Hello,
My girlfriend has an older Macbook (OS X, 2gb ram... I can give more specific specs later, but I do not have the computer with me). Anyway, it's been running very slow and I believe it's partially because she has over 38,000 photos on it.
Today, I gave her a USB hard drive to store the pictures on, but something went wrong during the transfer. Apparently, she opened up iPhoto, did a "select all" and proceeded to drag and drop everything into the new hard drive. It sat there for over an hour "thinking" before iPhoto crashed. Now, iPhoto is empty.
While none of the pictures made it onto the new hard drive, I did verify that they are still on the computer. They have just been removed from iPhoto completely.
I have two questions:
1) Is there a way to restore iPhoto so that the pictures go back to the way she had them organized? I believe she had many of them set up with facial recognition so that she could type a name and see every picture featuring that person.
2) Once restored (God willing...), can the pictures be moved to another drive and still retain the iPhoto organization?
I build and repair PC's for a living, but have no idea what goes on inside of an Apple. Any advice is extremely appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael
My girlfriend has an older Macbook (OS X, 2gb ram... I can give more specific specs later, but I do not have the computer with me). Anyway, it's been running very slow and I believe it's partially because she has over 38,000 photos on it.
Today, I gave her a USB hard drive to store the pictures on, but something went wrong during the transfer. Apparently, she opened up iPhoto, did a "select all" and proceeded to drag and drop everything into the new hard drive. It sat there for over an hour "thinking" before iPhoto crashed. Now, iPhoto is empty.
While none of the pictures made it onto the new hard drive, I did verify that they are still on the computer. They have just been removed from iPhoto completely.
I have two questions:
1) Is there a way to restore iPhoto so that the pictures go back to the way she had them organized? I believe she had many of them set up with facial recognition so that she could type a name and see every picture featuring that person.
2) Once restored (God willing...), can the pictures be moved to another drive and still retain the iPhoto organization?
I build and repair PC's for a living, but have no idea what goes on inside of an Apple. Any advice is extremely appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael