Lightroom 1.3.1 removed my pictures folder (OS X)
Howdy.
(I'm using Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.1), with Swedish as my OS language)
I was until today running Lightroom v. 1.3, when I noticed that v. 1.3.1 had been released. I downloaded it (from the adobe website, where I was forwarded from Lightroom), and installed it.
As soon as the installation was done, I launched Lightroom again to check it out, only to find out that all my pictures were gone. I went to check out my pictures folder, and not only was it all empty, it had also been renamed (old name was "Bilder" which is Swedish for Pictures) to "Pictures". The old folder is completely gone, along with all the files in it.
I've been looking all over the computer for the pictures. Through the smart folders ("Last week"), I managed to find the old catalog file (which is still there, somewhere on the hard drive. Finder can't just... well, find it) and through it export my whole library of Lightroom pictures to a new place, but all the other files and folders that I had in my old Pictures ("Bilder") folder are still nowhere to be found.
Sidenote, I renamed the newly created "Pictures"-folder to "Bilder", and relaunched Lightroom, which resulted in it creating a new folder named "Pictures".
Anyone else who experienced this, and anyone who has the slightest clue on what to do to fix it? I've noticed that the amount of disk space is the same now as before, so my files has to be there somewhere. Just not accessable through finder. I've got no back ups, and no recovery application.
Thanks for any help, this is truly frustrating!
Thanks guys for the advices!
I checked my smart folders, and found an image that was saved within my old Bilder folder and navigate to it, then moving all the files I had there to my Documents folder, so they're back and safe now (well, safeER).
The "problem" with the pictures folder being in English still remains though. I've tried all of the things that Andreas said, but none of them worked. Using TinkerTool to show invisible files had no result either, the old folder were completely gone.
I even tried uninstalling Lightroom completely (through AppZapper), changing the language to English, rebooting, repairing the privileges, changing the language back to Swedish, then rebooting again. It's still named "Pictures". I have never renamed any of the folders created by the system, so that's probably not the issue.
Any other ideas? Having the Pictures-folder in English sure doesn't kill me, but being a person who likes everything perfect, it sure annoys me! Plus that I wont feel safe moving images back into that folder for a while now.
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And I think it is crazy to have an iPhoto library of 90G, and an aperture library of 90g (already made that mistake, want to get rid of it), because that would give me three sets pf photos, with Pictures, and iPhoto and Aperture Libraries within Pictures (that's where the Aperture library is now).
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And the confusion over time about which Photo is the real one.
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You've not grasped the key distinctions in managing digital photos. You're confusing photos with files, confusing the file manager with a photo manager and have given no consideration to Digital Asset Management. I would consider these issues before going any further.
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I used Iphoto before going over to Aperture.
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This added 92 GB to my new external HD.
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After plugging in the HD it worked again as it should.
So I thought all had gone well.
I noticed that not all the pictures were found though, and I saw that the pictures that were not found had a keyword " iphoto original"
After moving from Iphoto to Aperture, I had deleted all Iphoto files, so did not expect to find any reference to Iphoto.
I open these pictures, but Aperture can not find the originals.
The Pictures folder in my home directory was still on my internal HD under users, and contained 90GB; all missing pictures are there as well.
I copied that folder to my external HD, and moved the original folder to the trash.
When I opened Aperture no pictures were there at all.
Of course I put the pictures back from the trash, but now I am wondering:
Aperture was clearly using the Pictures file in my home directory; why was it not using the masters I relocated?
How can I move the Pictures file to my external HD? I now have the relocated master file on my external HD, a copy of the Pictures file from my home directory, and also the Pictures file in my internal HD, which takes up a lot of space.
Where can I find the original pictures from the deleted Iphoto library; they are all in the Picture file, and with normal size of several MB per picture, but Aperture can not seem to find them.
Lot of questions, would appreciate it if someone could help me out.In order to have more space on my hard disk, I bought an external HD where I wanted to store my Itunes and Aperture library.
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Did you import your iPhoto Libraries or exported your photos from iPhoto? What version of iPhoto did you migrate from? If you imported your iPhoto Libraries, how did you do it? Referenced, as described in this support article? http://www.apple.com/aperture/iphoto-to-aperture/how.html.
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o.k.
