On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu>
wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> I've been in this situation before, and Apple is no help at all ("restore
> from a backup"). Download a copy of *iPhoto Library Manager.app* (
> http://iphoto-library-manager.en.softonic.com/mac/download). It will
> correctly rebuild damaged iPhoto libraries. It saved all my albums from the
> bit bucket.
>
> -Carl
>
>
>
Carl - Thanks! I'll give it a try.
BTW - I tried iPhoto's built-in library repair, and it got worse. :(
> On Jul 30, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Jeff Weinberger <j...@jeffweinberger.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I would very much appreciate any direction on this...
>
> I recently had to restore my Mac from my Time Machine backup due to disk
> corruption.
>
> All went fine with one exception. When I launch iPhoto, it tells me that
> the library is corrupt and needs to be rebuilt. When I let it rebuild and
> wait a few hours, all my events and albums are there, but there are only
> three photos. My actual library has thousands of photos.
>
> All the photos are there when I poke around in the iPhoto Library.
>
> I've tried restoring the library from a few days earlier, thinking the
> last time machine backup might have been corrupted, but same result.
>
> Is there anything I can do to get it to restore correctly? I'm hoping not
> to lose all my albums... (I can reimport my photos...)
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer!
>
> Jeff
>
> iMac 2013, Mac OS/X 10.9.4
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