Missing photos in LR backup

when checking my LR back up for photos there are just a few , I have backed up everytime LR suggested. Where are the other photos ?  thank u

Lightroom does not backup photos, except on import. Are you asking Lightroom to make backups on import?

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  • Photos missing from iPhoto/TM backup but with a twist.....

    So, there is a challenging twist associated with this case of missing photos and I hope an expert can provide some advice. Note: This is not related to upgrading from iPhoto '09 to '11 thank goodness!
    Here is the story in condensed form, with additional details below:
    MBP stolen but backed up with TM
    Used TM on the replacement MBP to browse backup of iPhoto backup of stolen MBP
    Restored iPhoto library to new MBP
    Open iPhoto on new MBP and browse library
    Everything looks OK except *FIVE* Events which show in the Event viewer as blank grey squares. However, the Events have the correct titles and show the correct number of pictures in brackets in the title. In addition, using the trackpad to scroll over the Event there are no thumbnails visible. If I click on the Event all the photos are greyed out but they do have the correct titles and keywords below the grey boxes. If I click on an individual photo I get a black exclamation mark in a grey circle. Interestingly the LAST IMPORT folder in iPhoto DOES show the thumbnails for ALL the missing pictures, all arrange with the correct Event titles. Of course, clicking on any individual picture gives me the same exclamation mark detailed above.
    After reading these support forums I have tried the following:
    1) Viewed package contents ---> the blank Events DO NOT show up as folders in the Finder window
    2) Used COMMAND & OPTION to launch iPhoto and checked the following boxes in the REBUILD DIALOG BOX: rebuild small thumbnails/rebuild all of the photos' thumbnails/recover orphaned photos/examine and repair permissions ---> Issue persists
    3) Download iPhoto Manager and tried EXTRACTING all the photos from the library --> Photos from missing events still not showing up. Not really surprising given that the VIEW PKG. CONTENTS in #1 above didn't show them either.
    4) Used iPhoto Manager to REBUILD LIBRARY --> still doesn't show them
    5) Used TM to browse the backup directly --> missing photos have blank placeholders only.
    It appears for what ever reason the photos have been deleted from the backup. I say "deleted", as opposed to "not backup up", because iPhoto has the remnants of the photos (i.e, Events, thumbnails, titles, keyword, etc.). Any suggestions on how to possibly recover these missing pictures. How about the thumbnail versions at least, even in their their low resolution form. Although, I admit I don't know how/where thumbnails are dealt with in iPhoto as they don't seem to show up in the Library package contents.
    Additional info:
    OSX 10.7.5, iPhoto '09 is version 8.1.2, and iPhoto library is 75GB, 139 Events, 28,000 pics
    The day before the MBP was stolen I downloaded a number of photos and did some editing. That night plugged the MBP in and noticed that the Time Machine did a number of backups through the night, although the iPhoto library seems untouched but can't be sure. The following morning, the computer was used for a few hours and thus had plenty of time to complete any backups necessary.
    The *FIVE* Events that are affected seem to be the most recent ones, worked on the night before the MBP was stolen.

    I cannot say for certian but it is highly likley that YES, when the person finished editing they just closed the lid of the computer and didn't actually quit iPhoto. So would this explain why there are fragmenst of them in the backup (i.e. Events, keywords, thumbnails, etc.) but not the actual image files? Any way I can at least save the extremely low res thumbnail versions?
    I'm also going to try Data Rescue on the camera memory card to try and recover them that way.
    Thanks.

