Lost my photos in iPhoto.

[lanceh5]

Well I can't believe this happened. Two weeks ago I imported about 7,000 photos into a iMac 2.4Ghz and the total number of photos was over 14,000. I had changed some of the dates that had a 2024 as the year. Then yesterday imported a couple hundred more photos from the camera. Everything seemed OK. This morning the flashing "?" occurred at startup. I restarted holding the "shift" key down into safe boot. Then repaired permissions and restarted and every thing looked normal. This PM I downloaded several more photos from the camera when the problem occurred. iPhoto wanted to resolve some conflict ?? which I clicked OK. Now only 1200 are in iPhoto.

I do have a backup from a week ago.

What to do??

 

[Gray-Wolf]

I would say save your newer stuff to a disk/flash, then do the restore. The only realistic alternative, is to use a program that can search for files on the drive, and get them back that way.

 

[plinden]

It's likely the photos are still there, just that iPhoto has forgotten about them.

Go to Pictures, right click on iPhoto Library, select "Show Package Contents" then check in Originals.

 

[skybolt]

Or try a rebuild of your library like this: interwovenSite://BBSLIBRARY/BBS/6907013/9

Did you adjust the dates within the iPhoto app or in the finder? If in the finder, that's your problem. Don't mess about in there.

 

[Bye Bye Baby]

Same thing happened to me. Thanks for the ideas. Will have to try and get some data recovery software.