Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library
Hi David If you hold down the option key when you launch iPhoto, you will get the 'rebuild' menu. Work thru the options one by one until it works again. Hope this helps. Rob PS Of course you've got a backup copy of your library On 6/08/13 3:11 PM, David Nicholas wrote: Hello all I have had a strange problem today. When I opened iPhoto I had a message that my Library needed to be repaired. Of course I accepted that and it went ahead. But then I got a very disturbing message - Something like Can't find the disk so can't save the Library. To the best of my knowledge I hadn't made any changes since I last opened it two days before. Using my first line of defence, I rebooted. Now I had a friendly display saying that to start using iPhoto I should put some photos in it. My iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie are stored on a separate Data disk as set up by Daniel. According to Finder, I have 189.97 GB in the IPhoto Library sitting there which was most recently modified when I recently rebooted the machine. So it still exists, but whatever happened this morning has cut me off from it. I have looked at various forums but can't see any solutions to my particular problem. iTunes and iMovie are working quite normally. Can anybody help me to reconnect iPhoto to its Library? David Nicholas iMac OS X 10.8.4 2 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 iPhoto 11 9.4.3 iTunes 11.04 iMovie 11 9.0.9 David Nicholas -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- Dr Rob Phillips Member of the Greens (WA) rphillips6...@gmail.com 0416 065054 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library
Hi David, Sounds like iPhoto has lost the path to where your iPhoto Library is located. You need to 'reconnect' link iPhoto to your iPhoto Library on the external disk. Make sure the external disk is connected to your Mac and has mounted on your desktop Then Double-Click on the iPhoto icon in the Dock WHILE HOLDING DOWN the OPTION key. Keep holding down the OPTION key until you see a Window which will show you all iPhoto Libraries. When you highlight each Library it will show the path of that library. Select the iPhoto Library that is on your external disk, (the 189.97 GB iPhoto Library) Click Choose. The iPhoto Library on the external disk should still be iPhoto Library (default) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 06/08/2013, at 3:11 PM, David Nicholas david...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hello all I have had a strange problem today. When I opened iPhoto I had a message that my Library needed to be repaired. Of course I accepted that and it went ahead. But then I got a very disturbing message - Something like Can't find the disk so can't save the Library. To the best of my knowledge I hadn't made any changes since I last opened it two days before. Using my first line of defence, I rebooted. Now I had a friendly display saying that to start using iPhoto I should put some photos in it. My iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie are stored on a separate Data disk as set up by Daniel. According to Finder, I have 189.97 GB in the IPhoto Library sitting there which was most recently modified when I recently rebooted the machine. So it still exists, but whatever happened this morning has cut me off from it. I have looked at various forums but can't see any solutions to my particular problem. iTunes and iMovie are working quite normally. Can anybody help me to reconnect iPhoto to its Library? David Nicholas iMac OS X 10.8.4 2 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 iPhoto 11 9.4.3 iTunes 11.04 iMovie 11 9.0.9 David Nicholas -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library
Hi Rob, I don't like to sound picky and disagree with you but your instructions to David for Rebuilding the iPhoto 11 9.4.3 Library is incorrect. To rebuild the iPhoto library: 1. Quit iPhoto if it is open. 2. Hold down the 'Command and Option' keys on the keyboard. 3. Open iPhoto. 4. Keep the Option Command keys held down until you are prompted to rebuild the library. 5. A dialog will appear with rebuild options. Select the options you want to use. 6. Click Rebuild to begin the rebuild process. This may take a few minutes to complete. Cheers, Ronni On 06/08/2013, at 3:32 PM, Rob Phillips r.phill...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi David If you hold down the option key when you launch iPhoto, you will get the 'rebuild' menu. Work thru the options one by one until it works again. Hope this helps. Rob PS Of course you've got a backup copy of your library On 6/08/13 3:11 PM, David Nicholas wrote: Hello all I have had a strange problem today. When I opened iPhoto I had a message that my Library needed to be repaired. Of course I accepted that and it went ahead. But then I got a very disturbing message - Something like Can't find the disk so can't save the Library. To the best of my knowledge I hadn't made any changes since I last opened it two days before. Using my first line of defence, I rebooted. Now I had a friendly display saying that to start using iPhoto I should put some photos in it. My iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie are stored on a separate Data disk as set up by Daniel. According to Finder, I have 189.97 GB in the IPhoto Library sitting there which was most recently modified when I recently rebooted the machine. So it still exists, but whatever happened this morning has cut me off from it. I have looked at various forums but can't see any solutions to my particular problem. iTunes and iMovie are working quite normally. Can anybody help me to reconnect iPhoto to its Library? David Nicholas iMac OS X 10.8.4 2 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 iPhoto 11 9.4.3 iTunes 11.04 iMovie 11 9.0.9 David Nicholas -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library
