Are these the instructions that you followed?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947
I wonder if it picked up the thumbnails instead of
the actual photos.
Actually, it should have done just the opposite.
Have you ever used the finder to modify the innards
of the library in any manner, shape or form?
At home last night (where I am not right now), I
thought when I looked at the iPhoto 6 file structure
that the thumbnails were in the 60KB range and
located in a folder named "Data". This doesn't seem
to be the case for iPhoto 5 (which I have at work)
where they are in the 24KB range and located in
folders named "thumbnails". Assuming I am not
mistaken, looking at the instructions for a manual
rebuild (which was written prior to iPhoto6), it says
to find files "greater than 30KB"" which would
include the thumbnails if you are using iPhoto6.
The problem would then seem to revolve around why
it did not include the actual photos as well.
Did you make a backup of your original library? If
so, are the photos good there? Assuming you did and
they are, you can just import them from the backup.
In iPhoto6, you'll lose the titles, keywords, and
other things you might have done. I assume you'll
lose the same things with iPhoto5 but at least
you'll have your photos back.
Iphoto 5 works like this:
When you import a photo it imports the original and
then creates a low quality Thumbnail image into
folders called "thumbs". The thumbnail is not your
photo just a reference that you see when you view
your iphoto library. In addition if you ever modify
(red eye for example) a photo than iphoto creates a
modified copy of the original...
So you may be asking what does this mean to me
Here is what I
you said you had a back up copy so do this.
- Delete all you iphoto libraries up until this point
then make another copy of you backup.
- DO a search on one of the backup libraries for all
folders called "thumbs" and put them in the trash
- open iphoto and create a new iphoto library.
- import images from the iphoto library folder that
you trashed the "thumbs" from
Note: You will still import what appears to be
duplicates but in actuallity it will be the original
image and then any modified version of any images
that you modified. But at least you wont have those
pesky Thumbnails
OC
When you view your library you know how you see the
small thumbnails. That is what i photo creates when
you import an image into iphoto... it is a low
resolution copy of the original image...
Double clicking these thumbnails tells iphoto to show
you the original picture in full view
The problem you are having is when you imported the
photos during the manual rebuild it sounds like you
imported a thumbnail image
If you were to view these as the original they would
appear grainy
The reason I am suggesting you trash the thumbs
folder is so that you do NOT import thumbnail
images....
Does this help cleear it up?
Doc
Photos blurry after rebuilding photo library
