Q: When I deleted a photo from my MacBook, why did it also delete from external hard drive??
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Oct 7, 2016 11:47 AMby léonie,HelpfulI'm not quite sure, what you did? are you using iPhoto or Photos for Mac? You are writing iPhoto, but the question is in the Photos forum. And iPhoto has a Trash in the application window, and all photos you delete will go to the system Trash. photos for Mac is different. it gas a Recently deleted Album, but the deleted items are not moved to the System Trash. If you delete folders using the Finder, they will appear in the System Trash, unless the external drive is remotely mounted. Then the deletion would be immediate.
What exactly did you delete? "a single folder in the iPhoto folder" is not clear to me. Did you use iPhoto to delete a folder with album? Or did you use the Finder to delete a folder?
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Oct 7, 2016 7:14 AMby LarryHN,WE need details as your post does not make sense
What version of the OS and of iPhoto (or Photos) are you using?
What exactly did you move to the EHD (photos or the library) and why do you think that photos were deleted from it while it was disconnected (that is no possible at all)
With no real information we can only make guesses but if you hold down the option key while launching either Photos or iPhoto you will get a select library window showing all available libraries - my best guess is that you have multiple libraries and are confused about which one you have been looking at and if you check each available library you are likely to find all of your photos
and if you plan to have your photos only of the EHD you need to be sure your backup software is backing up the EHD too - osme backup software like TimeMachine by default does not backup EHDs - you have to specifically set them to be backed up
LN
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Oct 7, 2016 10:05 AMby THart82,Im sorry, I see how that was confusing. I was transferring photos from "photos", not "iPhoto". Honestly I thought it was the same thing. I deleted a single folder inside photos from the finder. The external hard drive was still connected. Somehow when I deleted the single picture folder inside photos from the finder, it was also deleted from the still-connected EHD.
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Oct 7, 2016 10:09 AMby THart82,I moved all the contents of the photos folder into the EHD. I definitely don't think something from the EHD can be deleted while it's not plugged it. It was still plugged in when I was testing to see if the transfer when through ok.
I really don't know exactly what OS she uses. It's a MacBook Pro. When I get home from
work today I'll try to get more details.
I wanted to say thank you for all the quick posts. You guys are awesome! Hopefully we can figure out what my ******* did...
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Oct 7, 2016 10:48 AMby léonie,I was transferring photos from "photos", not "iPhoto". Honestly I thought it was the same thing
Photos is the new standard application for managing photos on a Mac. iPhoto is no longer developed by Apple. And Photos is very different from iPhoto. That is why e need to know which software is been used.
I deleted a single folder inside photos from the finder. The external hard drive was still connected. Somehow when I deleted the single picture folder inside photos from the finder, it was also deleted from the still-connected EHD.
If you deleted a folder using the finder on one drive, it could not have been deleted from a different drive as well.
Are the photos missing when you run Photos? Then Photos is probably reading the wrong Photos Library. To open the Photos Library you copied to the external drive you can hold down the options key while launching Photos and select the Photos Library you want to use in the Library Chooser panel.
Or double-click the library you want to open.
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Oct 7, 2016 12:09 PMby THart82,Leonie: I'll try to be as specific as I can. Thanks again so much for the help!
Inserted 2TB Seagate EHD (already formatted for Mac, I had transferred photos to it years ago with no problem)
Opened it in Finder
Opened a new finder window to view Photos on the Mac
Drug the Photos from the Mac in the Finder window into EHD in other Finder window
It took 40 mins to transfer 130GB pics to EHD
When transfer was complete, I renamed the Photos on the Mac "Photo Library OLD" so I wouldn't confuse the two.
Then I hit eject on the EHD, waited a moment, and reinserted EHD
The Photos were in the EHD (from here I never disconnected the EHD)
Went to other Finder window with the original Photos. Deleted a single folder inside Photos
Went back to EHD from Finder, the same folder was deleted there as well (originally there were 67 folders in each Photo folder on the computer and EHD, after deleting a single folder only on the computer, both Photos only contain 66 folders and the GB had gone down slightly on both)
From here I tried to find the deleted photos. Not in trash, nothing on the cloud, time machine never used, no recently deleted tab.
Somehow it seems like the Photo folders on the Mac and EHD were still linked. Thats the only reasonable outcome I can think of. I believe I missed the step where you hit Option and click the photos at the bottom of the screen, then choose which Photos to load.
I hope this info helps.
