Random albums just disappear

For about 1/2 a year our albums in our iPhoto (most recent version) library just disappear.
Thank goodness the photos are still around but this is getting old.
My Time Capsule power supply went out a few days ago so the only backups I have are online on Backblaze.
I have tried to repair the database.
Is there anyway to just bring over files that will restore the library database?
I don't need to restore the whole iPhoto library.
Interestingly, if I open iPhoto Library Manager the missing folders appear.

If you are doing the mirroring both ways (either left to right or right to left) and if both systems have changed since the last mirror then the changes on the target system will disappear since after the mirror both systems will contain only the information from the source system and any changes (albums, edits, etc) made on the destination system will be gone - which I believe is exactly what you are seeing
As I said
if you have a master (your wife's MBA) and only make changes there then use a clone program or probably even Chronosync to clone the library to your system then everything will be fine
If you are making change to both systems then when you do the mirror those changes will disappear from the destination system
LN

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All of my albums just disappeared from Iphoto 9.1.3.The photos are still there.

How can I restore the albums in the bar on the left side of the screen when IPhoto is open?

A good general step for strange issues is to renew the iPhoto preference file - quit iPhoto and go to "your user name" ==> library ==> preferences ==> com.apple.iPhoto.plist and trash it - launch iPhoto which creates a fresh new default preference file and reset any personal preferences you have changed and if you have moved the iPhoto library repoint to it. This may help
This does not affect your photos or any database information (keywords, faces, places, ratings, etc) in any way - they are stored in the iPhoto library - the iPhoto preference file simply controls how iPhoto works - which is why renewing it is a good first step.
LN

Why with Mavericks some folders just disappear and reappear randomly for just a few seconds?

Why with Mavericks some folders just disappear and reappear randomly for just a few seconds?

Hi Alinc,
I find that this happens with folders that either have a lot of stuff in them, when there is a lot of large files on my desktop, or when my computer has it's RAM bogged down. I'm guessing it's just a benign performance issue, and so far it hasn't cause me any serous problems except for one folder that constantly take a while to load but I'm not surprised because that folder has 8000+ files and is over 25GB in size LOL.
If this is still an issue for you, or you folders disappear for so long that it becomes an inconvenience, I would recommend trying the following things:
1) Save your work and close any open programs, but don't close your Finder folders though. Click the Apple Logo  in the upper left hand corner of the screen, then choose Force Quit. In the windows that comes up select Finder and choose Relaunch. This should force all of your open Finder folders to get refreshed. Please note this is a very brute force operation so it might be the most elegant solution.
2) A better but less potent thing to try is cleaning up you finder folders. If like me you have hundreds of files in one folder, or there is more than a gigabyte of data in the first level of the folder, then it might be a good idea to clean it up by moving some of those files into subfolders.
3) This is my favorite fix to try, and I recommend it to almost everyone because it's super easy and has a reasonable chance of improving your computer's performance at least a little bit.
3.a) Go to Disk Utility, and click on your hard drive.
3.b) Go to First Aid, and click each of the following one at a time: Verify Disk, Repair Disk, Verify Disk Permissions, and finally Repair Disk Permissions. Each of those actions should take several minutes (3 to 30) to complete on a fast hard drive, so make sure you don't need your computer for any serious work during this time.
3.c) Once those operations are complete click on your Macintosh HD partition (right below the hard drive you clicked before) and repeat step 3.b.
3.d) If you have any other connected hard drives or partitions you can do this for them as well. BUT, I don't recommend doing this on any Windows formatted drives, like FAT or NTFS, or your Bootcamp partition — although the First Aid buttons on the Bootcamp will probably be disabled anyway.
Best,
Vlad

Music's Album Art Disappeared

Music's album art disappeared. All of it. And I didn't even sync it or update it or anything. This just happened randomly in the middle of my day.
After I synced it to my computer, it disappeared from there too.
So, like, what the f?
And can I get it back somehow? Or do I have to re-look up artwork for 3,000+ songs and re-upload them one by one?

Sounds very weird and talk about unintended results ...
By the by restoring the ipod is not a bid deal (although takes some time).
How about this (have not tried it) and assuming you still have artwork on your music library in itunes. Turn on manual synch mode once the ipod is connected. You should see the list of songs you actually have on the ipod. Delete every song and synch (I know, it will take time since you have 4000 + songs). and then turn back automatic synch and re-synch. May be once in manual mode, you could try re-synchinig only a portion of your library to see if it works That's the best I can think of.
Kid

ITunes 11 downloaded album art disappeared from first song of many albums

In iTunes 11. the downloaded album artwork disappeared from the first song of many of my albums.
This just randomly happened; it wasn't after an upgrade or any other noticeable event.
The artwork is still associated with all the subsequent songs of the album, just not with the first one.
I do not want to embed the artwork into the music files.
Nor do I want to "Clear Downloaded Artwork" and redo "Get Album Artwork" for the affected albums, since some of the albums are no longer in the iTunes Store, so I won't be able to download their artwork anymore.
The best that I can think of is to:
1) remove the song that is missing the artwork from itunes without deleting the file from the hard drive
2) in iTunes, copy another song from the same album
3) delete the newly copied song from the hard drive without removing it from iTunes
4) in iTunes, "Get Info" on the newly copied song, which will tell me that it can't be found, and give me the option to "Locate" the file
5) "locate" the file by selecting from the hard drive the file for the song that was mising its artwork, and that was removed from iTunes in step 1
Unfortunately, this will remove the song's rating, play counts, etc., remove it from any playlists, and change the date added, etc.
Does anyone have a better solution?
Thanks.