  • IOS Photos - Proper Cloud Backup & Managemetn

    Am I missing a major point here, or is there a big gap in the iOS, iTunes, iCloud design for photo management the way most people (I would guess) want to do it? Excuse the underlining - brevity isn't my forte so trying to highlight the key points.
    Here's what I'd like to be able to do:
    Use any/all of my iPad and iPhone devices to take photos and also eat photos from my other cameras via SD card reader
    Process the photos on an iPad (view, edit, delete), so I don't have to go to a desktop/laptop to do that
    Have the photos stored in a cloud in a way that provides privacy (I still own and control them), ability to view online, ability to point others to them online, ability to manage them online including downloading originals etc etc.  Thus not forcing me to rely on local PCs, PC backups, etc etc for photo safety.
    Not have to do anything active in order for my photos to be copied to the cloud (don't want to have to remember to sit down at a computer and waste time curating my photos, after having already done that on my iPad)
    (When I say "photos" I mean little videos taken on my iOS devices and cameras also)
    My understanding of what iOS and iCloud provide is (right or wrong):
    New photos taken on each iPhone/iPad can be shared to other iOS devices on the same iTunes account using PhotoStream and iCloudBut this is just for convenient sharing across devices (not really a backup tool, keeps a rolling window or recent photos, photos aren't available online in iCloud anywhere)
    New photos taken on each device are backed up to your iTunes computer (if you choose to) and iCloud (if you choose to)
    But you can't see or use those photos on your iTunes computer - they are just part of a device backup
    And you can't see those photos online in iCloud - again, they are just part of a backup blob
    So this is all just about getting a single device back to how it was previously, including the photos it had on it at the time of the backup
    This doesn't copy photos to anywhere central or usable/viewable etc
    It also doesn't help create a single central repository of photos either on your computer or in the cloud
    You can set iTunes to sync a photos folder with your iOS device
    But this is about getting photos from the computer onto the iOS device.  It isn't about actually synchronising photos between the device and that folder
    So the photos from your device don't end up on your computer that way (ie no help at all for what I am after)
    You can use an PhotoStream app on your computer to be a client of the PhotoStream for your iTunes/iCloud account
    Again, this is just a moving windows of most recent photos so doesn't really help much with photo centralisation for backup
    Also, if there is a way to scrape the photos off PhotoStream to a central repository on your computer, it would involve sitting down and doing that manually (don't know if this is even possible)
    Therefore, as far as I can tell, iOS, iTunes and iCloud do not provide what I am after, at least not out of the box
    Independently of iOS, iTunes and iCloud:
    I know I can plug my iOS device(s) into a PC and manually copy the photos off each device them using the PC OS (Windows, OS X, whatever) support for media storage devices over USBBut this is a manual process per device, so doesn't happen automagically and therefore doesn't meet my requirements
    I know I can use the Dropbox iOS app to sync my photos from each individual device to Dropbox
    But this isn't really a central repository of photos in the cloud (think it is done on a device-by-device basis and not sure how well it deals with photos that exist on multiple devices - ie duplication etc)
    Also I may not want to use Dropbox (not stoked about their security and privacy commitments)
    I am prepared to use a third party service for managing the photos from a PC into the cloud
    I already use JungleDisk and Duplicati and am happy to configure these to copy my photos to some independent cloud storage, at least for backup purposes
    I can also open an account with Flickr, SmugMug, Picassa etc and get more online photo control that way.
    However, to do that I first have to get my photos into one central location, eg on a PC, and then I can then run a process on the PC to auto-sync from that location to the cloud
    I don't think about photos on a per-device basis.  I think about them on a single-central-library basis.  I would guess most people do.  And iOS devices are a major source of new photos these days, and I like the idea of pre-managing my library from iOS devices because it is nice and easy and you can do it in front of the TV etc in a different mind-set from opening a laptop or going to a computer. But I need to end up with all those photos as viewable and manageable in one place, and I'd ideally like that one place to be a functional, secure cloud that respects my ownership and privacy. And I'd like to avoid having to schedule my brain to remember to sit down and do active things on a computer/laptop in order to achieve that.  That is very 20th Century and not very "cloud" or "iOS".  At this point I can't seem to work out how to even get all the photos into a single place on a single computer in order to manage my own cloud syncing from there.
    Am I missing anything?

