Restore iPhotoLibrary specifically from EXTERNAL Hard drive Time Machine back up?

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Restore iPhotoLibrary specifically from EXTERNAL Hard drive Time Machine back up?

My laptop Photo Library is corrupted somehow. I tried to restore from a prior in Time Machine on laptop and made the mistake of not saying to keep BOTH copies, but after trying for 3 hours of telling me it was doing it through various windows, a little one popped open saying something about permissions and it opened an old iPhotoLibrary from 2 years ago! ... I do have that one now and am copying it off my laptop as fast as I can to FLICKR

cuz APPLE has become a PHOTO sinkhole... (We are talking 20,000 pics folks with scanned in family pics from 100 yrs ago!)

I think I have a good copy on my External Hard Drive Time Machine back up from about 3 weeks ago. How do I use that to Restore from

or should I just wait for this PHOTOS thing to come out?

NEXT Question is there a convenient way to split it into MULTIPLE ones..eg KEEP old stable photos in one or more.

and use another for all the new ones not editted or sorted yet? I do see there is a new Option under iPHOTO/File menu to just switch

libraries but, of course, you cant even see that if your Library wont open!

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 7, iOS is 8.1.3

Posted on Feb 26, 2015 10:57 AM

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LarryHN

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Feb 26, 2015 11:11 AM in response to LDoza45

For TM help post in the forum for your OS - and see https://www.apple.com/support/timemachine/ and http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html and http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Depends on undisclosed information

With the current OS and iPhoto you switch library using the switch library command - with any version you can switch libraries by holding the option key down while you launch iPhoto which brings up the select library window

And generally it is not a smart idea to have multiple iPhoto libraries - it generally has no advantages and makes things much more difficult and complicated and often leads to user errors that cause major problems

If you want to anyway the most convent way to split libraries is to use the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ -

LN

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