Oh ok. I have just set it to automatically pull cover art but I might try doing each track as you suggested. I just assumed this would be automatic for every track not just the first one.

Mobileme Album List disappearing from Aperture Library

My MobileMe Album list disappeared from my Aperture Library a few days ago.
Aperture activity window shows "MobileMe - Retrieving Album List" every time I start up Aperture, and quits without error messages, but no album list appears.
Anyone know how I can get my MobileMe album list back?
Thank you.

Upon further investigation of this new 'feature' I came upon the following.
In my above example, let's say I have my Library A open.
I can see the MobileMe albums of the other libraries (B and C) that do not belong in A.
I just clicked on a MM Album of library B and it is now synchronising the contents of this Album with my Library.
So now I have photo's of MM Albums B and C showing up INSIDE MY LIBRARY A
Good grief APPLE !
It get's even worse. The synced photo's manifest themselves inside smart folders, ilife media browser and iphone/ipad syncs !!!
I'm having genuine problems with some aspects of Aperture since version 3.0, there is an open bug in bugreporter that seems to be unsolvable, and after 8 months of bugfixing (february 3.0.1 to November 3.1) this is what they come up with ???
The worst part is that it seems this new 'feature' was intentional :
http://aperture.maccreate.com/2010/10/28/aperture-3-1-shows-every-gallery-every- gallery/

Random album artwork - Error -50

I only get random album artwork display on my 60 gig iPod. All the artwork displays in iTunes, but only random artwork displays on the iPod.
I tried unchecking unchecking "Display album art" in iTunes, and the ejecting the iPod, and when ejecting I get the error.
"An error occured while updating the default player for audio file types. You don't have enough access privlidges for this operation."
I am the sole user and administrator on this PC.
When I reconnect and recheck "Display album art", iTunes says "Optimizing artwork for iPod." Then is comes up with the error "The iPod "My iPod" cannot be updated. An unknown error occured (-50)"
Very frustrating.

I am having the exact same problem. I have a 30 GB iPod Video, and today I noticed how the album artwork is but randomly displayed on my iPod, though all my albums have their respective artwork, and the artwork shows up in iTunes just fine when going to "Get Info". However, on my iPod, only some artwork showed up, mostly for the albums I had purchased through iTunes.
I thought I'd try to disable and re-enable album artwork in the iPod preferences, and the disabling did indeed work. However, the re-enabling did not - it attempts to update the iPod saying "Optimizing artwork for iPod", and it gets about half-way there until I get an error message saying, "The iPod 'Sandra's IP' cannot be updated. An unknown error occurred (-50)." So now I have no album artwork whatsoever.
The iPod software is version 1.1.1 and iTunes version 6.0.5. Any suggestions?

When I add certain folders for bookmarks, they just disappear (ie. I had one named Photoshop, and it disappeared twice

When I add certain bookmark folders, they just disappear, including the bookmarks that were in the folder. ie...this happened twice when I created a bookmark folder named Photoshop. It also happened to one I created named Tutorials: Misc.

iTunes doesn't pay attention to the file and folder names, only to the tags. If the files are untagged you can use a third party program like MediaMonkey (Google it, the forum software won't let me post a link today) before you add the tracks to iTunes, or if you can make sure that you add them in such a way that iTunes doesn't rename and move them (turn off the Keep... & Copy... and copy preferences and don't use the Automatically Add to iTunes folder) then I have a script called TagFromFilename at
samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/scripts.asp#TagFromFilename
that may be able to apply the information provided the tracks are in Artist and then Album folders.
tt2

TS1468 Albums split & Album Names Disappear

I'm sorry, but not only did songs from the same album now get split but all my CD imported album names disappeared and therefore my album art is missing! I know how to fix it, the question is why should I have to fix it in the first place? I have 1000's of songs from CD's, so fixing this for every album problem I have will take days!!! What's up Apple?!? Why do you always break what don't need fixin'?!?

Not sure what Apple means by "compilation," but just checking that with a grouped selection doesn't necessarily combine them into an album (for me). The artist seems to be a factor, too. I have several collections of tunes from the same CD (or two CDs together) that have different artists and are not recognized as the same album even when "Compilation" is checked for the selected group. Other similar CDs I've imported do become one album (naturally). Apparently, iTunes uses some additional factor to identify the members of an album, and I don't know what this is . . . yet. Examples of where I'm having problems are with "samplers."
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Random Album Art

For some reason, now whenever I play tracks on my iPod, the album art just displays random album covers from other albums rather than the one that is actually being played. I've tried deleting all of the tracks and re-syncing, and I can't figure out how to fix this.