    Am I missing a major point here, or is there a big gap in the iOS, iTunes, iCloud design for photo management the way most people (I would guess) want to do it? Excuse the underlining - brevity isn't my forte so trying to highlight the key points.
    Here's what I'd like to be able to do:
    Use any/all of my iPad and iPhone devices to take photos and also eat photos from my other cameras via SD card reader
    Process the photos on an iPad (view, edit, delete), so I don't have to go to a desktop/laptop to do that
    Have the photos stored in a cloud in a way that provides privacy (I still own and control them), ability to view online, ability to point others to them online, ability to manage them online including downloading originals etc etc.  Thus not forcing me to rely on local PCs, PC backups, etc etc for photo safety.
    Not have to do anything active in order for my photos to be copied to the cloud (don't want to have to remember to sit down at a computer and waste time curating my photos, after having already done that on my iPad)
    (When I say "photos" I mean little videos taken on my iOS devices and cameras also)
    My understanding of what iOS and iCloud provide is (right or wrong):
    New photos taken on each iPhone/iPad can be shared to other iOS devices on the same iTunes account using PhotoStream and iCloudBut this is just for convenient sharing across devices (not really a backup tool, keeps a rolling window or recent photos, photos aren't available online in iCloud anywhere)
    New photos taken on each device are backed up to your iTunes computer (if you choose to) and iCloud (if you choose to)
    But you can't see or use those photos on your iTunes computer - they are just part of a device backup
    And you can't see those photos online in iCloud - again, they are just part of a backup blob
    So this is all just about getting a single device back to how it was previously, including the photos it had on it at the time of the backup
    This doesn't copy photos to anywhere central or usable/viewable etc
    It also doesn't help create a single central repository of photos either on your computer or in the cloud
    You can set iTunes to sync a photos folder with your iOS device
    But this is about getting photos from the computer onto the iOS device.  It isn't about actually synchronising photos between the device and that folder
    So the photos from your device don't end up on your computer that way (ie no help at all for what I am after)
    You can use an PhotoStream app on your computer to be a client of the PhotoStream for your iTunes/iCloud account
    Again, this is just a moving windows of most recent photos so doesn't really help much with photo centralisation for backup
    Also, if there is a way to scrape the photos off PhotoStream to a central repository on your computer, it would involve sitting down and doing that manually (don't know if this is even possible)
    Therefore, as far as I can tell, iOS, iTunes and iCloud do not provide what I am after, at least not out of the box
    Independently of iOS, iTunes and iCloud:
    I know I can plug my iOS device(s) into a PC and manually copy the photos off each device them using the PC OS (Windows, OS X, whatever) support for media storage devices over USBBut this is a manual process per device, so doesn't happen automagically and therefore doesn't meet my requirements
    I know I can use the Dropbox iOS app to sync my photos from each individual device to Dropbox
    But this isn't really a central repository of photos in the cloud (think it is done on a device-by-device basis and not sure how well it deals with photos that exist on multiple devices - ie duplication etc)
    Also I may not want to use Dropbox (not stoked about their security and privacy commitments)
    I am prepared to use a third party service for managing the photos from a PC into the cloud
    I already use JungleDisk and Duplicati and am happy to configure these to copy my photos to some independent cloud storage, at least for backup purposes
    I can also open an account with Flickr, SmugMug, Picassa etc and get more online photo control that way.
    However, to do that I first have to get my photos into one central location, eg on a PC, and then I can then run a process on the PC to auto-sync from that location to the cloud
    I don't think about photos on a per-device basis.  I think about them on a single-central-library basis.  I would guess most people do.  And iOS devices are a major source of new photos these days, and I like the idea of pre-managing my library from iOS devices because it is nice and easy and you can do it in front of the TV etc in a different mind-set from opening a laptop or going to a computer. But I need to end up with all those photos as viewable and manageable in one place, and I'd ideally like that one place to be a functional, secure cloud that respects my ownership and privacy. And I'd like to avoid having to schedule my brain to remember to sit down and do active things on a computer/laptop in order to achieve that.  That is very 20th Century and not very "cloud" or "iOS".  At this point I can't seem to work out how to even get all the photos into a single place on a single computer in order to manage my own cloud syncing from there.
    Am I missing anything?