OK. I stand corrected. :-) and I wasn't as precise as you. I just wanted to get a response in before you did! :-) Rob On 6/08/13 4:33 PM, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Rob, I don't like to sound picky and disagree with you but your instructions to David for Rebuilding the iPhoto 11 9.4.3 Library is incorrect. To rebuild the iPhoto library: 1. Quit iPhoto if it is open. 2. Hold down the 'Command and Option' keys on the keyboard. 3. Open iPhoto. 4. Keep the Option Command keys held down until you are prompted to rebuild the library. 5. A dialog will appear with rebuild options. Select the options you want to use. 6. Click Rebuild to begin the rebuild process. This may take a few minutes to complete. Cheers, Ronni On 06/08/2013, at 3:32 PM, Rob Phillips r.phill...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi David If you hold down the option key when you launch iPhoto, you will get the 'rebuild' menu. Work thru the options one by one until it works again. Hope this helps. Rob PS Of course you've got a backup copy of your library On 6/08/13 3:11 PM, David Nicholas wrote: Hello all I have had a strange problem today. When I opened iPhoto I had a message that my Library needed to be repaired. Of course I accepted that and it went ahead. But then I got a very disturbing message - Something like Can't find the disk so can't save the Library. To the best of my knowledge I hadn't made any changes since I last opened it two days before. Using my first line of defence, I rebooted. Now I had a friendly display saying that to start using iPhoto I should put some photos in it. My iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie are stored on a separate Data disk as set up by Daniel. According to Finder, I have 189.97 GB in the IPhoto Library sitting there which was most recently modified when I recently rebooted the machine. So it still exists, but whatever happened this morning has cut me off from it. I have looked at various forums but can't see any solutions to my particular problem. iTunes and iMovie are working quite normally. Can anybody help me to reconnect iPhoto to its Library? David Nicholas iMac OS X 10.8.4 2 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 iPhoto 11 9.4.3 iTunes 11.04 iMovie 11 9.0.9 David Nicholas -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- Dr Rob Phillips Member of the Greens (WA) rphillips6...@gmail.com 0416 065054 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library
Hi Ronni (and Rob) OK, I have restored an iPhone Library. All is not well. I have almost nothing from the past 3 months. I will have to give some background to explain the problem. I'm sorry if it takes a while. At the beginning of May we went on a Kimberley cruise. I took many photos - about 1500. Before I left I backed up to an external disk, not my Time Machine disk. I can recover that, but it has nothing from May onwards. I downloaded all the shots when I returned and quite a few more since then. Altogether there should be about 1800 shots I estimate. I spent some time processing the Kimberley stuff into Albums, and shared some of these Albums through iTunes sharing to the big TV screen. About 500 shots. The last 3 months shots have been there on iPhoto all the time, up to this morning. As I explained in my original help request, when I tried to open it this morning I got the repairing Database message, ending with Cant find the disk. I have tried to recover data from backups. However, at some time after I returned in May my Time Machine stopped working and I neglected to do anything about it until one week ago. It has been working properly since then. Since August 1 the Time Machine backups have not backed up iPhoto. The upshot is that right now I can't access anything from May onwards except for some shots saved onto iCloud. Of course I expected that all my shots from May onwards would be on iCloud. There are 117 photos on iCloud from my expected about 1800. They are parts of events starting from the beginning of the Kimberley cruise and coming up to material from last Saturday week. I'm glad to have the 117, but what about the rest? I have just repaired my Database, but it didn't find any more shots. I have checked AppleTV. It has helpfully selected about 20 shots of the 500 I Shared and plays them when the main screen goes off. They are a good set. I would like to get them back, but I can't see any way to do that. Ronni, I hope you have some magic commands to find the shots which went missing, apparently this morning or perhaps earlier. Perhaps they were deleted. Is it possible to recover from iPhoto Trash? David On 06/08/2013, at 4:33 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Rob, I don't like to sound picky and disagree with you but your instructions to David for Rebuilding the iPhoto 11 9.4.3 Library is incorrect. To rebuild the iPhoto library: 1. Quit iPhoto if it is open. 2. Hold down the 'Command and Option' keys on the keyboard. 3. Open iPhoto. 4. Keep the Option Command keys held down until you are prompted to rebuild the library. 5. A dialog will appear with rebuild options. Select the options you want to use. 6. Click Rebuild to begin the rebuild process. This may take a few minutes to complete. Cheers, Ronni On 06/08/2013, at 3:32 PM, Rob Phillips r.phill...