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Q: I have lost my iPhoto app after a reinstalling the disk

I had to reinstall the operating system or reformat it after it stopped working one day all of a sudden. Im using OS X Mavericks 10.9.5. Afterwards I had to download many apps all over again which I easily found on app store and elsewhere. But I have not been able to find iPhoto ( i don't know which version it was that I was storing my photos on). Im totally lost as to how to get all my photos back. Can anyone help please?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Oct 8, 2015 11:52 PM

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  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Dec 18, 2015 5:48 AM in response to sabinaHM
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    Dec 18, 2015 5:48 AM in response to sabinaHM

    There's a lot of question in that, and no short answers. Here goes:

     

    Anything you put into iPhoto can be got out again, and easily. File -> Export will export your photo(s) for you.

     

    You don't have to use iPhoto - or any other app - you can just use folders in the Finder if you want to. But, and this is important, if you take a few minutes to learn how to use these apps then you'll have a much easier task in managing your photos.

     

    If you upgrade your OS to 10.10 or 10.11 (which are free) you willet the successor to iPhoto, a new app called Photos. This has an online element which, again, will simplify the task of managing your photos across devices.

     

    Photosharing websites like Flickr are free and also provide online storage and access.

     

    Alarming though it may sound, these days 3,000 is a tiny amount. I kid you not when I say our collection is 20 times that, and will keep growing. Your will too.

  • by sabinaHM,

    sabinaHM sabinaHM Mar 4, 2016 11:03 PM in response to sabinaHM
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    Mar 4, 2016 11:03 PM in response to sabinaHM

    Finally, finally I have been able to download iPhoto, the older version. I had to go and change my internet company. That did the job. I was able to download the app. Now, I don't find my older data on it. Its empty. Do you have an idea how to retrieve my two years old photos ? Thank you.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Mar 5, 2016 12:33 AM in response to sabinaHM
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    Mar 5, 2016 12:33 AM in response to sabinaHM

    That data is in your iPhoto Library. Where is that?

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 5, 2016 12:42 AM in response to sabinaHM
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    Mar 5, 2016 12:42 AM in response to sabinaHM

    When you reinstalled the system or reformatted the system drive, what kind of backup did you make of your documents and data? Do you have a backup copy of your Mac from before you reinstalled the system?

  • by sabinaHM,

    sabinaHM sabinaHM Mar 5, 2016 10:14 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Mar 5, 2016 10:14 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    iPhoto Library is not showing older data. That is, the photos that I placed about eighteen months ago, and Im looking for, all those albums, they are not there. The iPhoto library is displaying three very recent photographs which it has collected from my iPhone photo stream.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Mar 5, 2016 12:32 PM in response to sabinaHM
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    Mar 5, 2016 12:32 PM in response to sabinaHM

    As Léonie asked:

     

    When you reinstalled the system or reformatted the system drive, what kind of backup did you make of your documents and data? Do you have a backup copy of your Mac from before you reinstalled the system?

  • by sabinaHM,

    sabinaHM sabinaHM Mar 5, 2016 7:09 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Mar 5, 2016 7:09 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    I made no back up. My system had crashed and the only way to have it up and running again was to reformat the disk. That's what I had understood. So I did it. It's that when I had already reinstalled the disk, I discovered that a few apps were gone, like iPhoto. So I began looking for it.Now I have found it back but its empty. I was hoping , somewhere on the internet, on the Apple servers, my photos would still be living , and I'm going to find it all back miraculously

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Mar 5, 2016 11:48 PM in response to sabinaHM
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    Mar 5, 2016 11:48 PM in response to sabinaHM

    There is no such place, unfortunately.

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Mar 6, 2016 12:06 AM in response to sabinaHM
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    Mar 6, 2016 12:06 AM in response to sabinaHM
    I was hoping , somewhere on the internet, on the Apple servers, my photos would still be living , and I'm going to find it all back miraculously

    iPhoto can only use My PhotoStream and Shared albums. hat is why you could recover your My Photo Stream photos.

    But iPhoto cannot use iCloud photo Library, to store your photos in iCloud, like the new Photos for Mac can.

     

    Do you perhaps have copies of your photos on a mobile device?  Did you synv´c an iPhone or iPad with your Mac?

     

    If you do not yet have a backup routine set up for your mac, consider to use Time Machine. it is easy to setup and automatic. It will continually back up your mac, so you will have copies of your documents and data, your photos on an external drive, the next time your Mac crashes so badly that and you are forced to reinstall.  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support

  • by sabinaHM,

    sabinaHM sabinaHM Mar 7, 2016 1:19 AM in response to léonie
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    Mar 7, 2016 1:19 AM in response to léonie

    I had transferred my photos from the iPhone to iPhoto because the phone was becoming too clogged and it required me to transfer data elsewhere. Then, I had also deleted or removed those photos from the phone, using the delete from phone option. The iCloud too said it does not have enough storage for this data.  Still I was happy, that the data is safe on iPhoto and its sufficient. At that time I was not introduced to Time Machine, I did not even care enough to store photos away on a external hard drive. Both these Im using now. It had happened, that once my iPhoto, as I opened it, had gone empty. So I read and did a couple of things and the data was restored on the library. That was a much smaller tragedy in magnitude compared to this. Now, I have lost trace of everything from 2014 , the year I spent in another country, making it all the more tragic. Losing the app, would make me lose the data, how come ?

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 7, 2016 2:06 AM in response to sabinaHM
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    Mar 7, 2016 2:06 AM in response to sabinaHM
    Losing the app, would make me lose the data, how come ?

    It is not losing the app, that is causing this. The iPhoto application is just the program.

     

    iPhoto is storing your photos in a database, called iPhoto Library. This library is usually stored in your Pictures folder. in your Home folder, where all the documents and data, your emails, contacts, etc. will be stored.  When you reformatted the Mac all your personal data and documents have been erased, including the iPhoto Library with your photos.  And reformatting the drive made it impossible to recover the photos using data recovery software on the computer. It erased all traces of the photos.

     

    Did email photos to your friends and family? Perhaps you can find your most important photos still in some email attachments, if you used your iCloud email?

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