Events not working

Photos and Events are two views of the same material, so if they are in one they are in the other. Can you describe exactly what you see on the iPhoto Window? Also, incclude the version of iPhoto that you have.

Scanning old photos in? Exactly what is your workflow

LN

Option 1

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.

If that fails:

Option 2

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)

This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.

Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

Regards

TD

I have exactly the same problem. Events which were full of photos yesterday are now showing as empty - a graphic of a palm tree is all that shows. With the number "0".

The photos are, evidently, still in "photos" but the EVENTS ARE EMPTY. The iPhoto organizational system is all out of whack and nothing...NOTHING has changed.

What's going on?

I do not have time to sit here and reorganize and recreate events when iPhoto decides to go crazy.

Again - what's going on? I do not like mysteries.

No mystery - your library is corrupt - the solution is to rebuild as described just above your post

LN

But why has this occurred on two separate, unlinked computers?

If it were one corrupt library, that would be one thing.

Two unrelated libraries on two computers - that's another matter altogether.

You have this issue on 2 computers at the same time?

Patsy,

how do you maintain the separate libraries on two different computers?

Do they share the same set of images?

Do keep them in sync, and how do you do that?

Do both libraries on both machines use the same version of iPhoto?

Did your events vanish on both machines at the same time?

Did iPhoto crash?

What was the last operation you did on both libraries?

Without knowing how you work with two libraries it is hard to tell, what may be causing this on two comuputers.

Regards

Léonie

Yes: in iPhoto on a 4-yr. old iMac and in iPhoto on a 2-mo. old Macbook Air, there are certain events which now appear to be empty.

Each computer has its own iPhoto library - that's normal, right?

What's not normal is for some events to suddenly appear to be empty - just the palm tree graphic - although the photos themeslves are evidently somewhere on iPhoto (just not showing up in Events).

I'd insert a screen shot here but I can't seem to figure out how to do that.

For how to take a screenshot see: http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X

for example: "Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop"

To post it here, click the camera icon in the toolbar of the window of your post.

Good Luck.

Given your experience, Cooadams, I'm not going to risk anything. I'm giving Apple a call when I have a nice long empty afternoon for a tech talk. This kind of thing should not happen. 😠

Then go on to option 2