Thanks Alex, that was a great help what I did was search for library folders like you said and then I found the master library /users/hugh/iphoto library I then did a show package contents and found in the sub directory /users/hugh/iphoto library/masters/2012 all the photos that I had imported, however they were owned by the third user and had no access by the two primary users, so I changed the ownership to give the two primary users rw access, and reopened iphoto but I still cant see the photos so my question now is do I need to reimport them by dragging the 2012/masters folder into iphoto or is there a more elegant way to do it ( I don't want to make a second copy of the pictures, just habve iphoto recognise them) best regards Hugh
> Subject: Re: help with photos > From: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:08:15 +0800 > To: [email protected] > > Hi Hugh, > > Do a search on your computer for any "iPhoto Library" folders. What most > likely happened was that when you used the third user account a new library > was created. That is why you can't find the photos from the "shared" library. > > I am not sure what the best tools for this would be. I am guessing Spotlight > will only search the currently logged on users files and would not find any > files belonging to other users so it might not be the best. If you have root > enabled you could use the locate command, if you comfortable with Terminal. > > Have fun > Alex > > On 30/01/2012, at 08:33 , hugh griffiths wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > hi, I have a itunes photo library that is accessible by two users on my > > computer, normally I can add photos as either user, I think because I > > changed the library settings some time ago, recently I logged on as a third > > user and imported photos from two cameras, deleting the photos afterwards > > from the cameras, now i cannot see the photos on either camera or the > > iphoto library, even though they were definitely there when I looked at > > iphoto last time it was opened? > > are they in a cache somewhere on the computer or are they gone, will I have > > to use a memory stick repairer to recover them from the cameras? > > what have I done?? > > Hugh > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > > Settings & Unsubscribe - > > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
