Cannot restore iPhoto library due to "permissions"

Thanks Robert for the post, hope it helps somebody! 🙂

Very similar experience but with Aperture. No permissions or not enough. Convinced TM to try and restore to different locations after granting everyone in the neighborhood rights to TM including a stray dog that was passing by. The serendipitous moment was when I trashed all of the newly-created but empty Aperture Library files, opened Aperture and went to Import library or project. I then went to my time machine and opened it (right from Aperture) drilled down to a back-up from last week and said O.K. It is now 'merging' to two databases, the one from TM and the 'empty' one, just as it would if I had asked it to WiFi merge my MB Pro and the iMac. It's taking forever but it has mounted the missing projects, claims it was 'copying Masters' (whew!) and is now working on 'copying Previews'.

The key seems definitely to be not perform a restore from TM but to convince Aperture itself to import the missing library(s) as you would import any other set of pictures. I assume iPhoto would work in a similar fashion.

Hope this is useful :-)

jc

Good work, thanks for the post... and the chuckle! 🙂

Worked Perfectly!

THiS WORKED FO RME ALSO!!!

1- Create new iPhoto library in the Picrures folder with the SAME NAME the iPhoto library in the Time Machine has.

2- From iPhoto "Browse Backups" then restore!

Thank you very much for the solution! This was SUPER EASY and not having to use Terminal! :-)

I'm using iPhoto 9.3.2. There is no "Browse Backups" under "File" ... or anywhere else that I can see. And attempting to restore iPhoto Library from a Time Machine backup fails with the error message descrribed elsewhere in this thread, nor is there any way in Time Machine to modify the permissions of the iPhoto Library selected for restoration nor to compress it. Those things can evidently be done directly on the Time Machine backup, but that strikes me as a bit dangerous. I am running OS X 10.7.4.

Try what i did! Really, after trying MANY things this one worked like a charm!!

1- Create new iPhoto library in the Pictures folder with the SAME NAME the iPhoto library in the Time Machine has.

2- From iPhoto "Browse Backups" then restore!

Hope it works! Let me know if you need extra help.

Where in iPhoto 9.3.2 do I find "Browse Backups"??? As I said above,

There is no "Browse Backups" under "File" ... or anywhere else that I can see.

Maybe that has something to do with OS X? I'm on OS X 10.7.5.

PLEASE make sure Time Machine is ON and connected...

then open iPhoto

i'm sorry, you are right, iPhoto 9.2 or later with Lion NO LONGER has the browse backups option.

TRY THiS LiNK:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4927

This method DOES NOT WORK FOR LiON.

This worked for me with iPhoto 11 in ML: Open TM to a point that you know has a good iPhoto Library. Select User>Pictures and click Restore. In my case, it then asked for my password and proceeded to copy that version of the Pictures folder into my home folder. When it finished, it took about half and hour, I had a completely restored iPhoto.

It seemed as though this was working = but now I am getting the message that there is insufficient space for my library - although the library is only 156 GB, and I have 307GB available on my hard disc, the message I get says that it needs 180 GB and that I have only 56 GB left. What gives? (Sigh.)

I'm not sure why that is happening. It may be doubling up the files in the picture folder.Try dragging your existing Pictures folder to another location e.g. desktop then let TM do its thing. It should restore the Pictures folder in the correct location. If that doesn't work you will still have your old Pictures folder on the desktop, and you could put it back.

Hi, by reading through the posts I am not entirely sure if any one has been able to restore their iPhoto library.

I found myself in the same position and was getting the permissions problem when trying to restore from Time Machine. I have worked out that the only way to restore is to navigate to the Pictures folder and restore that folder rather than trying to restore the actual library itself.

I hope this info is of use to you folks.