How Long To Repair Photo Library Mac
I know i can just move the iPhoto Library to that drive and then point iPhoto at it, but i'd also like to rebuild it so that all of the originals are moved into the iPhoto library, basically returning it to a normal state with the 'copy photos to library.' Feature enabled. Jul 26, 2018 If you go ahead with the repair, the system will display a progress bar while it chugs away. Depending on the size of the photos library and the speed of the Mac being used, this could take a few.
Oct 26, 2016 Thanks for your information of such good tools. I just have duplicated pictures after I make a new Photos library and import all pictures from the Masters folder of the old broken library. However, I noted that 'PowerPhotos' can't repair library as 'iPhoto library Manager'. Sep 24, 2019 The easy and the established approach to viewing all your photos again in Photo Library is to employ a professional Photo repair software that is supported in Mac. Alternatively, you can also try Apple’s inbuilt Photo Library Repair tool but that may not fix your severely corrupt photos. Photos attempted to repair the library. MacOS Photos.app tutorial 2015-12-30 11. How to fix Photos has attempted to repair the library Photos Library.photoslibrary, but is unable to open. The library could not be opened—here's the fix.
| Click here to return to the 'Rebuild the iPhoto Library' hint |
I wish I knew about that when iPhoto pooped out on me a few weeks back. I thought it was strange considering I have less than 100 photos stored in the application. Anyway, I ended up removing the library file. iPhoto rebuilt the library on the next restart and it started working again. I'm glad there's a more elegant way of doing this.
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robg comments that he's not sure when you would need to rebuild the library. The Apple forums are full of users who have 'lost photos'. Rebuilding the libary recatalogs them.
Note that changing a file name of a JPG file using the finder will make it 'invisible' to iPhoto. Changing the name back doesn't help. You must import the photo back into iPhoto. Loose enough photos this way and 'rebuild' option becomes quite attractive.
I wonder if iTunes has this feature? My library self-corrupted a while back (scattered tracks suddenly are marked as unknown/unavailable in the middle of sequences, although the files are still in place). (these are classical albums, nine piano trios in a folder for example, with two of them 'lost' by iTunes).
Hand-navigating to each folder for each 'lost' track is impossible til I reach retirement age some years hence.
It's all beta and I'm tired of it.
I rebuilt my library, having had a few problems with reimporting a backup I made.
It really messes with the ordering of photos, in a way that seems totally bizarre.. so I'd advise anyone doing this to watch out. You may have a slightly screwy library, but rebuilding it may make it really screwy :-
If you want to go back to the old library, just go to your com.apple.iPhoto.plist file in ~/Library/Preferences/ and look for the line:which in my file is line 171, and delete the _1
No wucking furries :-)
I rebuilt my library, having had a few problems with reimporting a backup I made.
It really messes with the ordering of photos, in a way that seems totally bizarre.. so I'd advise anyone doing this to watch out. You may have a slightly screwy library, but rebuilding it may make it really screwy :-
If you want to go back to the old library, just go to your com.apple.iPhoto.plist file in ~/Library/Preferences/ and look for the line:which in my file is line 171, and delete the _1
No wucking furries :-)
K0o bebuild a busted iPhoto library. I start by holding down SHIFT+OPTION as I launch iPhoto. Everything moves along fine while it loads maybe 10-15 pics that have the default name they were given on my camera - such a PC1200012.jpg. Then the hole process just stalls when it comes to a pic that I've named - such as ses3.JPG.
It just stalls the whole iPhoto library rebuilding process. Would anyone have a clue what's up here? Thanks!
Also ever since my original iPhoto library crashed, every time I try to import from my camera, iPhoto says, 'No camera is selected'. My camera is hooked up fine and I can locate the pictures, copy and everything. just can't import into iPhoto.
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Why would you need it?
Well you might have a desktop and a laptop Mac and your might have a program like FoldersSynchronizer and you might say to yourself, 'Self, it sure would be great to have the exact same iPhoto libraries on both Macs, wouldn't it?' and you might think that FoldersSynchronizer would be a good way of doing so.