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi David If you hold down the option key when you launch iPhoto, you will get the 'rebuild' menu. Work thru the options one by one until it works again. Hope this helps. Rob PS Of course you've got a backup copy of your library On 6/08/13 3:11 PM, David Nicholas wrote: Hello all I have had a strange problem today. When I opened iPhoto I had a message that my Library needed to be repaired. Of course I accepted that and it went ahead. But then I got a very disturbing message - Something like Can't find the disk so can't save the Library. To the best of my knowledge I hadn't made any changes since I last opened it two days before. Using my first line of defence, I rebooted. Now I had a friendly display saying that to start using iPhoto I should put some photos in it. My iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie are stored on a separate Data disk as set up by Daniel. According to Finder, I have 189.97 GB in the IPhoto Library sitting there which was most recently modified when I recently rebooted the machine. So it still exists, but whatever happened this morning has cut me off from it. I have looked at various forums but can't see any solutions to my particular problem. iTunes and iMovie are working quite normally. Can anybody help me to reconnect iPhoto to its Library? David Nicholas iMac OS X 10.8.4 2 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 iPhoto 11 9.4.3 iTunes 11.04 iMovie 11 9.0.9 David Nicholas -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library
Hi David, Not being able to see your setup and know your backup system, it is difficult to sort via email. You might need to get Daniel to visit. In you first email to the list you indicated you had all your photos and iPhoto Library backed up, and using iPhoto Library which is located on the external Drive. After reading your email below I don't think all your photos have been imported into iPhoto and you don't have the iPhoto Library currently backed up in Time Machine. Do you have a complete backup of your iPhoto Library that holds ALL your Photos? 1. Following the instructions I gave in my previous email to you, you opened iPhoto while holding down the Option key and were able to reconnect/relocate iPhoto to the iPhoto Library located on the external drive? Was there any other iPhoto Library shown in the Window? 2. After selecting the correct iPhoto Library, did you then Rebuild the iPhoto Library following the instructions I sent below. Did you run the options Repair Permissions, Repair Database and Rebuild Database? 3. When you mentioned below I downloaded all the shots when I returned and quite a few more since then. Altogether there should be about 1800 shots I estimate. Downloaded all the shots... do you mean you Imported all these photos into iPhoto? 4. Since August 1 the Time Machine backups have not backed up iPhoto. Had Time Machine backed up all the 1800 shots prior to this... is the iPhoto Library that holds all the photos on Time Machine? NOTE: If iPhoto is open while a Time Machine backup is running, Time Machine will be able to backup the changes made since the previous backup. iPhoto must be Quit before backing up. You can always manually run a M backup by click on the TM icon in the Menu bar select 'Back Up Now'. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4116 Of course I expected that all my shots from May onwards would be on iCloud. iCloud will backup your Camera Roll (including photos and videos you've taken on your iOS device), Photo Albums you've created on the iOS device (but not those synced from your computer, because they’re already “backed up” on that computer). But are you meaning Photo Stream? After 30 days Photos are deleted from your Photo Stream. If you copied them to some other location like your Camera Roll on an iOS device or to the main photo library of iPhoto they will remain there. Photo Stream is NOT a backup of anything. Photo Stream is temporary storage so that you can have your pictures on all of your devices, but if you want to save them, you need to save them to your computer. Photo stream is limited to 1000 photos, and photos are only stored for 30 days, after that they are deleted. That is all I can think of at the moment David. Post back and we can see where to go from there. Cheers, Ronni On 06/08/2013, at 5:59 PM, David Nicholas david...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni (and Rob) OK, I have restored an iPhone Library. All is not well. I have almost nothing from the past 3 months. I will have to give some background to explain the problem. I'm sorry if it takes a while. At the beginning of May we went on a Kimberley cruise. I took many photos - about 1500. Before I left I backed up to an external disk, not my Time Machine disk. I can recover that, but it has nothing from May onwards. I downloaded all the shots when I returned and quite a few more since then. Altogether there should be about 1800 shots I estimate. I spent some time processing the Kimberley stuff into Albums, and shared some of these Albums through iTunes sharing to the big TV screen. About 500 shots. The last 3 months shots have been there on iPhoto all the time, up to this morning. As I explained in my original help request, when I tried to open it this morning I got the repairing Database message, ending with Cant find the disk. I have tried to recover data from backups. However, at some time after I returned in May my Time Machine stopped working and I neglected to do anything about it until one week ago. It has been working properly since then. Since August 1 the Time Machine backups have not backed up iPhoto. The upshot is that right now I can't access anything from May onwards except for some shots saved onto iCloud. Of course I expected that all my shots from May onwards would be on iCloud. There are 117 photos on iCloud from my expected about 1800. They are parts of events starting from the beginning of the Kimberley cruise and coming up to material from last Saturday week. I'm glad to have the 117, but what about the rest? I have just repaired my Database, but it didn't find any more shots. I have checked AppleTV. It has helpfully selected about 20 shots of the 500 I Shared and plays them when the main screen goes off. They are a good set. I would like to get them back, but I can't see any way to do that. Ronni, I hope you have some magic commands to
Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library
David My wife has been having similar problems. She has an old Macbook and over 300Gb of photos. She has to periodically rebuild the database. In her case, the photos are there, but not in Events. In iPhoto, check out Recent/ Last 12 months in the lefthand tab. I hope you can see the photos there. My suggestions: * Rebuild the iPhoto Library again. * Use iPhoto Library Manager (separate App) to move old photos into a different library, to reduce the size of your single library. * Use Duplicate Annihilator (separate App) to remove any inadvertent duplicate photos. * Rebuild the iPhoto Library again. Another possibility is that you have inadvertently created a new iPhoto library. Check the Pictures folder in your user folder. Good luck Rob On 7/08/13 7:24 AM, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi David, Not being able to see your setup and know your backup system, it is difficult to sort via email. You might need to get Daniel to visit. In you first email to the list you indicated you had all your photos and iPhoto Library backed up, and using iPhoto Library which is located on the external Drive. After reading your email below I don't think all your photos have been imported into iPhoto and you don't have the iPhoto Library currently backed up in Time Machine. Do you have a complete backup of your iPhoto Library that holds ALL your Photos? 1. Following the instructions I gave in my previous email to you, you opened iPhoto while holding down the Option key and were able to reconnect/relocate iPhoto to the iPhoto Library located on the external drive? Was there any other iPhoto Library shown in the Window? 2. After selecting the correct iPhoto Library, did you then Rebuild the iPhoto Library following the instructions I sent below. Did you run the options Repair Permissions, Repair Database and Rebuild Database? 3. When you mentioned below I downloaded all the shots when I returned and quite a few more since then. Altogether there should be about 1800 shots I estimate. Downloaded all the shots... do you mean you Imported all these photos into iPhoto? 4. Since August 1 the Time Machine backups have not backed up iPhoto. Had Time Machine backed up all the 1800 shots prior to this... is the iPhoto Library that holds all the photos on Time Machine? NOTE: If iPhoto is open while a Time Machine backup is running, Time Machine will be able to backup the changes made since the previous backup. iPhoto must be Quit before backing up. You can always manually run a M backup by click on the TM icon in the Menu bar select 'Back Up Now'. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4116 Of course I expected that all my shots from May onwards would be on iCloud. iCloud will backup your Camera Roll (including photos and videos you've taken on your iOS device), Photo Albums you've created on the iOS device (but not those synced from your computer, because they’re already “backed up” on that computer). But are you meaning Photo Stream? After 30 days Photos are deleted from your Photo Stream. If you copied them to some other location like your Camera Roll on an iOS device or to the main photo library of iPhoto they will remain there. Photo Stream is NOT a backup of anything. Photo Stream is temporary storage so that you can have your pictures on all of your devices, but if you want to save them, you need to save them to your computer. Photo stream is limited to 1000 photos, and photos are only stored for 30 days, after that they are deleted. That is all I can think of at the moment David. Post back and we can see where to go from there. Cheers, Ronni On 06/08/2013, at 5:59 PM, David Nicholas david...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni (and Rob) OK, I have restored an iPhone Library. All is not well. I have almost nothing from the past 3 months. I will have to give some background to explain the problem. I'm sorry if it takes a while. At the beginning of May we went on a Kimberley cruise. I took many photos - about 1500. Before I left I backed up to an external disk, not my Time Machine disk. I can recover that, but it has nothing from May onwards. I downloaded all the shots when I returned and quite a few more since then. Altogether there should be about 1800 shots I estimate. I spent some time processing the Kimberley stuff into Albums, and shared some of these Albums through iTunes sharing to the big TV screen. About 500 shots. The last 3 months shots have been there on iPhoto all the time, up to this morning. As I explained in my original help request, when I tried to open it this morning I got the repairing Database message, ending with Cant find the disk. I have tried to recover data from backups. However, at some time after I returned in May my Time Machine stopped working and I neglected to do anything about it until one week ago. It has been working properly since then. Since August 1 the Time Machine backups have not backed up iPhoto. The upshot
