I deleted iphotos by mistake and then restored it back in trash, i still have not recovered my photos. I have two iphotos libraries now: one opens and is empty, the other does not open (its icon is different, it's kind of a white file). Is there any way I can recover my photos or are they just lost forever?
MacBook Pro
highly doubt it but try this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2638. If that doesn't work, post in the iPhoto forum.
the basic answer is to restore your backup - that is why you have one to recover from failures, human, software or hardware
If you do not have one then i woul dhelp a lot to know what versions of iPhoto and the OS you have and exactly what you did - did you delete the photo using the finder or iPhoto for example
If you depress the option key and launch iPhoto what does it show?
LN
I have the OS X Lion Version 10.7.5 and iphoto'11 version 9.4.2 and I don't have backup. I was deleting photos from the pictures folder and completely forgot about the iphoto library, I just highlighted everything and deleted it. I then opened iphotos and they asked to open a new library, after that my iphoto was empty.So basically I delted the iphotos library not pictures from iphotos. I then realized I deleted the iphotos library and I did "put it back" but now I have 2 iphotos libraries, one with the actual icon and is empty, the other has a white file icon and does not open. I tried opening the libabry of the restored iphotos but it doesn't let me choose it.
I tried that and it did not work.
Thank you though.
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If you depress the option key and launch iPhoto what does it show?
and please explain
I tried opening the libabry of the restored iphotos but it doesn't let me choose it.
we know nothing except what you tell us so details are critical - including versions of iPhoto and the OS - your exact workflow (general statement that things don't work with no detail like the one referenced above are no help - to determine why something does not work we need to know eactly what you did and how)
LN
Can I recover my photos after deleting iphotos library but restoring it back?