Of course, I'd never try that with my data..
.. I did it with a friend's.
Pulling all the originals out of those 'dated' folders (thank goodness they were there, even if iPhoto didn't see them), trashing everything else and then re-importing them (wow! iPhoto must have used the EXIF data and not just dated them by the day you imported them .. DOH!) was a real pain-in-the-but-tocks.
Jan 12, 2020 The Library Folder and Troubleshooting Your Mac The user's Library has long been a go-to location for troubleshooting issues with individual applications. Mac library assets search. The Assets Library framework is deprecated as of iOS 9.0. Instead, use the PhotoKit framework, which in iOS 8.0 and later provides more features and better performance for working with a user’s photo library.
Or you might just be plain stupid and try the syncing yourself, ignoring a warning dialog ('There is a Folder blah blah blah'), and suddenly the Library info is gone.
Of course something stupid like that would NEVER happen to me!
Thanks for this great tip! It really helped, and is better and faster than just importing the pictures from a backup!
Alex
My library currently has 4100 photos and about 500 rolls, dating back to 1998. Doing the rebuild speeded up things dramatically on my Cube. But, the renumbering of the rolls makes rebuilding the library inacceptable for me. Just can't find anything any more. I wish there were a trick to maintain or reconstruct the roll information.
If you give each roll a name, it will retain that name after the rebuild.
HMM
Just upgraded to iLife 5.0.1 and wanted to have my thumbnails (Library) rebuild since some of the thumbnails are looking a lot worse than others - even though they're all shot with the same Nikon D100 at the same settings.
Anyways it seems that the shortcut to invoke the Library rebuilding is CMD-OPT - not the before mentioned SHIFT-OPT.
The latter - or just SHIFT - gives you they upportunity to create a new album or choose another preexisting album.
Anyways I'll hit the 'Rebuild Library' button now and see how long time it takes to have 2.300 6 megapixel images rebuilded on my old TiBook ;-)
Repair Apple Photos Library
Hmm - the thumbnail-files are NOT rebuild, I wonder how you can acheive that WITHOUT having to re-import all the images
BINGO - with iPhoto 5.0.2 you now get four different items to choose from when you hold CMD-OPT down during the launch of iPhoto - one of them being 'Rebuild Thumbnails'.
It took a whole hour (with 100% CPU-load) for my 867 MHz TiBook to rebuild everything (2.700 six megapixel Nikon D100 shots) - but it was definately worth the wait since my bad looking thumbnail-problem is SOLVED now.
I guess someone should rewrite the hint, anyways - now it's in a comment ;-)
PS.: I guess it (still) helps to tell Apple what features/bugs you find (I did :-)
..And in iLife '06 the rebuild modifier keys are <command><option><shift>.
I have a question related to this hint.
I ran out of space on my powerbook, and started burning pictures off to DVD before importing them, with the 'copy files to library..' feature turned off. This created a bad situation where iPhoto gets stuck looking for files that it can't find because their volumes aren't mounted. For image files, this only happens when you select them to do something with them, but apparently there's a bug in iPhoto in which if you have a movie file on an unmounted disc, it immediately looks for it at startup of iPhoto and hangs up with the Spinning Beach Ball of Death unless you have the volume available. So my iPhoto has become essentially unusable.
So, i took an old 120GB drive out of my old G4 tower, wiped it, and have repurposed it as a photos-only drive. I know i can just move the iPhoto Library to that drive and then point iPhoto at it, but i'd also like to rebuild it so that all of the originals are moved into the iPhoto library, basically returning it to a normal state with the 'copy photos to library..' feature enabled.
Another way to put it that I think makes sense is this: I want to perform a function that does the same thing as iTunes' 'Consolidate Library' command. This command in iTunes takes all of your dispersed music files and puts them in the correct place in the iTunes Music Library folder. That's what I want to happen with iPhoto - take the files that aren't in the iPhoto Library folder and move them into their correct location in there.
Is there a way to use the Rebuild Library function to do this? Has anyone experienced this before?
