kjellnils
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Q: suddenly all my aperture projects and photos are gone. what may have happened ( also vault that should backup to my external drive is blank) ?

When opening Aperture there is no projects or photos anymore in inspector. Also the Vault is empty- what may have happened.

There is still photos ( almost all ) in iPhoto library

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)

Posted on Oct 18, 2015 7:56 AM

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Q: suddenly all my aperture projects and photos are gone. what may have happened ( also vault that should backup to my external drive ... more

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Oct 18, 2015 8:04 AM in response to kjellnils
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    Oct 18, 2015 8:04 AM in response to kjellnils

    Which Aperture version and MAcOS X version are you using?

    And did something happen, before the problem first occurred? Did Aperture crash?

    Did you update or upgrade software?

     

    When opening Aperture there is no projects or photos anymore in inspector.

    Aperture may have opened a different library, perhaps because it could not access your library.  Where is your Aperture library stored? Is it on an external drive?

     

    Try to open your Aperture library by launching Aperture while holding down the options key to bring up the library chooser panel.  Switch to your main Aperture library.

  • by kjellnils,

    kjellnils kjellnils Oct 27, 2015 6:34 AM in response to léonie
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    Oct 27, 2015 6:34 AM in response to léonie

    hi

    Im using Mac OS X 10.7.5 and Aperture version 3.4.4.

    I have aperture on Mac with backup vaults on external drive

     

    It did not crash , just disappeared...

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Oct 27, 2015 8:45 AM in response to kjellnils
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    Oct 27, 2015 8:45 AM in response to kjellnils

    What is the size of your Aperture library, when you look at it in the Finder? Is it still large enough to be holding all your Photos?

    Select the library in the Pictures folder and look at the file size. Look also at the creation date, so you can see, if Aperture created a new, empty library or the old old library has become corrupted.