A while back, I upgraded to v 10.9.2 and ALL of my photos and folders within iPhoto vanished. How can I re-import them into my nice, little folders so I don't have to spend a week or more sorting through thousands of photos that span more than a decade? 😐
MacBook Pro
restore your backup form before this ocured?
LN
I have backups of my entire computer from before the vanishing. I don't know how to restore the folders for thousands of my photos.
what do you see when you launch iPhoto? How did you upgrade? From the App store r prhase a new compuer?
LN
I see an empty iPhoto application. I think I lost the original application and had to purchase an upgrade or something. The first time I tried importing my photos there were triplicates that were loading in. It took so long and nothing was organized into folders or by dates—and there, of course, too many copies of each photo.
It souns like you imported your old iPhtoo lbrary into the ew Phot = NEVER import a iPoto lbrary into iPhoto - it does not work and creates a massive mess
If this is what you did and you still have the original library available drag the bad library to the desktop and drag the original library to yoru pictures folder and launch iPhoto - depending on the old version you will tehn either launch iPhoto and upgrade the library or downloan, install and execture the library upgrader and then launch iPhoto to finish the upgrade
LN
I've got my photos and albums back! My "iPhoto Library" folder was missing from my computer altogether. I went to a back up disk and found it and dragged it to my desktop, opened it and voila! There were all my albums and photos. No idea why it disappeared from my computer. But thank you for the information: never *import* an iPhoto Library...
lost photos and folders during system upgrade
