For the last two weeks, I have downloaded photos from my camera's memory card into i-photo, and they have appeared, but then when I next load i-photo they have gone.
I have unfortunately deleted the photos off the camera at the time of import and have no back up 😟
The only other thing I have noticed is that an "Image Capture" window keeps opening now when I start up the computer/i-photo, which I had never seen before until a couple of weeks ago.
Any suggestions please?
iMac
What version of iPhoto? Asuming 09 or later:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD
Hi Terence
Thanks for the prompt response.
I had already tried option 1 after seeing it as advice when googlin for help, with no luck
Have tried option 2, and again, it is not finding anything after July 18th.
Any other ideas?
Thankyou
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for a folder called Masters. Are your photos inside?
Do you mean my pcitures folder in finder? I can't find an i-photo library there. Or in fact, anywhere.
I am probably being a bit dim, I am not really very technically minded.
Yes I do mean the Pictures Folder in the FInder.
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. In the resulting window you'll see a list of your iPhoto Libraries. Mousing over them will show you the path to the actual library on the disk.
I can't see anything called photo libraries, only albums and when I right click on them, I do not get the Show package contents icon you referred to
You are in iPhoto - quit iPhoto and go to the finder and follow TD's instruction
LN
In Finder, in my pictures, I don't have anything saying i-photo library
Have now found the list of libraries but cannto right or ctrl click on them?
Thankyou for your patience!
Hi Terrence,
I have gone inside the masters folder and located the pictures.
So i copied the pics and went to trans them back to iphoto and i can do this but then it says that there are suplicates, however i cannot see the originals...
what can i do about this? i have edited the origs and dont want to ave to do it again unless i have to
cheers
How did you find the masters file?
the same way you advised the prev people... close iphoto, go to pics, iphoto right click, and found them in the masters folder...
i just figured out how to rebuild iphoto so ill see how that goes, but any other suggestions?
It wasn't me who advised-I posted the original request!
I don't seem to have an i-photo file in my pictures.
sorry thought i sent the reply to terrence. anyway its getting fixed now... thanks.
dennisj84 wrote:
Hi Terrence,
I have gone inside the masters folder and located the pictures.
So i copied the pics and went to trans them back to iphoto and i can do this but then it says that there are suplicates, however i cannot see the originals...
what can i do about this? i have edited the origs and dont want to ave to do it again unless i have to
cheers
the suggestion was to "Look" - not to move or import or do anything except to see if the photos were in the masters folder
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for a folder called Masters. Are your photos inside?
This is NOT a solution but an attempt to help a different user discover what their problem is - and unless you have exactly the same configuration and exactly the same problem may not be useful or advisable for you
Unless you are spcifically directed to go into the iPhoto library by an experianced user who knows your personal situation you shouold never be in it - it is dangerous and not necessary except under unusual circumstanses
And note you are not sending things to anyone - this is a public forum and you are posting in it
LN
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