10-24-2007, 09:55 PM
[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.
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.