Photos Disppeared from Library? Help!

Hi, I did something to make the photos disappear from my Library. I had 294 photos which all had Keywords, etc.
Now when I click on all Photos is says at the bottom 0 of 294. Can anyone suggest anything? Thanks,

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I began to comb through my iPhoto library to compile a best of 2005 slideshow, and noticed that random groups of photos are gone. I've checked the trash (which has never been emptied), I've gone and looked through the entire library, and I've navigated through finder to the iPhoto library folder within the home directory to see if there are any trace of them there. Nothing. This, of course, is very irritating. It seems to be entire imports that are gone. I have about 10,000 images in the library...and have been backing it up by copying the library folder to an external drive. Unfortunately my last backup reflects what I am seeing on my library as well.
I'm assuming there is no magic fix (but if there is, please let me know). I was hoping someone might know why this has happened and how to prevent it from occuring in the future. I know that I've had to force quit iPhoto at times...but photos I'm missing had been well after a force quit occurred.
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Alan

I just discovered a similer problem. I'm running a g4 powerbook with the lateset version of tiger and iphoto. I just opened my iphoto and discovered that a huge amount of my photos have disapeared from my library. They are still on my hard drive but don't show up in iphoto. All of my albums are still there but they all show up as empty.
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Need Help- Old photos missing from library...

I would appreciate any help. In my library all of my old photos are gone. See the attached image. The "all photographs" that used be in the left menu is gone as well as quick collection ect. I must have done something Thanks!

I believe those collections are available only in the Library panel. Switch to that panel and you should be OK.
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I imported 82 photos from my camera to iPhoto (8). I viewed them in the library but noticed some old photos were mixed in, which was weird. I tried to open the 3 new events, but they didn't open and got jumbled as well. I closed iPhoto and when I reopened the same library, it was missing 58 photos of the latest import. If I go to the Finder and do a search for the missing numbers, they show up as being part of the iPhoto library, once in "originals" and once in "data". so they're in there, somewhere; just not showing up when I open iPhoto. Restarting didn't help.
Would opening the images in Photoshop from the found list and saving them elsewhere be unwise "messing with iPhoto folders" (as I know one should never do...)?
I am on a 2004 iBook G4, and away from home, so I don't have access to my system discs etc.

iPhoto 08? Or iPhoto v8 which iPhoto 09?
If the latter:
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 Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords 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.
Or if it's iPhoto 08:
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download <a href="http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/">iPhoto Library Manager</a> and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords 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.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
To create and populate a new *iPhoto 08* library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
Regards
TD

Photos missing from library - Albums still there

I just recently started using iPhoto. I started doing photography 2 years ago, and I wanted to tag all of the people from my personal library. I added over 8,000 photos and tediously went through every one and tagged all of my friends/family. I probably tagged over 20,000 faces over the course of a few weeks.
I opened iPhoto a few days ago to finish up the tagging and every photo from every album (except my iPhone) was gone. I've been looking for a fix for a few days now with no luck. I'm sure it's obvious how aggravating this is and how much I would like to avoid having to repeat this process, especially if it will result in vanishing photos again.
One thing that might be helpful is that I do not duplicate photos added to iPhoto, I keep them in their original folders.
Abundant thanks to anyone who can help me resolve this.

Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #3, followed by #4 and then #1 as needed.
Fix #2
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1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
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1. For several days, when I attempted to transfer photos from Iphoto to Ofoto, the programs would freeze and I couldn't do the transfer.
2. When that problem disappeared, I created a few small albums, uploaded them on Ofoto, and sent them out via the Kodak website.
3. A day or so later, I found that those albums in iPhoto, as well as one in Iphoto that I had NOT uploaded to Ofoto, were empty--no photos. I discovered that all the photos were in the trash.
4. I selected the "trashed" photos and put them into the Photo Library. They then re-appeared in their original albums.
5. After this, I discovered that the "last roll" file (uploaded from the camera) within the past couple of days was blank. These photos were NOT in the trash.
After these events, and following advice I saw in this Forum, I downloaded iPhoto Library Manager and rebuilt the Library. During the course of the rebuilding a single error message appeared during "Merge," concerning one of the albums in the Library (I clicked "skip") and 13 error messages during "Adding photos to album" (I clicked "skip"). At the end of the rebuilding there was an error message "2817 photos succdessfully copied. 80 photos could not be copied because they could not be found in Library." (They were listed in the Console of Applications/Utilities.)
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Sorry - guess I missed your post somehow
1. When you say trash the IPLM library, you mean the folder called "Rebuilt Library" that is in the Finder/Pictures, right?
Yes - as I understand it the rebuild library is worse than the original one
2. Any suggestions on how to back up the iPhoto library?
Copy it somewhere - just have a copy before you start so if things go wrong you still have what you started with - drag it to an external drive or select it and duplicate it - just do it as one operation not in small pieces
3. Since I'm using iPhoto 4.0.3, I think I have to launch the program holding Tab and alt keys; is this right?
Probably - I frankly do not remember back to iPhoto 4 for this detail - using the wrong key combination will not create a problem
LN

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I have several libraries on my hard drive which I switch back and forth from. today one of the libraries opens commpltely blank. No Photos not albums that I created nothing. On the bottom it says no photos, yet when I look at the harddrive the photos are there. This is a library of about 2000 photos most of them modified. I tied using option + command when booting and rebuilding but nothing happens. I can go into each of the photographs and click on them and they open in Photoshop so photos are in tack. So what happened?
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weavinglady
Do you have a back-up? Then it might be time to restore.
If not then it might be time to rebuild the library from scratch.
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Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop and find there the Originals folder. From there drag the individual rolls to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop.
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Photos disappear from library; still on hard drive.