I noticed that not all the pictures were found though, and I saw that the pictures that were not found had a keyword " iphoto original"
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Do you mean, you deleted the old iPhoto Libraries? If yes, do you have a backup of them?
I open these pictures, but Aperture can not find the originals.
The Pictures folder in my home directory was still on my internal HD under users, and contained 90GB; all missing pictures are there as well.
I copied that folder to my external HD, and moved the original folder to the trash.
When I opened Aperture no pictures were there at all.
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Aperture was clearly using the Pictures file in my home directory; why was it not using the masters I relocated?
Aperture will only relocate original that it is using. You seem to have had a mixed library, part of the originals in your "Pictures" folder, part of them in your iPhoto Library.
If not all original masters have been relocated, you may not have had selected all images when relocating. I suggest to simply flag all images, that are still on your internal drive and then to relocate them as well.
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A smart album with the smart rule "Add rule: Exif: Filestatus is online", and set the source of the smart rule to "Library". Then flag all images.
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Do they now move over?
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Sunny (scared to make any mistakes on my new precious machine!)I dragged My Pictures folder from the e-drive to iPhoto, copying the pix.
That imports your old library into iPhoto and will give you duplicates of all photos and triplicates of modified photos - the way to move your iPhoto library to a new machine is to connect the machines together - via a network or firewire target mode - drag the iPhoto library (if there is one) on the new machine to the desktop and drag the old iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the pictures folder of the new Mac and launching iPhoto on the new machine - there is no importing involved
Long story short, I stupidly did it a second time a few hours later, causing a duplicate folder for every one I already had in iPhoto. I dragged each dupe folder to the trash, emptying it after every 100 photos or so. I merged some events, deleted some unwanted pix and organized things a bit.
Okay, I thought everything was fine, but the next time I opened iPhoto, I got this message: "3 photos have been found in the iPhoto library that were not imported. Would you like to import them?" I hit "Yes", which brought up this message: "3 Unreadable files - The following files could not be imported...". This added a Recovered Photos folder to "My Albums" in iPhoto. I closed iPhoto, and when I opened it again was presented with the same "...would you like to import them" message. This time I hit "No" and was told the files could be found in my Library in a "Recovered Photos" folder.
I went to Go then to Library and found 2 Recovered Photos folders in "Pictures" in library. I tried to open one and it started Terminal (yikes!). I quickly quit Terminal, hoping I didn't cause my Mac any harm. In the meantime, every time I open iPhoto, I get the same message, along with another Recovered Photos folder in both My Albums in iPhoto and in the Pictures folder in my Library. I now have 6 of these folders in my Library and I'm afraid to go near them. Can I delete them or is that a no-no? (Sorry, I'm an ex-PC user). What can I do to stop that "would I like to import the 3 photos" message every time I open iPhoto?
Doing the above procedure will correct this since you are removing the library that has the problem and bringing over a good library
If this ever occurs in the future it is one of the very few times that you should delete something from your iPhoto library - quit iPhoto, right click (control click) on the iPhoto library and select the show package contents command - drag the import (or importing) folder to the desktop and launch iPhoto - the problem will be gone - open the import(ing) folder(s) on your desktop and be sure that there are no photos in there that you want and then delete the folders
Also, I know that when I'm ready to backup my photos to the e-drive I'll drag the iPhoto library file from the Library folder directly to the e-drive. But... why are the folders I originally dragged from the e-drive into iPhoto still in my Library folder under "Pictures"? They still have the names I originally gave them when they were on my e-drive, and I've since renamed and merged them in iPhoto. If they've been copied into the official (or whatever it's called) iPhoto library file, then are they dupes? Can I safely delete the old folders or do they serve some kind of purpose?
When you drag between volumes it copies the files/folders - so to backup you drag the iPhoto library from the pictures folder on your iMac to the external hard drive it will copy it
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I import my photos using iPhoto 11 as I use Aperture 3 and/or LR4 to edit events and/or photos. However I am unable to import newer events from the Pictures folder option that Aperture and LR4 gives one to import as all my newer events of the past 12 months do not show up in the Pictures folder. Could anyone please help me as I have been trying and reading in the forums for ways to achieve this and am unable to find a solution. I am totally frustrated!!!
Thanks for any advice.Could you please explain your workflow in more detail? I am not sure I understand your problem yet.
I import my photos using iPhoto 11 as I use Aperture 3 and/or LR4 to edit events and/or photos.
