Missing photo's from iPhoto? Can I store from time machine?

I am missing some photo's from my iPhoto library (must have deleted accidentally). I have time machine and when I go in to the oldest it only shows the entire photo library - is there a way to see the files in the library and restore them?
Thanks in advance!

Try rebuilding the Library it could correct the issue.
iPhoto Rebuild
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2638

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HT201250 Can I restore photo files from Time Machine without the use of an external drive? I'm trying to restore lost photo files and I see them listed in Time Machine (without use of an external drive), but when I try to restore I get a error code 36.

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Thanks so much Terence. I tried some of the fixes from that page, but then discovered the suggestion to compress the Time Machine Back up of the original library and transfer it as a zip back to my computer as detailed here:
http://pondini.org/TM/E9.html
That worked like a charm. I really appreciate it.

Restoring photo information from time machine

Somehow, iPhoto changed the title of all of my photos in a particular album to "1921". So, I need to restore those 279 modified photos that are in that photo album to get the correct title back. When I go to Time Machine and look at the photo album I see exactly what I want. However, when I click "restore", what gets imported is the original photo with the original file number as the title. That's worse than having the wrong title. Why isn't the modified photo imported?

C M Clements wrote:
I have lost about 75% of my photos from 2009 -- earlier years seem not to have been affected, and this year's photos are not affected.
Here's what happened: In an effort to free up space on my hard drive, I deleted a very large file called "recovered photos." In 2008, I backed up that file to DVDs, but had not thought that anything had been added to that file since then.
But after deleting that file, I immediately noticed that most of my 2009 photos were missing. The only explanation I can think of is that they were somehow stored in this old recovered photo file.
The last backup I ran on Time Machine was run on Feb. 14.
you should back up more regularly than that if you value your data.
I have never had to restore data from Time Machine so I am not sure how to do it. I have located the missing recovered photo file on Time Machine. Should I highlight that file and click restore? Or should I restore the entire pictures folder?
quit iphoto and restore the whole iphoto library in your Pictures folder. don't try restoring the Pictures folder itself. that won't work. yes, to restore it you click on TM in the dock, scroll back in time select iphoto library and hit "restore". say yes when it asks if you want to overwrite existing items.
I posted in the iPhoto forums two days ago, and I have tried the suggestions I received there to no avail. Following those suggestions, I rebuilt my iPhoto library using both iPhoto and iPhoto Library Manager and neither action turned up the lost photos. I am posting here now because I think that restoring from Time Machine is my only chance of recovering those photos.

Cannot restore an old version of photo library from time machine

I save my photos to an external drive and back up to another drive using time machine. My photo drive has become corrupted (hard disc failing). I have gone into Timemachine and chosen an earlier photo library backup version (some months ago) and a new replacement external drive for the photo library, but when I then restore to this new drive, Time Machine advances to the most recent backup (with missing photos), and not my chosen backup, and saves this to the new drive. iphoto8, 7.1.5 & snow leopard, 10.6.8.

How did you try to restore from Time machine? Like described in this document? This should work, if your Time Machine backups are complete:
iPhoto '11: Restoring from Time Machine with iPhoto '11 (9.2 or later) and OS X Lion 10.7.2 (or later) - Apple Support
Earlier Time Machine versions had a glitch and could not make a full backup of an iPhoto Library, if iPhoto was open during backup.
I am not sure about your iPhoto version, but previous iPhoto versions could browse a Time Machine backup directly from iPhoto. Look for a "Browse Backup" backup item in iPhotos Help. Use this to restore the missing photos.

