Ooooo errrrrr. I'd start by logging into your iCloud account and seeing what photos are in there - if they all appear then I'd think that your Photos are safely on Apple's servers. If you start photos with the alt/option key down it asks if you want to rebuild your Mac Photos library so I suppose you could try that.
When I used the iCloud Photo Library I loaded up everything from my Mac photos onto iCloud, which took about a week. Then switched it on on my iPad and I asked if I wanted to merge my pics as I still had some in the iPad's camera roll that weren't in iCloud. I said yes to that and they were added to the pot and now they're all on iCloud and iPad. I'm sure others will have sensible suggestions. :-) Stephen We are Costa of Borg. We will add your vibrancy and distinctiveness to our own. Your town and your customers will service us. Resistance is futile. > On 9 Feb 2016, at 11:41, PHILIP TOMLINSON <philip.tomlins...@btinternet.com> > wrote: > > > Dear Friends I really need advice. > This morning I tried to open “Photos” on my iMac and, although its name > appears on the menu bar, no screen appears. If I click on “photos” in the > “window” menu, a screen does appear but it is blank and empty. Most of the > other menu items are greyed out. > Several things that I did recemtly may possibly have a bearing on this awful, > terrible event:- > 1. I installed “BeetleCam” duplicate cleaner first on my iPad, then on my Mac > and used it a couple of times. All seemed well. > 2. I purchased some file space on Google Photos and backed up all of my > pictures in Photos onto it. It finished backing up yesterday. All seemed > well. This morning Photos is empty!!! > I still have all my pictures in the iOS version of Photos on my iPad, thank > God, but I worry that if I sync my iPad with my iMac, they too will > disappear…. All my pictures are available on Google’s “Photos” but the > quality isn’t as good as on Mac Photos. > I want my Photos back!! > > Phil > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to smug@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.