Into which of these applications do you import your photos? Do you import into iPhoto and then edit in Aperture or Lightroom, or do you import into all of them?
However I am unable to import newer events from the Pictures folder option that Aperture and LR4 gives one to import as all my newer events of the past 12 months do not show up in the Pictures folder.
Are you expecting, that the images that you imported into iPhoto will be stored in the "Pictures" folder, and you want to import them into Aperture as well, or do you want to edit the images that you now have in iPhoto with Aperture?
I think, you may have a misunderstanding how iPhoto and Aperture work. Both are database programs that manage the image files you import. You should not try to access the managed images using the Finder and the folders with the pictures - that is risky, because iPhoto or Aperture may lose track of the image files. If you want to use an external editor to edit the imported images, use iPhoto's or Aperture's interface to external editors.
To switch between Aperture and iPhoto is very easy. Both programs can open each other's photo libraries. To edit the events that you imported into iPhoto with Aperture, simply open the iPhoto library with Aperture.
In iPhoto use the command "File > Open Library in Aperture"; to switch back to iPhoto use Aperture's command "File > Open Library in iPhoto".
Some things to consider, when switching between Aperture and iPhoto:
Aperture 3.3: Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture
Regards
Léonie -
Where is the pictures folder in finder?
I have a macbook air OS X 10.9.5. When I tried to scan a document the destination folder was Pictures but it was greyed out. I then had to send the scan to iPhotos in order to send it on by email.
There isn't a Pictures folder when I look in Finder. Should there be?
Its a pain to send the scan by iPhotos because it inserted it into the document and only gave me a small text box to write all of the text of the email.Hello,
Maybe you've accidentally removed the folder from the sidebar.
If you press "Command + ," you'll get into the preferences of Finder.
Click the tab "Sidebar" and select "Pictures".
Regards,
Stef Heck -
I cannot open files in "My pictures" folder
For the last couple of weeks I have been unable to open files in "My Pictures" folder. For example, if I save a photo in my pictures, it will not open if I double click on it.
Anyone any ideas ??
Thanks in advance.Hi
You can check if these programs are installed properly.
Go to the add or remove programs and select Add remove Windows components
But nevertheless, you can use any other software to open the pictures.
Right click on the picture and select open with then go to Choose Program.
There you can choose the software which you want to use. If the program doesnt occur in the program window so you can also use the option Browse
Dont forget to enable the option Always use the selected program to open this kind of file -
Duplicate photos from root Picture folder
As a result of upgrading versions of LR from 1.0 to now, and not knowing how to do that properly, I've got nested Lightroom and Pictures sub folders in my root Pictures on my Mac system. Is there a way to illiminate duplicate photos, without breaking the LR catalog? There are no duplicates in my catalog.
I have LR pointing, on my iMac, to the "Pictures" folder. Under that, I have sub folders called "Lightroom->Pictures", etc. I have many more pictures and folders under root->Pictures, than I have in my LR catalog. I think upgrading since 1.0 has duplicated on import and created new folders. I want to clean this up now and delete duplicate raw images on disk. I can't do it manually. Too onerous. Hope that makes this simple situation clearer.
Update: Turns out i only have 2k extra images than what appears in the catalog, so maybe not as bad as I thought. Would still like to reorganize the folders so that they make more sense, like illiminating the lightroom->pictures sub-folders.
Update: Found the easiest way to reorganize is to global highlight photos in a sub folder and drag to the higher level folder. LR does all the work and updates the catalog. Solved. -
Anyone know how to detect and delete duplicate photo files that exist in the Pictures folder in the Finder that are also in the iPhoto library?
There's no way to compare the photos in the library with those outside the library. However, as long as you're running a "managed" library
You can import batches of the photos, i.e by folder, into the library. If the photo is already in the library you will be given this notice:
Check that checkbox and clik on the Don't Import button. When that folder is finished importing (or not) delete it and go to the next.
If you need to check for duplicates in the library you can use one of these applications to identify and remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
iPhoto Library Manager - $29.95
Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free
Duplicate Annihilator - $7.95 - only app able to detect duplicate thumbnail files or faces files when an iPhoto 8 or earlier library has been imported into another.
PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
DeCloner - $19.95 - can find dupicates in iPhoto Libraries or in folders on the HD.
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