Lost parents photos while upgrading OS after a few drinks

Upgrading to OS 10.6.8 erased my parents iPhoto, is there a way to get it back or must I buy it, and lose their memories?

Your question seems to be that you lost "both" the iPhoto App "and" photograph(s). Hopefully, your parents have a backup of their data on a Time Machine or another external hard drive. if so, you should be able to restore both of these items from that source.

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After auto-updating iPhoto to version 5.0.2, I no longer have any photos or albums in my iPhoto library. Where did they go? I can't even find specific titles using a search of the hard drive. What can I do to get them back?
-Mike

Mike,
iPhoto 5 now stores the Album information in a data xml file. The Albums folder within the iPhoto Library folder is no longer used. At some point, usually after a rebuild, you will no longer have that folder in the Finder.
If you need to access photos from an album it is very difficult for a third party application to navigate the iPhoto Library in order to find the photo you need. You will have to know the date of import in order to find the photo.
There are some third party applications that can read the xml file and can navigate the iPhoto library and show you the Albums. Hopefully more applications will be revised to read this file.
Until then you will have to Share/Export the photos to the desktop. You can then navigate to the desktop to use the photos (example: web uploading from online photo site)
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For email you can also use the email icon within iPhoto to open a message with the highlighted photo attached.
You can also use spotlight to find images in an Album...
This is what I have done using Spotlight to find my images that are in iPhoto albums without opening iPhoto..
In iPhoto, select the album, then select all, go to Photos/batch change.
Change the comments to text. In the text field I put the name of the Album.
Do this for each album.
Close iPhoto.
Open Spotlight and put in the name of the Album ( you have to remember the names of the albums or have then written down)
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Make sure you have it in icon view, the icon view box is the last one on the blue images line.
Now you can control click on the image to "reveal in finder", open in iPhoto or Mail, etc.
I am not sure if this is going to make you happy and it is a little more work, but you can find images in albums and even view them in a slideshow (by clicking the play arrow at the end of the Images highlighted blue line) using Spotlight, all without opening iPhoto.
Two Apple kbs for you to read
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto library folder
About the iPhoto Library folder
As to why they don't show up in the source column of iPhoto after the rebuild, I don't know why. Do all your images show up when you open iPhoto?
Is there anything listed in the source column other than "library"?
Here is another post with the same problem.
David Schwartz, "Missing All Albums in iPhoto 5", 07:49pm Aug 26, 2005 CDT

Lost new photos while restoring backup

Hi,
I recently switched from an iphone 4 to iphone 5. Before changing the phone I had taken a backup on iTunes on my PC (Windows 7). After getting the phone 5, I used it for several days without restoring the backup from iTunes on my PC. I had taken some photos during this time. When I recently connected my phone to the PC, iTunes prompted me if I wanted to restore backup. On clicking 'Yes', I got all my old photos in the new phone but lost all the new ones I had taken. It was so frustrating.. as if you are back to your old phone!!! Are there any ways to recover the new pics?? Please let me know, I really need those new pics!!

eh2756 wrote:
Same problem. My wife lost her iPhone 3Gs while on vacation. Purchased iPhone 5 on the trip and took pictures with it. When we got back home I clicked restore from a previous backup and all the pictures disappeared.
I wonder if Apple is reading this thread. ?????????
NO... What did you expect the phone to do when you restore from a backup.
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I downloaded some very dear and important photos (out of many more) from my iPad mini into my MacBook Pro, using iPhoto. When I finished and unplugged (I was careful to eject the device) all my videos and photos were missing on my iPad mini. All of them even the ones that I did not touch. Nevertheless something curious occured: if I use iTunes to browse the iPad mini, even when I do not have any sign of the photos or videos on iTunes, in the data bar down the window or dialog box the entire photos and videos and all other stuff appears as colored bars as if nothing had happened.
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I am a new iTunes user and I am not used to certain features. next to the color data bar there are two buttons "revert" and "apply". What do they do? (I do not want to screw up)
So can enyone help me recover all my photos and videos please???
VitoF3D

No, the photos do not appear on the Mac or on the iPad while browsing them through iPhoto.
But curiously, if I open iTunes, when looking at the data bar at de bottom of the dialog it says the whole Photos are there. The bar indicates the presence of the whole 8202 photos in an orange color bar. So why iTunes display such information but iPhoto do not recognize it?
I downloaded some photos first, like 1000 and I wanted to download the rest later. Then I disconnected the device being careful to eject it properly. The computer asked through a dialog if I wanted to erase the photos I just downleaded, and I clicked yes because the whole operaton was indeed to make space to take more photos because the memory was almost full. Yesterday, half an hour from the downloading I realized the whole rest of the pictures were missing. Some videos and just one photograph remain and it seems I lost all reamining photos on the iPad.
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The Kingston Wi-Drive, which costs $50 for the 16 Gigabyte, and then $30 more for every 16 gigs more. It works by you turning it on and then accessing the files on it from an app that you download on your iDevice. You can access music, movies, and other stuff. No connections or anything, it works like a WiFi connection, you connect to it from the setting on the iPad under wireless networks.
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Information: Unfortunately, all filters were off. In "keywords", the number indicated (35) I had "keyworded", probably 1500 images.
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