No pics showing in iPhoto library
Hello, I would really appreciate it if anyone has any ideas on how to solve this.
I keep my iPhoto library on an external drive. I have been doing this for some time, and I have not had any problems.
Today, however, I plugged in the external hard drive for the first time since some upgrading various things, and now I cannot see my pictures.
I upgraded some things (OSX, some apps, and version of iPhoto too I believe) a little while ago before moving house, so I forget in which order things happened. But right now I have iPhoto 9.6 and I'm running Yosemite 10.10.1 .
The iPhoto library does have pictures in it. It's showing in Finder as 130GB - it's a big file.
When I started iPhoto earlier, it said that I needed to upgrade the library (I assumed this was because of recent updates). I followed the prompts. It said that it could not access one or more pictures, so it asked to repair permissions. I again followed the prompts. When it finished (took no time at all), the library as showing in iPhoto is empty. The library file itself however is still 130GB.
I've had a look around here and have tried things that I've found, but nothing has worked. I've tried:
- renaming the extension to .photolibrary
- opening package contents and deleting the database folder to get it to rebuild again (repeated same pattern)
- downloading and running iPhoto Library Upgrader - says does not need to be upgraded
- demo version of third party app iPhoto Library Manager - not showing any files in library
Does anyone have any idea of how I can access these pictures, especially without losing the dating info for each one. I'm okay with losing events, etc, but if the dates all reset that'll be really messy.
Thanks in advance for anyone who can shed some light on this for me.
Kind regards,
Bern
This is a symptom a a nasty bug in iPhoto 9.6 and Yosemite - Apple has not responded to cries for assistance and none of the users has found a solution - basically the only thing to do is to go back to the backup from before this occurred - or to start over with a new library importing the photos from the old masters folder
And report the problem to Apple - iPhoto menu ==> provide iphoto feedback - and using the info in this tip - Detailed and Effective Bug Reporting
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