On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu>
wrote:
> Did you try this on the original (unmodified) iPhoto library from your
> Time Machine backup (before iPhoto tried to open it)?
> -Carl
>
Yes - I tried it on the one I had, then I restored again from a few days
earlier than the last time machine backup and tried again. Sadly, no luck :(
>
> On Jul 30, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Jeff Weinberger <j...@jeffweinberger.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Jeff Weinberger <j...@jeffweinberger.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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. :(
>>
>
>
> Sadly, this didn't work very well. The first attempt had the same result
> as iPhoto did - all my events and albums were there, just empty with no
> photos in the library at all.
>
> The second attempt found all the photos, but dumped them in an album
> called "scavenges photos" and there were no albums or events otherwise.
>
> Thanks for this help....does anyone have any other ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
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