Mac - External HD help

[Pokernut]

I use my external HD to store all my pictures/music/movies etc. I used it with my old Mac Mini and everything worked fine. I recently sold my old mini and purchased the new one. When I connected my HD to the new mini all the photos are gone?? All my music/movies are still there and work fine, but all the folders which I have my pictures in are either empty or have a thumbs.db icon.

When I check the properties of each picture folder it still shows that pictures are in there because of the size. I have no idea what is going on. Btw I use a Maxtor 1tb hd.

Any help with this would be really appreciated.

 

[DewGuy1999]

Are you using iPhoto? If so, which version of iPhoto on each mini?

 

[Pokernut]

On the old Mini, I used the original iPhoto but then updated it to iPhoto '09. The new Mini came with iPhoto '09.

 

[jonnytruant]

I use my external HD to store all my pictures/music/movies etc. I used it with my old Mac Mini and everything worked fine. I recently sold my old mini and purchased the new one. When I connected my HD to the new mini all the photos are gone?? All my music/movies are still there and work fine, but all the folders which I have my pictures in are either empty or have a thumbs.db icon.

When I check the properties of each picture folder it still shows that pictures are in there because of the size. I have no idea what is going on. Btw I use a Maxtor 1tb hd.

Any help with this would be really appreciated.

Did you try running Disk repair??

 

[DewGuy1999]

On the old Mini, I used the original iPhoto but then updated it to iPhoto '09. The new Mini came with iPhoto '09.

What happens when you launch iPhoto on the new mini? You mention folders being empty, are you referring to folders viewed with Finder? The reason I ask is that starting with I believe iPhoto '08 (7.1.5), iPhoto keeps the photos in a package file not in individual folders and as such isn't directly viewable with Finder.

 

[Pokernut]

What happens when you launch iPhoto on the new mini? You mention folders being empty, are you referring to folders viewed with Finder? The reason I ask is that starting with I believe iPhoto '08 (7.1.5), iPhoto keeps the photos in a package file not in individual folders and as such isn't directly viewable with Finder.

When I launch iPhoto '09 on the new mini, it shows all my Events, but they are all empty.

When I open my external HD, and click on my 'Picture' folder, it still has all of the subfolders I created to organize my photos. But when I open a folder, there's no pictures, just a thumbnail called 'thumbs.db'. And I can't open it, I tried to open it in the new iPhoto but I get an error message.

 

[Pokernut]

Did you try running Disk repair??

Should I run the Disk repair on the external hd?

 

[DewGuy1999]

When I launch iPhoto '09 on the new mini, it shows all my Events, but they are all empty.

When I open my external HD, and click on my 'Picture' folder, it still has all of the subfolders I created to organize my photos. But when I open a folder, there's no pictures, just a thumbnail called 'thumbs.db'. And I can't open it, I tried to open it in the new iPhoto but I get an error message.

Now I'm really confused. You said you were using iPhoto '09 on the old mini as well as the new mini and as I said in my previous message iPhoto starting with iPhoto '08 keeps it's photos in a package file not in individual folders. Have you tried using Spotlight and searching both your internal and external for iPhoto Library (as that's the default name)?

 

[jonnytruant]

Should I run the Disk repair on the external hd?

Yes, verify first and cross your fingers that you get an "OK" See the attached picture

 

[jota73]

try rebuilding iPhoto library...