iPhoto problem - albums there but no pictures!! HELP!
Hi folks. Working on the new G5 1.6ghz here. 10.3.7 Hardly a mac idiot here but OUT OF NO WHERE, I opened iphoto 4.0.3 and found NO albums, NO pictures.
I did a restart and prayed - then I got all my albums in order BUT NO PICTURES in the entire program or in the albums. NADA.
The pictures are on my computer hard drive - in their little numbered/dated albums and aliases. The data IS there, but they are not in their nifty iphoto order. There is absolutely NO photo date in my iphoto. iPhoto reads "0 pictures" -
Can I do an import? Talk me through it if possible.
What the heck happened? I did nothing! I use the program daily for photo storage and order and that is about it.
I am in desparate need of memory - only working with 256k (ok, so I am an idiot) but that should not screw up my iphoto right?
Thanks in advance here. I will absolutely choke if I have to REorganized a thousand pictures into 30 albums!!!
I also tried to do iPhoto 5.0 update and got this error on my computer - I am guessing b/c I do not have 5.0. Do I have to spend the $79 to get it? I mean I Just got this computer 4 mo ago?!
"iPhotoUpdate501 cannot be installed on this computer.
Neither iPhoto 5.0 nor iPhoto 5.0.1 could not be found in /Applications."
so..I did a command alt shift and I am waiting for a miracle!
Ps- my mac friend said not to the 10.3.8 update b/c his computer got @#$%ed up afterward and so did his friends. Is this true? Should I worry about the update or just do it? Could that be why iphoto is acting up?
I did a restart and prayed - then I got all my albums in order BUT NO PICTURES in the entire program or in the albums. NADA.
The pictures are on my computer hard drive - in their little numbered/dated albums and aliases. The data IS there, but they are not in their nifty iphoto order. There is absolutely NO photo date in my iphoto. iPhoto reads "0 pictures" -
Can I do an import? Talk me through it if possible.
What the heck happened? I did nothing! I use the program daily for photo storage and order and that is about it.
I am in desparate need of memory - only working with 256k (ok, so I am an idiot) but that should not screw up my iphoto right?
Thanks in advance here. I will absolutely choke if I have to REorganized a thousand pictures into 30 albums!!!
I also tried to do iPhoto 5.0 update and got this error on my computer - I am guessing b/c I do not have 5.0. Do I have to spend the $79 to get it? I mean I Just got this computer 4 mo ago?!
"iPhotoUpdate501 cannot be installed on this computer.
Neither iPhoto 5.0 nor iPhoto 5.0.1 could not be found in /Applications."
so..I did a command alt shift and I am waiting for a miracle!
Ps- my mac friend said not to the 10.3.8 update b/c his computer got @#$%ed up afterward and so did his friends. Is this true? Should I worry about the update or just do it? Could that be why iphoto is acting up?
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Originally posted by craftymacgirl
Ps- my mac friend said not to the 10.3.8 update b/c his computer got @#$%ed up afterward and so did his friends. Is this true? Should I worry about the update or just do it? Could that be why iphoto is acting up?
Any time you update any OS in a major way, (osx 10.3.x -> 10.3.y, windows service pack, linux new kernal build, whatever) you should back up anything that you do not want to loose, These updates may work as intended 99% of the time, but you never want to be that one percent if you have no backup.
I have read some great reviews online for .8, was there a particular app that the update messed up or conflicted with?
In conclusion, there are three rules when talking about data of any importance: BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP
iDisk, CD/DVD, 2nd or external HDD, email it to yourself, whatever, just back up your stuff