My photos have disappeared into my smart collection?

Almost all my picture sin my library folders have disappeared into the collections folders. how do I get them back into their original folders?

To tell you the truth, I have no idea why you are seeing what you are seeing, or what your Folder Panel in Lightroom looks like, but if it works, you can keep doing it.
Maybe you could show us a screen capture of the Folder Panel in Lightroom.

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I have just updated my iPad to 6 iOS but my photos have disappeared and what is left are all blurry

I have just updated my iPad to iOS 6 but all my photos have disappeared apart from the ones taken on my iPhone or iPad but they are now blurry and don't come into focus
I have tried using iTunes to take then off and reload them but I'm still have the same problem
It tells me the pictures are restoring then it tells me they are syncing it has done this now for 2 days
Ay answers ?????

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Some photos have disappeared!!

My mac froze so I turned it off and rebooted it, and when I reopened iPhoto afterwards, more than half of my photos have disappeared from the Library. I went to the iPhoto folder in the Finder and it shows all the pictures are still there, in their dated folders. When I tried to import them back into the Library, it comes up with an error saying that they're already there ... even though they aren't showing up. What's wrong, and how can I fix it?

callmezoe:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Unless you have a backup of either the iPhoto LIbrary folder or the Library6.iPhoto database file you've lost that library are it was. The dB file has been damaged. You can try rebuilding the library but I don't hold much hope for success. Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library.
If that doesn't work you'll have to create a new library as follows:
Creating a new library while preserving the rolls from the original.
Move the existing library folder to the desktop.
Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
Drag the Originals folder from the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
This will create a new library with the same rolls as the original library. However dates on the rolls may be different but can be edited as you would the roll title.
Once this is completed you can delete the Originals folder from the desktop and the iPhoto Llibrary folder. If desired, you can keep the older library folder to try other fixes on it.
In the future I recommend you make a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto file after each import and after doing a lot of editing and organizing in the library. Then if you experience a similar crash all you need to do is replace the damaged database file with the backup copy and you'll be back to the same place in the library as when you make the backup. See the tip at the end of my signature.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written 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. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

I get error message: "An error occurred with the publication of album...Authentication with server failed...whenever I open a facebook file in my iPhoto. In each file, most of my photos have disappeared. What do I need to do?

I get error message: "An error occurred with the publication of album...Authentication with server failed. Please check your login and password information" whenever I open a facebook file in my iPhoto. In each file, most of my photos have disappeared. I am hoping I can retrieve these "lost" files. What do I need to do?

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better yet, try this solution:
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In events that have a movie, my photos have disappeared?

In my iPhoto, the Events that had video saved, the photos have disappeared for some reason. If there wasn't a video in an Event then the photos are still there!
Help please!

Remember: we cannot see your machine. There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on 8 different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary depending on the version of iPhoto and the version of the OS. So to get help you need to give as much information as you can. Basic things like :
- What version of iPhoto.
- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. As full a description of the problem as you can. For instance: 'iPhoto won't export' is best explained by describing how you are trying to export, and so on.
- History: Is this going on long? Has anything been installed or deleted?
- Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
- Anything unusual about your set up? Or how you use iPhoto?
Anything else you can think of that might help someone understand the problem you have.

Lightroom is not saving metadata. I have done several things to save and I still get the tag that states is is not saved. I have also created 2 smart collections. One showing metadata has been changed and one showing metadata is not up to date. No matter

Lightroom is not saving metadata. I have done several things to save and I still get the tag that states is is not saved. I have also created 2 smart collections. One showing metadata has been changed and one showing metadata is not up to date. No matter what I do it is not showing in LR that it is saved. I spent 2 days with Seth Resnick trying to correct this and we re created my catalog. It was ok, until I imported new images and same problem. Now I have a new problem, when I bring image to PS it saves it but does not bring back to LR. Am I the only one out there who has this problem?

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All of my photos have disappeared from PSE Organizer 13 (after I upgraded it).

All of my photos have disappeared from PSE Organizer 13 (after I upgraded it). The files are all on the HD. When I try and reimport them, Organizer says they are already in there and will not allow me to proceed. When I highlight a keyword, Get the message "NO MEDIA TO BE DISPLAYED". Perhaps I am dense, but I find the Search function of the Forum to be near useless, unless I just happen to type the Exact name of a topic.
I now have no access to perhaps 35,000 files from 12 years of using PSE!
GFrey

Which operating system are you running on? Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
Which version did you upgrade from? updated from PSE 13 to PSE 13.1
In the organizer, which view are you using - in the View menu is Details checked or unchecked - does it make any difference? was unchecked now checked. Now can see the other files, but the Keyword tags that I had attached in the past does not bring up the selected frames.
In the View menu, select Media types - are all checked? At this point I have only Ohotos and videos checked
In View menu, select Hidden Files - is Show All Files checked? yes
I'm assuming that you are in Media view, what happens if you select People Places or Events? get groupings of files with those keywords.
Brian
Thanks Brian, at least some of my problems are gone, just can't get the keyword sorting to work correctly

I just imported 70 photos successfully, edited them, and then attempted to upload them to a Facebook album. It did not work and got hung up, so I force quit IPhoto and was going to try again. The 70 photos have DISAPPEARED!! Help !!!!

