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Only iPhoto thumbs remain.Original pictures no longer in library. What to do?
Anyone who cab help me out?
Kind regards,
stebra
Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Only iPhoto thumbs remain.Original pictures no longer in library. What to do?
Anyone who cab help me out?
Kind regards,
stebra
Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
No - except to tell you to restore your backup from just before this happened
We can not help with no information
What version of iPhoto do you have? what recently changed? why do you think that "Only iPhoto thumbs remain.Original pictures no longer in library. "?
Any thing else that might let someone actually understand your issues so they can help
LN
What do you see when you try to edit or view the thumbnails full sized? What version of iPhoto and syhstem are you using? Did you apply any upgrades or updates just before this problem appeared?
OT
iPhoto 11 9.4.1 that's what I use.
Apparently I forgot to mentio a couple of things.
Not all the originals are gone. Thirty something. From a trip to Florida. What we see is thumbnail. So we
see the picture, but normal original size is not availlable.
So that is the long and short of it.
If no rescue possible, thanks anyway for your attention.
Sandy is worse than a couple of oics.
Kind regards,
stebra Rudi ter Weijden Holland
What do you see in the window when you double click on the thumbnail? A blank, black window? A window with an exclamation point in a triangle? What?
Indeeed a triangle with an exclamation point in it.
That's an indication that iPhoto has broken the file path/link tetween the thumbnail and original photos. Thereore, make a temporary, backup copy of your library if you don't already have one (Control-click on the library and select Duplicate from the contextual menu) and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #1, followed by #3 and then #4 as needed.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
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