Upgraded to iphoto 11 and lost all pictures

Perhaps my question has been answered in another area, but I couldn't find it. I, like others who have upgraded to iphoto 11 have lost all my pictures. They are not on the new iphoto version nor in any of the picture library files. Are they gone? If not, where do I start looking for them? Never had a problem like this before. Any Advice?
Thanks.

What system are you running and what version of iPhoto do you currenty have? How did you perform the upgrade? From an iLife disc or from the App Store?
Is there an iPhoto Library package in your Pictures fodler? If so what is its size as shown in the Finder?
Is that size large enought to include your photos?
OT

Similar Messages

I upgraded my system and lost all my photos. Can they be recovered.

I upgraded my system and lost all my photos. I remember getting a message that my photos are not readable and do I want to replace. I quickly said yes without reading the message carefully. I lost all my photos. Can they be recovered?

Look in your /Home/Pictures/ folder for the iPhoto Library file. Do you have one there? Look at the modification date for it. What is the date relative to the date you did this upgrade? If you double click on the file what happens? Do you have another iPhoto Library file by chance? If so what happens if you double-click on it?

I upgraded to OSX and lost all my photos from Ilife acan I get them back

I upgraded to OSX and lost all my photos from Iphoto, can I get them back.

Are you sure, you are viewing the correct iPhoto library? iPhoto may have created a new Library.
Hold down the alt/options key ⌥, while you double click iPhoto to launch it. Is there more than one Photo Library in the panel that opens? Then try the other libraries, if your photos are in there.
Regards
Léonie

I upgraded my iphotos and now all my photos are gone in all my albums. How do I find them and put them back in? (1800 photos.) Help.

I upgraded my iphotos and now all my photos are gone in all my albums. (1800 photos.) How do I find them
and put them back where they belong?

What version of iPhoto? Assuming 09 or later
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

HT4623 I have upgraded to ios7 and lost all my texts and cannot text nor send pics

Just upgraded to ios7 and lost all texts.. Cannot send a text and the photos freeze up

Hi I had the same problem and spent some time trying to get through to support, when I did they couldn't answer my querey but since then....
Every time a message is sent the indicator stops 90% along its journey and goes no farther?
The answer is simple, Apple don't seem to know it yet....
In Settings goto messages and right at the bottom click the 'Show Subject Field' to OFF.
The new upgrade has made a dogs dinner of this, you can leave it on, but DO NOT USE IT it prevents the messages from going and its far easier to turn the dammed thing off, it makes no difference to the content of the message.
Apple had me turning on 'Mobile Data' which was never needed in the past. and it is not necessary we will no doubt get an update 7.04 soon where it will either be fixed or discarded..
Hope it works for you..
Jeff

Upgraged to ios 6 and lost all pictures, any way to recover them?

upgraded to ios 6. and lost all my pictures. Don't have a backup. Is there anythig I can do to recover them?

Doesn't sound like you have iCloud? If not, then no, you are out of luck....
GB

HT1766 Hi, my daughter connected her iphone to my mac, and lost all pictures, music etc. is there any way to get this information back?

Hi, my daughter connected her ipone to my mac and lost all of her pictures, music, etc. is there any way to get the information back?
<Edited by Host>

Does she normally sync to the MAC? IF she does, she can restore her phone from a backup, if she has one.
If she doesn't normally sync to the MAC then she can sync back to her PC and then restore to her backup.
If those options don't work then she is sol

I upgraded to Maverick and lost all my photo library in Aperture. How do I recover my photos?

I upgraded to Maverick and lost my entire photo library in Aperture. How do I recover my photos?

Update software.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23915522#23915522

Upgraded iPhoto and lost all my pictures; how do I recover them?

I updated to the new Iphoto on August 12 and not I can't find any of the pictures I had. I can't find them anywhere on my hard drive. Does updating delete all your pictures?

No, updating does not. Within your pictures folder in your user folder, is there an iPhoto Library file? If so, is it large? If it is, your pictures are still there. Try starting iPhoto while holding option and command, this will rebuild your library. If they are not in there, go to a recent backup or TimeMachine and restore the pictures to the folder.

I upgraded to Maverick - and lost all my apps - how do i retrieve them?

I upgraded from iOS to Maverick - and now i lost all my original iMac apps - like iPhoto and iMovie --- Please help me retrieve them.

Do you have (or did you have) PPC apps. If so none of those would have survived the transition to Mavericks. You can check the apps you had here, though it looks like you may be too late.
Application compatibility table - RoaringApps

Upgraded to LR5 and lost all my edits - can anyone help?

Hi there
My iMac was returned to me following a repair by Apple - they did a clean wipe & reinstall.
I backed up all my photos beforehand (I was previously using LR4).
I just upgraded to LR5 and have imported all the photos. However, I appear to have lost all the work I did in LR4 - all my edits, and 'flagged' images etc. Is there any way of recovering this? Otherwise I've lost several weeks worth of work.
Thanks

This means the files are not in the location that the catalog was expecting.
You need to EITHER mirror exactly the file structure of your old machine OR right click (cmd-click?) on your highest level folder within Lightroom and select "Update Folder Location". This should bring up a window that allows you to browse to the new location of your photos and select it. If there's not a high level folder that covers all your photos you'll need to do this one folder at a time.
Tutorials are a good idea if you're un-clear about anything but the Catalog is essentially "just" a database. It stores the locations of all of your files, the metadata associated with them and all the adjustments you've made.

