Pascal Mah

Q: iPhoto '11 referenced library problems

I have a huge iPhoto library containing 40 000+ images, as well as a large amount of metadata (comments, Faces,...). Since I need to read-access the image files with other software, I use a referenced library.

 

Everything was fine until the day I decided to upgrade for a larger HD. So I simply restored full content of my old drive on the new drive using a TimeMachine backup. Nothing else was modified (no directory structure changes, not even the volume name).

 

Since then, the problems. Essentially, references to the original files are lost: Thumbnails are OK, but upon accessing the larger view, iPhoto asks me to locate the file... After having done so, other pics would load nice, but nothing would stick upon a quit and relaunch of iPhoto... (Funnily, this happens only for pics that were imported *after* I upgraded from iPhoto '08 to iPhoto '11).

 

I tried many things: rebuilding the database, rebuilding the database on the older drive prior to backup, etc... Nothing would help.

 

So, my questions:

 

* Whad did I do wrong?

 

* Is there a way to "repair" file references? (That should be a fairly obvious functionality of database rebuilding)

 

* Is hacking into the Library.apdb file part of the officially supported solutions?

 

Obviously, recreating a new iPhoto library is not an option for me, due to the amount of metadata in my library that I don't know how to transfer. Also, I don't consider upgrading to Aperture, which is just too complex and loaded of features which are totally useless to me.

 

Running Lion and latest iPhoto update.

 

Thanks!

iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 27, 2011 5:32 AM

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  • by daniloronchi,

    daniloronchi daniloronchi Dec 7, 2014 1:17 AM in response to Pascal Mah
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    Dec 7, 2014 1:17 AM in response to Pascal Mah

    Hi Pascal, I've the same problem here.

     

    Switching from a Mac to another many files have the old HD reference.

     

    I've entered inside library.apdp but I have not resolved.

     

    First of all in the RKMaster table I've tried to change the "fileVolumeUuid" with the correct one... nothing happen.

    Then I've tried to change the volume inside the "RKVolume", changing diskUuid with the correct one, but leaving all the other field the same.

    When I relaunched iPhoto, it has seen the change and it rebuilded the library but... nothing change since then. The same error in many pictures.

     

    Please can you help me? What the field I've to change?

     

    Thanks in advance

     

    Danilo

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