions of iTunes (and I've been using iTunes for like 3 years, gettin' VERY update.
This, plus the registry error on some windows plataforms, calls for a *MOST URGENT PATCH UPDATE!!!*
got a really fast "kind of" response.
9.0.1 update says that some scrambling issues has been solved. Downloading right now,... we'll see.
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Folders and duplicates everywhere; empty folders... a mess in the Library

I am tired of iPhoto's difficulty to use as soon as you modify pix and try to move pix from a computer to another.
It creates tones of duplicates files, empty folders and doesn't even recognize px it already imported.
I have the same pix floating everywhere.
THen i tried to delete some folders and files and some pix are now 'offline'.
Any trik other than don't mess with iPhoto, don't modify your pix and don't move them from one computer to the other one.
Help!

xavier
iPhoto is a database. Think of it this way. When you use iPhoto it's like hiring a filing clerk and giving them your shoe box full of photos. "Take these and sort them out so that when I ask for one, you can give it to me, and fast." So the Clerk sets up his filing structure, then goes home for the evening and you go into the filing cabinets and move things around. Next morning, it is any wonder that the Clerk can't find things?
So here's tip one: It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss.
You do everything you need to do via the iPhoto Window - and the good news is that everything you need to do can be done from there. So, ignore the iPhoto Library Folder. There are no user serviceable parts in there.
Want to access a file: There are three ways (at least) to get files from the iPhoto Window.
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
To upload to MySpace or any site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. If you're using Gmail you can use THIS
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser. Or, if you want to access the files with iPhoto not running, then create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use THIS
Also, for 10.5 users: If you use the extended Open or Attach dialogue (with Column View) you can scroll to the bottom of the Shortcuts and find the Media browser there. Select any pic you want from there.
Want to use a photo editor? You can set Photoshop (or any image editor)as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically.
FYI: This might explain how the iPhoto Library Folder is laid out: A Note about the iPhoto Library Folder:
In this folder there are various files, which are the Library itself and some ancillary files. Then you have three folders
Originals are the photos as they were downloaded from your camera or scanner.
(ii) Modified contains edited pics, shots that you have cropped, rotated or changed in any way.
This allows the Photos -> Revert to Original command - very useful if you don't like the changes you've made.
(iii) Data holds the thumbnails the the app needs to show you the photos in the iPhoto Window.
Regards
TD

ITunes 7 messed up my library, how do I revert?

Well... Another iTunes 7 problem, what a bomb.
This is the case:
I installed iTunes 7, unfortunately without checking forums if there were any problems with it... (When it's official it should work correctly, right?)
After the installation iTunes started a search/work in my iTunes folders, with the result that EVERY cd I have ever ripped on my computer was set to <Unknown> in the tag for Artist and Album...
Yay.
So, I uninstall, install iTunes v6.0.5 again and put the old "iTunes Music Library" file back in the root directory. So the files looks ok at first sight, but then I discover that iTunes 7 has actually moved all the files it renamed into a Unknown folder...
Yay.
So what the h**l do I do now? I am not interested in moving thousands of files manually back to its original folder, and I don't dare to connect my iPod to my computer in fear of messing that one up as well.
Is it any possibility to copy all my files from the iPod into iTunes, so the files will once again be in their corresponding folders? Read something about iGadget, does anyone have any experience using that?
iPod 5G Windows XP

I htink that you can:
-Change your preferences so that iTunes manages your files (artist has each own folder, etc).
-Select everything in your library and hit "delete". When it asks if you want to move to Recycle bin say "NO".
-Select all of the files in the "Unknown" folder and drag them into iTunes.
This should force iTunes to move them into the correct folders.
Good luck!

