I have just lost all my iPhone pictures. iPhoto imported everything and asked me if I want to delete the pictures from my iPhone. I said yes and now I only have the thumbnails in iPhoto. The masters folder is empty!!!!! HELP! How can I recover my >1400 fotos and videos????
Any help is very welcomed!!!!!
Thanks,
Gustavo
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Do you by chance have an iCloud/iTunes back up that you can try to restore from? That would be the photos back to the device if they aren't pulling up in iPhoto.
No. I dont have any other backup. Is not an issue of having them in the device. Is a matter of recovering them since I dont have them in any other place....
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT IPHOTO SAID TO ME THAT DAWNLOADED ALL THE PHOTOS AND ASKED ME IF I WANT TO DELETE THEM FROM THE DEVICE, AFTER HOURS DOWNLOADING THE FILES AND NOT SAVING THEM IN THE DISK?????? WHAT A TERRIBLE BUG THIS IS!!!!! I'M COMPLETELY MAD ABOUT THIS!!!!
I agree. I would be very upset.
Possibly call AppleCare to see if they can look further into things with you.
It seems I have a very low quality version of every photos in the "Thumbnails" and "Previews" folder, inside my iPhoto Library package. In the "Previews" folder I have a 72x72 DPI version of every photo.
I was able to find out what happened. I think it is a Mac OS problem! At the same time I was importing photos with iPhoto, because I was with little space at my disk I was moving previous months "Masters" from my iPhoto smartfolder to my NAS. What happened for sure was that when the move finished, it deleted all the folders from the "Masters" smartfolder, even those that were created just immediately before and that I WAS NOT MOVING!
With a recovery tool I was able to recover almost all of my photos from my disk.
Lesson learned!
HELP!!! Recover lost iPhone photos