This is the second time I've experienced this problem. The first time followed an automatic update of iphoto. This time, the problem occurred when I downloaded photos from a new camera.
I'm not panicking because I know the photos are still there on the hard drive. Last time I called Apple Support and they gave me a route to find all the photo libraries. But I can't remember the steps they suggested, and I haven't been able to find the other libraries via Spotlight; several iphoto libraries are named, but all seem to contain only my most recent photos (from the new camera) only.
Again, the jpeg images still exist on my hard drive and I can find them in the All Images section. It would be nice not to have to import all of them back to the library one by one! Last time, once we located the correct library, we simply backed up the new photos, and switched to the old library, adding the new photos afterwards (since there were fewer of them.)
Thank in advance for any suggestions!

The only way to open other Libraries with iPhoto 08:
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
Regards
TD

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After auto-updating iPhoto to version 5.0.2, I no longer have any photos or albums in my iPhoto library. Where did they go? I can't even find specific titles using a search of the hard drive. What can I do to get them back?
-Mike

Mike,
iPhoto 5 now stores the Album information in a data xml file. The Albums folder within the iPhoto Library folder is no longer used. At some point, usually after a rebuild, you will no longer have that folder in the Finder.
If you need to access photos from an album it is very difficult for a third party application to navigate the iPhoto Library in order to find the photo you need. You will have to know the date of import in order to find the photo.
There are some third party applications that can read the xml file and can navigate the iPhoto library and show you the Albums. Hopefully more applications will be revised to read this file.
Until then you will have to Share/Export the photos to the desktop. You can then navigate to the desktop to use the photos (example: web uploading from online photo site)
If your application supports drag and drop, you can drag the photo from an open iPhoto Library window into your application.
For email you can also use the email icon within iPhoto to open a message with the highlighted photo attached.
You can also use spotlight to find images in an Album...
This is what I have done using Spotlight to find my images that are in iPhoto albums without opening iPhoto..
In iPhoto, select the album, then select all, go to Photos/batch change.
Change the comments to text. In the text field I put the name of the Album.
Do this for each album.
Close iPhoto.
Open Spotlight and put in the name of the Album ( you have to remember the names of the albums or have then written down)
In the spotlight search results. click on "show all"
Under "Images" click on the "xx more" to show all the images in the album.
Make sure you have it in icon view, the icon view box is the last one on the blue images line.
Now you can control click on the image to "reveal in finder", open in iPhoto or Mail, etc.
I am not sure if this is going to make you happy and it is a little more work, but you can find images in albums and even view them in a slideshow (by clicking the play arrow at the end of the Images highlighted blue line) using Spotlight, all without opening iPhoto.
Two Apple kbs for you to read
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto library folder
About the iPhoto Library folder
As to why they don't show up in the source column of iPhoto after the rebuild, I don't know why. Do all your images show up when you open iPhoto?
Is there anything listed in the source column other than "library"?
Here is another post with the same problem.
David Schwartz, "Missing All Albums in iPhoto 5", 07:49pm Aug 26, 2005 CDT

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You're using iPhoto 6?
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download <a href="http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/">iPhoto Library Manager</a> and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords 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.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
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Note this will give you a working library with the same Rolls and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Roll Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.

Photos deleted from iPhoto, but still in Library folder

iPhoto 9.5.1
Strange behavior in iPhoto : let's say I imported 100 photos. Then, in iPhoto, deleted 80, keeping 20. Emptied trash in iPhoto. Then emptied Trash in Finder.
Let's say the "_DSC1234.JPG" photo was among deleted files. When searching "_DSC1234.JPG" in Spotlight, I find it in the "Master" folder of the "iPhoto Library" folder (Photothèque in French).
I've got a lot of photos deleted, but kept in Library, Not good for privacy, not good for hard drive space.
For exemple, I find 514 ".NEF" photos in the iPhoto searchbox. But when searching in the iPhoto LIbrary folder with Spotlight for files with ".NEF" in their names, I find 1048 ! No duplicates, no previews or "faces" (hey are in JPEG), but photos I deleted, before emptying iPhoto and Finder trash !!
Rebuilding Library didn't help.
I'm using a user account not allowed to administrate the computer. Maybe a link ?
The question was already asked, but never answered :
Growing iPhoto Library, deleted photos still in folders
Deleted Photos: Why are they still in my iphoto library folder?
Photos deleted from within iPhoto are still in Library folder
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iPhoto is not a Photo Viewer. It's a Photo Manager and designed for looking after the files while you organise the Photos. It really works much better if you let it manage those files. If you use iPhoto you never go near those files because iPhoto is your start point for anything you want to do with your Photos - the point of the pplication.
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How to, and some comments on why you shouldn't, are in this thread
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3062728?tstart=0
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