Pics have gone, though albums are there.
Like several other posts, my pics in iPhoto have disappeared - there are only 78 pics from 3 years ago (as opposed to the 5000 or so that should be).
It may be coincidence, but this did all seem to occur after upgrading to Leopard. Incidentally, a similar thing happened with iTunes, though was able to use a previous library file to get the music and playlists back.
I'm assuming this must be from a damaged database (though I hadn't interfered with it at all). Similar to others, the pics are all still in the library and can be opened in Finder.
One difference is that all my album folders are still there, just now they're empty. In addition, iPhoto is having trouble importing new photos that are perfectly fine in Finder: unreadable file error comes up.
Have tried the other suggestions: rebuilding and using a backup Library.iphoto file but still no luck. I haven't tried iPhoto Library Manager yet as I want to keep the albums that I have - will this erase them? And I doubt this would solve the unreadable file errors. Perhaps I simply need to upgrade to 08.
Thanks for any advice.
kevin_mcq
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
If the albums are saveable, then iPhoto Library Manager will save them.
Otherwise see this article
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947
for details on recovering the situation.
Regards
TD
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