My hard disk crashed recently and I just recovered the data. I have all my old photo .jpgs ready to re-import, and I believe I should have all my old album data ready to import somehow too, via either the Dir.data or Library.iPhoto files (intially thought it must be the albumData.xml file until I discovered this is a write out file only).
Problem is, I can't get my fresh version of iPhoto 5 to read and import the photos that I'm missing OR the old album data.
When I go to Add Library and find the .jpgs I want to import they're highlighted in yellow and iPhoto says it can't read them. They open fine in Preview so I know they're there, but iPhoto says it can't see them. I'm wondering if the solution is to drag them from my old iPhoto Library folder that I've stuck in Pictures into the new iPhoto Library folder beside it, but I've never seen files highlighted in yellow before and am wary of doing it in case there's some kind of corruption there that might spread.
Re; the album data. I dragged the Library.iPhoto file from my old Library into the new one and it asked me if I wanted to replace the existing file with the new one; I said yes and dropped it in, then fired up iPhoto again, hoping the old albums would be restored to the Source column... but nothing has changed.
Any ideas...?
Problem is, I can't get my fresh version of iPhoto 5 to read and import the photos that I'm missing OR the old album data.
When I go to Add Library and find the .jpgs I want to import they're highlighted in yellow and iPhoto says it can't read them. They open fine in Preview so I know they're there, but iPhoto says it can't see them. I'm wondering if the solution is to drag them from my old iPhoto Library folder that I've stuck in Pictures into the new iPhoto Library folder beside it, but I've never seen files highlighted in yellow before and am wary of doing it in case there's some kind of corruption there that might spread.
Re; the album data. I dragged the Library.iPhoto file from my old Library into the new one and it asked me if I wanted to replace the existing file with the new one; I said yes and dropped it in, then fired up iPhoto again, hoping the old albums would be restored to the Source column... but nothing has changed.
Any ideas...?