When I dragged it out and put it on the desktop it said “there’s another iPhoto file elsewhere do you want to replace it with this older one or keep both”.
Thank you for all your advice as well!Īs someone has said here before, thank you, thank you, thank you! With your very first suggestion I located it in the trash and how it got there I have no idea I certainly didn’t delete it. If anyone looses their library, and can’t find it at all, I would suggest do not empty the trash and go to a store. It was not visible on Trash, not even as an invisible file, since we tried that as well. I am very happy to have my files back, but I would love to know how he found them. He said it was in the trash, and could not explain how neither I, nor the apple support, nor the searching tools could see it there before. Then he asked permission to take the computer inside the store, spent 15 min in there, and came back with all my libraries perfectly back into place. The guy searched my computer beside me, found nothing. Then I booked a visit to genius bar at an Apple store, as a last resource. I did everything you described here, included getting Apple support to remotely access my computer and search everywhere for it. It would tell me to ‘choose a library', but there was none anymore. I turned up my computer one day to find out my iphoto library had disappeared. I of course easier not to believe all of this, but I've heard this story many times now, over and over, so I've had to accept that something strange is in fact going on.
Iphoto library location software#
Coming from their stories, it's as if in these situations when there is a problem, the software makes a decision to move the Library file somewhere else - possibly to the OSX trash bin!? And then iPhoto creates a whole new (and empty) library file.
Iphoto library location how to#
So, like I tell everyone that I help, I still can't give you first-hand knowledge of how to deal with your problem, since I've never even been able to reproduce the situation. And often, I never hear back from them, so I never find out exactly what fixed their particular problem.īut, what I can tell you from everything that I've heard from people with these problems, and from those that I have helped, is that in a few rare cases, iPhoto libraries seem to go missing during upgrades of iPhoto library files when a major version of iPhoto was just installed, and when their iPhone is connected to their computers and is doing various kinds of syncs and imports. Instead, it's loading either another library file you created at one time, or worse, it's created a new and therefore empty library file so you are seeing no photos or events at all.Įven though I have helped a lot of people with their missing iPhoto Photo Library files, I still have personally never experienced a corrupt or missing library file myself.
So the problem is, for whatever reason, your original library file with all of your master photos is missing - or iPhoto can no longer find it to load it up for you. By default, when you launch iPhoto, it loads whichever library file you had opened the last time you used iPhoto. You can have as many Photo Library files as you wish. The iPhoto application loads your Photo Library file after the application itself loads. This contains all of your master images, preview and thumbnail versions of your images, and all of the database files that the iPhoto application reads and writes to to know all of the information about each one of your images and how you have them organized. Photo Library File - a self-contained folder that looks like a single file in the Finder application. IPhoto Application - the program developed by Apple that does the magic. There are 2 things required to make your photo collection load in iPhoto.
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