So apparently I'm the latest victim of the disappearing iPhoto library--iPhoto 9.6 (910.29). I was preparing for a job interview today and selecting a few photos for my portfolio. Decided I should use a few good ones in iPhoto after milling through some from external HDs in CS6 Bridge. In Bridge I noticed there were only two Photo Streams from March and April of 2014 available -- totalling 10 photos -- in my entire library. I was pushing almost 35,000 yesterday to give you an idea how dramatic this is.
I opened iPhoto directly, and the same thing. Let's say I was a little frustrated and cursed technology--there's a reason I got a Mac finally back in 2007.
Anything new on this front?
I have a Time Machine, but that's a completely separate frustrating issue.
Just from doing a Spotlight Search, it appears the photos are still on my computer, just not in iPhoto--well, 10 are. Here's the thing that got me wondering. In April 2014, my car was broken into (when I was broken down in Douglas, Wyoming), and my MacBook Pro was stolen (among many other important things when you're living out of your car while moving across country). Bought a used MacBook Pro, which I'm on right now sans 35,000 photos in iPhotos. Coincidence that the only photos remaining are from when I hit the road up until the break-in? Probably. But that's the situation. I have a brand-new MacBook Pro in the box next to me, but before I transfer everything over, I need to solve the duplicate files issue I have since restoring this MacBook--mainly because I need too and there are ~150GB of duplicate files. Did I mention my Time Capsule wrote over my backup when I turn Time Machine on this computer (the used bridge MacBook from the stolen one to the brand new one) for the first time? Yup, had to have files recovered and with almost 1TB of data, it got ugly.
Anyways--can't say this has ever happen in almost 8 years of MacBook Pros and iPhoto. I'm running OS 10.10.2.