Missing photos and crashing in time machine
All of the photos taken since March with my Canon Powershot S515 will not appear in my iPhoto library. They used to, but now are gone. For the last few months, iPhoto has had problems with recent photos, but would eventually find them. I can't remember for sure, but problems may have begun after installation of Snow Leopard.
No more. Anyway, tried to rebuild library, received message that the photos wouldn't work unless I upgraded to lastest software, even though I HAVE latest software. I said okay. nothing happened. I used Amnesia program to remove all traces of iPhoto and reinstalled it. Did software update. Ended up having to do a manual rebuild and WATCHED all of the photos get put into iPhoto. But they are once again inaccessible.
Every time I try to enter my Time Machine to see if the photos are there, iPhoto crashes.
argh. Can I uninstall iPhoto and still have photos that a different program (maybe Picasa?) will be able to load? Can I take off Snow Leopard and revert to the old operating system? I am beyond frustrated.
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You're photos are safe and sound inside the iPhoto Library but iPhoto has a damaged database file that keeps track of them. Since you tried rebuilding the library already try doing so using iPhoto Library Manager as follows:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 -Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 -Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your User/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File->Rebuild Library menu option
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be untouched for further attempts at fixing or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
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My MacBook pro won't recognize hard drive I put in it. It boots only to a white screen unless I boot to my recovery USB. If I do that then I can select my USB and my external time machine drive in the disk utility, so no problems there. But what do you think it is? It won't recognize any hard drive I put in the machine, so might it be the sata cable?
Boot the Recvoery USB, use Disk Utility to select the internal drive makers namea and size on the left.
Now select erase and select the midde option and click erase, it will take a bit to complete but it's best for the drive.
Now select Partiton tab, click the big box and Options: GUID and then Format: OS X Extended journaled and click apply.
Quit and you should be able to install OS X now with your Apple ID and password.
see
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/08/lion-recovery-disk-assistant-tool-makes-external- lion-boot-recovery-drives/ -
Is it possible to reinstall Mac OS X Lion on MacBook and then use Time Machine to restore to the previous backup I made before reinstalling Mac OS X Lion?
My MacBook was not normally booting up. It would turn on, make the Apple startup noise, and the bottom loading bar would progress just a little bit, then my MacBook would shut down. I tried rebooting it many times and the same thing would happen, it would just shut down. Then, I read that I can reset the PRAM (by holding Option+Command+P+R after the Apple startup noise comes). That worked, but now I get a screen that asks me to choose one of the 4 options (see: http://images.macworld.com/images/article/2012/07/lionrecoveryutilities-289404.j pg). I choose Restore From Time Machine Backup, but it progresses to 17.6% and gets stuck there forever. I tried doing it again, and it got stuck at 17.6% again. That is why I am asking if I should just reinstall Lion, then restore a previous backup on the fresh new Lion?
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