My wife recently downloaded iphoto library manager and now here iphoto 6.0.6 is unable to read any of her 8000 photos. I have tried rebuilding, but the grey boxes still appear. I need help.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Perhaps you might explain what the actual problem is, and how - if at all - iPhoto Library Manager fits in. Remember we can't see your machine here.
Sorry. The manager fits in because it was not until she downloaded it that this problem occured. Once she copied her existing iphoto library to the manager, the pictures - although still accounted for in number and memory - turned into grey boxes. I copied her iphoto library to her desktop and tried rebuilding the library but the system says they are incorrectly formatted. I'm not sure if that helps, but I would be happy to clarify.
The manager fits in because it was not until she downloaded it that this problem occured.
What problem is that? What do you see in the iPhoto Window?
Once she copied her existing iphoto library to the manager, the pictures - although still accounted for in number and memory - turned into grey boxes.
You can't copy material to Library Manager. it just lists what it finds.
I copied her iphoto library to her desktop and tried rebuilding the library but the system says they are incorrectly formatted.
Copied it from where? How did you try rebuilding? What's the exact error message?
Regards
TD
Well, I am not 100% what caused the problem because I was not with her when it happened. She said she was editing a photo and was saving the changes and then her computer froze and so she force quit and restarted. I copied the library to the desktop from the existing iphoto library. When I attempt to rebuild the message says: "The following files could not be imported (they may be an unrecognized file type or the files may not contain valid data)."
She said she was editing a photo and was saving the changes and then her computer froze and so she force quit and restarted.
That probably resulted in a corrupted Library database.
I copied the library to the desktop from the existing iphoto library.
Again, not sure what exactly you've copied and from where? You've removed material from the iPhoto Library Folder in Picture? Somewhere else? And what exactly did you move?
Regards
TD
I looked at something you had said in answer to someone else's similar problem. I opened iphoto, selected the library, clicked on the photo tab, selected duplicate, saved the duplicate library onto the desktop. I somehow cleared the existing library on iphoto and am now trying to import the copy I made. That is what prompts the response from the system I copied.
I opened iphoto, selected the library, clicked on the photo tab, selected duplicate, saved the duplicate library onto the desktop.
If you did that then you didn't duplicate the Library, you simply duplicated all the photos in it.
Do you have a back up?
In that case no. Am I out of luck?
Not necessarily but it would have been the surefire and quick fix.
It's hard to figure out exactly what you've done, and as such hard to recommend a course of action.
What's on your Desktop? A folder or images? Or an iPhoto Library Folder?
An iphoto library folder.
Look inside it. are there folders called
Originals
Modified
Data
and files (with an iPhoto icon) called
library6.iPhoto
Regards
TD
Look inside the Originals Folder - are your actual photos in there?
Regards
TD
No, just folders with the year and then folders with roll numbers and then nothing.
Then trash that iPhoto Library on the Desktop.
Go to your Pictures Folder. Is there an iPhoto Library Folder there? If so, look inside the Originals folder - same question. Are your photos inside?
My wife recently downloaded iphoto library manager and now here iphoto 6.0.6 is unable to read any of her 8000 photos. I have tried rebuilding, but the grey boxes still appear. I need help.
