On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Carl Hoefs < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Jeff, >> >> I've been in this situation before, and Apple is no help at all ("restore >> from a backup"). Download a copy of *iPhoto Library Manager.app* ( >> http://iphoto-library-manager.en.softonic.com/mac/download). It will >> correctly rebuild damaged iPhoto libraries. It saved all my albums from the >> bit bucket. >> >> -Carl >> >> >> > Carl - Thanks! I'll give it a try. > > BTW - I tried iPhoto's built-in library repair, and it got worse. :( > Sadly, this didn't work very well. The first attempt had the same result as iPhoto did - all my events and albums were there, just empty with no photos in the library at all. The second attempt found all the photos, but dumped them in an album called "scavenges photos" and there were no albums or events otherwise. Thanks for this help....does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks! > > > >> On Jul 30, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi: >> >> I would very much appreciate any direction on this... >> >> I recently had to restore my Mac from my Time Machine backup due to disk >> corruption. >> >> All went fine with one exception. When I launch iPhoto, it tells me that >> the library is corrupt and needs to be rebuilt. When I let it rebuild and >> wait a few hours, all my events and albums are there, but there are only >> three photos. My actual library has thousands of photos. >> >> All the photos are there when I poke around in the iPhoto Library. >> >> I've tried restoring the library from a few days earlier, thinking the >> last time machine backup might have been corrupted, but same result. >> >> Is there anything I can do to get it to restore correctly? I'm hoping not >> to lose all my albums... (I can reimport my photos...) >> >> Thank you for any help you can offer! >> >> Jeff >> >> iMac 2013, Mac OS/X 10.9.4 >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> >> >> >
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