Hi all,
I have iPhoto '08 and the library is on my external drive. The other night I accidentally unplugged the hard drive and the library was corrupt. No biggie as followed the Apple website which said to 1)create a new Library and 2)Drag and Drop the Originals folder from my iPhoto Library backup into the new Library.
iPhoto did it's stuff and several hours later I had a new Library. I then compared the # of files of the Modified folder of the backup Library to the new Library and the new library is missing about 3GB worth of files. The libraries are 72GB vs. 69GB in total size. 3GB is a lot of files since each file is about 3MB. The Modified folders are 3.93GB vs. 6.15GB.
So...what happened? What is iPhoto missing or doing? I cannot find anything on the Apple website...Apple simply states that the Modified folder holds pictures that we modified. That can't be correct because a)we have probably modified no more than 5 photos out of 15,000 and b)the most recent Album I created (the night I accidentally unplugged it) shows only 3 modified files in the new Library while dozens in the backup library.
Can someone explain how the Modified folder truly works...in all possible cases? I'm a bit paranoid now that a)iPhoto is just wasting disk space by filling up the Modified folder with pix we NEVER touched and b)the 3GB discrepency and c)by me ONLY dragging the Originals folder into my new empty Library, how did/why did iPhoto even create/populate the Modified folder?!
Thank you in advance!
I have iPhoto '08 and the library is on my external drive. The other night I accidentally unplugged the hard drive and the library was corrupt. No biggie as followed the Apple website which said to 1)create a new Library and 2)Drag and Drop the Originals folder from my iPhoto Library backup into the new Library.
iPhoto did it's stuff and several hours later I had a new Library. I then compared the # of files of the Modified folder of the backup Library to the new Library and the new library is missing about 3GB worth of files. The libraries are 72GB vs. 69GB in total size. 3GB is a lot of files since each file is about 3MB. The Modified folders are 3.93GB vs. 6.15GB.
So...what happened? What is iPhoto missing or doing? I cannot find anything on the Apple website...Apple simply states that the Modified folder holds pictures that we modified. That can't be correct because a)we have probably modified no more than 5 photos out of 15,000 and b)the most recent Album I created (the night I accidentally unplugged it) shows only 3 modified files in the new Library while dozens in the backup library.
Can someone explain how the Modified folder truly works...in all possible cases? I'm a bit paranoid now that a)iPhoto is just wasting disk space by filling up the Modified folder with pix we NEVER touched and b)the 3GB discrepency and c)by me ONLY dragging the Originals folder into my new empty Library, how did/why did iPhoto even create/populate the Modified folder?!
Thank you in advance!