Rebuilding iphoto albums after imac factory restore

Hi. Neighbour had just had her imac factory restored (by Apple after apps started to freeze after a number of hours).
I've been tasked with restoring data (for my sins).
I've "gone into" Time Machine and found the backup we did before Apple took over.
I've restored the obvious - desktop media, and am in the middle of doing "pictures" and "documents"
Will iphoto pick up from where it left or do I have to rebuild albums? Thanks.

Final question. I assume iphoto just builds "links" to photos? It doesn't make a copy?
If you choose to use a "referenced" library only links are created. But it's strongly not recommended unless you're running the latest version of Aperture which can easily fix broken links in referenced libraries.
Open the TM preference pane, turn it off and then on again. If that fails go to the Options section and add your HDs to the Exclude window. Then remove them and reboot.
If that fails check here for other possible solutions: Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions

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If you want to copy all of your photos to a Windows machine and have them in folders representing the iPhoto Events the were in quickly and easily just do the following:
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With iPhoto 7 (08) and earlier the Event folders in the Originals folder will have the same title as the Event has in the library.
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Hi, swishmish.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I understand that you are unable to activate your iPad after a restore. I have attached the best troubleshooting article to go through. This article is labeled for an iPhone, but the steps still apply.
Restart the iPhone.
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Try connecting to iTunes if you can't activate using Wi-Fi.
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If you receive an alert message when you try to activate your iPhone, place the iPhone in recovery mode and perform a restore. If you still can't complete the setup assistant due to an activation error, contact Apple for assistance.
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I have just under 15gb of 'other' data on my phone which I think could explain the slow operation when using it.
I've done a factory restore and it reduced the 'other' by 0.3gb. Not really worth the waiting around.
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If it is any condolances, i have similar issues, The only thing that worked was factory reset...and start fresh from the beginning.... If you are lucky enough to get rid if the "garbage" aka "other" memory
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3449051

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The hard drive on my Macbook Pro died. It was replaced under warrantee (great service Apple)!
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Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder. (Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
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I have a Macbook Pro, the last generation, not the most recent one. It fell about 2 feet in late November 2010 and had the screen and logicboard replaced right after. A day or two after that, I started to notice that my word documents, pictures files, pdf files, itunes library and iphoto library were coded over and deleted out of nowhere. When I click on it, it says it is not a compatible format or cannot be read, etc. However, this doesn't happen all the time and not with every file. I could open a new word document and begin it today, and tomorrow it will not be retreavable, but I have a document on my desktop that has been there since January and can still be opened, so this happens without warning.
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Does your MBP still have its original hard drive? If so, it may have started to go south. The average useful life of a notebook drive is 3-5 years, and if yours is the original, it would be about 4 years old. The drop could also have affected it.
It might be worth booting from your install disc and repairing your boot disk. It sounds like you could have some directory issues. Repair until there is nothing left to repair. If Disk Utility cannot repair the drive, you will need a stronger utility like Disk Warrior or possibly a new drive.
It also sounds like you may have some software corruption, which can happen if you have hard drive problems. Have you tried reinstalling the OS? You would want to make a backup first on an external drive and then use the archive and install feature and then update the OS.
You might want to download and run SMART Utility:
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Rebuilding iphoto library after data recovery

Recently lost my HD with 500G of photos. Luckily, I had a few means of recovering these files.
Data was recovered via 3 sources:
(1) Time Machine backup for most of it
(2) Online backup service (CrashPlan)
(3) CF cards
Good news is I recovered probably 99% of the photos and videos and just a very small amount that still being backed up through the online service could not be recovered.
The question is: what is the optimal way to re-integrate the CrashPlan files into iPhoto since they are primarily Master and Preview files of some of my most recent uploads? Also, there are many Preview files that do not have a corresponding matching Master file, probably because the HD crashed before CrashPlan could back up the Master counterpart.
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I am wary of just doing a bulk import of the thousands of Master and Preview files, many of which have identical file names, seemingly a product of the way iPhoto likely breaks down imported images into files under various folders for various reasons. I was considering importing the files by first bringing in the Master files and then only importing those non-duplicative files under Previews - but figured I'd check the board for better ideas or downsides to doing it this way.
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the only way to "reintegrate" any photos into iPhoto is to import them into a good, working iPhoto library using iphoto to import them - importing selecting ignore duplicates is pretty good but not perfect
And it it good to import in small batches - small depends on many things including available HD space and free RAM - generally batches to 500 or smaller is good
CrashPlan is not a good backup - it it (as you found) far too slow to restore and even then tests have shown that the iPhoto library does not restore well from any Cloud backup
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Re-install iLife after MacBook factory restore ?

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U410 - cannot log in after Windows Update following Factory Restore when timezone is not UTC-8.

Steps to reproduce error:
1. Use OneKey recovery to restore initial factory settings.
2. On the Windows initial configuration screen select a timezone ahead of UTC-8, such as UTC (London)
3. Log in to Windows, open Windows Update control panel and click "Install Updates"
4. Reboot computer to complete updates.
5. On login screen attempt to login or shutdown the computer.
Result:
Computer is stuck with only desktop wallpaper and mouse pointer visible. No response to any keys. Pressing the power button sleeps the machine. Pressing it again wakes the machine back to the stuck state.
I have reproduced this problem 3 times using initial restore each time.
Wordaround:
Before beginning the factory restore process, set the system clock back by 24 hours. After the factory restore completes, set the system clock back to the correct time.
Alternatively, wait 24 hours between a factory reset and attempting to install Windows updates.
Analysis:
This problem is caused because of the way that Windows stores the time. It assumes that the system clock is set to local time rather than UTC. When you use the OneKey recovery system it does not know what timezone the system clock is set to, and so it assumes that it is set to UTC-8. If it is in fact set to UTC, OneKey Recovery creates files with a timestamp 8 hours in the future. This causes Windows Update to fail.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

chinnybob wrote:
Steps to reproduce error:
1. Use OneKey recovery to restore initial factory settings.
2. Log in to Windows, open Windows Update control panel and click "Install Updates"
3. Reboot computer to complete updates.
4. On login screen attempt to login or shutdown the computer.
Result:
Computer is stuck with only desktop wallpaper and mouse pointer visible. No response to any keys. Pressing the power button sleeps the machine. Pressing it again wakes the machine back to the stuck state.
I have reproduced this problem 3 times using initial restore each time.
İ assume you're refering to yesterdays updates.
Yes some systems have problems at times dealing with the updates.
You can boot into Safe mode,use system restore to an earlier point(before you installed the updates)
then install 2 updates at a time,
and rebooting.
That way you should be able to see,which one is causing the problem.

Rebuilding iphoto albums after imac factory restore

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