John, Thanks for the link. If nothing else, it's nice to know that I'm notthe only one with these black photos.
Anne On Nov 6, 2011, at 4:01 PM, John Robinson wrote: > Anne, > > Awhile back you ask about photo's in your library that were gray or black. > My daughter had the same situation, all when the photo's were taken with a > Kodak camera. Why I don't know for some of them would work, most were blank. > > I followed the exact steps at this link from Apple. > > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2638 > > The first rebuilding didn't help, so I created the new library as suggested > and it worked perfectly, a new library with not a single bad photo......they > were not imported but discarded so instead of a little over 9,000 photo's > there were just over 8,000. Not a good solution. > > Going back to the original library we then had "one" picture that was > "recovered" so all this work did little. Then in a few days my daughter > emailed me saying that several more just showed up in the recovered folder, > but not near enough. > > On line I found one post that listed most of the things that Apple had > suggested, then they said that using DiskWarrior to rebuild the directory > recovered many of their photo's. So far I have not done this for they live > in Bowling Green but I will go down in December and give it a shot. If it > helps I'll let you know. > > John _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
