Pictures missing in Photos App for Mac

Yesterday I updated my macbook pro.

After I everything was installed. I opened my macbook today I realised that almost all my photos from the Photo App on my Macbook had disappeared (years of photos). It wasn't even an update of the photo app but for Safari.... I could restore a few photo's from my recently deleted album. But those where only a hundred of the tens of thousands of memories/photo's I had.

I don't use iCloud and I don't have a time machine active

Where did they go? How do I get the years of photos back?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Oct 7, 2016 6:07 AM

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Jbotello90

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9 points

Posted on Jun 11, 2017 5:58 AM

Hi Everyone, I have been experiencing the same issue with the Photos app Store, I would be missing about 10,000 pictures and then they would appear again. This has happen a couple of times since I switched from iPhotos to Photos app, its been a few years. Over the last few days it happen again and ever since then I've tried and tried to recover my precious valuable photos but had not luck, until this morning. I HAVE RECOVERED ALL OF MY 10,000 PHOTOS! what i did was

1. open finder

2. go to pictures

3. scrolled all the way down until I found a folder labeled "A Day at the Museum" and another one labeled "Photos Library

4. I doubled clicked on the "Photos Library" and Photos app opened up and a small window pop up asking me if i wanted to switch from " a day at the museum" to "photos library". I clicked yes, although I was terrified of loosing the remaining photos, and after it made the switch and Photos app re open all of my pictures appeared. Hope this is helpful, best of luck. Let me know if it worked for you guys.

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Mar 10, 2018 9:11 PM in response to abress

Same situation. Even with time capsule I can’t recover my photos

ZRainbow

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12 points

Apr 19, 2018 9:28 PM in response to nomennescio

Same here. I tried that as well and I didn't get any back. ugh.

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