iPhoto '11 (9.3) deleting modified photos...Again!
Aarg! Once again an iPhoto 11 upgrade has deleted ALL my modified photos and left only the thumbnails! Even photos that have been in my library for years suffered, just like last time.
This happened a little over a year ago when I upgraded from iPhoto 9 to 11. Thousands of modifieds (which are the ones I want to keep!) were simply zapped into non-existence. The actual files deleted, not the thumbnail. A few escaped then, but now they too have been simple erased off my hard drive!
Once again Apple has struck. I ran the innocent sounding iPhoto update that came yesterday, 650.39, and today, again any photo I modified with Photoshop only bring up a black screen when double clicked. When I try to "edit" in iPhoto is says "Image Cannot Be Edited: This photo was previously editted with another application (Yep, Photoshop CS 5.1....and saved as standard jpeg's....not exactly esoteric Apple!) or with an early version of iPhoto (gee, since you own iPhoto and I've 'updated' this library at least 4 or 5 times over the last 7 years you'd think that would be a non-issue Apple). Duplicate this photo to edit it.
Are you kidding? My modified photos are no in the finder. A "reveal modified" brings up the top level directory. You zapped them! I can't duplicate them because there is nothing there!
I can choose "edit in external editor' and the original pops up in Photoshop. But that pesky modified, Apple knew I really didn't need that photo I took two hours to tweak....any more than I needed them a year ago.
Yes, I tired rebuilding the thumbnails. No help. Took about 3 hours.
Beware the iPhoto upgrade!