iPhoto Disappeared

Ok, so what do you do... if by some chance, you ... hypothetically of course... didn't think to use time machine and erhhhh deleted Iphoto by accident???

It's still in my dock though but has a huge question mark on it, so im not sure i actually DID delete it. But its possible im an idiot 🙂

HELP? Can i get it back? All my photos are still there....

At the risk of sounding computer illiterate....
When i try to start up time machine it doesnt give me an option of a disk to pick to back everything up on. Its just blank. And then the time capsule option doesn't seem to want to cooperate either.
MACs are much more confusing then i had anticipated !

You likely inadvertently put in the trash and deleted it, something that I've done before while stoned on some of Humboldt County's (it's in northern California) finest offering.
But I did have a copy of it on an external hard drive. You do back up your hard drive, don't you? Hmmm?

You may have dragged iPhoto out of your Applications folder and into another folder.
Search for it using 'Spotlight' or 'Find Any File' http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30079/find-any-file
or 'EasyFind' http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076/easyfind
Your iPhoto didn't just fly off into the sunset 😉
If its not there anymore then you would have to have deleted it; it
would not just disappear on its own.

Happened to me. Not in the Trash. Spotlighted and found nothing. Time Machine saves me once again.

Hi, Alicia. You should be able to reinstall iPhoto from the Applications disc that came with your MBP.

Alicia-Boe wrote:
It's still in my dock though but has a huge question mark on it, so im not sure i actually DID delete it. But its possible im an idiot 🙂
HELP? Can i get it back? All my photos are still there....

I presume that clicking on the question mark in the dock doesn't invoke iPhoto. If you've searched with 'Spotight', 'EasyFind' or 'Find any File' and haven't found it, then you've likely trashed it.
If you haven't securely deleted your iPhoto app then you may be able to recover it using something like 'Disk Drill: http://www.cleverfiles.com/
If you can't recover iPhoto then your own photos are lost forever.

Alicia says all her photos are still there, Anonymouse. Only the application is missing, and reinstalling it should give her access to all the photos again.

Don't panic. Your photos are there. Do a time machine now then I'll show you how to get a copy of the iTunes application. The photos should be safe but get a backup of everything before you do anything else.

eww wrote:
Alicia says all her photos are still there, Anonymouse. Only the application is missing, and reinstalling it should give her access to all the photos again.

OK, If her photos are still there, which would mean they still are on her hard drive somewhere, where can those files be found?
I'm thinking that if her own photo files are not there then a fresh iPhoto installation will not contain her photo collection.

It's just the app itself that's gone. The photos and other files needed are still there so if you get another copy of the iPhoto.app you'll be back in business. Use Dropbox.com if you need to get it off another computer over the net.

Where the photos are stored depends upon whether Alicia has been using a managed library (iPhoto's default) or a referenced library.

With a managed iphoto library, all the photos and everything necessary to display, organize, and manipulate them is stored in the iPhoto Library folder inside the user's own Pictures folder. One should never mess with the contents of the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder, or using any application other than iPhoto.

With a referenced library, the photos are wherever the user has chosen to keep them — which could be anywhere in the internal hard drive or any external storage media — and those locations are recorded by iPhoto so it can retrieve them as needed. One must avoid moving photos once iPhoto has taken note of their locations if one is running a referenced library.

to all may be it 's help

iLife 09 was install on 01/01 2011, some picture add to iPhoto same day, today 01/11/2011 my iPhoto app. is gone ! ! ! , is no where under any folder,

I just type "on line" about "iphoto disappeared" and I am right here,

iPhoto Library was untouched, 532.2 Mb, just reinstall custom install from bundled application disk iPhoto "Upgrade" 876.3Mb, and everything is back the way was on 01/01/2011
strange anyway,



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