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hi guys , i had to do a time machine reinstall yesterday. since then none of my videos work in iphoto .

if i click on a video and do reveal in finder i can see and view the videos using quicktime player. is there any way of getting the videos back in iphoto.. theres literally hundreds of them!!

im running osx yosemite, with iphoto 9.6

i did a time machine install as i had malware .. mac keeper etc thats i just couldnt get rid off and was throwing all my browsers nuts and they kept crashing. i tried what was suggested when searching those issues but with no luck so last resort was to go back in time machine before that software was on the computer. anyway ive lost photos added after that date which aint to much of an issue , but all the vidoes of the family etc now just wont play..

any help appreciated.. thank you

Chris

iMac, iOS 6.1.2

Posted on Nov 26, 2014 5:50 AM

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Answer 1

LarryHN

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Nov 26, 2014 6:50 AM in response to Chris Pugh

Sorry you got caught by Mac Keeper - it is really bad and causes many problems - Do not install MacKeeper

Did you store the entire system? Or just the iPhoto library? If the entire system you could try restoring just the latest iphoto library (that should not included any Mac keeper issues and should have all of your photos)

LN

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Chris Pugh Author

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Nov 26, 2014 7:00 AM in response to LarryHN

hi Larry i restored the entire system didnt know how else to do it. how do i restore just the photos again!!

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léonie

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Nov 26, 2014 7:34 AM in response to Chris Pugh

One reason why videos don't play after extensive cleaning might be a missing cached file.

With MacOSX Mavericks and Mt. Lion it helped to rebuild the cache using a Terminal command:

Try this fix posted by andyBall_UK

Open a Terminal window (the Terminal.app is in Applications > Utilities)
Copy and paste the line below into the Terminal window, hit return and enter your administrator password.

sudo /usr/libexec/xpchelper --rebuild-cache

If you do not want to use a Terminal command you can achieve the same thing by booting into recovery and reinstalling the system on top of your current system - don't wipe the drive again. OS X: About OS X Recovery

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Chris Pugh Author

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Nov 26, 2014 8:14 AM in response to léonie

Thanks for help guys.. I did the terminal thing that Leonie suggested and it seems to have worked.. many thank for all your help..

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léonie

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Nov 26, 2014 10:30 AM in response to Chris Pugh

You're welcome 🙂

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iMakrap

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Jun 7, 2015 11:15 AM in response to léonie

Same problem here, iPhoto 9.6, iPhoto Library on Time Machine and clean install of Yosemite.

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Yer_Man

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Jun 7, 2015 12:37 PM in response to iMakrap

Same problem, same solution?

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iMakrap

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Jun 7, 2015 2:27 PM in response to Yer_Man

Nope!! When I found out that something was missing in my post (this solution didn't solve my problem ) was to late to edit it! I've a lot of video that I can't re-import into iPhoto because it says they are "an unrecognised format". I've tried to trim a little bit of video with QT to "change" something but it didn't work.

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Yer_Man

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Jun 7, 2015 3:36 PM in response to iMakrap

Well if the same solution didn't work it's not the same problem. Might be worth taking the time to explain in more detail the issue you have.

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