Dear MAC-Friends. PLEASE HELP ME. I am extremely afraid to do something wrong - what will be a failure so I loose all the photos I had in my iphoto library before installing the Mountain Lion. I have just installed the MOUNTAIN-LION and now I can´t us

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Dear MAC-Friends. PLEASE HELP ME. I am extremely afraid to do something wrong - what will be a failure so I loose all the photos I had in my iphoto library before installing the Mountain Lion. I have just installed the MOUNTAIN-LION and now I can´t us

Dear MAC-Friends.

PLEASE HELP ME.

I am extremely afraid to do something wrong - what will be a failure so I loose all the photos I had in my iphoto library before installing the Mountain Lion.

I have just installed the MOUNTAIN-LION and now I can´t use my Iphoto-programme without answering the following question:

Choose another Library ? ( But I only want the choose the photos which one was in the old iPhoto-Library and not the other photos on the MAC-computer ? ).

and the other possibility is:

Create a new Libray ! Which iPhoto-library ?

And why create a new and to risq to loose the old photos.

PLEASE HELP ME.

Kind regards FINN GRABOWSKI

iPhoto '11, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), WHERE TO FIND THE PHOTOS

Posted on Feb 4, 2013 4:23 AM

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Barney-15E

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Feb 4, 2013 4:58 AM in response to archi-design

When it asks you to choose, go find your old Library which is normally in your Pictures folder.

old iPhoto-Library and not the other photos on the MAC-computer

If the old Library wasn't on your Mac, where was it?

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Feb 4, 2013 5:02 AM in response to archi-design

Ok. Let me first ask you, do you have any backups of your files - for example, do you use Time Machine or any other backup system?

Next, quit iPhoto. In the Finder, go to your Pictures folder. Is there a file there called iPhoto.Library? How large is it? (If it doesn't show the size, click once on it, click cmd-I to see the information). If it's a healthy size (ie, several GB), then that should be your library, and you can double-click it to launch iPhoto. (The application will remember where your library is next time, you can just launch iPhoto normally).

If that's not the right file, check your Trash. Is there anything in there?

Matt

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