Iphoto crashed and deleted partial events
I'm really sorry, there was a similar thread and I accidentally marked it as closed. It had gone nowhere and I include a summary and a link at the bottom.
I run iphoto 9.5.1 on 10.9.5 and have no good backups. (Please don't be judgmental, I know I should have upgraded and backed up...). Is there a way for me to get my events, edits, titles and other metadata back?
2 days ago iphoto crashed, and could not restart. When holding option-command while starting iphoto did not find the library (much less prompt to rebuild) I installed iPhoto Library Manager which found the library without even an error message but only found a fraction of the photos (about 1500 out of 6000). Photos seemed to be missing out of every event, movies were truncated. The most recent event was missing.
I checked in the filesystem, Pictures/iPhoto Library.photolibrary/Masters/2014/05/10/... the photos were there and seem to be grouped reasonably, probably by import. A subsequent iPhoto Library Manager recover with scavenge orphaned photos got a lot of photos back, I suppose all that were in events plus what was in the trash. (Even after deleting duplicates I have way more than before.) They are in daily folders now, I have almost 500 instead of 90 and lost titles and most edits.
From the thread iphoto 9.5.1 orphaned most of my photos
- The damaged library is on the system drive, in ~/Pictures named iPhoto Library.photolibrary and shows in the finder with the fan icon (see below)
- Control option double clicking the damaged library results in iPhoto trying to repair the rebuilt library and then trying to import the damaged library into the rebuilt one
- The rebuilt library does not contain an "old masters" folder, at least not after a savaged the orphaned photos.
- I did not run an upgrade on the damaged library or upgrade iPhoto recently
- it crashed while running faces.
- drwxr-xr-x@ 17 myuserid staff 578 Feb 4 01:11 iPhoto Library.photolibrary
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)