The software itself had to have completely erased all of my photos off my hard drive.īelieve me I have NOT moved the folder or accidently moved it to the trash. There is definitely something going on here with this new update. I had 10,000+ photos that are completely wiped off my harddrive. There is nothing to backup and nothing to restore. They are completed gone from my harddrive. There is no longer an iphoto library here:Īll my original photos are missing as well. I am a very savvy Mac user of 22 year and a programmer. I am running OSX 10.8.2 on an Imac (3.4 Ghz Intel Core i7) when I did a software update and chose "iPhoto 11" version 9.4.2 (710.42) all of a sudden my entire iphoto library and all photos are gone. The problem is that if you have stray thumbnails AND manually import (drag them in) then you will probably end up with two thumbnails for each photo, one good, and one orphaned. You would have to re-import them as you have described. If they are all empty, then indeed none of your originals came over, only thumbnails that point to them. Drill down in to other folders if you need to. For example, most of my photos are 1 to 4 megabytes. If they are the true original photos, they should be in the 1 or more Mb size range. Keep drilling down until there are no more folders in folders and you should see an actual photo file such as a. Drill down into a month and day you want to check. Choose a year you know you took photos in. Photos are organized by year > month >date in successive sub folders. In the finder window that will appear, open the Masters folder. It is what Apple calls a "package" so you will need to right click on iPhoto Library and choose Show Package Contents from the pop up menu. Go to your home folder on your Mac > pictures > iPhoto library. If the originals came over at all then they are in the iPhoto package > Masters (aka "originals") folder. It may be that what you are seeing in the Screen Saver list are only the Thumbnail versions of the photos. I do have a new external harddrive and printer and that was part of the reason I was upgrading. I can try to load the pics from the laptop onto the desktop and that will minimize my loss.BUT it is still not OK. The pics are there, tucked away in some corner of computer memory world. 11 Why not on this machine? It was successful on the Macbook Pro? I don't get it. I am no computer geek and only somewhat savvy but my analysis is that the upgrade did not move the data from the old iPhoto and bring it into the new iPhoto. I have tried each of the suggested tips availabe on the MAC. They are still there in the computer but not accessible in the iPhoto library. I can see the photos when I look in the desktop screensaver list, all organized by their files, and I can see them under the Image files organized by their extension. since I had all the photos on the desktop MAC, I was comfortable doing that. Surprised me because I successfully loaded the upgrade on a Macbook Pro. OK, looks like missing photos are a problem for upgrade to Snowleopard and iPhoto 11.
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