Tip - Rescuing your photos from iPhoto 11's evil clutches
Don't know if this is well known but it has made me happy so thought I would post
iPhoto11 has a grip on my photo library - and I hadn't properly backed it up before upgrading (wasn't aware then that this was such a poor piece of sware). Nothing opens..spent 5 hours with AppleCare restoring disks and OS and all sorts of things - but at the end of the day it still bounces and hangs.
But wanted to at least recover my photos.
I did a finder search on jpgs and saw the folder construction within the iPhoto library. It appears all the originals are kept in a folder called 'masters'. I then searched on masters to get just this folder. Bingo! ..and am now copying that folder over to a safe place away from iPhoto's evil clutches.
iPhoto11 has a grip on my photo library - and I hadn't properly backed it up before upgrading (wasn't aware then that this was such a poor piece of sware). Nothing opens..spent 5 hours with AppleCare restoring disks and OS and all sorts of things - but at the end of the day it still bounces and hangs.
But wanted to at least recover my photos.
I did a finder search on jpgs and saw the folder construction within the iPhoto library. It appears all the originals are kept in a folder called 'masters'. I then searched on masters to get just this folder. Bingo! ..and am now copying that folder over to a safe place away from iPhoto's evil clutches.
iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.3), Laptop:Dell XPS M1330 Windows Vista Business, Iphone 3GS, iPad 3G, AppleTV