I just imported 70 photos successfully, edited them, and then attempted to upload them to a Facebook album. It did not work and got hung up, so I force quit IPhoto and was going to try again. The 70 photos have DISAPPEARED!! Help !!!!

What version of iPhoto? Assuming 09 or later...
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

All my photos have disappeared from iphoto!!! I can find them in spotlight

Hello All! Help!
I was importing photos from a compact flash card into iphoto which was successful. I powered down for the night, the next time I opened up iphoto my entire library seemed to have disappeared(about 5000 images!) All that was left was the new import. It was as though the prog had reset itself there were no albums etc left at all. I understand that my photos live in the iphoto library folder in my pics but that about it! I have never understood the bizarre set up for these sub folders and how they work. Nor do I understand the other elements of the iphoto folder i.e. iphotodb etc. I noticed that I had two library folders as well and when I spotlighted jpg's that I have at least doubled up on images. Its a mess! Can anyone tell me exactly the way it should all be set up, in laymen's terms? Where the folders should live and in what order? And how to get rid of all the duplicate jpgs that have somehow been created? Without having to go through 5000 images by hand!!!

Thanks for your response Terence.
That is what I've done already. iPhoto could not open. After the hard drive and logic board were replaced (for other issues) and OS X Leopard reinstalled, I rebuilt the library manually, and now the same thing has happened again, iPhoto crashes on start up. iPhoto Manager did not fix it, iPhoto cannot rebuild its own library for some reason, and I don't want to have to repeatedly rebuild the library by hand having already done it once. I've noted other posts about keeping constant library backups, which I can start doing, but I was wondering if perhaps going to a newer version of iPhoto would resolve this issue. There are so many similar posts on here perhaps iLife 5.0.4 is really not compatible with Leopard. I would prefer to get this version of iLife to work instead of trying to upgrade.

HT4859 The photos have disappeared from my iPad

Any ideas where all my photos have gone, the ones I transferred from my pc and the ones I have taken on the iPad?

This is not syncing. Photos/videos in the iPad's Camera Roll can be imported by your computer as with any other digital camera. Choosing an empty folder for importing photos from the Camera Roll has no effect on this.
What did you use on your computer for the import? Most importing software includes an option to delete photos from the source after the import process is complete.
If you want photos in the Camera Roll included with your iCloud's Photo Stream which is temporary storage, you need to turn Photo Stream on with your iCloud account settings on your iPad.

All photos have disappeared?

Apparently the iPhoto updated to 9.2.1 and all photos are greyed out. Any way to restore these?

TD, you solved the most critical part of the problem—at least told me what I needed to know to fix it. The pictures have been recovered, a very big deal to my wife and therefore to my happy marriage. I owe you a cold one.
The original problem was that, after the update, nothing prints from iPhoto. Following advice given in an earlier thread about a similar problem I discarded the pref file. Thereupon the pictures disappeared. I retrieved the original file, but wasn't working carefully enough. Instead of putting it back where it belonged I dropped it into the iPhoto Library file. As soon as I put it into the prefs file the pictures returned.
By searching on the title of a recent picture I was able to locate where the originals went. Everything moved into an older library that had been renamed, and became part of the Originals folder in that library.
I normally backup her entire computer monthly. However, we've been gone extensively, so it hasn't been done for a couple of months. I hadn't understood how easy it is to get problems with iPhoto, so now I'll need to find some way to back up her up daily. Maybe I can do that with Backup.
In order to keep this thread from becoming too complicated I'm going to mark it solved, and then start a new one on the problem of iPhoto not printing.
Again, thanks for your help.
iMac G4 + PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Photos have disappeared -- how can I find them?

Because of problems I had been having with iPhoto being unable to delete or add more items, yesterday I had an additional hard drive added to my iMac, thinking it was a lack of memory problem. Unfortunately this didn't help at all despite moving all the photo and movie items over to this new hard drive. I thought there may have been two or more copies of iPhoto on the computer. I had 1300 photos in the library.
I followed the advice in earlier posts re this problem (items not showing up in library) and copied the old iPhoto library to the desktop and created a new library and tried to transfer the original files to it. Only half of them appeared.
Those missing are the most recently added and of course are the ones I really need. They are not in any library folders that I can find. Have they gone forever, or might they be hiding somewhere? Your help very much appreciated as I need these photos to put up on our business website.
Thanks in advance to anyone who responds to this plea for help.
iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Casuarina,
I have no idea how you got different libraries. the only way to have more than one library is to create one yourself, and you should certainly remember if you created one. If you ever rebuilt the library in an older version 2 iPhoto, then you would of had on old iPhoto Library, and the new rebuilt iPhoto Library_1. You can delete the older one because the new rebuilt one has all the images.
Import all the images into your current library, then delete the old libraries you imported from. Keep that library in the Pictures folder. I am not sure how iPhoto likes PICT files, so it is advisable to convert those to jpeg before you import them into your new library.
Lori

HELP, please! My photos have disappeared from iPhoto library & I can only see them on the screensaver.

