How do I make sure my photos are gone forever once I delete them from iPhoto/ iPhone/?
I had a problem with my computer a while ago but apple couldn't work out what it was so I needed to get a new logic board. I did this and it's working perfectly now. However, before it broke there was something wrong with iPhoto (a corrupt file and damaged library) so I ended up loosing all my photos as when I backed it up the corrupt file was still there and I cannot use it on a new iPhoto. Anyway I have gotten over that!
But previous to the fix, when I could open iPhoto the library had tripled... photos from years ago from my iPhone and iPhoto had somehow come back onto it (even though I deleted them), the "faces" files had turned into their own photos, photos tripled (some smaller versions some bigger), and loads of random clip art and images I had never seen was on it. There was over 40,000 photos. It was so weird. It would have taken me weeks to sort through it all...
Anyway!! I am curious to why these photos I had made sure I deleted could somehow come back?
Will it happen again?
I have never downloaded anything weird from the internet or anything illegal that could cause a virus...
I am studying art in college at the moment and therefore I take a lot of images for projects...then upload them to my computer and usually delete most of them in a few days or weeks after so my library isn't huge. I am wondering could this cause problems?
Please help if you have any answers as I want to keep taking, uploading and deleting photos like normal but really don't want the computer to crash again as the replacing a logic board costs a lot of money.
Thanks a mil!
Sorry for the longwinded question!
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)