I lost over 3,000 of my photos that I had on iPhoto.
Macbook pro 2011
When I open my photos app, I only have the ones that I downloaded a few weeks ago off my daughters iPhone. All the photos that I have been loading onto my iPhoto are now gone. When I go into finder I only have a folder that is dated 2015 labeled photo library, when I click on this it takes me to a screen that says "updating library". I wait and wait for this to be completed... Suddenly an error will pop up saying REPAIR LIBRARY- The library "photos Library" has inconsistencies that must be repaired... so I click repair. The NEXT error THE LIBRARY COULD NOT BE OPENED; The library "photos Library" could not be recognized. So awesome... 1) Have no idea what this means 2) Does this even have anything to do with the 3,000 missing photos?
Valid info: I upgraded to OS X El Capitan a few months ago. I swear I was able to use iPhoto after this upgrade, however I am not 100%.
When I go to upgrade iPhoto in the store I get this error UPDATE UNAVAILABLE WITH THE APPLE ID: This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled.
So after 3 hours of looking and trying to figure this out. I am depressed, stressed out, crazy, and just want to crawl into a hole and cry myself to sleep.
I do hope this all makes since I am over emotional right now and my eyes are ready to fall out from looking at this screen for so long.
Please help, offer advice, take pity on me.
OH and one last thing. I did a backup on my toshiba hard drive in June 2015 and I could not find the pictures on it either
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)