Firstly, I should say we haven't updated/installed/deleted anything. I just opened iPhoto yesterday and first it told me it couldn't open up without specifying a library, but then it seemed our library has just disappeared. I then created a new library as, I have to admit, me & my DH are complete tecno dummies, but that didn't help much. The only thing which we have done in the past couple of days is set up the screensaver to play our photos. So now we can only see the photos on that - I'm presuming that means they haven't been completely lost (?) but am in a panic as we've got no back-up (three years worth of photos!).
When I go on 'system preferences' (hope that's the correct translation, our computer's using Italian) and the screensaver, I can see 'picture folder' where all the photos are but I can't find that anywhere else on the computer.
Also, I read other threads about similar probs & tried launching iPhoto pressing down 'option & control' but that didn't help me out either.
We also spent half an hour on the phone to the Apple helpline here in Italy (yes, that's a charged call) to try and understand what's gone wrong and the advisor just kept telling us she didn't know how to help us out 'cause our Mac is an old model
Apologies in advance for my complete ignorance about how to solve this problem but I'd be really grateful if someone out there could shed some light on what's happened.

when you say to go to my Pictures Folder, do you mean to go on Finder, then Pictures, then look at the iPhoto library?
Yes. Is there more than one there?
The material in your screensaver are cached images. They cannot be recovered and soon they will go way.
If you have deleted your Library (and it sounds like you have done this, accidentally) the you have deleted your Photos and you need to restore from your back up.
Regards
TD

All of photos have disappeared in iPhoto

Murphy's Law. After several days of detailed keywording, cropping, etc with thousands of my personal photos (I'm doing a family album prep), they're GONE from iPhoto '08. My last backup is a month old too so installing the back up is something I'd like to avoid.
What happened? My best guess is that some kind updating glitch messed up the software. Last night, I logged back in to my computer, turned on iPhoto and got a message that said something like "Your thumbnails need to be upgraded, please proceed..." I did. Then suddenly every folder and the events were blank. No pictures.
I spent about two hours on blogs and forums including this trying to find a solution. None so far.
Does this ring a bell with anyone or any hints on how I can restore my latest round of photos w/ their keywords, modified data, etc?
As a heads up, I have tried the following which don't appear to do trick if I'm doing correctly:
-I held down the Option key and tried to load iPhoto library manually in case it rerouted.
-I also looked at my old iPhoto library icons (previous to iphoto'08) to compare or possibly rebuild but I can't open those older versions at all.
-My original, modified, etc folders still seem to be there (thank goodness) but I can't seem to get access to them in the iPhoto environment.
Any advice or insight would be appreciated. Meanwhile... I'm trying to figure it out!
Cody

Cody:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. What is appears to have happened is the library's database file, Library6.iPhoto, has been damaged. If iPhoto is interrupted in any way while it's writing to the file this can happen. If you've got a recent backup of your library or the dB file you can get most everything back except what's changed since the last backup.
You can try rebuilding the library as follows: launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the first three options.
If that does not resurrect the library you're faced with starting over with a new library and importing the Originals folder from the old one as follows:
Creating a new library while preserving the Events from the original library.
Move the existing library folder to the desktop.
Open the library package like this.
Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
Drag the Originals folder from the iPhoto Library on the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
This will create a new library with the same Events as the original library if you have the Finder checkbox unchecked in the Events preference pane.
However, depending on how many new photos are in the current library vs your backup you might consider moving the current library to the desktop and the backup into the Pictures folder.
You can then import the Originals folder from the damaged library into the backup library, telling iPhoto not to import duplicates. That will bring in only those new photos that were not in the backup. You will retain the keywords, comments, etc. as of the backup date. Better than losing all of them.
In the future to help protect yourself from this type of file damage and library loss see the tip at the end of my signature.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written 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 08 libraries. 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.

Imported Photos have disappeared in my Library

Imported a wedding collection about 3 days ago, worked on them and had them almost finished. Opened LR again today, did some work on other photos, and then went back to finish the wedding collection. Appears that the photos were never even in LR. Can't find the folder anywhere and LR will even let me try to import them again - which is a sign that they're nowhere in my library! Not sure what to do or how to fix it. There's also another folder that I had imported that's no longer in my LR library - and I had done some work on it as well!
I never backup my LR library - which is dumb, I'm aware. On 9/19 I updated it and saved it to my external. Yesterday I created a new catalog for something I was working on and couldn't get back to my other catalog, so I closed the program and reopened from the 9/19 backup. Would have that reset LR back to 9/19? If so, is there anyway to go back to where I was before I opened with that backup?
Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

We are adepts, but we are not wizards. We're going to need some more information in order to suggest anything.
Version of Aperture and of OS.
More thorough description of what you currently see, and how it differs from what you expect.
Report on any other strangenesses, in either Aperture or elsewhere.
What you were doing when the problem presented itself.
What you have done since then.
The results of that, and how those results differed from what you expected.
Location of your Library.
Location of any referenced Originals.

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