After upgrading to OS X Yosemite, I cannot access my iPhoto library. It tried to update and repair permissions, but never completed. Now my library is empty.
iMac (24-inch Early 2009), OS X Yosemite
You need to upgrade iPhoto for Yosemite from the App Store.
I did update iPhoto to 9.6. The problem occurred after that.
It said it needed to repair permissions. I signed in to let it do that. It never completed and now the iPhoto library is empty.
Check in your /Home/Pictures/ folder for the iPhoto Library file. Be sure you don't have more than one, and you are opening the wrong one or you moved the right one into a different location.
These are your options:
1. Restore the iPhoto library from the most recent backup that predates the issue.
Advantages: Always works, if library damage is causing the problem and the backup is intact.
Disadvantages: Impossible if you don't have a backup. All changes made since the backup are lost.
2. Repair or rebuild the library. Be sure to back it up first.
Advantages: May solve the problem with no loss of data.
Disadvantages: May fail. May take a long time if the library is large.
3. Scavenge the library with a third-party application called "iPhoto Library Manager," which you can find in a web search. From the application's menu bar (not the iPhoto menu bar), select Library ▹ Rebuild.
Advantages: All images and albums should be preserved.
Disadvantages: All books, calendars, and slideshows will be lost.
Now I can't get iPhoto to open the first aid dialogue box. I quit. Then relaunch holding down command + option but it only re-opens iPhoto.
Do you have a backup of the library?
If you still have iPhoto Library, launch iPhoto with holding down Option key to reselect iPhoto Library.
Hold down the option and command keys and double click on the iPhoto library - keep the keys held down until the first aid window appears - repair permissions, if needed repair your database and if still needed rebuild your database
If that does not work then use iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - to rebuild he library which creates attally new library leaving the existing one untouched - no-sharable items like slideshows, projects will not be carried into the new library
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iPhoto library is gone after upgrading to Yosemite
