Restore library after install

Did a clean install of 10.10.3 and the Photos library restored. The display is a complete mess at the moment; most the icons just black or white and no images. Does anyone know of a way to force the application to rebuild the icons, like some cache file or other display files that can be dumped and force the application to rebuild? Currently the application is just this side of unusable.

You can't modify the Library folder for the currently logged in user. Also you don't want to do the copy from the TimeMachine folders - those files have special permissions and ACL attributes that the real Library doesn't need and will likely cause problems.
What I would do if I were you would be to restore the Library folder to a temporary location, then logout and with another admin type user (create another if you don't already have a spare admin user) and then use this (assume xxx is first user with problematic Library and yyy is second admin type user and that the temporary Library restore folder is located in ~/xxx/templibraryfolder)
     cd ~/xxx
     sudo mv Library Library-xxx
     sudo ditto templibraryfolder ~/xxx/Library
sudo will prompt for password
then logout of yyy account/user and login as original xxx account/user
or even better would be to use Time Machine to restore the ~/xxx/Library folder while logged in as the yyy user (after renaming the ~/xxx/Library folder to ~/xxx/Library-xxx
Then logout from yyy and login as xxx and if everything looks ok, remove the ~/Library-xxx folder as they can be quite large (will need to do
     sudo rm -rf ~/xxx/Library
Don't do the above until you know things are working fine - so wait a while till you use all apps (or a lot of them especially licensed software like Adobe or other difficult to install apps)
~ is just a shortcut for the current users home folder -- e.g. if you logged in as Tom it would be /Users/Tom
Is that clear?? - don't proceed if you have any questions -- you're about to make a change that if not done correctly will cause lots of problems, so type carefully and have fun...and pat yourself on the back for making backups!!

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I recently upgraded to 7.02 only to discover that none of my music was anywhere to be found. Dang! Then, of course, I found out that others had had the same problem. When I read the forum entries telling me how to find it in "My Music" and "Previous libraries" folders, etc. I was very frustrated, because the files seemed to have entirely disappeared from my computer. The folder was there, and the iTunes data files were there, but no actual music files were in the Music folder or anywhere else I could find on my computer.
No problem, I thought, I’ll just backload from ipod to computer. Then I read that iTunes does not allow you to reload from your ipod to the computer… **** again!
Then I figured out that even though iTunes wouldn’t facilitate a transfer backward from ipod to computer, it should still be possible, since the ipod is essentially just another hard drive. And it worked. Here are the steps I followed (I use Windows XP). Perhaps they will work similarly for others in the same situation:
1. Connect the ipod to your computer, and close iTunes when it opens. Go to My Computer, then to the ipod. Right click and select “Open as Portable Media Device”. Then open ipod, and find the “Ipod Control” folder, in which you will find a “Music” folder. Inside are folders with names consisting of “F” followed by a number. These contain all the music files.
2. On your computer, go to the “My Music” folder and find the iTunes folder and then the folder called “iTunes Music”. Copy the entire contents of the music folder you found on your ipod to this folder.
3. Then you have to go into the iTunes folder (in your "My Music" folder) and find the data file named “iTunes Library.itl” This is the file that organizes your library in itunes, names them, etc… but it is the new one that 7.0 loaded and replaces all the information you had before. You need to take it out of this folder (I placed it on my desktop for the time being, and changed the name slightly). Then, within the iTunes folder, you’ll see another folder titled “Previous iTunes Libraries”. Open it and there will be a data file there ending with a date and the extension .itl. Change its name to “iTunes Library.itl” and move it out of that folder into the iTunes folder (replacing the one that was there).
4. Now you should be ready to go! Open iTunes, and under “File” select “Add folder to Library”. Then select the folder you have just copied from the ipod. If everything is working right, itunes will retrieve all the information about the files and (unless you tell it not to), even go out and find the album art.
This worked for me for all the cds I had manually loaded; it did not transfer any of the files I had loaded into the ipod from podcasts.
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IWeb not showing iPhoto library after installing Lion

Hi, can anyone help with this issue ?
Since I have installed Lion, the iPhoto library that showed up on the right hand side of iWeb is not showing up.
Has anyone else also faced this issue after installing Lion ? Is there a solution ?

