How To Restore Iphoto Library On Mac

Recently I was trying to access some photo’s from my Mum’s iPhoto library on her time machine backup, but my computer doesn’t have iPhoto, it has Photos App. When I tried to open the iPhoto library with the newer Photos App, it wanted to upgrade the entire iPhoto library. Here’s how to access an individual photo from an old iPhoto library.

If you go to your home directory, there is a folder called ‘Pictures’ where Apple stores all your photos. If you have used iPhoto, then in the ‘Pictures’ folder there will be a file called ‘iPhoto Library’. It appears as one file. Don’t do this, but if you were to click it then it would try to open in iPhoto, or Photos. Instead, if you hold down the control key while you click, you will see an option called ‘Show Package Contents.’ Click on this.

Now you will see all kinds of files. Find the one called ‘Originals’ and click on it.

Now you will see a new folder with a lot of years. Click on a year, then a month, and you will see all the pictures from your iPhoto library from that month. You can then open the photos one by one, copy them, or do what you like with each picture.

Apr 09, 2015  How to migrate an old iPhoto Library to the brand new Photos app in OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. Gear I use Camera I use: New favorite le. Here’s how to access an individual photo from an old iPhoto library. If you go to your home directory, there is a folder called ‘Pictures’ where Apple stores all your photos. If you have used iPhoto, then in the ‘Pictures’ folder there will be a file called ‘iPhoto Library’. It appears as one file. Expert’s Choice: Use Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery To Recover iPhoto Library. Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery program is a potent tool that has the ability to easily find and recover iPhoto library file on Mac computer. The software is capable of restoring lost or deleted photo from the iPhoto library folder.

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  1. How do I backup a complete iPhoto ('09 version 8.1.2 (424)) library with all its metadata from iPhoto of OSX 10.5.8 and then after a clean new install of the latest OSX 10.8.2 on the same machine, restore that library into the latest (then empty) iPhoto.
  2. Note: If you use iCloud Photos and you restore the System Photo Library from a Time Machine backup, any photos you’ve deleted since the last Time Machine backup are restored to your Mac and uploaded to iCloud again.If you chose to optimize Mac storage, Time Machine may not have a backup of your originals. However, the originals are stored in iCloud.
  3. How to Recover iPhoto Library from Mac Trash If your photos were accidentally dragged to the iPhoto trash and you could not drag them back to Mac desktop, you can go to your iPhoto trash, select those deleted photos and right click to select 'Restore to iPhoto.
  4. Select the iPhoto library and click on the 'Recover' button to restore deleted photos from iPhoto on Mac. Recover Deleted iPhoto Library from 'Recently Deleted' on Mac. If you’ve used iPhoto for a long time, you must know that there is an option 'Recently Deleted' in iPhoto library on Mac.

The photo’s are arranged in folders under the years and months they were taken.

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Nicholas Honigschmidtsays:March 21, 2016 at 5:21 am

This helped me restore my iPhoto Library after a upgrade that lost all connections with my original photos.

ReplyLeesays:November 1, 2018 at 8:08 am

Thank you- Finally! a clear description of this. I have to say, Windows (and I am a Mac person) makes this MUCH easier.

Thank you, Lee

InstallReplyzahrasays:November 8, 2018 at 10:52 am

I did all the steps but there is 0 items when i click show package content and i Know for sure I have many Pic in my IPhoto

ReplySarahsays:March 25, 2020 at 4:34 pm

I have the same issue

Replyjohnsays:November 27, 2018 at 1:56 pm

thanks!

RestoreReplyNicksays:December 8, 2018 at 12:03 pm

There was no “show package contents” option when I pressed “control” while clicking “Library.iPhoto”. Please advise. Thanks.

ReplyCindysays:January 13, 2019 at 12:38 pm

Ohmygod I think I love you! HaHa! I can’t thank you enough. I’m bouncing of my seat, I’m so happy I came across your advice! THANK YOU

Replyelainesays:February 4, 2019 at 1:48 pm

OMG!!! Thank you !!!! Thank you !!!! Thank you!!! can’t say thank you enough!

ReplyJoe Matthewssays:February 7, 2019 at 7:40 am

Brilliant! Thank you!

I thought I had lost all my 2011-2014 pics but there they are! :)

ReplyBriansays:February 11, 2019 at 10:55 am

You are a genius. Thank you.

ReplyHaakon F. Stenersensays:February 22, 2019 at 11:32 am

Hi. I have another setup when showing package. It seems most picture are stored in the “Master” folder, but I can not find all because of date problems who made all pictures from 2010 and 11 are stored as 2000, and not showing up in Master folder.

ReplyMike McDevittsays:February 26, 2020 at 2:47 pm

Awesome. I followed each step than dragged the “masters” folder to my desktop and all photos easy to open.

