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Lost photos in iPhoto :(
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Barcelona, SPAIN
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Hi all,
My little sister opened up iPhoto today and to her horror all photos apart from one roll were simply gone! All the rolls are in place, but the photos are just misisng. The info for amount of photos, as well as the placement for each and everyone is still there. I checked the Finder and there are no photos in the relevant folders under /Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals/. Only one roll still displays photos.
Here are two screenshots:
iPhoto
Finder
It looks to me as the files were simply erased. I explained to my sister that just doesn't happen by itself - the computer doesn't just decide to do so. She swears she wasn't deleting any files or anything like that. I am inclined to believe that and in any case, if she was actually to delete any of them from iPhoto the placement for the photos wouldn't still be there. There is always the option that she deleted them from the Finder but she would not have been able to empty those folders without noticing.
I think the next step is to run some data rescue program but if anyone has any other explanation or idea it would be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately none of the lost photos were backed up.
Computer specs for info: iBook G4, system 10.4.8 and iPhoto 6.0.5 (613).
Oh, and happy New Year for those celebrating. We will be doing so, taking photos but adding a backup step this time 
Cheers,
Tobbi G.
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Have you looked in iPhotos trash?
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-- Jason
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Senior User
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Originally Posted by jasong 
Have you looked in iPhotos trash?
Yeah, unfortunately there was nothing in there. 
- Tobbi
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Is there anything else funky with the system as it could be a disk directory corruption issue. Try repairing the hard disk using Disk Utility while booted from the Install or Restore disks for the computer. If it finds errors it can't fix, then try Diskwarrior (which you will have to purchase if you don't have it already).
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Did she by chance muck around in the iPhoto Library in finder? Maybe to organize photos herself instead of letting iPhoto manage them? That could cause the situation you describe.
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Mary
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13 in. MacBook, Core 2duo, mid-2010, many iPods
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Barcelona, SPAIN
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Originally Posted by JKT
Is there anything else funky with the system as it could be a disk directory corruption issue. Try repairing the hard disk using Disk Utility while booted from the Install or Restore disks for the computer. If it finds errors it can't fix, then try Diskwarrior (which you will have to purchase if you don't have it already).
I checked this and Disk Utility came up with nothing. Disk seems to be in perfect order.
Originally Posted by skybolt
Did she by chance muck around in the iPhoto Library in finder? Maybe to organize photos herself instead of letting iPhoto manage them? That could cause the situation you describe.
Well, I did ask her about that and she said "no" but I guess you can never know with some people
I've given up on the issue by now. Just going to write it off as something freaky that happens. One good thing comes from this though. She will from now on back up important data regularly.
Thanks all,
Tobbi.
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