Photo import missing locations

I keep my photos on an external USB drive. When I import photos the only options for where to put them is desktop or my pictures - not even the C drive. The backup location is even more restricted - desktop. The catalog knows that the drive is there because all the images are available. I bought Lightroom to speed up work flow - not bring it to a halt.

I have solved it - sort of.
Lightroom stores preferences in users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Preferences\Lightroom2Preferences.agprefs. If you edit this file with notepad you can add in a pathway to the drive that your images need to go to in my case I added in \"k:\\\\images\",\ (you can see the pattern of the path that is already there). It is no use removing the original path because the program puts it back. When you go through the import routine and you come to choose the little black triangle gives you access to the required drive
This is the preferences file with the extra location put in
This is where the new location appears when importing.

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I have created a shared album using iCloud photo sharing with a friend. When I share some pictures from Photos on iPhone 6 with my friend using also iPhone 6 though tie shared album the pictures do not show the location data (geotag/map info). help me!

I have the same issue: the Shared tab shows zero content, even though I have dozens of shared albums in PhotoStream (all visible from my other devices, actually). I'm using iCloud Drive for photos on my MacBook Air and iPhone, but on my main desktop computer (Mac Mini) I opted to keep using PhotoStream. I'm thus wondering if that's part of the problem?
I'm using iCloud Drive for photos on my secondary devices, but on my main desktop device I have just about 1 TB of photos, and iCloud storage is WAY too expensive for that. (By contrast, OneDrive can handle my photo backups as a part of my 365 subscription.) Maybe I should turn iCloud Drive off on all devices and go back to my old system and see what happens. But I'm curious what sort of scenarios are causing the missing Shared Albums for other people.

Is there any way to recover files when the back up catalog has been deleted accidently. I can see a preview of the photos, but I cannot access or edit them. They say "the folder cannot be located" and "the photo is missing". I have gone through multipl

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Backup catalogs wouldn't have helped with this problem anyway, but naturally, you shouldn't delete backup catalogs for a while.
The solution to reconnecting the folders is given here: Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders

My latest photos are missing, however they are not uploading into the PhotoStream.. (very slowly), they are not in the last import or in events... where are they ?

I uploaded around 200 photos into iphoto, I worked on these photos breifly, cropping and deleting some, then iphoto crashed.. and when I relaunched it the photos were missing from both the events section and the last import showed nothing. I also looked in the Trash for the deleted photos, and that was empty too..
Now the photos are reappearing in PhotoSteam, all be it very slowly... I cant seem to find the orginals anywhere... I have tried to reoganise the events by ascending and descending to see if they are hiding... but I am unable to see any evidence of them.
Can anyone help. My computer is about 1 week old, however I did take all the photos from my Mac Notebook, which I think has taken some dodge

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 early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
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

The last few times I imported photos, the backup location was set to "documents" with no sub-folders. How do I get them into sub-folders - like year and month?

the last few times I imported photos, the backup location was set to "documents" with no sub-folders. How do I get them into sub-folders - like year and month?

Use the Subfolder pulldown to set the subfolders:

I imported photos from iPhoto library to Photo library instead of relinking the library and now approx. 9,000 photos are missing. How do I fix this?

I imported photos from iPhoto library to Photo library instead of relinking the library and now approx. 9,000 photos are missing. How do I fix this?

Trash your Photos library and do it again (Hold down the option key while launching Photos and select your iPhoto library to open)
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How did you configure the smart album? Like this?
OT

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I am going crazy. I moved photos from an external hard drive to a new computer. The photos are in my Pictures photo in finder. But everything I tried to work with them in Lightroom, I get a "Photo is missing". I use the locate photo function, but I don't understand what I am supposed to do from there. I have 2000 photos!

Never use Finder to move photos as Lightroom will know nothing about it. When you first imported files Lightroom will have created links in the database. Those links will now have been broken. If you moved entire folders, the quickest way to re-connect all the images is to look for a question mark in the folders panel and to right-click for the locate option. Otherwise re-connecting lots of individual files can be time consuming. In future always rename folders from within Lightroom and drag and drop files or folders to new locations from within Lightroom to avoid these problems.
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Sharing I Photo and Missing Library

On our Mac pro, have 2 accounts and share the Itunes and Iphoto libraries.
Suddenly on my wife's, I photo is missing and get a message asking if we want to create a library or look for it. My Iphoto is fine - since we are sharing the library, how do I set hers up again? If I create a new library for her, will it use the same Iphoto mine has or create a totally new one??

