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• I lost "photo library", how do I restore it?

  I just tried to open the application 'Photos' (or icon) on my Mac and received a message that says "Photos could not find the system 'photos library.photoslibrary' how can I do to recover it?  I have about 10,000 photos which are lost!   I run a separate hard disk as a time machine which is connected permanently, but I've never had to use it before.  Any help would be appreciated.   Mike George

  Photos first launch with down option and check to see if there is more than one library in the open window:

  

  If it is not shown it follow these steps:

  Download and run to find any file to search for a file named "historicalmarker.plist" in the name of the file. It is a file that is found only in the library of Photos.

  FAF can find areas that Spotlight can not as invisible folders, system folders and packages. If there is a library of pictures hidden somewhere on your harddrive FAF will find.

  Finally, if you still can't find the library, go to your pictures folder and launch Time Machine.  Go back until you see the library of Photos in the pictures folder.  Select it and use the restore button:

  

  

• If I remove iCloud library in my iPhone (but not on my Mac) I lost photos?

  I have iCloud library enabled on my iPhone and Mac.

  Everything works perfectly, great synchronization, all photos back available for me to see 10 years.

  Now I have run out of space on my iPhone, and my photos (despite the optimization of storage on iCloud photo library) are the main reason for this.

  If I disable iCloud photo library on my iPhone, but keep it on my Mac, what will happen?

  Do I lose all the photos?

  Once I did, if I delete the pictures of my phone are they so just deleted from my phone, but not my iCloud?

  Appreciate the help, thanks

  If you disable iCloud photo library on your iPhone, you will see more pictures on this device. iCloud photo library on your Mac will still have pictures. You should not lose all the photos from your Mac, but make a copy of your library beforehand should put your mind at rest until you can verify that he has lost. Delete the pictures taken on your iPhone will not affect your Mac or iCloud, but neither future pictures taken on your iPhone will go into iCloud photo library.

• I've disabled iCloud photo library by accident and lost all my photos in iCloud. I can find them somewhere in return?

  Product: iCloud (library), iPhone on iOS 9.2.1 5s

  I turned off my iCloud by chance photo library and now all of my photos in iCloud went. Is it possible to find somewhere?

  Turn on again iCloud library unfortunately did not help.

  Is there someone who can help? Thanks in advance!

  Just turned off iCloud library should not delete your photos. However, if you went in to manage stock and selected disable and remove they would be deleted but they would stay at https://www.icloud.com/ for 30 days. More information in the sections background two to get help with your photo library - Apple Support iCloud

• Photo library lost after installation of El Capitan

  After the installation of El Capitan in Yosemite, my MacBookPro doesn´t recover the existing photo of i-photo library. It only shows what created under El Capitan. They went or is it just the link who is gone? Does anyone know?

  Look in your pictures folder, in your user name folder, this is the default location for the library of Photos and the iPhoto library.

  Now the option/ALT key when starting iPhoto or Photos will bring up a dialog for you to choose library.

  You can also put libraries in iPhoto. Go to the folder / switch to library.

• Apple TV, you see only not my new photo library

  I have Apple TV and 2 Macs that use home sharing to display pictures of selected iPhoto library.  It has worked well for years, through several generations of ATV (including this, the latest).  Today, on a Mac, I've converted a library of photos from iPhoto in Photos.  In fact, I have 2 libraries - one of which is a 'starter' library created last week, put up with all my keywords and the structures of startup (to clone for new photo projects) records - he has 11 photos.  The second Photo library (which is the most recently accessed Library / edition) has 900 + photos, created today.

  I am running the latest version of iTunes, under El captain.

  When I get home sharing in iTunes...

  

  .. .to select photos to share, the default value presented is for 'Photos' (Yes, I don't know iPhoto its more long!) - BUT it's the 11-photo 'starter' library, like this:

  

  When I use the drop down menu to choose a different folder (the library populated), I choose the file, but it shows 0 photos, like this:

  

  What should I do to get the iTunes to recognize my populated library?  (I quit and restarted iTunes - I also stop and restart the Mac.)

  I'm tempted to remove the Starter 11-photo Library, so that there is only a single library on the Mac... but I hate the idea that is the solution for iTunes and the Photos app talk to each other.  With iPhotos, I had literally dozens of libraries and constantly under tension between them.  I wouldn't think that the ability is lost with Photos.

  Thank you!

  Ah, ha - think I found the answer.  In the preferences of Photos, there is a "button to specify a particular library as the library of the"System. "  My Library recently populated did not have this set:

  

  I set its State to "on":

  

  and iTunes now sees this library instead of the ' starter when sharing with "Photos".

  The option "Chose the folder" doesn't seem to do anything useful, so it seems that it is the new way to do this when the Photos app is used for photos of the ATV.

