Q: iphoto package contents - empty masters folder
Like a bunch of people recently, a few weeks back my iphoto library wouldn't open citing use by a different version of iphoto. I then upgraded to Yosemite, but my library was no longer recognized.
I retrieved my backup from Tim Machine, and used iphoto library manager to rebuild the library. Initially no photos were found (despite the library being 40gb), until ticking the box to scavenge orphaned photos.
Once the scavanged photos were included, the rebuilt library restored originals up until 2010, but nothing after.
When viewing the package contents for the rebuilt library, the Preview folder has images up to 2010. The Masters folder appears to be empty. The Thumbnails folder has all photos up to Nov 2014 when the library was last backed up.
Any ideas where my originals from 2010-2014 are? Or how I can retrieve them?
I have gone further back into my time machine backups, and restored older libraries and rebuilt them with the iphoto library manager, but they all seem to have the same issue.
Any ideas?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Posted on Jan 4, 2015 11:20 PM


