All my mvi/avi files have converted to jpg...
I realize this topic has been previously discussed, but I could not find anything that has been helpful.
I have old videos from Europe that are backed up on an external hard drive multiple times.
I have one laptop using snow leopard, one iMac using Lion.
I had upgraded iPhoto stupidly and can no longer access the mvi files as they have switched to .jpg.
I've tried importing library.iPhoto6 files to lion and that came up short, though I may have done it incorrectly, as the files acted as if they were there, but gave me the error "!" within a triangle sign.
I've also tried retreiving the files through the "Original" folder and nothing there either. I even changed the file type manually and it just plays a one second clip of a still...
I'm at a loss of what to do and I know this has happened to many people so please help. I also know there was a virus years ago doing this affecting PCs as well. Any relation?
I will be indebted to you forever if someone can please help me. I've spent hours trying to resurrect these as I don't know when I'll be back to Europe and I accidently wiped the SD cards as well...
Thanks!
iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7.2)