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dhsu - Aug 6, 2005 - 11:14 am
I have a long and tortured history with iPhoto 2.0, and my iPhoto library seems to be corrupted in some way. Is there anyway to recover my most recent photographs?
Let me explain how I arrived at this point. The original hard drive in my PowerBook G4 550 Mhz was to small to store all of my photographs, and so I moved my photo library folders to an external hard drive. After getting a new hard drive, I moved the iPhoto library back to my computer.
Crucially, the really weird thing is that when I moved the library back to my computer, my new photographs from 2005 never seemed to be written to a new folder in the iPhoto library, though I could view them within iPhoto.
The loss of photographs was caused by a recent vacation that filled up iPhoto again, and slowed it to a crawl. I installed iPhoto Buddy, a launching utility that was intended to split up the library, and using this immediately caused iPhoto to lose all of my albums and photos within the program.
Because I never had a 2005 folder for iPhoto, all of my most recent photographs now seem to be lost. Or are they? Is there anyway to rebuild the iPhoto library, or to recover the location of the actual photographs on my hard drive.
Key information: I have already tried rebuilding the library in iPhoto 2.0, but still have no photos at all. As a (late) precaution, I also copied the iPhoto library to another drive, and it seems to have trouble obtaining permissions to copy files.
Key question: Is there any possible way to recover the digital images from my drive?
Let me explain how I arrived at this point. The original hard drive in my PowerBook G4 550 Mhz was to small to store all of my photographs, and so I moved my photo library folders to an external hard drive. After getting a new hard drive, I moved the iPhoto library back to my computer.
Crucially, the really weird thing is that when I moved the library back to my computer, my new photographs from 2005 never seemed to be written to a new folder in the iPhoto library, though I could view them within iPhoto.
The loss of photographs was caused by a recent vacation that filled up iPhoto again, and slowed it to a crawl. I installed iPhoto Buddy, a launching utility that was intended to split up the library, and using this immediately caused iPhoto to lose all of my albums and photos within the program.
Because I never had a 2005 folder for iPhoto, all of my most recent photographs now seem to be lost. Or are they? Is there anyway to rebuild the iPhoto library, or to recover the location of the actual photographs on my hard drive.
Key information: I have already tried rebuilding the library in iPhoto 2.0, but still have no photos at all. As a (late) precaution, I also copied the iPhoto library to another drive, and it seems to have trouble obtaining permissions to copy files.
Key question: Is there any possible way to recover the digital images from my drive?
dhsu - Aug 6, 2005 - 4:48 pm
One of my co-workers found the pictures using a German utility and moved the files using the Terminal command. The description of the path is here:
http://forums.applenova.com/showthre...497#post225497
Thanks for all of your help.
http://forums.applenova.com/showthre...497#post225497
Thanks for all of your help.
philippe99 - Aug 7, 2005 - 5:45 am
David, welcome on macosx.com
You previous link fails to open.
However, may I suggest to try iPhotoExtractor to retrieve photos from a corrupted iPhoto library
http://homepage.mac.com/butlers/iPho...or/rebuild.htm
Regards
Philippe
You previous link fails to open.
However, may I suggest to try iPhotoExtractor to retrieve photos from a corrupted iPhoto library
http://homepage.mac.com/butlers/iPho...or/rebuild.htm
Regards
Philippe
dhsu - Aug 8, 2005 - 3:42 pm
One of my co-workers used a German utility called Tree Size Carbon (unfortunately, I don't know where one finds it) to look through the hard drive directory, and found a hefty folder (6 GB's) that wasn't showing up in the Finder. The photographs were buried in a sub-folder of the iPhoto library, titled "Firewire Drive", which makes me think that it somehow is the legacy of my past hard drive swap.
After finding the images, he used the Unix terminal commands in Terminal to copy the images out of the folder to a new folder on the desktop called "recover". The command:
cp -rf * source target
Anyway, thanks for all of your help.
After finding the images, he used the Unix terminal commands in Terminal to copy the images out of the folder to a new folder on the desktop called "recover". The command:
cp -rf * source target
Anyway, thanks for all of your help.
philippe99 - Aug 8, 2005 - 4:16 pm
Happy you have found a solution
Whatsize does pretty same job
http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/index.php
than TreeSize which is a Windows stuff (and a very good one)
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/index.shtml
Regards
Philippe
Whatsize does pretty same job
http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/index.php
than TreeSize which is a Windows stuff (and a very good one)
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/index.shtml
Regards
Philippe
philippe99 - Aug 8, 2005 - 4:16 pm
I close the ticket David. Thank you for using macosx.com
Philippe
Philippe
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