Messed up iTunes library

While attempting to copy my 25 gig wma file to iTunes, I received a notice informing me that I had insufficient hard drive space for the transfer. So I transferred the whole iTunes folder to my secondary drive. The transfer then continued. When it finished, I booted up iTunes and found nothing in my library. I then went to edit, preferences, advanced and changed the iTunes Media folder to it's present location. Again, booted up iTunes and nothing. I believe I disorganized my iTunes library/media folders during the move and really messed up the path recognition.
So, my questions are:
+Would it be a good idea to uninstall iTunes all together and let it establish a new iTunes library location and then transfer my file to it?
+If I do this, will I run the risk of the uninstall eliminating my music folder?
+I now have all my music, my wife's and daughter's music in the same folder and none of us can connect till this issue is resolved.
Please, somebody help.

Right, itunes can't play wma files so it converts them to whatever is in the itunes import settings. My preference is for MP3 format.
With a blank library, all you should have to do is open itunes in one screen and windows explorer in another screen. Then drag the top-level folder of the itunes files (not the wma files) and drop it on the word LIBRARY in itunes.
Just an FYI, switching the "edit, preferences, advanced and changed the iTunes Media folder" only affects future additions. I'm not real clear if all the WMA files actually got converted. If not, then clear out the itunes Media folder and drag & drop the WMA files to get converted properly.

Messed up music library

First 24h into using my brand new MacBook Pro... Just moved my library from my old notebook ran under windows. Sometime ago either i did something wrong or windows just 'continued to get better' - quite a number of my albums were assorted into separate folders with one track in each. As a result now iTunes views what de-facto is a single album as a multiple ones with same title carry one track each. What a mess! Any suggestions on how to get it back under control?
Thank you in advance.
New happy Mac user .. with dark and unhappy windows past <<</div>

See my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers
tt2

Tidy up mess without damaging library

In trying to transfer my iTunes library from an old PC to a new one, I consolidated my library (MP3s and purchases were in separate folders; they're now all in the purchases folder). I can use the DVD backup in iTunes to get the files (with playlists and ratings) across, though consolidation has left the folder and file structure in a complete mess.
I can manually try to sort out the files and folders that have been messed up, but what's the best way to do this without having to then remove the file from iTunes and re-add it once it has the right filename in the right folder? or is there a way to have iTunes monitor your music folder, much like WMP?
Many thanks in advance!

Ya, iTunes will move things around actively as you change the tags.
For example, say you have a compilation album that is marked as a compilation. That album will be kept together in a "Compilations" folder (instead of an artist name). If later you change your mind and you select all the track and change them to NOT a compilation, now iTunes will treat each track by the artist name and will automatically move the files to folders by artist and create new folders if needed.
Likewise, say you have two albums in your collection and one you have by artist "The Pixies" and the other by artist "Pixies". iTunes will create a folder for each artist name. If you then go in and select all the tracks from both albums, type in "The Pixies" so they all have the same name. iTunes will move everything into the "The Pixies" folder and will remove the "Pixies" folder.
And finally, yes, it will rename folders as needed. So if you have Mighty Mighty Bosstones you will have a folder called that. If you then rename all the tracks to THE Mighty Mighty Bosstones then iTunes will rename the folder the put the THE in front.
Patrick

Changing System Language Messed up my Library

iTunes is so messed up and bloated at this point that I'm regularly using Spotlight and VLC to play music!
Anyway, I switched my System language from English to Japanese and now much of my 'Classical' genre I had assigned became 'クラシカル' per Apple's whim. When I double-click a song, 'poof' it disappears. So am I now expected to switch over to クラシカル because of Apple's bug? No, I just reassigned the new クラシカル genre back to 'Classical,' but in the meantime wasting my day and feeling resentful.
I was always a Mac user because Microsoft expected me to do things THEIR way, not mine. While I initially strongly applauded the iPhone, I see now how iOS has encroached upon the desktop/laptop users too and is increasingly boxing us in. Settings are meant to be 'Set' which hopefully means having to do that task only once. If Apple is aggravating its loyal customer base with a flagship application, I can't say things are boding well there in Cupertino, at least not for me.
Yes, I get it. Apple keeps 'updating' the library by going on the web based on some new action. But I do not want it to do that. Sometimes I want it to update the library, but I want to tell it when I need that done. This is not user-friendly, it's corporate-friendly.
P.S. I tried to update my profile computer to OS 10.9.3 and Apple hasn't even updated that database yet! What the....???

