Missing iphoto events in Photos

Nightmare beyond words. When Apple moved from iPhoto to photo all my albums were messed up completely. The album entitled iPhoto events needed a lot of sorting.


As I was sorting out the many many events, suddenly all but 6 disappeared. Not in the deletes folder, not in the trash. No where.


Can I access them in the cloud? How? By time machine backups to my external? How do I access content in the listed dates?


This is a nightmare ! I need those events/photos. Where are they?

Posted on Jan 13, 2020 6:34 AM

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Jan 14, 2020 2:05 PM in response to tzipora

Did you move those albums out of the folder they were in? Early versions of Photos had that bug.


Do you still have the migrated iPhoto Library? if you do change the extension to .iphotolibrary and try another migration. If you don't have the iPhoto library try to restore it from your Time Machine backups, the last one to have iPhoto library on it.



Jan 13, 2020 6:46 AM in response to tzipora

Since I wrote that note, I went into Pictures and found 4 different iPhoto Libraries and looked through them and one of them had most of the events but I have to check whether it's all of them. Also the albums are a mess. I open one and instead of the correct photos there's others mixed in. Still, I seem to have found a large amount of the events.


How to move the photos inside the iPhoto events to correct albums in Photo seems overwhelming - 15,000 ! What a nightmare.

Jan 14, 2020 12:45 PM in response to Old Toad

Yes, of course I understood that there were my photos. My issue is that while going through that album of iPhoto events containing my albums from iPhoto, I discovered that within those albums, photos were all mixed up and as i was looking through them all but 6 albums disappeared . I did find that if I went to finder>pictures>iPhotos libraries were present and most but not all albums/photos were there. But most. Not in the order I had them originally in iPhoto and certainly, some are simply gone.


Thanks anyway.

Jan 14, 2020 8:51 PM in response to Old Toad

I did try to move photos to correct albums. As well take some out of the folder for other use. Did not know about that bug. Yes, I do have the migrated iPhoto library and as I wrote, when I open it the photos inside the albums are somewhat messed up and some photos/albums missing. Never did make the transfer over. But I will change the extension. I did not know about that. I've actually never restored anything from Time Machine yet all these years so I'll have to look into how to find it in Time Machine. Haven't needed to before.


Thanks !

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