I'm using a Mac El Capitian OS X 10.11.6
Photos version 1.5
I can see some of my pictures but ALOT are missing. They have a light white box where pictures should be. Example below.
Does anyone know how to fix that?
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
What has changed since it worked? If you double click on one to enlarge it what happens? If you rotate one adn then rotate back does it fix the thumbnail? If it does you can select a large group and do that
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Larry, Nothing happened. I went back to pull some pictures for a video I'm making. It seems that October 19, 2015 (and back) pictures are missing.
When I double click it opens a white screen. I click edit and nothing happens so I can't rotate it.
. I click edit and nothing happens so I can't rotate it.
You do not need to open the Edit panel to rotate a photo. Select one or more photo thumbnails in the Photos browser and enter the key combination ⌘R to rotate counterclockwise, or ⌥⌘R to rotate all selected photos clockwise.
It looks like a library corruption. Did you run any applications to clean your Mac to save storage?
Is your Photos Library stored in your Pictures folder or on an external drive or in some synced cloud storage?
Thanks. I did the rotate and nothing happened.
How do you fix a corrupt library? Seems before October 25, 2015 is when the problems appear in Photos.
I have both a drobo external harddrive and a transend harddrive attached to my computer.
I thought my photos synced automatically with cloud storage.
How do you fix a corrupt library?
Backup your Photos library and then hold down the option and command keys while launching Photos and repair the database - this will trigger a new complete upload to iCloud Photo Library
I have both a drobo external harddrive and a transend harddrive attached to my computer.
That means nothing - how are you using them? What format are they?
I thought my photos synced automatically with cloud storage.
Not unless you are using iCloud Photo Library - and that is not a backup, it is a sync between devices
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I will figure out how to backup my photo library because I guess I'm doing it wrong.
I will then rebuild my database.
I just plugged my transend and drobo in to my computer and told them to back up every other day.
Photos are in my icloud but not all of them.
I just plugged my transend and drobo in to my computer and told them to back up every other day.
That may or may not be a good backup - depends on exactly what they are doing - the only way to be sure is to restore a backup from each and verify that it works correctly
Photos are in my icloud but not all of them.
If you are using iCloud Photo Library (there are many different iCloud services) then it will always be exactly the same of your Mac and your IOS libraries - it is a sync service not a backup service
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Missing photos