How do i restore photo albums from time machine backups without duplicates?

how do i restore photo albums without duplicates from time machine backups? thx

Worth updating? Totally a personal decision. For some it would be. For others it would not?
Upgrading, if there are no problems, does not affect your data. And since bad things do happen you always have a good backup. Especially when doing any upgrade.
Your password question has nothing to do with iPhoto. Try it in the OS forum
LN

Can I restore a single photo/photo folder from Time Machine/Time Capsule

Hi
So I'm usuing Time Machine to back up my MacBook to Airport Time Capsule.
If I somehow lost a couple of photos and its taken a few months to realise, can I retrieve just these photos/photo folder or do I need to restore my whole photo library going back to a past date - and then how can I be sure which date to restore back to - is there anyway of actually viewing the photos for a certain date before restoring?
And if the only way is to restore the whole library, what happens to any new photos that were added to the library between present day and the date I would be restoring back too?
Would it be better to move my photos from the app Iphoto to a documents folder for future use? This is assuming that in a documents folder you can view and just retrieve a single document... Havent tried it yet but that was my understanding...
Hope this makes sense
Many thanks in advance

Learn from Pondini, who knew more about Time Machine than anyone.
http://pondini.org/TM/15.html
See the green box for links for iPhoto instructions according to the version that you might have.
Would it be better to move my photos from the app Iphoto to a documents folder for future use?
No. Even if you did this, you would not be able to retrieve individual photos since iPhoto is a special type of package file.

Faces thumbnails missing after recovery from time machine

I got a new harddisk in my iMac via Apple's harddisk replacement program. I recovered all my data via a Time Machine backup (from a Time Capsule). All seemed fine after recovery of backup. When firing up iPhoto after the recovery iPhoto asks for updating all the thumbnails (don't know why). After a while everything seems fine - all photos are available with thumbnails in the events view. However all Faces thumbnails are missing - all persons in the faces view are black boxes. I can see that all the faces tagging are intact - when clicking a person I can see all the tagged images as black boxes. When switching the little "Faces - Photos" control to "Photos" I can see the photos containing all the tagged persons all right. I seems like it's only the face thumbnails that are missing.
So far I have tried the following without succes:
Repaired the iPhoto database with iPhotos own tool (holding Command and Option down when starting iPhoto)
Updating the entire library from an earlier backup
Updated the faces database files from an earlier backup as explained in this post
I'm out of good ideas now - can anyone help?

Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button,
and select the library you want to add from those in the selection window.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note 1: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost.
Note 2: Your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.
OT

How do I recover photos lost by iPhoto. I tried using Time Machine but I get an error message saying that I don't have permission.

IPhoto quit in the midst of importing some photos to the library. When I reopened it, it had some events, that were imported a few days earlier, which had no photos. They were missing. I tried Time Machine to restore the iPhoto Library to a version made a couple of hours earlier. But I got an error message saying that I did not have permission. I tried restarting iPhoto while holding down the Option key and tried to access the Time Machine iPhoto Library, but that only got me a portion of the library and not the portion that was missing earlier. When I restarted iPhoto this time, even more of my photos were missing.

Try repairing the permissions on your Time Machine, Take a look at this link, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452

How to I restore missing StickiesDatabase file from Time Machine?

I have looked all over for a solution to this. Basically, I am trying to restore a stickiesdatabase file from a Time Machine backup. I put in a new HD and am slowly pulling files over in pieces. The thing is, the backup that had the stickies I want to restore did not seem to back that file up. I navigated to user/library to find StickiesDatabase, and it is not there, even though I went into the terminal and unhid invisible folders and files (other greyed out invisibles showed up so I know it worked). But here's the weird thing, when looking on my current hard drive, I could find that file for my new, empty stickies just fine. Also, I went further to a Time Machine backup from a year ago, and I found the stickiesdatabase file in the library as well. It's like these last two backups I did that had the stickies I want did not include that file in the backup. Any thoughts? Am I doomed? Oh, and I am currently on Mavericks and the backup in question was also Mavericks. And I have a 2008 Macbook Pro if that info is helpful.