Replycarolsays:February 26, 2020 at 2:54 pm

thank you; thank you; a thousand times thank you!

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When you delete something in Mac, it is not actually deleted; it just makes that space available for new data. Until new data is saved that sector still hold the picture data. If you haven’t saved any new data to the storage media after the act of deletion then, recovery of the deleted iPhoto library is still possible.

Remo Recover (Mac) Media Edition is a powerful recovery software that helps you recover deleted/lost digital photo, audio and video files from digital camera memory cards, Mac hard drives, USB flash drives etc. REMO Recover (Mac) – Media Edition will scan the storage media for the deleted library and recover it in few simple steps. Depending on what kind of volume the library was deleted from, REMO Recover (Mac) software uses two types of file search for recovery.

  • If the file is deleted from the unjournaled volume (like an external drive or secondary internal), it will look for the file signatures, specific identifying characteristics of that file.
  • If the deleted photo file is from the start-up disk, then the software will search for the file using journalled search.

While installing REMO Recover (Mac) – Media Edition software make sure you install it on a different computer. If you save it on the same computer from which you are trying to recover your photos it may lead to permanent data loss making your photos completely irrecoverable.

Use Remo Recover (Windows) – Media Edition / Remo Recover (Mac) - Media Edition to recover lost, deleted photos, music and video files for the respective operating systems.

Quick recovery steps to be followed to recover deleted iPhoto library with REMO Recover (Mac) – Media Edition:

Step 1: Run Remo Recover (Mac) – Media Edition Software by double clicking icon from ‘Applications’ folder or from the location where the software has been installed. Program main window will be displayed as shown in the Figure (a).

Figure (a): Remo Recover (Mac) – Media Edition main window

Step 2: Select the drive from the drive(s) list, and click on “Next” button to proceed. You may also just double click on the drive as shown in figure (b).

Figure (b): Drive selection

Step 3: As you click “Next” button, the program displays a window to select file types that you wish to recover as shown in “Figure (c)”. By default all the file types will be selected. Click on “Deselect all” button and select those photo file formats which you wish to recover and click on “Recover” button.

Figure (c): File types selection

The application will now start scanning the selected drive as shown in figure (d). Please wait till the process is completed.

Figure (d): Scanning progress

Step 4: As soon as the application completes the scanning process, the recovered data/file will be analyzed and displayed in a well organized data tree as shown in figure (e).

Figure (e): Recovered data tree

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You may preview the file by double clicking on the same or just click on “View” button.

Step 5: To save the recovered files, select the files you wish to save and click on save button.

Specify a safe location to initiate saving process as shown in figure (f).

Figure (f): Specify safe destination location for saving

Note: Never save data to the same location from which data is recovered. Saving the data to the same location would result in permanent data loss.

Scenarios in which photos are deleted / lost from iPhoto library

Accidental deletion of photos: Deleting photos from iPhoto library accidentally, thinking it has been backed up will lead to loss of photos.

iPhoto library corruption: iPhoto library gets corrupted due tohuman errors or virus attack, which results in photo loss.

How to Recover Photos from Deleted iPhoto Library?

Mac iPhoto recovery can be easily performed by using Remo Recover (Mac). Below mentioned steps are used to restore pictures from iPhoto library.

Step 1: Download and install free demo version of Remo Recover (Mac) on the computer

Step 2: Launch the software by using the Start Menu, or by double-clicking the shortcut on the desktop

Step 3: A main screen appears, as shown in Figure 1. Choose the “Recover Photos” option from main screen as shown in Figure 2

Step 4: To recover photos from iPhoto library select “Advanced Photo Recovery” option as shown in Figure 3

Step 5: Select the logical drive from which you need to recover photos and then click “Next” as shown in Figure 4

Step 6: Select appropriate file types if you want to perform an additional search to find the files based on the unique signatures. Else you can also skip this process to continue with scanning process and then click “Next” as show in Figure 5

Step 7: Once the scanning process is finished as shown in Figure 5, you have the option to view the recovered data using File Type View / Data View option as shown in Figure 6

Step 9: You can evaluate the recovery results by using preview option to view recovered data

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Step 10: “Save Recovery Session” option is used to save the recovered information, that ensues you need not to rescan the drive when you resume saving process as shown in Figure 7

Step 11: If you are satisfied with the recovery results you can purchase the software. Later, you can activate the software and use the option “Open Recovery Session” to load previously saved scanned information and continues with the saving process as shown in Figure 7

Note: Do not save the recovered data to the same location on which you are performing iPhoto recovery. Saving data to the same location results in permanent data loss. Do not install any software (iPhoto recovery software) to the drive / volume from which the data is lost.

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