I am using OS Yosemite 10.10.2. I was working in iPhoto 9.6.1 with iPhone 5 attached and moving items from iCloud to iPhoto. iPhoto suddenly deleted all the photos in my photo library and displayed a screen as if I were using iPhoto for the first time. Regardless of what caused this, is there a way to recover the lost photos? Thanks!
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), iOS 8.2
Try the following:
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down to open the First Aid window. Be sure to follow the circled recommendation in the screenshot.
2 - run Option #4, Rebuild Database.
Try the following:
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down to open the First Aid window. Be sure to follow the circled recommendation in the screenshot.
2 - run Option #4, Rebuild Database.
It looks like iPhoto switched to a different, empty iPhoto Library. Is your iPhoto Library on an external drive? Perhaps the external drive got disconnected?
Where are you storing your iPhoto Library? In iPhoto use the command "File > Switch to library". That will open the Library Chooser panel. See, if a different iPhoto library is listed and check, if that library is holding your photos.
Thank you for your info. I actually found all my photos in the Trash folder but have no idea how they got there. As a result of moving them back to the Library, iPhoto automatically rebuilt itself and everything now seems fine. Whew!
You might have accidentally used the Command+Option+Delete key combination described below to move them the to iPhoto Trash bin:
Deleting Photos from an iPhoto Library
1 - from an Event or the Photos mode: select the photo(s) and use the Delete key to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the iPhoto Trash bin as follows:
2 - from an album, smart album, book, slideshow, card, etc.: select the photo(s) and use the key combination of Command+Option+Delete to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the trash bin as above.
NOTE: deleting a photo from an album, slideshow, book, etc., with only the Delete key only deletes that photo from that item. Deleting a photo from an Event deletes ALL occurences of that photo in the library.
iphoto deleted all the photos from my photo library while I was in iPhoto. Is there a way to recover them?
