[Sarpedon]

iPhoto appears not to be recognizing recently downloaded "rolls" of film.

In November I purchased a new 20" iMac and imported my iPhoto files using a Lan cable from my only 17" iMac.

Since that time everytime we open iPhoto a message comes up as follows:

"Recovered Lost Photos
iPhoto has recovered 232 photos that previously did not import correctly and has placed them in an album called "Recovered Photos."

This file continues to get bigger each time we transfer new photos from our camera. Moreover the photos appear to be imported correctly at the time we do it.

If we activate "film view" in the view menu we can see that all the download "rolls" we have made since November do not exit and all the recent photos appear in the "Recovered Photo" album. This is odd because in the iPhoto Library file (in Pictures/Home folder) the photos are shown correctly in their dated folders.

I have tried scrapping the iPhoto preferences in Library/Home folder . I have tried removing the data files in the iPhoto Library. Nothing seems to work.

Any advice welcome.

[Old Toad]

Do you still have a copy of your original backup? If it's not too out of date, you can rename it and copy it to your Pictures folder. Then use iPhoto Buddy to add it and your current one to it's list of useable libraries. Don't open it yet, just select it with iPB and close iPB. Then launch iPhoto with the Command+Option+Shift keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. It will ask you to name the new library folder so you can give it a distinctive name to identify it from the originals. That may get you thru the recovering each time. Worth a try.

Be sure to repair disk permissions after copying the iPhoto Library folder into the Pictures folder. Just a precaution.

If all efforts fail to get a stable, useable library you can use iPhoto Extractor to copy your full sized photos out of the library of your choice to three new folders on the desktop. You can then move all of the library folders out of the Pictures folder and create a new, fresh iPhoto library. Then reinstall the photo files from those three temp folders.

Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.

[Sarpedon]

Old Toad

thanks for the help.

I'll give your ideas a go.

But first I do not have iPhoto Buddy or iPhoto Extractor.

Are they shareware products?

If they are where do I get them.

[Old Toad]

Originally posted by Sarpedon:
If they are where do I get them.

They are shareware and can be obtained http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/. Just do a search for them.