Q: iPhoto album/book missing (OS X Yosemite)
So.. I want to start out by saying that I'm pretty sure I'm screwed, and I don't believe there is a solution to my issue... but this album/book was very important to me and I don't have the copy I had ordered.. so I'm reaching out in a desperate plea for help.
I had ordered an album/book that I created in iPhoto over a year ago. I wished to reorder the same album and upon opening iPhoto discovered that all my photos had disappeared (from iPhoto not the computer)! First thing I tried was to request a duplicate order with my apple id.. surely apple would be able to reorder .. not a chance, my order was placed over 30 days ago so it's out of the question.
After searching through apple support and finding solutions that helped others in the same situation; I tried to restore my library. - No luck, I'm the "new to apple" idiot that didn't set up Time Machine! I did however get a new WD My Passport hard drive that I installed since I had last been in iPhoto... but I hadn't backed up my photos yet!
Once I exhausted all efforts of restoring my iPhoto library and albums I tried updating my app..no luck! Then following another discussion (one girl found that doing the system upgrade worked) I decided to upgrade to OS X Yosemite 10.10.3.
Now my iPhoto icon is gone, I have the Photos app instead.. The iPhoto Library file is now a "Migrated Photo Library" file and I don't think there is any hope in getting this book back!
I have barely any photos in Photos now (900) and when I tried to import all the photos that I could've use in the book I get an error "Insufficient disk space" (There is not enough free space on your Photo Library volume to import the selected items..)
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Posted on Apr 26, 2015 11:27 AM