Clean out any photos that don’t capture your attention or epitomize a moment. ![]() If you didn’t put a heart on the image originally, consider why you are keeping it around. Trust us - decluttering can only be achieved by getting rid of the images that are duplicates, blurry, or unnecessary screenshots. Set yourself up for success and make the delete button a good friend. Make sure you have 1-2 photos of each major event for recording’s sake, but don’t get tied up about each individual image. Only save the phots that you know you will want to return to. This will automatically filter them into your “favorites folder.” Pro tip: be decisive. Set aside time to press the heart on the bottom of the photos that are most significant. I, of course, easier not to believe all of this, but I've heard this story many times now, over and over, so I've had to accept that something strange is, in fact, going on.Let’s start with identifying the photos that mean the most to you. Coming from their stories, it's as if in these situations, when there is a problem, the software makes a decision to move the Library file somewhere else - possibly to the OSX trash bin!? And then iPhoto creates a whole new (and empty) library file. So, like I tell everyone that I help, I still can't give you first-hand knowledge of how to deal with your problem, since I've never even been able to reproduce the situation. And often, I never hear back from them, so I never find out exactly what fixed their particular problem.īut, what I can tell you from everything that I've heard from people with these problems, and from those that I have helped, is that in a few rare cases, iPhoto libraries seem to go missing during upgrades of iPhoto library files when a major version of iPhoto was just installed, and when their iPhone is connected to their computers and is doing various kinds of syncs and imports. My Background Finding Missing Library Files:Įven though I have helped a lot of people with their missing iPhoto Photo Library files, I still have personally never experienced a corrupt or missing library file myself. This should be used only when “ repairing” the database doesn't work. Sometimes rebuilding the library may resolve issues such as the library appearing to be unreadable, missing photos, or other issues related to reading the iPhoto library structure.Įxamines and rebuilds your library. If the numbers are off, it will fix this and “re-attach” to the ones it wasn't “aware” that it had before.Īdditionally, if this repair procedure doesn't work, there is a “stronger” one that will actually rebuild your database. ![]() In a repair procedure, it will go in and compare how many actual photos it finds in your library file to how many the database believes it has. There are a few procedures that Apple has almost “secretly” written into the iPhoto application that will force it to “recalculate its math” and reconstruct its database. Launching the iPhoto application could cause problems and prevent those last 50 photos from being shown to you. But your database records might be off, and you only think you have 950. Sometimes the database records become a little mixed up, and what the database shows as being correct doesn't match what's actually true with your master images stored with that database.Ī simple example of this might be that if you were to peek inside your folder full of master images, you might find you have 1,000 photos. This separate file, called a “photo library” file, by default is stored inside of the pictures folder in your user folder. It may not be known to you, but your iPhoto photo collection is more than just the iPhoto application stored in your Application folder.Īll of your master photos, thumbnail and preview versions of your photos, and database records of how the iPhoto application handles all of your photos, are stored in a separate file (a folder really) that is in a completely different place on your hard drive from the main iPhoto application.
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