  • IPhoto Missing Photos, Unique Situation

    Hi everybody,
    I am in what I believe to be (after a bit of Googling and forum searching) in a unique position with my iPhoto Library. The library in question used to be maintained without keeping copies in the actual library (by using the relevant option in iPhoto Preferences), as I like to maintain my own folder hierarchy for the actual photo file storage. However, after a hard drive upgrade and the move to iPhoto '08, I decided I'd like to change this. Before moving to '08, though, I needed a way to get all my then-aliased photos into the library itself. So, I used a program called Synk (basically a backup program) which was able to resolve all the aliases to photos elsewhere and replace them with the actual photos in my iPhoto library.
    The old system and paths have since been replaced (due in no small part to a hard drive crash), and I'm now having an issue with those photos whose links no longer work. Apparently, said links weren't working during the resolution of the aliases, and so a number of broken links made their way into the new library and are now still there. And, unfortunately, those photos were stored on a drive which no longer exists, meaning anytime I try to click on one of those photos, iPhoto gives me the spinning beach ball of death for a minute or two (per photo) as it tries to connect to that drive. When it finally fails, it brings up the "Could not find this photo" dialogue box and gives me the option to find it, but to do this for all the missing links (as there are quite a few) would be extremely tedious.
    So, I'm wondering what ideas people have as to go about restoring my library. I still have all (or at least most) of the missing photos in question on disk; they're just not properly linked. And I'd really like to keep all my tagging, renaming, and comment info for the photos that are there, given I've done extensive work in these areas. Thanks for any help.

    CyberMonk:
    I hope you didn't use Synk on the entire library package. Because it cannot parse the database file's contents which is the heart and soul of the library. I'm afraid you may not be able to resurrect the library.
    Since the links for the alias files are broken unless you can re-link each file you'll have to start over from scratch by creating a new, empty library and importing the photos again. I don't know of any application that can do that.
    Do you get a warning window when double clicking on a thumbnail indicating that the original file cannot be found and asks if you'd like to find it? If so, if you can find and re-link one photo in an event it may re-link all of the photos in that event as they are all in the same folder. But you have to be able to get to that warning window.
    If the above fails I strongly recommend you setup a "managed" library to prevent this type of problem again.
    You could run a managed library of all your photos on the external HD and have a smaller library on the laptop for the most current and those you need. You can use the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager to manage the multiple libraries and copy files via albums or event between the two while maintaining the keywords, comments and title.
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    I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

  • How do I recover missing photos in iPhoto 11?

    HI!
         I recently upgraded to iPhoto 11 (from iPhoto 9, I believe). There are 12 photos missing from  the 'Photos' section of my library. There are dashed lines around the locations where the photos should be (it is a sequence of 12 pictures), so I assume the originals are in the iPhoto Library somewhere. How do I have the placed back where they should be?
         Thanks for your help.
    Doug Chisholm

    Give these two fixes a try  to see if they can recover those missing photos.  But be sure to have a backup of your current library in case the results are not to your liking:
    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.
    Starting over from scratch with new library
    Start over with a new library and import the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from your original library as follows:
    1. Open the library package like this.
    2. Launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
    3. Drag the subfolders of the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from the open iPhoto Library package into the open iPhoto window a few at a time.
    This will create a new library with the same Events (but not necessarily the same Event names) as the original library but will not keep the metadata, albums, books slideshows and other projects.
    Note:  your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.

