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 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
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