Rebuilt thumbnails in 6.06, now library empty, cant find any photos
Had about 20,000 photos in the library that were never well organized and after a requested thumbnail rebuild the entire thing is empty and cannot find a single photo on the drive. Have no recent backup, but scattered backups on DVD's over the years that would take days to sort through. Any way of easily re-locating the library? Nothing was trashed and hard drive space has not been reduced telling me they are still there somewhere but all searches for the photos have come up empty. Thanks!
Phil
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
First off: Go to your Pictures Folder: In there is a folder called the iPhoto Library Folder, and within that you'll see a Folder called Originals. Therein should be rolls folders and inside those: your pics
To confirm: HD/Users/YOUR NAME/ Pictures/ iPhoto Library Folder/ Originals / Roll
Confirm that your pics are there.
To create and populate a new library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same film rolls and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, books, calendars etc.
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to the desktop
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 the Originals folder. From the *Originals only* folder 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.
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
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