What is the «iPhoto Library link» file for ?

Hi ... In the Pictures (Images in French) folder, what is the «iPhoto Library link» alias file for ? It points to the «iPhoto Library»in the same folder.

Robert, the link (alias) you are seeing is not created automatically by iPhoto. It must have been created accidentally. Perhaps you tried to repair your iPhoto library by holding down the key combination option-command ⌥⌘. if you dragged the library a little while doing this, it could have created this alias, because holding down these keys and dragging is one of the ways to create aliases.
-- Léonie

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I have been trying to add my iPhoto Library to files for time machine backup.
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A few days ago my hard drive started making noises and I was getting all sorts of errors. I even got errors trying to do a time machine backup with the final error being "backup failed".
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Simply, you can't recover the iPhoto Library. What you need to do is try recover the Photos that were in it. These will be saved as jpeg files* and that's what you need to search for. Recovering all the other files will do no good. You won't be alble to reconstruct the Library. Your aim is to get the Photos and then start over.
The search may find many files of the same name, try to recover the largest files - they are most likely to be your originals.
Regards
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*Assuming you're not shooting Raw. If you are shooting Raw then you'll know the suffix for your camera. If none of that makes sense then you're not shooting Raw

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