Please Help - I have lost 6 months of photos after a HD failure
Hi - my Hard Disk on my MacBook Pro died on me a few days ago. I have had it replaced and was lucky enough to have a Time Machine backup of my laptop. EXCEPT when I launch iPhoto, the only library it can find is from February!!!
Does anyone know what might have happened? I can;t find a newer library anywhere - including from the Tie Machine backup.
Have I lost my photos?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the reply Larry.
As I had to Time Machine restore my entire HD, iPhoto included, I don't know if it as checked prior to my crash or not. When I opened up iPhoto (after the TM restore on my new HD) I was immediately asked to locate the library. For whcih I could only find one dated Feb 08.
Havin check the prefs, the library is definitely a managed one as the box is checked yet this may well be a default setting. So I suspect, unless anyone else can suggest otherwise, that I must have had a referenced library and TM has not obviously saved ANY reference alias'.
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