Lost all my pictures in Aperture, any idea where they're hiding?

Any ideas on how to find missing pictures on my Imac in Aperture?

What system, what OS and what version of Aperture? How many disks are on the system? Is the library on the internal or an external disk?
Make sure all external disks are attached, turned on and mounted then:
Open Aperture. Select File->Switch to Library->Other/New
A window will open in which Aperture will list all the libraries it finds on the disks attached to the system. While it is searching a spinning disk will appear at the bottom of the window. Let it run until that stops.
Look in the list, are other libraries listed? Is one possibly the one with the missing images?

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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Use your Time Machine (or other) back up to return to the point before you deleted them.

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Did you ever restore your last iCloud backup? That contains you camera roll photos & videos, text messages, app data, settings, etc. It will also redownload your apps and other purchased media.
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I lost all my pictures in Aperture and I used Time Machine to restore the lost pictures.

After losing all my pictures on Aperture and not being able to restore the the pictures using Time Machine as instructed by Apple Care. I searched the web on how to restore the pictures using Time Machine and did not find a good solution. So with trial and error this is the solution that worked and it is easy. Using Time Machine restore the entire Pictures directory. Then restore the Aperture in Application. Then go to the Pictures directory and click on the White Box label Aperture. Do not open the Aperture Application it self Clicking on the White Box label Aperture will do the trick. It worked for me and I hope it works for you. Initially I lost 9500 pictures and I was sick till it was fixed. Everything went back to exactly the way is was before, including thumnails.

Thanks for posting. I have my library on an external drive and it spins processing before it crashes. I have tried everything. I think it believes some images are corrupted but who knows.
Do you keep your photos on your internal or external hard drive? Did you just open aperture and choose new library or did you delete your old one? I am not sure what to do, I have a big aperture library on a hard drive and time machine back up somewhere. I have a mirrored hard drive so I may only have 2 copies of the same screwed up library, don't know if they back up on time machine also?
Time machine has always confused me to be honest and fortunately I have never had to use it. So you can just replace your pictures? I think I have a bunch of photos in iphoto library on my internal hard drive, I hope I don't end up with duplicates and triplicates. Although I would settle for just about anything right now. I have 15k pictures that I see briefly before it crashes.

I have lost all the pictures on Aperture. What can I do to get them back? I have not deleted anything. Help!!!!

I downloaded Aperture and transferred all pix from Iphoto. Everything was on Aperture. Suddenly I have lost all the pictures. I have a handbook, etc., but to no avail. Help!

When this happens to a new user the two most likely causes are:
Aperture opend a different library that is empty. To check this go to File->Switch to Library. You'll get a window that looks somehting like this:
Of course the names for the libraries will be different. What does yours show? Is there more then one library listed. If you select Other/New you get this:
The first library in the list is the currenttly opened Library. What does you window say?
2. The other possibilty is that you have a filter set on the library keeping you from actually seeing the images in it. Go to the Library tabb of the Inspector and select the Photos icon. Make sure the search box looks like this:
If neither of these two actions clear up your problem post back.
regards

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You can never go wrong with a good Simpson's reference...
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Help me Dr. Zaius! <--- Simpsons reference #2

Hi TJD2012,
Check the below Kb article on saving chat history -
KB18406 BlackBerry Messenger conversations are lost following an application load process of a BlackBerry smartphone
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