Comments on: iPhoto sadness

By: Lost mine too

Lost mine too — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:10:54 +0000

I too just lost my entire iPhoto Library. 2,000 photos taken all over the world. G5 iMac iPhoto 6.02, OX 10.4.5 What a total bummer.
Dean
San Diego, CA USA

By: serena

serena — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:30:08 +0000

I don’t know what I would do if I lost my iPhotos- my heart goes out!
(Now I’m paranoid about losing my own! Aaahhh! If you are able to retrieve them, you must post your solution).
Bon Chance!

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:04:31 +0000

Condolences on the lost photos, sweetpea.
mmm, gelato…

By: Marcus Fischer

Marcus Fischer — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:41:03 +0000

i totally fear this happening to me w/ my photos or music etc…
now i have been trying to be good and back up.
my friend Adam has no sympathy for files lost by people who do not back up. i guess that means that if one backs up and still looses files he would then feel sympathy.
i am sorry for your loss.

By: piu piu

piu piu — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:30:40 +0000

thats so bad about your photo’s. hope u find them

By: david

david — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:45:37 +0000

I REALLY hope that the above prestidigitation works. I’m so sorry that this happened to you.
Have a safe trip.

By: jon via freshpot

jon via freshpot — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:01:36 +0000

if there is any hope of recovering your library (which, of course, is really weird to just disappear like that), i would *highly* recommend not really using your computer any more … until, well, you have given up.
to attempt to not get too geeky, basically every time *anything* writes to your hard drive (for example you browse the web or read your email), its all the more likely that a file will get plopped down on top of where your photos once were, and kinda still are.
when stuff is “deleted”, really the place they are on the hard drive is just marked “hey, you can put stuff here, mr. (or mz.) computer!”. then, eventually (read: soon), the computer will. in theory, if you run special software soon enough, it can find this un-attached filestuff.
in theory. and i dont know any recommended osx recovery software, but all/any of it would be hoping to save the day before too much other stuff got written on the disk.
if it all kinda disappeared all at once, like the directory (folder) got killed. this may make it even easier to resurrect, cuz if you can bring that folder back to life, most recovery software will then attempt to recover what was once in it. i think. blah blah blah… email me if whatever.
in other news, megan and solveig were in forest park today too. tinstacian magic!
p.s. some day we should talk about backup strategies. e.g. ‘rsync’ comes installed on osx and is really good for this.