On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu>
wrote:
> What version of iPhoto are you running? And what version of iPhoto Library
> Manager.app did you download?
> -Carl
>
>
iPhoto is the latest available - 9.5.1
iPhoto Library Manager I don't know right now - I'm trying again, but it
updated itself twice after I launched it, and I checked for updates, so it
must be the latest....
>
> On Jul 30, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Jeff Weinberger <j...@jeffweinberger.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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
>>>>
>>>> iMac 2013, Mac OS/X 10.9.4
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