Here's some ways you can share with iPhoto 08. Perhaps something will ring a bell for you:
What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc. The problem here is that OS X works very hard to keep your data safe and secure from the other users. You're trying to beat what's built in to the system. So, to beat the system
Quit iPhoto in both accounts
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to an external HD set to ignore permissions. You could also use a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.
In each account in turn: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting dialogue, select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new library location. From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Lastly: This method seems a little clunky at first, but works very well. Most importantly, it uses the System to do the job for you.
Create a new Account on your Mac, call it Media. Create an iPhoto Library there. (BTW: This will work for iTunes too.)
Enable Sharing on the Library:(Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other accounts. In those accounts, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. The Library will appear in the other source pane.
This means that both users will be able to see the pics. If you want to use a pic then simply drag it from the shared Library to your own in the iPhoto Window. This means that each user can have their own edits.
If you want to add photos to the Library: Log into the Media account for that purpose.
To make it all seamless: Set your Mac to log into the Media Account automatically. Set iPhoto to launch on log-in. Then switch to your own account using Fast User Switching.
Net result: a Library that's permanently available to all users but also protected. Each user can have their own versions of the pics if they want.
No partitioning, no permissions issues. Uses no extra disk space. What's not to like?

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I don't seem able to create a new folder manually on photo import. This still works fine on the same PC with LR3.6. Anyone else seeing this? Thanks.

I've sometimes found the 'Make New Folder' option to be a bit hit and miss on Win7....so I generally avoid it. In your case, wouldn't it be easier to have Lightroom create the folder for you by setting up your Destination panel as follows:
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I have been using iPhoto 6 on my MBP and had it reference all of my photos on an external harddrive. Then I started importing new photos directly from my camera, and I believe it saved them on the my local hard drive somewhere. So now I believe I have original photos in two places.
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Second question, should I just in the future pull the photos off to a folder from my camera and then import them into iPhoto?

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What exactly is an "alias" in the context of iPhoto? What is the usefulness of this?
By default, iPhoto manages the files when they are imported - they are copied to the iPhoto Library. However, some people prefer to manage the files themselves, so along the way it became possible for iPhoto to reference files - that is not copy them to the iPhoto Library on import. (iPhoto Preferences -> Advanced -> Uncheck 'Copy Files...') In this scenario, instead of having picture file in iPhoto Library Folder / Originals / you have an alias pointing to the actual file.
The down side of this is that importing and deleting files become multistep operations instead of single step ones, plus - and more importantly, migrating to an external HD or a new computer can be much more complex. There are a couple of open threads on the forum right now from folks trying find a simple way to change to a managed library from a referenced one. There is no such way. I have yet to see a good reason to run an iPhoto Library in referenced mode unless you're using more than one Photo organiser.
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Events are a really crude form of organisation. They are strictly based on time. Change to Photos view and go View -> Event Titles: Now you can easily drag and drop between events and go View -> Sort Photos -> Manually
Lastly, I never quite got my head fully wrapped around the differentiation among folders, smartfolders, and albums.
An album is a collection of pics that you create - by drag and drop, for instance: My Cat Pictures
A Smart Album is an album created by iPhoto to match instructions you give: (File -> New Smart Album -> You can see the possible criterea). For instance, when I import pics I keyword them on a Who, What, Where basis. (The When is recorded with the pic automatically). Now When I tag a pic with my daughter's name it's added automatically to the Smart Album (Keyword > Is > My daughter's Name)
There are no Smart Folders in iPhoto.
A Folder is a collection of Albums, both or either 'dumb' and smart. (Folder: My Pets contains Album My Cat Pictures, My Dog Pictures)
Regards
TD

IPhoto 5 album names are present; photos are missing

One month ago I installed Mac OS X (10.5.4) on my iBook G4 to resolve issues with my browser and hotmail. Today after having loaded new photos into iPhotos within the last month, I entered iPhotos and found the last two years of photos missing. The album names are there but no photos appear to the right when I click on the album name for photos imported from March 2006 to present. In fact the right side picture viewing area is grayed out as are the photo manipulation icons on the bottom of the screen. I had no iPhotos problems since purchasing my iBook G4 in February 2005 until now shortly after the OS upgrade. Any suggestions?
I have viewed other similar posts but those circumstances are slightly different from mine.

Brian
The database becomes corrupted from two principle causes:
1. The app is interrupted in the act of writing to the database - by a crash or force quit for instance
2. User activity in the iPhoto Library Folder - moving or renaming things.
If iPhoto Library Manager is not fully rebuilding then it suggests that your main db is so corrupted that it's not writing out to the Albumdata.xml file correctly. The only solution to that is to restore from a back up or start over new.
What version of iPhoto are you using? This is the iPhoto 08 forum, the original poster is referring to v5 and the instructions for starting over are different.
Regards
TD

Photo Import Format

I cannot get iPhoto to accept a lot of .jpg formatted photos when I drag individual photos or a whole folder onto either the Events or iPhoto sections. A text window appears saying the pictures aren't in a recognized format. However, a few .jpg photos do get accepted.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Others have reported similar issues. The photos are not located within the iPhoto Library package are they? If they are that's why. iPhoto will not import any image file from inside the library package.
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Hi, I'm using Aperture 2 since a long time and just testing Aperture 3.
I'm working heavily with keywords to categorize my shootings.
I really love Aperture's concept of keyword groups and would love to group my keywords which I currently organized in a flat list.
For instance I played around with a structure like this:
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I am also missing the keywords section which used to appear where the little grey map is at the bottom of the metadata inspector. I found it was the best way to enter keywords, rather than the little box in the metadata section itself. Does anybody know if there is a way to get it back?
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