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Feb 3, 2015 5:31 PM in response to penbyskby Carolyn Samit,See if you can rebuild your library > Photo 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library - Apple Support
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Feb 3, 2015 5:34 PM in response to Carolyn Samitby penbysk,It didn't work. Even the trash in my iPhoto is empty.
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Feb 3, 2015 5:55 PM in response to penbyskby penbysk,All my trash is empty, iPhoto and computer.
I don't know what to do.
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Feb 3, 2015 6:37 PM in response to penbyskby LarryHN,How exactly did you do this transfer and how did you tell iphoto where the library is? the correct way is
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
If you launch iphoto while holding the option key down what do you see in the select library window - hopefully you can select the library you moved to the EHD
Your description sounds like you copies the library to the EHD and never switched to it using the option launch to select it so you never used it - you were still using your old library and when you deleted it then it was gone - if that is correct the option launch will show your library on the EHD and you can start using it
If this does not work then you need file recovery software like File Salvage
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Feb 3, 2015 7:10 PM in response to LarryHNby penbysk,I dragged the photos from my external hard drive to iPhoto, and agreed to make it my iPhoto library. I guess I'll have to use the recovery software. Does File Salvage download directly once you buy it?
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Feb 3, 2015 9:47 PM in response to penbyskby LarryHN,Details are critical
I dragged the photos from my external hard drive to iPhoto
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I transferred my iPhoto library from my external hard drive to my Macbook Air
are totally different things
what exactly did you do and how did you do it?
And do you have a backup?
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