  • Finding missing photos

    I recently purchased a new Windows 7 computer and upgraded to LR3.3 at the same time. I used Laplink PCmover to transfer my files over to the new machine. I was using multiple external drives to store photos, I installed a dedicated 2 TB internal drive for photos only and moved all of the images onto one location for LR to reference. I will use the external drives for backups. As others on this forum have found, all of my LR files were grayed out. After doing some research, I have a better understanding of how Lightroom works and how to restore.
    I have been using the "Photo is Missing" icon on individual photos in the gallery with the "Find Nearby Missing Photos" selected. Sometimes dozens of photos are restored, often all taken on the same day and in the same folder. However, too often...they come back only one at a time, even though there are others from the same date in the same file. Any ideas on why this happens?
    I have over 22,000 more photos to restore! Has anyone found a way to automate this process?
    Thank you in advance for your help.

    I structure folders for ease of back up as I would always use LR to locate image files, far quicker than any other method. I have one folder called original files, with another folder for each year , all files are imported into date based folder under that. This is backed up to an external drive every week and an on line back up runs every night.
    I have the same structure for other types of files such as videos (I don't use LR for videos as I shoot in AVCHD) and use Bridge for these searching by metadata again rather than by using folders. Folders are a pretty poor way of structuring files a left over from out dated operating systems., so just ensure that folders are kept simple and easy to back up, use more sophisticated metadata based searches through LR or Bridge for locating files when they are required.

  • Missing photos in preview

    I have a large photo book (100 pages, 647 images) in iphoto 11.  I'm having two problems.  First, when I export to iDVD or iMovie, 3 photos are missing from the files.  The pix are on double spread page layouts, and only some of the small photos (not the one that traverses pages) are missing.  The same photos are absent from a slideshow of the book and from the Preview and PDF.  So, I can't order the book because I can't get preview to include these photos.
    I'm using the latest version of iPhoto (all up to date), but have not upgraded to Lion.
    I've checked the photos and they all work (used the "edit" function to check).  So, I know they are not corrupted.
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    Are you able to edit or view in full screen those "missing" photos in iPhoto?  What do you see when you try?
    Make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
    Fix #1
    Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
    Select the options identified in the screenshot. 
    Fix #2
    Using iPhoto Library Manager  to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
    Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
    Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
    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
    In the next  window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
    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 left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
    OT

  • Missing photos- have tried a number of steps. Help wanted.

    Hello, first time here. Would appreciate some help.
    Have read 15 or so pages of threads/questions which was useful.
    In my iphoto 6.0.6 I have lost some photos since my last backup due to renaming of film roll names in finder, not through iphoto (I now know and wont do it again). The photos of a renewable energy site tour and my bday with all the german relatives, show up as grey thumbnail with question mark that when I click on it, is a grey photo with a question mark (can't find it I assume).
    I had also recently trashed my iphoto trash (needed to clear some room), so any photos not knowing where to live, may have been ditched. My automatic syncing with my ipod also means that this 2nd backup has removed the deleted photos from my ipod.
    In iphoto, I can get the image info of the missing photos but on searching in finder for the names, it does not find anything. Neither with manually looking in the Data, Modified and Originals folders in my iphoto library.
    I have used holding 'apple and option when restarting iphoto' and clicked all the options together (backup up photo library photo first), it doesnt recover the photos and still leaves the grey thumbnails there.
    Are the grey thumbnails and availability of missing photo info a function of some organising file of iphoto and/or are their other steps I could take to find them?
    Have looked into Data Rescue & File Salvage (trial features have not helped/found them).
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    Carl

