ALL pictures missing in iphoto!

[yOyOYoo]

Something happened. I don't know what happened. I moved some picture folder on accident.

Now my iPhoto application opens up, but none of the pictures show up. It lists that there are 7000+ pictures. And it shows an outline for all of the them, with the vertical pictures orientated vertically. But these outlines just have empty black in them and when I click on it, it even loads but there are no pictures.

something happened and I don't know how to get my pictures back?! I seem to have lost the iphoto library with the numbering scheme, like the folders titled 2006, 2005, etc etc.

I have a folder of pictures I set up before when I downloaded pictures, I would put them into this folder first, before uploading them into iphoto.

help! can I reset iphoto or something and can I get my albums back somehow?!?

 

[yOyOYoo]

btw i've tried rebuilding the library... nothing changes.

 

[mad jew]

I don't know what happened.

Which folder and where'd it go? There should be a folder named iPhoto Library in your Pictures folder. Is it there?

 

[yOyOYoo]

thanks for the fast reply. Ok I see that folder, but when I click into it, I do not see any other subfolders, where ALL of my other pictures should exist.

 

[mad jew]

Do you have a back up? Do you know where those files might have gone? Do you remember the name of the folder you moved?

 

[yOyOYoo]

I did not make a backup, I just know that the folders are still somewhere on the computer because the hard drive size has not changed.

DANG this is frustrating. I have a backup of about a quarter of the most recent pictures, but the old ones... they're somewhere on the computer. how can I find them?

 

[mad jew]

Could you run a search for one of the photo names or even just the file extension (JPG or something), find one of the pictures and work out from there? I reckon all your pictures will be together so it should be a matter of navigating up a few folders and then dragging it all back into the iPhoto folder.

 

[yOyOYoo]

you're awesome! I found the library!

NOW WHAT?

 

[yOyOYoo]

i did it!

i deleted the old "empty" iphoto library and found the previous one, just the way you mentioned!

sweetness!

btw do you recommend iphoto 6?

 

[mad jew]

So it's all working properly now? Well done.

I upgraded to iPhoto 6.0 but I don't find the differences all that great. Full screen editing is great and I think it's probably quite a bit faster on my slower iBook G4 (no difference in speed on the iMac G5) but I wouldn't buy iLife 06 purely for iPhoto.

On the other hand, iLife 06 offers iWeb which I find is a pretty good website creation tool for the site-making n00b (myself). Of course, it's best used in conjunction with .Mac though.