In all my attempts to screw up iPhoto, I don't think I've ever lost a photo that was in the damaged library to begin with. That you can see your pictures in Albums, but not in the Library view is highly irregular. Are the images you see in the albums the full-size images, or are they just thumbnails of the original (that is probably no longer in the library)?
If you've ever enhanced or cropped photos in your old library, that would explain the duplicates. When an image is altered, iPhoto squirrels the original away in case you ever want to revert back to the unaltered version. When the library is rebuilt, depending on the corruption, those originals become orphans. iPhoto treats them as "found" images in your library, and they would show up as duplicates.

New iTunes messed up my library.

My library was very nicely organized by "Album Artist", and albums of the same artist were grouped together. Now it is a total mess and I cannot change "Album Artist" tag. Help!

Perhaps try Chargedneuron's suggestion with that:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12758546#12758546
But if no joy there, and if you aren't using iTunes 10.1.1.4 yet, try updating to that. (The Mac release notes say a problem with similar symptoms to yours was fixed in the 10.1.1.4 version.)

Help with messed up iPhoto Library

I fear that I have made a horrendous mistake. I purchased a new Macbook Pro and used the Migration tool. I didn't see where the iPhoto Library transferred over. I found my iPhoto Library on the old Macbook and drug it into Dropbox since it would sync with the new computer. When I opened iPhoto on the new computer all of the events were messed up. None of them are named correctly. A lot of them say they have photos in them but the photos show up as a gray triangle with an exclamation point.
I thought I would check the old computer, but because iPhoto Library is in my Dropbox it simply synced and replicated the "bad" one.
Is there any way to get the "old" iPhoto Library back?

What is your iPhoto version that created the iPhoto Library?
Yes, storing the iPhoto Library in the DropBox probably is the reason, that the library got corrupted. Don't store it on network volumes.
The best way to restore your iPhoto library would be to restore it from your most current backup.
Alternatively you could try to rebuild the library. The procedure differs, depending on your iPhoto version, see: iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library
If that does not help, you could try to rebuild the iPhoto library using iPhoto Library Manager, but that will not be able to restore your book, cards, ..., only the Photos and events.
How to do that is described here by Terence Devlin,
see Option 2: Re: iPhoto thumbnails distorted after every import
Fat Cat Software – iPhoto Library Manager
Regards
Léonie

Help!!! I messed up my Library!!!

I messed up BIG TIME!!! I was trying to relocate my iTunes library to a new external drive, as I have run out of space on my internal drive on my MBP. I didn't look up the "PROPER" instructions first and decided to do it how I thought it was done. I copied over the entire iTunes folder from my home folder to the new location on my external drive and then went into iTunes and switched the location from my home folder to the new location on the external. This is not how to do it and I know that now. once the Prompt came up to redo the library, it basically scrapped my entire iTunes, i'm talking settings, music, preferences, movies, APPS, nothing is set like it used to be and now i am having to re-import everything, even though it's already all located on the external drive. My biggest issue is now that my iTunes is pretty much a new applicatioin with nothing in, including settings, it thinks that this is not my current computer that i have been syncing my iPhone, iPad with for over 3 years now, so none of the apps will import into my iTunes and I am afraid this is going to now SCREW up my iPhone and iPad the next time i try to sync!!! Please help. How do i basically make my iTunes look and act just like it did before i screwed up and made the switch without looking up how to properly do it first???!!! I want it all back the right way and I know there has to be any easy way to do this with the files still all sitting in a specific loation, How do I make my iTunes read my settings file again, or whatever it is??? PLEASE HELP!!!
Thanks,
-Clint

Clint,
Do you use Time Machine? If so, you should be able to restore your old iTunes if you have backed up recenty.
You might also try going through these steps:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
I hope this helps!

Messed with System/Library files now computer won't start

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Please if you have any suggestions for this stupid idiot, who should not have messed with their computer, they would be so welcomed!
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See my "General advice on performing an Archive and Install" FAQ. Perform the steps therein in the specified order.
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