There is another, huge thread on TM backups on this forum and exactly this issue has come up. Sadly, no one has a perfect answer. I do not have a spare drive available to test this myself, but I would try something along these lines.
-- Ask TM to restore your full Library and the Masters, if Referenced. I believe that TM will give you the option to not overwriting your current Library, but be careful. However you do, stick this "Recovery Library" out somewhere. (Yes, this is gonna take some time, run it overnight.)
-- Open "Recovery" with Aperture and select the Project(s) that contain the images you want. Export these "Projects as New Library." (Don't export as either Versions or Masters.) I would select the box "Consolidate Masters" and I would probably discard the Previews. Stick this somewhere.
-- Now open "Original Library" and import the "Library" that you exported back into your Original Library as something like "Stupid Lost Project."
-- You should now have a Project full of adjusted, and adjustable images. (N.B. this is basically the technique I use with my laptop. I shoot, load into AP3 on the laptop, noodle, and then export/import into AP3 on the MacPro when I get home.)
-- Clean up. (Delete "Recovery", convert the recovered Project back to Referenced Masters, if you wish, etc.)
One good argument for never throwing those old USB drives away.
I have missed some of the details in the process, so be careful, but I believe that this will work until Apple lets us run Aperture inside Time Machine.
Best wishes.

Cannot restore an older version of photo library from time machine

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iMac (24-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

As a test, try restoring it to your computer and if successful, then copy the file to the external.

Restore from time machine

I am trying to upgrade the hard drive on my Macbook, and ran across an OS version problem.
1. I backed up my old drive to Time Machine on a portable HD.
2. I swaped out the old drive with a new one with more capacity.
3. I booted up with the Mac OS X Install DVD that came with my Macbook. Installs fine.
4. The system reboots after installing the OS, then asks if I want to transfer from existing Time Machine. I select that option and then select the external HD that has my Time Machine back up.
5. I can't proceed because the message says that the Time Machine backup is a more recent version of the OS than the OS on the laptop. It says to upgrade my OS, then proceed.
6. I check for software updates and install all available updates.
7. Now what? Where do I go to install the Time Machine backup?
HELP!

I also went through the rather painful process of migration assistant, and encountered similar issues.
One thing I discovered is that you must have the same version of OS X installed in order to properly restore your apps.
I would suggest that you make sure you have the same version of OS X installed that was installed since the last backup.
What I ended up doing was going to the App store and re installing all my app store purchases. Then, I also manually restored some missing apps directly from time machine.
I also found out that some of the applications I purchased from other manufacturers (I won't judge, I use Chrome and MS Office as well), needed a new install. Bummer.
Also, I noticed that some applications (purchased from other manufacturers) needed to be "re activated", or registered all over again. A frantic search for serial numbers and activation codes ensued.
It was a little harsh, but I got through it OK. This experience helped me understand time machine, but I will think twice before doing another clean install. Good Luck

After migrating data from Time Machine, some of my photos are not showing up in iPhoto. I get a 'dashed rectangle." When I click on it I get ' ! in a Triangle" When I click on that, I actually can see the photo. I want to see my photos

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Try these for the first attempt:
First be sure to have a backup copy of the library if you already don't have one.
OT

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Hi Gary,
I never use TM myself...
Have you looked through Pondini's extensive TM help site?
http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Can't imagine something not being covered there.

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can i uninstall iPhoto 9.4 and reinstall iphoto 9.3 from time machine and will my photos still be there?
Janet

Did you try to repair your library after the update to 9.4? Here's what you can try: make a temporary, backup copy of your library if you don't already have one (Control-click on the library and select Duplicate from the contextual menu) and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
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Fix #2
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HT201250 How do I restore photos from Time Machine? All of my photos have been imported within iPhoto and therefore are exported to Time Machine via an iPhoto file. I can't figure out how to break individual photo files out of the iPhoto file. Any idea

How do I restore photos from Time Machine? All of my photos have been imported within iPhoto and therefore are exported to Time Machine via an iPhoto file. I can't figure out how to break individual photo files out of the iPhoto file. Any ideas?

You might post this query on the iPhoto forum and perhaps someone there can provide an answer.
I tried this on my MBP and it seems that you have to restore the entire iPhoto Library. What I did was put the current library in a separate folder on the desktop and then I restored the library from a prior date. If you were to do that, you then could extract the desired photos and then delete the restored library. Then place the current library back to the original location and import the desired photos.
Not tidy but it seems it will work.
Ciao.

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