    Thanks for your reply TD.
    In copying my iphoto library to the desktop, Creating a new library, and then recreating them the new library by dragging the original rolls- I am not sure this will solve my problem.
    I have searched through the original folder for the photos I am after but they are no longer there. Recreating a new library from these folders will give me the photos I have now, get rid of the grey thumbnails & info of the photos I lost (and remove my albums etc as you said).
    I am speculating that there was something going funny as both rolls that have 'corrupted'/ photos missing, and a new one I just did as a test (but not deleting the photos from the camera!) did not complete their download in one go, that is it would stop partway through the download, and I would need to click download again (a result of not enough startup diskspace), but they all downloaded. Perhaps there is is a process at the end of the download that it skipped, that makes the photos sit all nice and secure in iphoto.
    1) Can it be explained why the thumbnails and information (when I do apple 'i') are still there but the photos are missing?
    2) Is there still any advantage in recreating a library if I know the photos I want aren't in the originals folder?
    3) Can you comment on any implications on when iphoto doesn't download all the contents in one go. (e.g. stopped partway for not enough diskspace)
    My safety net for future:
    - More frequent backups
    - Backing up the library6.iPhoto file after each download (Automator?)
    - Clearing space, using new drive.
    - Turning off 'delete from camera' download option until I know they are all in there.
    Thanks for your help and clarity.
    Carl

  • Missing photos in Aperture 3.1.3

    I opened Aperture today to discover that all of my photos that are older than about 6 months are now missing from the library. The thumbnail/preview of missing photos show as an outline now. If I right click on a missing photo and select Show In Finder, I will see this error:
    "The file (name) could not be found because the volume on whioch it resides is currently offline.
    Volume: Macintosh HD"
    It seems that iPhoto, with an older set of photos, is working normally still. This is a somewhat new iMac that was created from a Time Machine backup from a MacBook Pro. I haven't really changed anything and the photo library has always been on the same local HD.
    Any ideas? Should I just go back to iPhoto?!

    Well, it seems that I just found part of the answer here. The path to the files in my iPhoto library has changed somehow - perhaps due to an update.
    /User/username/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals/... etc
    ...has changed to...
    /User/username/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/... etc
    File > Locate Referenced Files... will allow me to find and fix this but it seems like only one photo at a time. Is there a better way to do this?

  • Calendar Crashes, iPhoto 6.0.3, and Missing Photos, Books, etc.

    Last week I was creating a calender in iPhoto 6.0.2. It crashed twice while I was working on it. I submitted the crash logs to Apple and went on working with the calendar. Everything seemed fine.
    Last night I upgraded to iPhoto 6.0.3 via Software Update. I checked permissions afterwards, then launched iPhoto 6.0.3 to work on my calendar. ALL of my photos since December 2004 were missing and I also had no books, albums, or calendars in the left side pane. I tried rebuilding the library and nothing changed. I have not yet tried to "recover" lost images.
    I'm not sure if the iPhoto 6.0.2 calendar crash did this or the iPhoto 6.0.3 update, or the combination of the two. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get back all of this information? From what I've gathered, it looks like I should try iPhoto Library Manager. That seems to help some people. At the very least I hope to get all my Film Rolls back, but I would like all the other stuff as well.
    Yes, I should have a more recent backup than I do, but Apple also needs to make the iPhoto Library data files more robust so it's easier to rebuild this information!

    That did indeed recover all my "missing" photos. I guess there just isn't anyway to recover albums, calendards, greeting cards, slideshows, etc. Is that true?
    I think I will revert back to my last backup and manually add the 10 or so rolls that I have taken since then. At least that way the only thing I lose is the calendar I was working on during the crash in iPhoto 6.0.2. I also plan on filing a bug on iPhoto with the crash log and the information about it corrupting my iPhoto Library. If iPhoto Library Manager can recover all my photos, then iPhoto itself should definitely be able to!
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    Power Mac G5 Dual 2 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

  • Best strategy for dealing with a mixed library and missing photos

    Looking at the package contents of my iPhoto Library, it appears that I have a "mixed" library (i.e. part managed and part referenced). I'm not sure how this happened--I originally created this library about three years ago when I first bought my Mac with iLife '06, then later upgraded to iLife '08 which I'm currently still using. Maybe the default setting was to have a referenced library in iPhoto '06? Don't know. I don't recall ever changing this setting.
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