Iphoto: Lost 'events' folders-2 weeks work lost?

30,000 photos are now on pen drive but 'events' have disappeared from my Mac

What do you see in the iPhoto window?

1) Is there a way to recover my events on I mac?

Do you have a back up?

2) Is there a way to move the photos in folders onto pen drive?

If photos ar ein Folders then they're not in iPhoto, right? So drag and drop.

A family friend asked for photos in folders. I bought UBS Pen drive, then selected 'events' on my iMac and dragged them to a 128 GB USB pen drive.

30,000 photos are now on pen drive but 'events' have disappeared from my Mac

It is not clear to me, what exactly you have done.

Where did you "select events"? In iPhoto, or is there a folder "events" somewhere on your mac? Dragging a folder to a pen drive will not delete the folder from your internal drive, it will just copy it, unless you hold down the options key. And selecting events in iPhoto and dragging them to a folder on a pen drive will also not delete the events from iPhoto. So, how and what have you been dragging?

Are you using the most recent iPhoto '11 or an earlier version?

Syncing will change the Events on your phone.

It's good to know that you have an external HD plugged into your mac. But do you have a back up? That's the key question. If you do, restore from it. Problem solved.

'events' is a feature of iPhoto version 9.5.1.

I know, I wanted to know, how you selected "events" to drag them to a pen drive. Your " then selected 'events' on my iMac" was a bit ambiguous. tHat could have meant a folder on the Mac, since you did not mention iPhoto's Events view.

I did not hold the options key, photos are still there just to 'events'.

If the photos are still there in "Photos" , they are in some event. A photo cannot exist in an iPhoto library without being included in exactly one event. Select one of the photos with the missing event in "Photos" view, ctrl click or right click it and select "Show event" from the panel. Can you find your missing events this way? Are the events still the same, or have they been merged into one?

Yes Time Machine is a back up.

You need to restore the iPhoto Library from Time Machine.

iPhoto '11: Restoring from Time Machine with iPhoto '11 (9.2 or later) and OS X Lion 10.7.2 (or later)

Very simple - select the photos (or events) in iPhoto and export (file menu ==> export) to a desktop folder - see the user tip on exporting for details - Exporting From iPhoto - and then drag that folder from the desktop to the mounted, unlocked Pen drive using the finder

LN

hello there LarryHN

if i follow the instructions as above….and drag that folder from the desktop to a mounted external hard drive, will the "event" move as well, or just the individual photos?

say I move the external hard drive to my MacBook Air, and import that "event" into my iPhoto on the MBAir, will it show up as an event?

regards

I just tried and failed.

I picked an event which contained 10 photos - and selected the event - then within iPhoto went

File

export

File export ( as opposed to photo bucket/picasa/web page /Quicktime/slideshow)

export

to desktop

outcome - 10 separate photos on my desktop

rather than one "event" containing 10 photos

Please can you advise as to what I am doing wrong?

I am using iPhoto 09 on a OS X 10.7.5

many thanks

You are confusing things

to put photos on a pen drive

Very simple - select the photos (or events) in iPhoto and export (file menu ==> export) to a desktop folder - see the user tip on exporting for details - Exporting From iPhoto - and then drag that folder from the desktop to the mounted, unlocked Pen drive using the finder

To move events between iPhoto libraries is totally different -- the only way to do that is using the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager

LN