Q: I upgraded to el capitan today and I have lost all of my photos and videos
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Sep 8, 2016 7:18 AMby dialabrain,I see. You could try signing in to iCloud.com with your Apple I.D. from your browser and click on Photos and iCloud Drive and see if any are there. If not, in the process of restoring your iPad they may have been deleted. The photos are not still on your iPad I assume.
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Sep 8, 2016 7:23 AMby dooleyd,no the photos were on my iMac I was restoring a friends iPad that had been disabled for them the way I was told to do this was to upgrade to el capitan the iPad was nothing to do with my computer except by using it to help her,i have already done the iCloud bit that is how i assume i got the 100 photos because I don't use iCloud
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Sep 8, 2016 7:40 AMby dialabrain,Installing El Capitan should not have erased your iPhoto Library. About your only option I think is to try a Data Recovery program but since you installed El Capitan the chances are any photos on the drive would have been written over. Plus you would need an external drive to recover to. If you still want to try Data Rescue 4 is more or less the standard but if it found any files they would have generic names.
https://www.prosofteng.com/datarescue-mac-data-recovery/
There is a free trial but if I remember correctly you have to purchase it in order to recover the files.
I'm afraid without any back up, either a Time Machine back up or iCloud there isn't much of a chance to recover the pictures. Sorry.
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Sep 8, 2016 12:56 PMby dooleyd,i opened it in preview and I have quite a few more than the 103, but like I said earlier what's not coming up are the named folders, you know those ones I had on the left hand side? Any because I hadn't given or put these pics that are coming up into a named folder these are the ones that come up like that pic I sent you earlier, these I have t had a chance to put them into a folder that I would with an event title is day out if you see what I mean
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Sep 8, 2016 1:12 PMby Barney-15E,dooleyd wrote:
Nope still 103
I don't know what that means. I asked you how many photos you think you had. What you think you had can't be "still" anything.
I Realize you are being pulled in a dozen different directions, but it will be impossible to help if you don't filter out the noise.
It appears that your photos are still in the iPhoto library. I can help you recover those, but I need to know that we are going in the right direction. So, how many photos did you think you had in iPhoto before you did the upgrade?
