Sierra Upgrade Deleted Photo Folder

For those still having trouble, you can restore the Pictures folder to the sidebar in Finder:

Open Finder

Click on "Finder" -> "Preferences"

In the window that opens, click on the "Sidebar" tab

This shows everything that can be in the sidebar. Make sure to check the Pictures folder.

Hope this helps.

really helpful and clear, found them!! phew!, just a shame I have lost all the carefully named and dated photos files from iphoto

It would have been REALLY helppful if mac updates would list the consequences of updates, basic stuff for non comuter experts to computer users please, so that we could have tried to save them...or realised the consequences before updating.

thanks again faj1961

I did what you had suggested and when I then click on the "Picture" icon in the side folder two files show up one says iPhoto Library and the other says Photo Library. I clicked on both of them and neither of them Showed my photos. Do you have any other suggestions? Soooo upset with MAC right now. Yes I get it you need to back up but I have done system upgrades before and NEVER had it delete 4,000 photos off my computer. I am still in shock that these photos appear to be gone for good.

Pictures folder is in your Home folder. Move to Home folder from Go menu or Finder Preferences > Sidebar, check off Pictures.

I have the same problem and will this restore 'Photos' to side bar for Facebook ?

If yes, how do I 'check off' Pictures

thank you thank you thank you !!

Thanks for raising this. I do not have a solution, but am another person with the same problem. In fact I am getting rather alarmed that Apple is going in the direction of Microsoft with sending out incomplete and buggy updates. I am wondering of this will be a trend and I need to go back to my PC days... What with iMovie crashing since the Sierra update, playlists not syncing between my Mac and iPhone and iPad, the iPhone freezing again and again in the Phone app, and now this major issue with Photos...

Ok, so let me get to the issue. I upgraded to Sierra Nov 10, and it took forever for my old Mac to scan all the photos (there should be an option to turn off the recognition feature, I do not really care to scan for 'cows', and I need my <ac to work as opposed to being stuck in limbo for THREE days). Yesterday I opened Photos, as have been travelling extensively in Asia past few weeks, only to discover that all my folders, literally hundreds of them, that I have had from the iPhoto days, have been deleted (or at least do not appear in the sidebar on the left). I looked up any help online, there were some threads, then repaired the library. I did get some of the Smart Folders back, but only those and not the regular ones, and it looks like the contents of some of them are not complete. But today, as I contemplated restoring my TimeCapsule backup of Photos from Nov 9, I noticed that all photos from about end of Jul to Mid Nov are gone... All my holiday photos from France and Switzerland!

OK, so is there anything I can do about this? Find the missing photos? The missing folders? Or is my only option the route of restoring the old library from Time Capsule prior to the Sierra update, exporting the photos since Nov 10 from the new libabry to the old, and them making the old the default? Or will the same thing happen with the recognition scanning?

Or should I just go back to a PC and an Android phone and stop wasting my time on fixing Apple bugs that seem to become more and more prevalent...

Where is the home folder.

Do you mean, "All files" ?

I still cannot find it.

Thank you for breaking this down. ***, Apple? Not sure people ever want to find their photos in the Finder again?

Hallelujah thank you very much

Thank you saved my life. I swear everytime Apple has a new update I get so frustrated with all the little snags and confusion.

thank you!!!

THANK YOU!!! 🙂

I thank you so very much. As LCurtis333 put it, YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER! Thank you for allowing my mind to rest.