Original Photo Library Totally Gone!?!?!

Hello,
I seem to have "synced" a sample photo from my computer desktop to my iphone (via iTunes). In doing so, it seems that all of the original Photo Library Images (factory installed) are completely gone. It would be nice to recover these somehow? Please... anyone, help?

I have the same problem and the only three people I know that have the new iphone has the same problem also and we all want our sample photos back too. I was thinking that if you could find someone that has the origional photos in their iphone they could email them to you then you could copie them into your iphone.

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Look in your Pictures folder to see if you have two iPhoto Library folders, one maybe iPhoto Library_1? I think maybe that's what happened and you're looking at the new one with the old one sitting in the same folder. If that's the case, move the _1 to the desktop and launch iPhoto again. It may just open the old one or tell you it can't find the library and ask you to find it or create a new one. Opt for find and navigate to your Pictures folder and select it. If the new library opens satisfactorily and all is there, you can delete the folder that's on the Desktop.
Do you Twango?
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Creating a new library while preserving the Events from the original library.
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Thank you Terence. Let me explain better. I wanted to have a copy of my photos in Flickr. So I tested with selecting one event in iPhoto and using the Share button to copy the photos it contained in an Album in Flickr. That worked ok. Then I selected all my events and clicked Share in iPhoto to copy them to Flickr. That is where things got probably messed up. As there were many original photos, this took a long time over few days and I tried to stop it. Whatever went wrong there isn't clear to me. When I went back to iPhoto next I saw the situation described above. Most original disappeared. Unfortunately, the back up I found in my external disk is from the same time I seem to have lost the files. I have copied into iPhoto Lib but it has the same problem with most originals missing. The funny thing is that when I noticed my photos were missing, I checked the size iPhoto Lib and it was about 25GB. Then I went and checked the 7 backups of Pictures in Time Machine and noticed two were around 100GB from Two weeks earlier just about the time I did the Flickr transfer. So I selected one of those and opened iPhoto using that bigger file. But it was still too short of the original 38,000 photos only a few thousands.

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