Thanks for your reply, but the Media is turned ON, I can see the iTunes content but no pictures from iPhoto.
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I just bought Snow Leopard and I haven't installed it yet. I am currently running Leopard on my MacBook Pro. I have heard of issued with Adobe CS4 and I'm afraid of having such issues, so before I install SL, I want to make sure I can revert to Leopard in case I have problems with Adobe CS4 applications. I use Time Machine, and I know that to restore the entire system from Time Machine, I need a bootable OS X install disk.
My problem is the following: I do not have my Leopard install DVD at hand, it is in another country and I won't have access to it for a few months. So I was wondering whether I can restore my current system (after installing Snow Leopard) using Time Machine, by booting from the Snow Leopard install disk.
So basically: If I installed Snow Leopard, and wanted to go back to before I installed it, could I simply insert the Snow Leopard install disk, and restore Leopard, along with my apps and documents, from my Time Machine backup? Or do I need the Leopard disk to do that?
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Mate Dobray wrote:
I want to make sure I can revert to Leopard in case I have problems with Adobe CS4 applications.
You shouldn't have anything but maybe minimal CS4 problems under Sno. But, anything can happen.
I use Time Machine, and I know that to restore the entire system from Time >Machine, I need a bootable OS X install disk. My problem is the following: I do >not have my Leopard install DVD at hand, it is in another country and I won't >have access to it for a few months. So I was wondering whether I can restore my >current system (after installing Snow Leopard) using Time Machine, by booting >from the Snow Leopard install disk.
I have never done exactly what you say, but my opinion is that it will work.
So basically: If I installed Snow Leopard, and wanted to go back to before I installed it, could I simply insert the Snow Leopard install disk, and restore Leopard, along with my apps and documents, from my Time Machine backup? Or do I >need the Leopard disk to do that?
I think it should work as said above. No guarantees though. It would be better is you bought a firewire external and cloned your existing system to the external to be safe--considering the difficulties that might arise since you don't have your Leopard disk.
Can you at least back your data up separately on your TM disk? Then, worst case is that you might have to do an erase and install of Sno if your first install doesn't work well and then figure out how to deal with lost apps if TM let's you down.
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OK thanks I'll do that. I had actually upgraded to Lion, but when my data was read back to the new hard disk, obviously the upgrade wasn't. Thanks for your advice.

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I reinstalled Windows on my PC. Rather than restore the library from backup, in iTunes I selected added folder to library. This imported all my audio files. I have since downloaded additional songs as well.
Some of the songs previously had start and stop options settings. Now they reverted back to 0:00. I don't know what else is different.
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I purchased the iPad 2 yesterday, updated my itunes software, and itunes messages indicated that it would not allow certain songs to be included in my library any longer since these were not purchased from iTunes. Many of the songs were from CDs that I stored on this library for several years. Only after I upgraded iTunes with this new iPad was my music removed. Luckily I still have my music on my iPod, but my iTunes library on my laptop contains only the music I have purchased from iTunes with the last 18 months. Weirdly, except for one particular song that iTunes said was not purchased from them, but it was part of an entire album purchase from iTunes. Also, all of the movies I purchased from iTunes were also removed. I am not able to sync any movies onto my iPad.
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Again I'm still not certain if audiobooks are excluded from both "Music" and "Books". One would hope that they belonged to one category or the other in respect of redownloading. In the past, in the event of an absolute disaster, fatal hard-drive crash, fire etc. some users have been able to prevail upon the charity of the iTunes store staff who would occasionaly grant a second, but never a third, download of past purchases.
The restictions on different types of media are ultimately imposed by the rights holders, not Apple. It is in Apple's interests to offer the same terms as their competitors, so my guess is that nobody currently offers unlimited repeat downloads of movies. Certainly the unique codes you get on some DVDs/Blu-Rays are one-time only.
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Sorry if this post is a little confusing and if this was addressed somewhere else before.
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If at any point you get a message that your iPhone is linked to another library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your phone.
iTunes will only let you copy your iTunes Store purchases directly from an iPhone or iPod to the computer, you'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
Purchased applications can be downloaded over again, see this article for details: How to redownload purchased applications from the App Store
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Music Rescue Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Music Liberator Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iGadget Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iRepo Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
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eeshell
(my friend burned me the ilife 6 dmg. file which is what I used to upgrade from previous iphoto)
This is an infringement of the licence for iPhoto.
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