![]() If you move the files, your iPhoto library won’t work correctly.ģ. To have iPhoto access your photos from their current locations on your hard disk (rather than making copies of them) be sure not to move the photos from the location from which they were imported. First open iPhoto and go to Preferences, Advanced and uncheck the box "importing: copy items to the iPhoto Library"! I'm answering your most recent comment about alias's here because I can use paragraph breaks and text formatting which will be more readable:ġ. If this answer is acceptable please remember to return and mark it accepted. For data recovery I like Data Rescue 3, If it's a Windows disk I have no recommendations. If the disk is Mac formatted DiskWarrior or Drive Genius 3 work well for that. Using Disk Utility->First Aid:Repair Disk and Repair Preferences sometimes works but you can not repair the boot volume - you must do that from a different machine.Īs for an external drive problem the Master Disk Directory probably needs to be rebuilt. plist files for problematic applications (Finder, and iPhoto) these files are stored in ~User/Library/caches and /Library/Preferences delete the files and do a reboot. Other "fixes" that often work are to delete cache files and. After reach repair you'll have to use the key combination repeatedly to access the dialog box. That will bring up a repair dialog and I would work through all the repairs one by one. You can try to repair an iPhoto directory by holding down command-option while iPhoto is launching. Whichever drive houses the missing files I would backup onto another drive before attempting data recovery, and recover the data to yet a different disk or partition. If I understand correctly the original files on the external drive are gone? OR are the original iPhoto laptop files missing?įurther which drive will not unmount the laptop or the external? ![]()
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