• Get my photo library to update on my phone and computer without itunes

  I'm trying to find the best way to have a photo library tidy on my computer and on my iPhone without using iCloud photo library. Because I expect to have more images over time, the ideal solution would allow me to have a selection of the best pictures on my phone.

  I understand that I must sort, delete, and edit my photos on my iPhone just before I import it onto my mac, other than on my iPhone, am I right?

  I think I have to do is:

  (1) import pictures on my mac using photos and check the box "Delete imported photos.

  (2) synch that some of them back to the iPhone via itunes (for example the ' Favourited' ones)

  It seems weird I have to delete all of my iPhone first, before putting (some of) their return. What is the solution?

  But what will happen if I delete them import? I have duplicates: iPhone original ones + the 'synched via itunes ones?

  Furthermore, if sometimes I think about my iPhone before importing a few photos from the iPhone to the mac, will be those imported in the last/not yet photos deleted?

  Thank you very much for your help,

  Joss

  Photos the photos you take with your iPhone are in the camera roll album. You can edit, share, etc.

  Photos that sync you it to your iPhone using iTunes are required separately. You can't change unless you save a copy of the film.  And you cannot import photos iTunes sync for mac easily. In addition, it is not possible delete photos synced directly on the iPhone. You can delete the sync again and omitting the photos that you don't want on the iPhone.

  How you manage photos on your iPhone better will depend on the amount of free storage on the iPhone. If you don't have any storage space and not to edit photos on the iPhone and just want to discover your Favorites, import pictures on your mac, check, if the import went well, then delete them iPhone and sync with iTunes.

  If the storage on your iPhone is not a problem, remove photos from the iPhone every time you need to free the storage after their recording on the Mac.

  (1) import pictures on my mac using photos and check the box "Delete imported photos.

  The "delete after Import" is risky. Avoid it. The problem is that if Photos crashes when importing for some reason, your photos may be lost. They will have been deleted from the iPhone, but does not appear in your photo library. Or if some of the pictures has not transferred properly, you can't repeat the import. I would wait until you have checked the imported photos and made the first backup of your library, before deleting the pictures imported from the iPhone or the card.

• How can I make iOS rescan my photo library, searching for old memories?

  When I used iOS 10 beta publice photos do a scan on my photo library in the background. Then I went back to iOS 9.3.2 after that I installed iOS 10 once the same memories where it so I deleted them in DSB to make the photo scan my photo library app once, but since no other analysis was conducted by the application (except the new added pictures). So, what can I do? My memories are lost forever?

  Probably before you started playing with the beta version before you did these multiple deletes and installs, you checked all your photos on your computer, but also backed up all important data?

  If you were using iCloud, when you deleted the photos on the device, you also erased them in iCloud. No photo of iCloud offer service offline archiving permanent photos. If you delete a photo (or any data icloud synchronized) on the device, remove yourself from iCloud.

  As long as backup you and archive your photos elsewhere, you can restore them comes from there.

• Recover photo library

  I lost my mac Pro 2009 last week.

  I had set up my photo library on external SSD hard drive.

  I now have the same SSD connected to my new iMac.

  How can I change my library location to pick up the library on my SOW?

  Double click on the library on the external hard drive

  or

  Hold down the option key while launching Photos and select it from the select Library window that appears

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• iPod touch - remove the photo library?

  My photo library takes too much space. I already manually deleted the photos, keeping only 12 on my camera. However, the library is still in 2.9 GB worth of space. I read in previous posts and have not found a definitive solution. Someone has another update? Thank you.

  You have pictures in the other albums in addition to the Camera Roll Album?

  Like PhotoStream, or photos synced to iPod?

  Try:

  -Reset the device iOS. Nothing will be lost

  Device iOS Reset: Hold down the On / Off button and the Home button at the same time for to

  ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

• How to recharge my hard drive with photos that are stored in iCloud.  After installing a new hard drive, there's no pictures found in the Photos, and I get this error "cannot find system Photo library named"Library.photoslibrary Photos".

  How to recharge my hard drive with photos that are stored in iCloud?  After installing a new hard drive, there's no pictures found in the Photos, and I get this error, "could not find the picture of system library named"Library.photoslibrary Photos".

  Soon as your App Photos or iPhoto lost track of your photo library, or there has not been migrated from your old drive. You can create an empty library and probably enable iCloud photo library for photos to upload to the cloud.

  Designate a library in pictures - Apple Support System

  

• Help to use ICloud photo library

  I created iCloud photo library on my computer desktop Mac, 2 iPhones (mine and my husband) and iPad.   I have several questions:

  1. I have 56 779 pictures in my library on my Mac.  It is has been download since last Friday and today says download 35 939 points (89,14 GB 200,61 GB).  Why is - it take so long and what I can do to speed that up?  I want access to my photos on all devices, but want the originals on my Mac as well.

