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Title: Apple Iphoto question / help
Post by: dazzler on June 26, 2013, 05:36:17 PM

Finally my Mac is sending me crazy.

Last year I added a 1TB external hard drive so that we would not lose our stuff if the Mac crashed.  I partitioned the drive into three areas - Photos, Miscellaneous and Doc's.

Transferred all my photos into photos partition and reformatted the system and reinstalled software.  All good.

Recently I went to access my photos from the external hard drive.  I have an iphoto icon and the info say its 364.8MB.

When I try and open it it says it cannot open because of a problem and it wont work with this version of OSX.  It is an 09 version of Iphoto and it says to install any available updates for the app and OSX.

I am stumped.  Do you think my photos are still in there or is the 365MB the size of the app and the photos are gone gone gone?

Thoughts?

 ???

Title: Re: Apple Iphoto question / help
Post by: Kit_e_kat9 on June 26, 2013, 07:16:53 PM

I know it won't help you at all, but I always back up my precious photos on more than one location.  Just In Case.

Kit_e

Title: Re: Apple Iphoto question / help
Post by: dungee on June 26, 2013, 08:53:41 PM

If you're using a mac you should be able to right click the iphoto icon and select show package contents.  You should then be able to browse through the pics.  However 360mb isn't many pictures?

I use Picassa on my mac and it automagically syncs to the interwebs, I can access them anywhere and link to them when posting on My Swag :-)

Title: Re: Apple Iphoto question / help
Post by: TOPNDR on June 27, 2013, 05:04:27 PM

I'd agree, 360 mb isn't much.  As an example my MacBook Air library is on an external hard drive, contains 2900 photos and is 29 gig in size, about 95% of my photos are the highest resolution I can take.

Do you have AppleCare on the Mac? If so, they offer great tech help, if not they still offer the help but may charge for it - 1300 321 456.

Title: Re: Apple Iphoto question / help
Post by: dazzler on June 27, 2013, 05:36:30 PM

Thanks people.  I think I stuffed up the storage in the first place.   :'(

Title: Re: Apple Iphoto question / help
Post by: austastar on June 27, 2013, 05:59:34 PM

Hi,
  ages since I macked about, but if I remember correctly you can hold the T key ( I think ) down as you start it, and it starts up as an external hard drive.
Then with a fire wire cable and another mac started normally you can explore the disk to see what is wrong, and recover files.
cheers

Title: Re: Apple Iphoto question / help
Post by: Trackaprado on June 27, 2013, 06:02:45 PM

Hold down the option key and start iphoto, make sure iphoto is trying to access the right iphoto library in the right partition