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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1402896">It sounds like the original images were lost and what you have now is the thumbnails. Perhaps the actual images are still residing somewhere. You could use a tool like <a href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19515/grandperspective" target="_blank">Grand Perspective</a> to see if they are around.As for restoring, you've already said you didn't back up so ... I'm kind of wondering where you think the &quot;restore from two months ago&quot; is going to come from exactly ... even PCs need to have the &quot;restore points&quot; actually stored somewhere ...If you weren't using Time Machine and the original images don't seem to be on the drive, you've probably lost them permanently at this point.I'm not sure how your child managed to mess about in the iPhoto Library package, but that certainly sounds like what's happened. This is exactly why Apple obscures this package from users and makes it difficult to muck about in -- the same reason your organization info came back when you re-imported the thumbnails ... iPhoto is a DATABASE and it sounds like the database itself wasn't harmed but the ASSETS of that database got moved around.I hope those pictures turn up but if it's two months later ....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1402896"] It sounds like the original images were lost and what you have now is the thumbnails. Perhaps the actual images are still residing somewhere. You could use a tool like [URL="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19515/grandperspective"]Grand Perspective[/URL] to see if they are around. As for restoring, you've already said you didn't back up so ... I'm kind of wondering where you think the "restore from two months ago" is going to come from exactly ... even PCs need to have the "restore points" actually stored somewhere ... If you weren't using Time Machine and the original images don't seem to be on the drive, you've probably lost them permanently at this point. I'm not sure how your child managed to mess about in the iPhoto Library package, but that certainly sounds like what's happened. This is exactly why Apple obscures this package from users and makes it difficult to muck about in -- the same reason your organization info came back when you re-imported the thumbnails ... iPhoto is a DATABASE and it sounds like the database itself wasn't harmed but the ASSETS of that database got moved around. I hope those pictures turn up but if it's two months later .... [/QUOTE]

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