all my photos missing!!!!

[anitabanania]

well it lookes like that accidentlly somebody has locked all of our photos from iPhoto library and now we have none
when i tried to open it mac just informed me that iPhoto is locked and that I do not have an authorisation to open it
I honestly hope somebody will tell me it is a small problem and easily solved....so someone help please!!!

 

[mcavjame]

well it lookes like that accidentlly somebody has locked all of our photos from iPhoto library and now we have none
when i tried to open it mac just informed me that iPhoto is locked and that I do not have an authorisation to open it
I honestly hope somebody will tell me it is a small problem and easily solved....so someone help please!!!

It sounds as though the iphoto library was created by another user and stored on an external drive. If this is the case, the original user will have to set the access rights to the data to read/write. Use <command> i to to view the access information.

See attached file and look at the bottom. If you are not the owner, or if the rights have been switched, use this window to adjust settings.

 

[anitabanania]

thanks for a quick reponse,but now I discovered that iPhoto is completly blocked,it looks like that something is wrong with external disk,as when I put him on it tells me that my external disk can not be repaired by this computer,and that it can function but limited...
in fact its my boyfriends mac,he knows a little bit more about it but still not enough,cause he did configuration on his own and now it doesn't work,and whats even worse accusing me for it
so tell me please you think we can handle it or is it really neceseary to call an expert...????

 

[LeFu79]

Solution

thanks for a quick reponse,but now I discovered that iPhoto is completly blocked,it looks like that something is wrong with external disk,as when I put him on it tells me that my external disk can not be repaired by this computer,and that it can function but limited...
in fact its my boyfriends mac,he knows a little bit more about it but still not enough,cause he did configuration on his own and now it doesn't work,and whats even worse accusing me for it
so tell me please you think we can handle it or is it really neceseary to call an expert...????

I had the same problem, which is probably connected to time machine backups, after physical reconnection of external drive iphoto asked me to select which library i want to use, after i've selected library in pictures folder it works fine