Where are my photos that i backed up to time machine?

I backed my photos up to my AirPort Time Capsule (3TB) a couple of months ago, and deleted them from may macbook. Now I can't find them on the Time Capsule. Any chance they're still there, and, if so, how can I get them back on to my macbook?

raidermike29 wrote:
I backed my photos up to my AirPort Time Capsule (3TB) a couple of months ago, and deleted them from may macbook. Now I can't find them on the Time Capsule. Any chance they're still there, and, if so, how can I get them back on to my macbook?
They should be in Pictures > iPhoto Library in your Time Machine Backup.
Pete

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Where are my photos? just tried to access time capsule after my first back up and am unable to open iphoto to verify they were backed up.

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You can't open your backups directly with apps.
But you can see some types of files in your backups. If you're still on Snow Leopard (or Lion with iPhoto '09 or earlier), see the gray box at the end of Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #15.
If you're on Lion with iPhoto '11, you can use the Finder to see the iPhoto library, per the beginning of that same link. All you can see there is the library and size.

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The only way to check a back up is to do a restore of it.
However, why are you deleting your photos from the MBA? If you do they will also be deleted from Time Machine eventually. TM keeps a rolling back up of your machine. It copies and maintains your additions and deletions. Eventually, these photos will be deleted from TM too. It's not an archiving app.
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Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
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OT

I need to know how to get a particular photo from my iPhoto library that is backed up on Time Machine.

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I want to clean out my photos without having to put them all on CD's. Can I use an external drive as my drive I save everything to not just for a system back-up. Or is there a better way to store my photos rather than CD's so I can clean-up some memory space on my internal drive.

ttown wrote:
I just backed up my whole computer on an external drive with Time Machine. I wanted to clean off my old files from my computer, but I didn't want to erase them until I knew I could go back and get particular items from the back-up.
No, No, No, a thousand times, no!
Pardon the dramatics, but don't do that. Time Machine will, sooner or later, delete the backup copies of anything that's no longer on your Mac.
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Your best bet might be to get a larger internal HD for your Mac. Second best would be to get another external HD, format it for a Mac, and move some stuff (perhaps your entire iPhoto library) to it, and let Time Machine back up both your internal HD and the new external.

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QUESTION.
Hallo , my question is ;whenever I delete a photo and restore it through Time machine and Western digital external hard drive , I am able to restore the photo but not the titles and descriptions . Western Digital inform me that it isn't their external hard drive problem and suggest that it is an Apple software problem ?
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Hallo Kieth ,
I am not quite ready to restore the full iphoto library , as I have days of work re - imputting titles,descriptions and enhancement . I hope that your suggestion works , as I use my Macbook basically to work with digital photography. Through time , I will need to delete my library to recover more disc space and I would hate to have to spend more time re - imputting titles and descriptions all over again .
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regards - Alan

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where is the Time Machine forum?
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1342
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C
No you are not wrong.
The issue is that iPhoto is a Photo Organiser and so is Lightroom - they both want to manage the files. Lightroom is not a photo editor like Photoshop, and so you cannot integrate the two apps as you would with Photoshop or any other editor.
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Certainly you can restore files with Time machineas I noted in my original post - that is what TM is all about
1 - launch Time Machine
2 - go back to the when you made the backup
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4 - click the restore button
See - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US - for more details
One quote from that article
To restore, select the file/folder and click the "Restore" button. The file will automatically be copied to the desktop or appropriate folder. If the file you are restoring has another file in the same location with the same name, you will be prompted to choose which file to keep or keep both.
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