Did you try this on the original (unmodified) iPhoto library from your Time Machine backup (before iPhoto tried to open it)? -Carl
On Jul 30, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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