My photos are in pieces in iphoto folders. Will I see them again?
I am trying to recover rolls 107-113 taken in March 2007. There is alot I don't know about iphoto and at the time, I was trying to arrange them. Frustrated with opening a photo and finding it open again into many "pieces", i.e. an icon with 795 next to it, and another with 795.attr next to it, I began deleting, etc. I have all those deletes in folders, but I cannot get them with other "pieces" of those photos (that probably have not been deleted), to make a whole picture. When I can restore those pix I think the "rolls" of film will fall in line. I also lost about 5 short movies (10-30 secs. each) and cannot find a trace of them.
Thinking I had put those "pieces" in the trash, I spent the weekend with Data Rescue and found no traces in deleted items.
Does anyone know how to put the pieces together to make a photo whole again?
Thanks.
Hi Terence-
I think I am sol. I found none of my pix or rolls in the finder, but was glad to check that.
Many questions follow:
1) Can you explain what support docs. make up a jpg? Since I have two support docs per pix for some of the missing ones, why can't I find the other missing support docs., throw them in a blender and come out with my pictures again?
2) If I "trashed" some iphoto support docs, what would I look for in Data Recovery? What label? With all the messing around I did w/iphoto library last March, there is a chance it crashed/errored and obliterated (some of) those docs.
3) I am grasping for anything to recover them. These are pix of our barn fire from 3/10/07. My hopes of taking the tragedy on the road to prevent other barns from the fate of fire, may have to proceed without them. I inadvertently took about 4, 15-20 sec. movies also. I didn't know my camera took movies. They downloaded into iphoto and had the tiny movie camera icon with them. I have tried to 'finder' them as well, no luck. Any ideas?
4) I have tried to open the support docs still in iphoto. The reply: "this is not a movie", "file could not be imported (The file is in an unrecognized format)." I don't get this. It was all done on this computer....well, that reminds me of this...
5) I got this imac on July 10, 2007. Many of the iphoto 'modified dates' are 7/10/07. I had my old computer info transferred professionally. Does this mean anything?
Thank you for your time and persistence.
Regards-
Jane
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HT201317 My photos are not on my computer but i can see them on both Iphones
My Photos are not on my computerm, but i can see them on both iphones
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You can't. This changed with iPhoto 09 and no one knows why.
I am trying to draw an analogy with iTunes. In iTunes, if I check the option to keep all the songs organized, all the songs will be relocated into a nice folder structure. I'd like to do something similar in iPhoto.
Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
The analogy with iTunes will always be limited for the simple reason that iTunes has no editing, no version control and no thumbnails. In fact the two libraries have pretty much nothing in common.
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After Import photos are not visible in IPhoto
I have a problem with IPhoto 8 (7.1.5)
When I import photos from either the Iphone or a Photo DVD the photos are first visible. After closing and restarting Iphoto, Iphoto tells me, that some photos are not in the liabrary and will be recovered.
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Try these in order - from best option on down...
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TD -
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Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
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Damaged database.
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