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I lost all of my photos from my MacBook Air

I was trying to call some very old pictures off of an external hard drive, and somehow I lost all of my photos from my MacBook Air


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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Nov 26, 2022 12:11 PM

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Posted on Nov 26, 2022 3:23 PM

The usual method to restore deleted files is to restore them from a Time Machine backup: Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac - Apple Support.


Before you give up though, navigate to your Photos Library and open it. Its default location is ~/Pictures. To open that folder, type ~/Pictures into the Finder's Go menu > Go To Folder... field.


Make it look like this



... and click the Go button. Double-click the file named Photos Library.


This assumes you are using the Photos app to store and organize your photos.

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Nov 26, 2022 3:23 PM in response to Computerstressors

The usual method to restore deleted files is to restore them from a Time Machine backup: Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac - Apple Support.


Before you give up though, navigate to your Photos Library and open it. Its default location is ~/Pictures. To open that folder, type ~/Pictures into the Finder's Go menu > Go To Folder... field.


Make it look like this



... and click the Go button. Double-click the file named Photos Library.


This assumes you are using the Photos app to store and organize your photos.

I lost all of my photos from my MacBook Air

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