WHERE are my PHOTOS?????

I had the same problem, I concluded that when iPhoto was upgrading my library it dwindled down the iPhoto library from 112GB to 14Gb. I am pretty sure it deleted my iPhoto library. Luckily I had a time machine backup. I hope you do too!

There are other problems too that I am having. AND MANY others are too

There are programs that will rescue photos from the camera chip.

It's too late now, but you should NEVER have iPhoto auto delete anything on your camera. ALWAYS check the import first, before deleting photos on your camera, and then ONLY use the camera to delete photos.

actually i used a data recovery program because i hadn't backed up my last 3 events and they were all on the chip even though i had deleted them...1676 pictures, amazing!

I reinstalled just iPhoto '11 from the iLife disk and upgraded the library and it had no effect. It still wants to upgrade the library again after opening it time after time.

I did notice a large iPhoto and iPhoto library folder in my trash. I didn't put it there but my original iPhoto library was still in its location...?

I have no idea anymore, tried everything!

Well I am one of those who didn't have backup, so thousands of pictures and videos of my kids growing up is gone.
I managed to recover some of them with disc recovery, but most of them were partial deleted and corrupted.
If I thought there was a slightest chance that upgrading would DELETE files from library, I would of course take a copy first.
I bet that Apple wont do **** about this until the media starts putting pressure on them. iPhoto11 is a GIANT FAILURE and not anywhere near ready for release!

Btw, looks like mostly RAW files (.NEF) was deleted and all videos, .mov and .avi

Are you sure these files have been deleted from your HD? Are you sure they are not in the Library Package?

If you think that this is a problem with iPhoto 11 then you're going to have to explain all the people who updated their Libraries and didn't lose photos. Frankly this is rather more likely to be corruption in your existing Library rather than anything in iPhoto 11.

Also, I honestly cannot understand anyone who would update software without a back up on any computer, on any operating system, for any application. Having a back is basic computer usage. Apple Even build in a Back Up application to the OS to make it easy for you. Really, would you drive without a safety belt -even though you think there isn't the slightest chance of a crash?

Btw, looks like mostly RAW files (.NEF) was deleted and all videos, .mov and .avi

If the NEFs are removed then the jpeg Previews will still be there.

Regards

TD

I honestly cannot understand how a software product would delete the original files from the library without confirming that the upgrade had completed successfully. Time and again you read about people's entire iPhoto library just disappearing after an upgrade. As a software engineer myself, I find this amateur at best. I also think it's lame when you attempt to blame the user. The upgrade process should be smart enough to know that something has gone wrong during the upgrade and to restore the library to its original condition.

It obviously hasn't happened to you. but it deleted my library and many others aswell. Don't blame the users is right, I do love Apple but iPhoto '11 has some major bugs. This shouldn't have done this to people.

Same issue here. iMovie, GarageBand open just fine. iPhoto constantly wants to upgrade my library, which has gone from a respectable 25GB to a measly 65MB. I have Time Machine, so I'm not worried, but this is a MAJOR screw up on Apple's side, and I'm legitimately worried about all the people upgrading that don't have backups. Oy vey.

You are responsible for the same backup of your content.
What wold you do if your computer was stolen, damaged, blame Apple then?
Did you read the Read Me before you did the install, it tells you to make sure you have a backup.

There are so many ways in which you could all lose your 'valuable' photos and yet none of you appear to that bothered to make a backup.

Yes the files are deleted, as the whole 2010 folder is missing inside the iPhoto folder. Same thing happened on both user accounts/library on my system.

I have offsite backupservice running in background, but sadly it was not up to date..

Blaming the user for not having backup is stupid. It's like having to backup all your documents before upgrading office.. Upgrading should never touch the original files..

Users not having a backup is stupid.

Upgrades can and do cause issues, fact!
So do fires, water, theft, loss, HD failure, etc, etc.

How does your 'no backup' cover you for these events?

Yes, we should all have backups. But sometimes it's not possible. I just came back from 7 weeks of travel and didn't have enough space on Time Machine to back up the laptop.

But I wanted to work on all the photos I brought back and upgraded iPhoto thinking that made sense.

Now iPhoto can't open my library and when I look at its contents the folders for 2009 and 2010 are missing (2000-2008 are still there). Why would iPhoto selectively delete some of those folders? When I copy the problem library to an iMac I didn't upgrade, the folder structure for Albums is still there, and I have tumbnails for my pictures, but no original photos.

Luckily I still have many, but not all, of my pictures on the camera's memory card, but I can't understand what iPhoto is doing.

I also have this problem. Luckily I have backups of everything, but I agree that it is ridiculous to blame the user for a software upgrade that would delete data. That is just completely an amateur mistake by apple.

My issue is that I can not even open iPhoto as it will try to upgrade my library and I get the error message "iphoto is unable to open this library." Then I check the size of my iPhoto library and it goes from 60 GBs to 12 GBs (or around there as it seems to be different every time). So I do a restore from time machine, repair permissions, open iPhoto again and get the same message. I still have yet to even be able to open iPhoto successfully. Any help would be appreciated.