Giant exclamation point
Today while trying to create an album I discovered that I can't open ANY of my pictures. When I open iPhoto I am able to see all the thumbnail versions, however, when i click on them to edit or see the larger image all I get is a giant exclamation mark.
I tried clicking "show file" but it takes me to the finder homepage and not the real image. I have not moved the location of the original image which is in a folder within "My Pictures" in the finder.
The library was working just fine this morning when I added more pictures. The only thing I have done to possibly upset the library is splitting and merging of events and also, I deleted Picasa (by google) in the afternoon and created 2 aliases to the originals and the modified ones. I deleted some Picasa folders, so I don't see how that would affect the iPhoto library.
When I click on the aliases and go into the folders, many of my events are missing. The events that are present in the aliases I am able to view files with preview like I normally do, but when I try to open those in iPhoto then the same exclamation point appears.
Has this happened to anyone? I was able to fix one of my albums, however, it would be incredibly time consuming to do all the other pictures as well. Not to mention that I stopped saving pictures in 2 folders a while ago and iphoto is the only copy I have got.
Can someone help me with this?
I tried clicking "show file" but it takes me to the finder homepage and not the real image. I have not moved the location of the original image which is in a folder within "My Pictures" in the finder.
The library was working just fine this morning when I added more pictures. The only thing I have done to possibly upset the library is splitting and merging of events and also, I deleted Picasa (by google) in the afternoon and created 2 aliases to the originals and the modified ones. I deleted some Picasa folders, so I don't see how that would affect the iPhoto library.
When I click on the aliases and go into the folders, many of my events are missing. The events that are present in the aliases I am able to view files with preview like I normally do, but when I try to open those in iPhoto then the same exclamation point appears.
Has this happened to anyone? I was able to fix one of my albums, however, it would be incredibly time consuming to do all the other pictures as well. Not to mention that I stopped saving pictures in 2 folders a while ago and iphoto is the only copy I have got.
Can someone help me with this?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8), iPhoto '09
