Problem with reoccurring same recovered photos

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Problem with reoccurring same recovered photos

Hello,
I'm having the same reoccurring problem every time I activate iPhoto. I get a message window that says "82 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library that were not imported, and would you like to import them?"

These photos are in the Library and in iPhoto. If I select yes then I get a message that says something to the extent they can't be imported because of a non readable problem. If I select no, then a folder and the photos are developed in the picture files titled recovered photos in Finder/Pictures....this happens every time I start iPhoto. How do I get rid of this reoccurring problem that is starting to bother me. Every time I delete the recovered folder it's recovered again when I start iPhoto

Thanks for any assistance or input you may have, or please direct me to an area where I might be able to find a fix.

Bill

Imac24, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Aug 17, 2008 12:37 AM

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LarryHN

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Aug 17, 2008 8:40 AM in response to bgoodz

Bgoodz

Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums

quit iPhoto and in the finder go to your pictures folder ad right click (control Click) on the iPhoto Library - use the show package contents command and look for a folder called import or importing - drag that folder to the desktop and launch iPhoto - you should be fine now - look in the import(ing) folder on your desktop and once you are positive that there is nothing in it that you want, trash it

LN

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bgoodz Author

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Aug 17, 2008 9:48 AM in response to LarryHN

Hi Larry,
Thank you for the welcome and your instructions worked perfectly and I am now a happy camper once again without multiple "recovered" photo folders. I have been reading other posts looking for a potential same problem while waiting for a response. Many of the other posts were referring to a iPhoto Folder within the "Picture" folder. Well, all I could find was a iPhoto Library icon and no folder ( I was able to find the the right click "show contents") prior to your corrective post but stopped right there in concern of making things worse. So as soon as I read your reply it made perfect directional sense to me.

I suppose now would be the time to back that Pictures Folder up again (fresh) although I do
have have it backed up on Time Machine and have also copied it to a Flash Drive in fear of losing all the family photo's and what the Boss Lady would do to me 🙂

Thank you again LN, you've been a great help!

Bill

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LarryHN

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Aug 17, 2008 10:02 AM in response to bgoodz

Glad to help you solve your issue - up to iPhoto '08 the iPhoto library was a folder - now it is a package because it is critical that it not be messed with

I agree that you can not have too many backups of your iPhoto library

LN

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