where did my photo/video files go?
Hi all,
I rarely use iphoto so apologise in advance for any lack of expertise shown here! In fact im using what i guess is probably quite an old version - iphoto 9.2.1.
I have a lot of photos and videos in iphoto and alwyas found the files in my pictures folder - iphoto library or ipod photo cache....something like that. However today I was looking around my desktop for a video. When I couldnt find it anywhere i realised it was imported from my iphone in iphoto so immediately opened iphoto's files to find it...however i couldnt. I opened up iphoto and there it was....however all my files seem to have disappeared. Well, not all....but a number of videos and pictures that are playable/viewable in iphoto dont have files anymore...i searched for the file names with no success.
Seems as though i've been quite lucky as I have changed computer a few times recently/replaced hard drive (restoring from back ups etc) and the pics/videos themselves are not lost completely....
Therefore, i'm wondering if anyone knows why one day the files might have disappeared (but would still be on iphoto?), and secondly, where are all these pics and vids i can see on iphoto stored? are they contributing to my total being used of my hard drive?
also does anyone know what will make these fles appear again? should I drag everything to a folder? would a time machine backup do it? should i take everything out and re-import it all?
Many thanks!
Rob
macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5)