My daughter has had the same problem with her thousands of photo's as well. Finally took a call to Apple support and a 90 min. conversation with Apple taking control of her machine before they could get it worked out.
I have been trying to get her to change to Aperture, offers so much more and is robust enough to handle any number of photo's she wants to throw at it while it seems that folks with large numbers in iPhoto seem to have problems. John On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:44 AM, William Micou wrote: > Anne, > I have had that same problem, eventually found a solution, but about a year > later, it started 'losing' photos again. > I'm trying to re-discover what I did before, but haven't devoted enough time > to find it. There are some discussions in the Apple forums. > If I remember correctly, my problem was a directory that needed to be sent to > the trash, and then iPhoto rebuilt the directory. > I'll try to find out more by this week-end and share it with you. > Bill > > On Dec 18, 2012, at 05:28 PM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've just spent a few hours transferring 14,795 photos from my PhotoSafe (an >> external HD that will accept SD cards). I can see the photos in iPhoto but I >> can't do anything with them. Maybe only the thumbnails transferred? I get >> the following message "The volume for "xxx.JPG cannot be found." While it >> gives me three options (Cancel, Find Photo..., OK) it will do none. In fact >> I have to Force Quit iPhoto to do anything. >> >> I just tried with an SD card to transfer the photos using a card reader and >> get the same results; however I was able to transfer them to my HD but in a >> separate folder. Not in iPhoto. Each of these photos is about 1.5 MB in size >> and will open in Photoshop but I cannot get them into iPhoto. >> >> I've had this problem before and can't remember how I got around it. I think >> iPhoto eventually decided to work. >> >> Any suggestions? How can I tell if the original photos were transferred off >> the PhotoSafe or if all I have is thumbnails. >> >> I'm running iPhoto 7.1.5 on an iMac running Mac OS X 10.6.8. >> >> Any help greatly appreciated. >> >> Anne Cartwright >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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