Just to explain my desperation, our La Cie external hard drive has died that contained 5 years worth of photos - baby phots, family - all very precious... This could be the first of a number of questions.
I've found some of the lost photos as attachments to e-mails in my sent e-mail box in Mail. I'm trying to import these into iPhoto, though haven't succeeded yet. I've been highlighting the photos (.jpg) from the sent e-mail, and saving into a folder (Pictures/iPhoto Library/...DSC....jpg). Then, from iPhoto, I've tried to import to library, highlighted all of the photos in the folder (above) and then clicked import, only to be told that the files could not be read. I'm using OSX 10.5.8 on a G5 desk top computer.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way to import the photos from the sent e-mails into iPhoto? All help aimed at a computer-gimp level greatly appreciated...
Questions to follow on how best to save large volumes of photos (my Wife is a photography teacher and prolific photographer) have previously used iPhoto Librarian to save different libraries when they get to a sufficiently large size; and how to back up - possibly a solid state hard drive and cloud/DVD/mor memory space on my computer (I think I've got 2-3 spare slots).
Thanks in advance.
I've found some of the lost photos as attachments to e-mails in my sent e-mail box in Mail. I'm trying to import these into iPhoto, though haven't succeeded yet. I've been highlighting the photos (.jpg) from the sent e-mail, and saving into a folder (Pictures/iPhoto Library/...DSC....jpg). Then, from iPhoto, I've tried to import to library, highlighted all of the photos in the folder (above) and then clicked import, only to be told that the files could not be read. I'm using OSX 10.5.8 on a G5 desk top computer.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way to import the photos from the sent e-mails into iPhoto? All help aimed at a computer-gimp level greatly appreciated...
Questions to follow on how best to save large volumes of photos (my Wife is a photography teacher and prolific photographer) have previously used iPhoto Librarian to save different libraries when they get to a sufficiently large size; and how to back up - possibly a solid state hard drive and cloud/DVD/mor memory space on my computer (I think I've got 2-3 spare slots).
Thanks in advance.