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I didn't notice for a couple of days, but all of my pics (110gb) vanished expect the last three imports. I didn't worry much - the database was still 110gb, some fixing would work...
Well I tried to rebuild the database every way possible through the app. Then tried a couple of third party apps (library manager, forgot the other)
they didn't work either
my searches didn't come up with any other tricks...
Had to pull from back up and update it to current. Lost very little work, but I'm annoyed...
I thought these issues were fixable...
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that is no fun. I am also having iphoto 08 issues. I cannot email the photos....it does not export to mail. I will tackle the fix after leopard.
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Me 3!
I've had to import all of my movies several times because iPhoto 08 kept losing them. Recently, it "forgot" about 2 hours of sorting and labeling of events that I did and completely lost the last 2 groups of pictures that I imported (I had already deleted some of the photos from my SD card). Man, was that frustrating!
If you are going to use iPhoto, make sure you keep copies of the original pics in case you need them.
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That's crazy talk hal. There's no database to speak of that I'm aware of. Apple has glommed it all into a tarball of a file that is our iPhoto Library, which is located in the "Pictures" folder. Right click on the library and select "show package contents." Hopefully you'll be able to see everything thats in that file. Your "originals" folder should contain your photo "booty" Try it now.
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sorry to hear that -- ive been having a lot of fun with 08, several web galleries, some cards, photo tweaking and combining events
all of your originals are right where vision said they are, you shouldnt have lost anything
sccoter -- cant you just select the photo and hit the "mail" icon (or for me the entrourage icon) on the bottom tool bar?
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[quote vision63]That's crazy talk hal. There's no database to speak of that I'm aware of. Apple has glommed it all into a tarball of a file that is our iPhoto Library, which is located in the "Pictures" folder. Right click on the library and select "show package contents." Hopefully you'll be able to see everything thats in that file. Your "originals" folder should contain your photo "booty" Try it now.
Well EXCUSE ME[/steve martin] for calling a package a database....
like I said, the package was still the same size as it was before. THe pics were there, but iphoto couldn't pull it all together and all I saw was 1000s of empty squares where there should have been pictures. When I 2x clicked on one, I got a full screen of black. Right clicking to show original found nothing.
Opening the package was the first thing I did - the pics were there - SO WHAT - that fact that they were there didn't help them appear in iphoto. Merely opening the package and looking inside isn't a fix. Just confirmation of a serious problem.
I'm cautious. I import all of my pics to a folder with today's date on one drive. Then I import that folder into iphoto that puts it into it's package on a different drive. Then I keep a fairly recent backup of the iphoto package on a fw drive.
Dumping the package and replacing it with a backup was the only fix that worked. THere really should be something else...
Trying to import the pics in the 'originals' folder is a no win situation. You can't just reimport them - you can't import something that is already in the package. It has to be removed from the package to be imported. If I did that, I have a package with the same number of pictures, NONE of my 100s of albums and a package that is now twice as big.
That might be disaster relief, but it's no fix.
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I wasn't mocking you hal. I was being funny. I didn't want you to lose all your pictures.
You need to bust those pictures up into maybe a few libraries. You can switch between them by holding down the shift key upon startup. Maybe iPhoto has trouble with gargantuan libraries (for all I know).
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JDC. when I hit the mail icon it lets me pick a compression level.....looks like it will work...then nothing...
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[quote Scooter]JDC. when I hit the mail icon it lets me pick a compression level.....looks like it will work...then nothing...
are you using mail for email? or?
