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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1783479" data-attributes="member: 396914">OK, I'm slightly confused. You seem to be trying to use Finder to go to a drive somewhere that has backups from some application and you want to use either iPhoto or Photos. But you've mixed the terms up so much that it doesn't really make sense to me. For example:iPhoto and Photos are two different applications, so there is no way for the system to give that response. It uses both iPhoto and Photos, which is illogical.Then you say you opened Photos, ran a repair (on what?) and could see the old photos (In the iPhotos database? WHere? What photos?) So, what application made the backups, what version of the OS are you running, what is the &quot;HD&quot; in the path name you gave, which are you using iPhoto or Photos and can you explain a bit more carefully what is happening? BTW, if the backup was from TM, you should never, never, never use Finder to get into the backup. If you ran a repair on a file inside a TM backup, you may have damaged the integrity of the backup completely. Files inside TM backups are NOT normal files, but customized links that are chained to create the backup and messing with them can have catastrophic consequences.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1783479, member: 396914"] OK, I'm slightly confused. You seem to be trying to use Finder to go to a drive somewhere that has backups from some application and you want to use either iPhoto or Photos. But you've mixed the terms up so much that it doesn't really make sense to me. For example:iPhoto and Photos are two different applications, so there is no way for the system to give that response. It uses both iPhoto and Photos, which is illogical. Then you say you opened Photos, ran a repair (on what?) and could see the old photos (In the iPhotos database? WHere? What photos?) So, what application made the backups, what version of the OS are you running, what is the "HD" in the path name you gave, which are you using iPhoto or Photos and can you explain a bit more carefully what is happening? BTW, if the backup was from TM, you should never, never, never use Finder to get into the backup. If you ran a repair on a file inside a TM backup, you may have damaged the integrity of the backup completely. Files inside TM backups are NOT normal files, but customized links that are chained to create the backup and messing with them can have catastrophic consequences. [/QUOTE]

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