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A while ago I updated iPhoto to v9 and have been happily using my main personal iPhoto library since.
Today, I needed to check one of my older, business, libraries and iPhoto is behaving as though it's a newly created library with no photos. Further checking of my eight further libraries showed seven of them in the same state, the other went through the expected 'upgrade' procedure and is intact.
So,
1. Why didn't the others update automatically?
2. How do I force them to update?
3. Short of going into the package contents and extracting the photos what else can I do to recover the situation?
Fortunately, for almost all of my photos taken over the last 3-4 years I have copies outside of iPhoto but in the early days my photos were imported to iPhoto and not saved elsewhere.
I have full Time machine backup but my moving to iPhoto 9 predates the earliest backup. In any event if I cannot recover my iPhoto libraries intact I will loose all the edits except where the photos have been exported and saved elsewhere.
Today, I needed to check one of my older, business, libraries and iPhoto is behaving as though it's a newly created library with no photos. Further checking of my eight further libraries showed seven of them in the same state, the other went through the expected 'upgrade' procedure and is intact.
So,
1. Why didn't the others update automatically?
2. How do I force them to update?
3. Short of going into the package contents and extracting the photos what else can I do to recover the situation?
Fortunately, for almost all of my photos taken over the last 3-4 years I have copies outside of iPhoto but in the early days my photos were imported to iPhoto and not saved elsewhere.
I have full Time machine backup but my moving to iPhoto 9 predates the earliest backup. In any event if I cannot recover my iPhoto libraries intact I will loose all the edits except where the photos have been exported and saved elsewhere.
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