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nomennescio Author

Level 1

43 points

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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leroydouglas

Community+ 2024

Level 10

188,682 points

Posted on Oct 13, 2016 12:21 PM

Hold down the Option key and launch Photos.

Select the library you want to open and then click Choose Library. If the library you want isn’t listed, click Other Library. Navigate to the library you want, and click Open.

reference:

Updating from iPhoto to Photos for OS X - Apple Support

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17 replies

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

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

ZRainbow

Level 1

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.

Pictures missing in Photos App for Mac