  2. the photos taken on my iPhone not charge other devices.  Photos of my husband takes is... two phones are put in the same place.

  3. on my phone at the title 'Moments' my phone says 6 322 photos, 133 videos and under that it says download 3 929 points.  His phone said 23 974 photos, 207 videos updated 07:19 - once AGAIN the two phones are put in the same place (I changed the settings even last week when I updated our two phones for the latest operating system).

  4. on my Mac why their different images in 'All the Photos' under 'Albums' in the Photos listed by Date?

  5. on my iPhone - why different Albums show on my Mac?  Example: We just returned from a trip and this week I put in place several new albums.  They do not appear on other devices in the title of the Album?

  6. do I need to move the picture on our iPhones to somewhere else on the Mac, so keep them forever?  I don't want pictures endangered?  I have more confidence?

  I would appreciate help, can someone give me?  I'm completely lost?

  My system is an Early 2008 iMac

  OS X El Capitan 10.11.4

  IPhone 6 - 9.3.1

  Photos 1.5

  I have original ICloud library checked and updated download for Mac. I also have my Photo Stream and ICloud Photo sharing checked.

  Thank you very much!!!

  1. the download process is very slow. Some of those who have large libraries of photos posted it took a month. There is nothing you can do to speed up the process except try to minimize access to the network on the computer.

  2. try to settings/iCloud and remove the synchronization. Wait a few minutes and then resynchronize. Have you tried the signature to iCloud and then reconnect?

  3 see above.

  To avoid losing images make sure you have 2 backups of the computer on 2 separate drives.

• My icloud photo library is empty!

  My phone is damaged without repair possible. It does not start up/do not illuminate. HE'S DEAD!

  I got messages telling me that I need to sort storage that my data may not be stored in icloud more so in a panic, I logged on to see how far behind my pictures of my little boy had been saved, worried that I may have lost a coupe of weeks worth. When I logged in it said the library was empty! I was at apple who said that I am connected and there are pictures in my stream. So how is there is none in my library. That's all the photos of my 6 month old son spent! I'm in bits. Not slept as spent all night research internet resources to recover. I'm not back in itunes that I assumed that the cloud was working as I was getting messages about it being comprehensive. I know I should have checked.

  The phone, which is damaged by water is being repaired (chemical bath) try to clean and put to work again so I can get some pictures.

  Someone has an experience that might give me some ideas on where Devil moved my photos. Can they be recovered/retrieved. I am at a total loss. There is not a single image there but apple saying my photostream has been saved... + 300 pictures. Help!

  the workflow library and photo iCloud are two different things.

  iCloud Photo library FAQ - Apple Support

  My photo FAQ - Apple Support stream

  Get help using my photo stream - Apple Support

  backup to iCloud

  iCloud: overview of backup and storage iCloud

  Suggest from here on you do this to all of your photos to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201302

• Transfer the photo library in iPhoto to Photos

  I have just passed my iPhoto library photos on El Capitan (10.11.3) on my new iMac and have lost some pictures, some were 3 years old from the originals and thus lost location information, faces and events.

  Would this be normal?  Can I retrieve the original info. ? or do I have to revisit each of my photos almost 5000 and identify the faces and places all over again?

  NO.

  It's the photo library is exactly the same as the iPhoto with converted albums - events library see How Photos handles content and metadata for iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support

  You have iPhoto 9.6.1? If not see if you can get it - can not update iPhoto because it is not available in the App Store

  Then clean your iPhoto library - Notes on the migration of an iPhoto for iPhoto to Photos for Mac library

  Then drag the library own icon in the Dock to migrate again from Photos

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• Lost photos - Windows 7

  I lost ~ 1 700 photos of my wife - A58 Sony camera. It was the first time I tried to download the pictures from this camera. I used the default program that turned on when I plugged in the camera by USB. I left the House, while it was ongoing. My bad - I changed the settings to control the path of the file. I simply accepted default settings and upward went the photos.
  Now, I can not find them anywhere. I should not have done it excited on my way the door...
  Where are they by default?

  Start by going to Windows Explorer and clicking on the photos.  That will open your photo library.  You see the pictures?

  Otherwise, go to the start menu and type *.jpg and then wait a little. When you say "See more results" click on it.  It should show you the photos on your computer and where they are.

  In addition, you still have the camera?  Unless you deleted photos off the memory card, or reformatted, they must stay in the camera.  Have you tried plugging the camera again?  Who can resume the import, but it will also show you where he tries to save the photos to so you could look there.