Please Help!!! -- I upgraded to ios5 and lost all my photos

I finally plugged in my iPhone 4 to sync photos and update to to iOS5. As soon as I plugged it in, I had a choice of registering my supposedly "new" iPhone or actually, nothing at all. No syncing, no nothing. I registered, updated, and in the process lost ALL my photos. At no point in time during the update was I warned that I might lose all my photos (which, byt he way, was the only thing that seems to have been deleted from the phone).
Is there any way I can possibly retrieve these photos?
Any help will be seriously appreciated.

The only way to restore the photos is by syncing your device to your computer if you have synced it before. Otherwise I am afraid you have lost your photos and thereby you have to learn by your misstake and sync more often or use a backup app. I am sorry for your loss.

Iphoto 11 *****. I was upgraded without asking and lost all my library. Then had to reload library and now it wants to play games with faces. I have millions of thumbnail faces I don't want, didn't ask for and its creating all kinds of problems.

iphoto 11 *****! Slower, yawn....... freezes........yawn and forever wanting to sort out faces for me when I DONT WANT FACES and why was imposed on me without my consent?

And I still don't have a clue what the actual problem is.
Before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Basic stuff:
You launch iphoto - what happens? What do you see when the problem or issue actually occurs.
- What version of iPhoto.
- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. What were you doing when the problem arose?
- Did it ever work properly?
- Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
Anything else you can think of that might allow someone else to understand your issue.
With this kind of information somebody can develop a starting point for troubleshooting the issue.

Help! I've just upgraded to iOS5 and lost all my contacts, app, music etc.

For the past few years I've known I need to upgrade to a new mac. My old one was a old mac mini (pre Intel).
So I just bought a new mac mini and tried connecting my iPhone to it.
I allowed it to do the upgrade to iOS5 (my old mac wouldn't allow me to upgrade and it can't even upgrade iTunes).
As soon as it upgraded I realised I've lost everything!
Not a problem I thought - I can retrieve the backup from the old mac. However, when I plug in the iPhone to the old mac I get a message that this is a newer version of iOS and therefore iTunes needs to be upgraded. But I haven't been able to upgrade iTunes on the old mac for a few years.
So iTunes won't even acknowledge that there is an iPhone plugged in to it.
Looking on forums people say just connect to iCloud and all your contacts will be there. I don't have an iCloud account - there was no such thing as iCloud on my old mac.
This really is awful.

A quick update : The iPhone wasn't actaully mine - it was my girlfriends. She is now furious at me for losing all her data. I managed to recover some of the contacts by copying them across from the SIM but it appears that the most important thing was an app - a password keeper that held all the information for accessing all of our bank accounts.
There must be somethng I can do?

Updated iPad2 to iOS 6 and lost all pictures and videos

I updated my roomate's iPad 2 days ago, following the instructions of a friend with years of Apple experience.
He explained that I would need to install iTunes on my laptop (a newer Asus running Win7) and that just plugging the iPad in would start an automatic process of backing up and updating.
Being from the PC world, I wanted to make sure we would be safe. I asked if I needed to copy pictures to my laptop or pc first, and he said that iTunes defaults to backing up first, then running the update.
Of course this makes sense, but erring on caution, I was very specific in wanting to make absolutely sure.
So I get the laptop ready. I plug in the iPad, it's immediately discovered and a window pops up saying there is an update for the iPad, and would I like to update now.
I pressed the button yes, or ok, I don't remember exactly what the vernacular was.
The lengthy process began.... with a status bar and activity..... took about 20 minutes.
After it was done, it said so. I don't remember the dialog box wording at that point exactly.
I pushed the home button on the iPad and it had the normal grey lock screen, opened it, and all of her apps were there, her email showed she had email,
but when i looked in the pictures folder, it was empty.
Thought perhaps they would appear later from iTunes. ( I didn't know at this point that she had never backed up or used iTunes for anything other than the initial activation and for her old iPhone that died several months ago)
Called my Apple friend, he said maybe I unplugged the iPad before it was able to restore things to the iPad.
So I started iTunes, attached the iPad , right clicked on "Tiffany's ipad" and went into the Backup section. There it says that the iPad was never backed up on this computer in bold text. And the option to restore from backup is grayed out.
I call my expert friend again. He has me look for backup files on the laptop, utilizing an application called 'iExplore'. went to 'device' section and there is a box that will show all backup files found on the pc. That box was empty.
What's tragic, is, this poor lady, unbeknownst to me, had been using her iPad as a picture and video dump for ALL of her child's pictures and vids for over a year. Without telling me. She is not a technical person.
Had I known this, I would have backed it up manually myself, before the update and all along. I would have made her do it. But I had no idea. I assumed she was plugging it in to her Dell Laptop.. but she never did.
I've run 2 'recovery' programs I got from online that scan for deleted files, but they don't show any of the hundreds of pictures and videos she had, Im sure because it was wiped, not deleted.
All attempts to locate a large backup file on my laptop have come up empty.
She is extremely and unbelievably broken up about this, as am I. I'm furious with Apple for not making the BACKUP stage of the process more tenacious, and with more pop up warnings so that this kind of thing cannot happen. Had I seen that, I would have used an application to MANUALLY copy her stuff.... even though at the time I had NO IDEA she was using her iPad as her ONLY repository for all of her precious media.
Folks, this is a life changing horror for her, and me. I love this woman's little boy as my own, and as a single mom, she was depending on me as a friend in this matter. If I cannot retrieve these images and vids, I fear she will never forgive me, as I'm the 'tech guy' who always has had the answers for everything in the past, and failed her on the most important tech issue in her life, her little boy's life in pictures.
Please, where can I send this iPad for forensic recovery of these images.
I've powered the iPad down until further notice to avoid writing additionally on the internal flash memory.
Thanks,
Lu Johnson

Doesn't sound like you have iCloud? If not, then no, you are out of luck....
GB

Upgraded to iphoto 11 and lost all pictures

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for