iPhoto Library Corrupted

[ingenious]

After installing the QuickTime update, no photos appear in my iPhoto library when I open iPhoto (version 7.1.3). However, the pictures still exist when I browse through the Finder.

Is there any way to recover my library with metadata intact? I really don't care that much about albums, etc., just the dates in the pictures.

 

[Mal]

Try first justing holding down Option and Command while you open iPhoto, and it will prompt you to repair the library. If that doesn't work, you can simply drag the photos out of the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder and then add them back into iPhoto. It doesn't like to add them while they're still in that folder, but they should be fine if you remove them first.

jW

 

[ingenious]

Try first justing holding down Option and Command while you open iPhoto, and it will prompt you to repair the library. If that doesn't work, you can simply drag the photos out of the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder and then add them back into iPhoto. It doesn't like to add them while they're still in that folder, but they should be fine if you remove them first.

jW

thanks for your reply, but I've already tried to get iPhoto to repair its database and basically, nothing happens. I have almost 9,000 photos (I, of course, was in the process of switching backup methods and have no current one... ) and it only works on rebuilding for about fifteen seconds. It's obviously not actually rebuilding.

and i really want to keep the metadata intact with my pictures. if i just drag them all back in, all of the dates will be wrong. that's not good for four and a half years of pictures...

 

[ingenious]

any other ideas?

 

[skybolt]

Have you tried the full manual rebuild as described at the bottom of this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947? May create some duplicates, but for me, it was better than losing my photos.

 

[ingenious]

Have you tried the full manual rebuild as described at the bottom of this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947? May create some duplicates, but for me, it was better than losing my photos.

Sorry to take so long to reply; I was on a music tour.

Anyway. Won't this make me lose all of the associated metadata? I don't care about Event names necessarily, just dates on photos.

 

[Doodledoo]

Sorry to take so long to reply; I was on a music tour.

Anyway. Won't this make me lose all of the associated metadata? I don't care about Event names necessarily, just dates on photos.

The date is built into the image file itself. I highly doubt you would lose it.