Thanks
Max
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947
If you’re using the new Photos app on your Mac instead of the older iPhoto app, you most likely have a duplicate photo library floating around on your hard drive. For a lot of people, that could mean gigs and gigs of wasted storage space, especially on shared Macs with multiple migrated libraries.
Mar 25, 2018 It looks like your iPhone isn’t showing your Apple Music any longer. It’s important to be able to listen to your favorites tunes, so I’ll be happy to look into this with you. Here’s an article with some helpful steps that may get your music back: Get help with iCloud Music Library - Apple Support. Jan 16, 2020 On your PC with iTunes for Windows. From the menu bar at the top of your screen, choose Edit Preferences. Go to the General tab and select iCloud Music Library to turn it on. If you don't subscribe to Apple Music or iTunes Match, you won’t see an. Why won't icloud load. Sep 19, 2019 On your Mac or PC, open iTunes and turn on the iCloud Download column to see the iCloud Music Library icons. Look for a cloud icon with a line through it next to any song in your iCloud Music Library. If you see, the song is ineligible for upload. Aug 19, 2019 On your Mac Open iTunes on your Mac. Click iTunes in the Menu bar. Click Preference. Click the checkbox next to iCloud Music Library to uncheck it. Click the box again to check it and turn on iCloud Music Library. Jun 23, 2018 Wait a few seconds and then go to Settings iTunes & App Store and sign back in and now try to turn on iCloud Music Library. Repeat the following steps 5-7 times: Settings Music and turn on iCloud Music Library, select Replace or Merge (whatever you choose) and if you get this error, dismiss it and try again. Repeat these steps until it works.
Here’s how to check for multiple libraries and how to delete them…
How Long To Repair Photo Library Mac Os
Before deleting your old library: Make a backup
While the Photos app should have imported all your photos and videos just fine, I always recommend having backups handy. Perhaps you’ll delete an old photo by accident at some point and want it back later. If you have a copy of your old iPhoto library still handy, you can pull it form there as a last resort.
I saved my old iPhoto library to my Dropbox account. You can of course use any service of your choice, or just drop it onto an external hard disk you have laying around. Regardless of how you do it, I’d highly recommend saving a copy before deleting it.
Once you’ve backed up your old iPhoto library (if you chose to do so), you can proceed with deleting it:
- Open a new Finder window on your Mac.
- Click on Pictures in the left hand navigation. If it isn’t there, just search for your pictures folder using Spotlight.
- You should see two libraries, one is your old iPhoto Library and one is your new Photos library.
- Move your iPhoto Library to your trash can and empty it.
Check the storage space on your Mac, you should notice that you have more storage space available. If you are on a shared Mac and have multiple user logins, everyone using the new version of Photos on that Mac should make sure they don’t also have duplicate libraries.
I’m not sure why Apple doesn’t create a process to delete old versions of libraries after migrating to Photos, but they should. Until that happens, you’ll have to delete your old library manually.
Give this tip a try and see how much storage space you were able to clear up. As you can see in the screens above, my old iPhoto library was over 30GB, which was definitely a healthy chunk of hard drive space that I now have back.
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This is one of many ways to regain storage space on your Mac without having to sacrifice losing data. But we know there are lots of others. What are some of your favorite Mac storage tips for recapturing space? We’ve love to hear them in the comments!
Update
A follower on Twitter referenced to me an article written on Six Colors pointing out that the library is actually hard-linked between versions. While this may be true when you first migrate, it seems that if you make any changes to any files and the libraries become different, splicing can and will occur.
To test this theory, I deleted my iPhoto library on my other Mac to see how much storage was freed up. For those wondering, my iPhoto library was 35.99 GB and my Photos library was 41.16 GB. You can see the before and after results on my hard disk space below. I was able to free up over 20 GB of space. So I’m not sure what I think about hard linking or how well it’s actually working between Photos and iPhoto.
Bottom line, if you’re short on storage space and you want to free some up, there’s really not much point in having two photo libraries floating around on your Mac. Hard linking or not, deleting the old library will free up space in almost every case.