Sometimes the album art gets scrambled on the iPod. Uncheck the option to have artwork on iPOd, sync, recheck the artwork option, sync again. This will take a long time as it has to edit every track each time.

HT204370 How can I download the artwork to movie I bought again? It just disappeared.

How can I download the artwork to movie I bought again? It just disappeared.

Hmm, I tried a few ways and it's working here. First, it works if I have the artwork panel open below all the libraries and I can then Control-click (or right click if you have a two button mouse) in there, get a pop up menu, and select "copy". Or, second, if I pull up the "Get Info", click on the artwork tab, click on the album art (at which point it's highlighted), and then press command-C to copy it. Or, third, double click on the pictClipping file on my desktop and press command-C (or select "Edit" - "Copy" from there). If I use any of those techniques to get the artwork in my clipboard, then the "File" - "New from clipboard" option in "Preview" works for me.
It doesn't work if I pop up the artwork in it's own window (e.g. by clicking on the artwork in the optional artwork panel below the libraries), or if I neglect to click on the artwork in "Get Info" before pressing command-C.
Finally, if none of these is working, I think that "GraphicsConverter" app is shareware, so you might be able to try it for free if you want. I also picked up a free Automator workflow that does the job for free, but it's really a little clumsy and wouldn't suggest unless you're really technically oriented.
Sorry this has been so painful for you...

Downloads just disappear from the specified location such as "Desktop" or "My Documents".They are untraceable afterwards.Why does this happen?And because of this I have uninstalled Firefox and now use Chrome.

I have been using Firefox for almost a year now,and had upgraded to Version 7 recently.
My problem started with the downloads.
1) When a download is to be commenced,a box appears with two options,namely "SAVE" and "CANCEL".
Even when I click on "SAVE",the the box shows it as 'cancelled'.When I right click on the box,another dialogue box appears with a number of choices ,the top one reads 'RETRY'.
When I click this option the download starts and it is shown in the chosen location until 99% is completed,bu the moment the download is complete,the item i.e. the downloaded item just disappears from the chosen location and is not traceable thereafter.This has happened to me repeatedly over the past week or so and I am so disgusted that I have been compelled to uninstall Firefox,and have started using Chrome.
Please help,as I would like to get back to using Firefox again but without the above problems.

Understood. However, the point that I'm trying to make is that it's not the WiFi access point's security that's in question, it's having your phone's WiFi in an always-on mode that's in question. It's simple: if your phone's WiFi is on, then it is both discoverable and hackable... even when it's not connected to a WiFi network or access point. Here's an article about a drone in London that was created to hack smartphone WiFi signals (and hackers have been doing what this drone does for years):
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/20/technology/security/drone-phone/
The point is that it's not secure to have your phone's WiFi in an always-on mode. It would be better for privacy and security if Apple made WiFi location aware so that it is only enabled when you are at a trusted location (e.g. your home or office). Or, at least give us the option of location aware WiFi so that each user can determine the best mode for their phone:
(1) Always-On (current default - not secure and many privacy issues).
(2) Trusted mode (only on at trusted locations).
(3) Off.

HT3986 I've had MS Office:mac 2011 on my imac for around 18 months now. Outlook has just disappeared and when I find the file and open it it tells me that there is a problem and I may need to re-install it. I've just done this using the installation dis

I've had MS Office:mac 2011 on my imac for around 18 months now. Outlook has just disappeared and when I find the file and open it it tells me that there is a problem and I may need to re-install it. I've just done this using the installation disc which, then said the installation had been successful.
Outlook is still not working. Can anyone please advise me on what to do next.

Remove MS Office 2011 completely (here are instructions) and reinstall it.
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I am trying to setup my new time capsule but it is not working. after entering the airport utility and locating the TC, after I tell the program to continue, the unit just disappear and the setup menu says there is an error. Any idea of what is happening?

I am trying to setup my new time capsule but it is not working. after entering the airport utility and locating the TC, after I tell the program to continue, the unit just disappear from the menu and the setup menu says there is an error. I tried using the wireless connection, and also the cable, but none worked. Any idea of what could be happening?

What are you setting it up as.. join wireless network .. the very worst setup, it will disappear.. reboot the whole network in order modem. router TC.. clients and it will likely reappear.
Tell us what network setup you are using..
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Has any Coldplay fan lost purchased content within iTunes, I have recently noticed my Coldplay Live 2012 purchased on iTunes is gone from my iCloud library and no longer available for purchase ! A bit strange considering there new album just went on sale

Recently I have noticed my iTune purchased concert movies after being put back in the cloud are currently missing.
I have never had purchased content from iTunes vanish from my iCloud library and also not be available for purchase on iTunes.
When I had Apple personnel attempt to push the content back to me, they could not find Coldplay's Live 2012.
Even more strange considering their new album just went on sale and renewed interest must be prompting fans to review their collections.
A beautifully shot concert film is missing, a sad situation to be sure!
Thanks for any iCloud wisdom and other fans noticing the same thing.

Hi kevs place,
If you have issues with missing content in iTunes you may want to follow the steps in this article to try to recover it -
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

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