New Events Not SAVING!

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New Events Not SAVING!

Hi....

I have over 30,000 photos on my iPhoto library 2009. Around 100Gb in size. The iPhoto library is on an external HD. When I run iPhoto the old events show ok. However, any new pictures dragged into iPhoto and named in an event will not show when I restart iPhoto (HD still connected).

The funny thing is that when I import the same pictures again to iPhoto, it tells me photos already exist, and asks if I want to replace them with the new ones! Although I cannot see the photos and events it refers to as duplicate.

Any ideas!

Macbook Pro 15 (Unibody- late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Apr 11, 2010 9:54 PM

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Yer_Man

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Apr 11, 2010 10:57 PM in response to WalidDubai

What format is that External? iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos.

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TD

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WalidDubai Author

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Apr 11, 2010 11:26 PM in response to WalidDubai

It is formatted as Mac.

Any other suggestions

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WalidDubai Author

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Apr 11, 2010 11:27 PM in response to Yer_Man

It is formatted as MAC! Any other ideas?

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Yer_Man

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Apr 12, 2010 12:09 AM in response to WalidDubai

By this I guess you mean it's formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). There is no MAC! format.

Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.

If that fails:

Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords, faces and places back.

Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

Regards

TD

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