I was working on a newsletter and inserting photos from my I Photo library. Next thing I knew my entire I Photo library was gone. Apple Care says it is gone. Isn't there any way to retrieve it?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), iOS 6.1.3
Do you still have a file in your "Pictures" folder named "iPhoto Library"?
Clinton
Yes, there is a file called "iPhoto Library" but it only contains the 3 photos I was working on when I lost the whole library (and I did not have my back up).
When you open the iPhoto Library there is a list of items on the left. Have you checked all of their contents? Just click on each in turn. The left side on my computer:
thanks, Linc Davis for that detailed help but it did not work. The only photos the library can find are those three new ones we were using for our newsletter. Any chance a system restore to a date prior to the work we did on the newsletter might work?
Any chance a system restore to a date prior to the work we did on the newsletter might work?
I thought you didn't have a backup. If you do, just restore the iPhoto library.
You are right--we do not have a backup now (left our external hard drive in other home). I was thinking a system restore was an option but it is probably leftover from our PC days. That was one good feature.
Thanks for responding.
Reinstalling the OS will have no effect.
Are you saying even if we use our external drive, which we used to back up the computer, will not contain those old photos? Oh, boy, if that is so. Sad for us. And we still can't figure out why our mac did not ask us if we are "sure we want to delete" or any other message saying you will lose all your photos....very weird and un-apple like. We are long time mac people but are wondering what the heck happened here and why we are so lost. (And, yes, we know we should have backed up)
No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that merely restoring system files without restoring the photos won't do any good. If you do restore the photos, you may (or may not) be OK.
I might be late to respond this one but have you tried one of these file recovery softwares? I have used Data Resuce and it finds any file deleted. The draw back here is that it won't find the library it self. You will find all the images individually and you will need to reorganize them back into iPhoto.
I hope that helps
Cheers
The same issue has happened to me. I lost an entire library and there is no way to retrieve it. I work as a professional artist and cannot afford this nonsense. Egregious defect.
restore from your backup from before this problem occured
LN
This JUST happened to me! I am an artist as well and I lost over 40,000 images from the last few years
Since taking the advice of a free option to upload to OS X 10.9.2 just recently all my photos are gone too.
There was over 9,000 of which my only back up was to May 2013. When I open iPhoto (which is now gone from my dock; I opened in Applications) I am told I have a new version, and when I click update (or upgrade) I can go no further. (I should know better to back up; just assumed MyBook was doing that:(
lost my iphoto library
