Missing photos after camera library updated itself

this morning when i went to take some photos, i went into the camera app and it did some library update which has never happened before. then i went into my camera roll just before and all my photos and videos from the last month are missing, and theres some photos that i deleted at the start of the year that are now back. so what was the update and why did it delete some of my photos? is there any way of getting them back?

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Missing Photos and jumbled library and sub folders

Hi. I am having trouble opening photos in iPhoto. The thumbnails are squashed out of shape and when I double click on the image, a different photo appears. There are also blank squares in place of some thumbnails. All the photos in my library are also out of order, most of my subfolders are now empty and if there are photos in a subfolder, they do not correspond to the folder name. Everything appeared to be okay two weeks ago.
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Hi Ben,
First try a rebuild:
Try this:
Before doing a rebuild make sure iPhoto's trash bin is emptied. You can do this by control clicking on the trash bin, or from the menu bar under iPhoto.
Close iPhoto
Duplicate the iPhoto Library folder
Drag the duplicate to the desktop (hopefully you have enough room on your hard drive for the duplicate.)
Launch iPhoto holding down the Command and Option keys until you see the rebuild options screen.
Choose the first three options. If you were missing photos in your library, also choose the last option. Be advised that you will get a roll of orphaned photos and it might be quite huge. Most of them will already be in your iPhoto library, but use caution when deleting anything from this roll until you are sure the photos are still in your library in another place. It might be a good idea to share/export this roll of photos just in case you need to import them again.
Back to the rebuild, depending on the size of your library it might take some time. When it is done, hopefully your photos will be there.
You might see some unexpected results as I did when I did a rebuild. Photos had been moved to wrong dates, video clips had lost their duration info and some were even orphaned from the jpg pointer file. It took me some time to straighten it out again.
This is the reason to make a duplicate before you rebuild, in case you do not like the result. If you don't like the result, close iPhoto, then delete the rebuilt library and drag the duplicate back into the Pictures folder making sure the name is iPhoto Library. Launch iPhoto and it should open the library in the Pictures folder.
iPhoto 4 or later: Rebuilding the iPhoto Library
If that doesn't work, create a new 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 highlight it in the window, then click the "import" button.
iPhoto will start importing the images from your old library
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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.
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I'm trying to repair what I assume is my pal's corrupted iPhoto Library. There are over 8000 images in the Originals folder, which is the number of photos expected to be in iPhoto but he suddenly discovered there were only 1200.
Having tried to rebuild the library with iPhoto Library Manager it is still only showing 1200 photos and I therefore wondered whether anyone can recommend any other solutions for trying to recover the missing photos?
As always, any help most appreciated
Kind Regards
Bernard

Did you try to rebuild with iPhoto with "Find orphans" option selected? If that doesn't work you'll have to start over with a new library as follows:
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I saw this earlier question https://discussions.apple.com/message/23844703#23844703. Though the problem sounds similar the solutions was to give up on importing and adding the photos manually. There must be a way to preserve my albums, no?
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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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Missing photos after Import

Ok here is the deal, I have had problems iporting photos into my iphoto library lately. I imported a rill via the import command and then I got a munch of the ! mark things one for every picture. So then I went into the iphoto library and found that the folder that keeps the rolls was read only ( I sure didnt put it that way) anyways I changed it to read and write, I imported again and now have all the thumbs but when I view them individually I get the ! thing again, plus it keeps telling me to rebuild my thumnail cache, which I don't remember ever having to do before. Any help is appreciated.
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Zach:
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Do you Twango?
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Missing Photos after rename and organize Rolls

Hi. I had a bunch of Rolls in my iPhoto Library\Originals folder for each year. In many cases there was just 1 picture in a Roll and hundreds of rolls. So I renamed a few Rolls to more meaningful names and moved pictures around into these Rolls. Then I deleted the empty Roll. I thought I was doing a great job in reducing hundreds of Rolls down to a handful.
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Brad
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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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PSE 11 Activation Fails After Camera Raw Update - 12-14-12

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Okay, now that I did the upgrade 7, I have no idea how to delete photos after I moved to my laptop. need space

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Regards,
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Léonie
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Click to view full size
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