• Rebuild Photo Library Macos
• Rebuild Photos Library Mac

Oct 06, 2018 Or Manually copy your photo library to an external storage device: Drag the Photos library (by default in the Pictures folder on your Mac) to your storage device to create a copy; Press Option-Command and double-click the Photos icon in the Dock or in your Applications folder; The Repair Library window opens; Click Repair to rebuild your photo. 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 corru.

Summary

Download EaseUS iPhoto recovery software and apply provided methods here to recover deleted iPhoto Library with photos on Mac. If the attempt to restore iPhoto Library from time machine failed, don't worry and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac is ready to help.

How can I recover accidentally deleted iPhoto Library on Mac?

'How can I recover deleted iPhoto Library on Mac? I need some suggestion or guidance. I feel so stupid because I accidentally erased my iPhoto Library to Trash and had emptied the trash securely a few days ago..

My friends told me that I can restore the deleted iPhoto Library from Time Machine. But I completely don't understand how to use this app on my Mac. Can anyone help me retrieve my lost pictures from the deleted iPhoto Library that I had empty securely from the trash plus guidance to activate Time Machine? I need those photos back.'

According to Apple's support community, when a user deleted iPhoto Library, there's still a chance to restore lost photos and even the app itself. Read on and follow the provided solutions you'll see how to effectively restore lost photos after accidentally deleting iPhoto Library. (Methods below also can be applied to restore deleted photos and Photos Library on the latest Mac computers to restore with installed new macOS.)

Workable Solutions	Step-by-step Troubleshooting
Fix 1. Recover deleted iPhoto Library	Method 1. Recover without Time Machine..Full steps Method 2. Recover from Time Machine..Full steps
Fix 2. Rebuild iPhoto Library on Mac	Press and hold Command and Option keys and click on the iPhoto icon, When a dialog appears..Full steps

Part 1. Recover deleted iPhoto Library on Mac

It's easy to understand that your data always matters more than your apps and hardware. So your first step after deleting iPhoto Library on Mac should be restoring lost photos. And the best way is not to restore from the Trash.

Mostly, according to Apple's support community, when you delete the iPhoto Library from Mac, the chance to restore photos from the Trash is very small. Here are two methods that you can follow and restore deleted iPhoto Library with photos on Mac.

Method 1. Recover deleted iPhoto Library photos on Mac without Time Machine

If Time Machine was not running and you emptied the trash securely after deleting the iPhoto Library, it is impossible for you to perform Mac deleted recovery from Time Machine. If you can't recover deleted iPhoto Library on Mac from TM, you can try EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac for help.

EaseUS Mac data recovery software allows users to recover multiple types of files including the deleted iPhoto Library with simple clicks. It can offer you the most robust recovery capacity in all data loss cases. Now you can free download the trial version and evaluate what it can recover.

Keep Noted:

1. 1. This software is a trial version that you can use to scan and preview all lost photos without payment. You can pay to restore the lost photos after making sure this software indeed work.
2. 2. To avoid unexpected data loss, you should immediately start using Time Machine and backing up useful files after following the below photo recovery process.

Step 1. Select the location where your valuable photos were lost and click Scan button.

Step 2. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac will start immediately a quick scan as well as a deep scan on your selected disk volume. Meanwhile, the scanning results will be presented in the left pane.

Step 3. By Path and Type, you can quickly filter the photos you've lost earlier. Select the target files and click Recover Now button to get them back at once.

After the restoring, you've restored the deleted iPhoto Library. One more thing that you should do to view your restored photos, which is to import the restored iPhoto Library into iPhoto Library folder on Mac:

Launch iPhoto > 'File' > 'Switch to Library' > Select the restored iPhoto Library > Click 'OK'.

There, you can view and reuse your photos again.

Method 2. Recover deleted iPhoto Library photos on Mac from Time Machine

As many users know, Time Machine is a backup program. With it running on Mac if you deleted iPhoto Library, this application will create a backup of the deleted pictures. You can launch Time Machine application and go back to the time before you delete the iPhoto Library, then restore the deleted iPhoto Library with photos:

(This also works to restore lost Photo Library.)

Step 1. Connect your Time Machine drive to Mac and run Time Machine from System Preference.

Step 2. Scroll the timeline on the right side, click the desired backup (the date of your last backup).

Step 3. Navigate to the backup of your iPhoto library (by default, your iPhoto Library locates in 'Home/Pictures/iPhoto Library' folder), click to select it and click 'Restore' to retrieve your data.

The time of restoring iPhoto Library depends on its size.

Part 2. Rebuild iPhoto Library on Mac

When the photo recovery process completes, but you find the restored photos don't show up in iPhoto or iPhoto doesn't respond nor work on Mac, don't worry. All you need is to rebuild the iPhoto Library.

The other practical trick that you can try is to rebuild iPhoto Library on Mac computer. Here are the detailed steps:

Steps to rebuild iPhoto Library:

Step 1. Press and hold Command and Option keys and click on the iPhoto icon.

Step 2. When a dialog appears with rebuild options, check the options of rebuild iPhoto Library and click 'Rebuild' to confirm.

Steps to repair Photo Library:

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Access Hidden Library Menu Option On Mac. Follow the steps below to access the Hidden Library Menu option on your Mac. Left-click your mouse anywhere on the screen of your Mac. This will reveal the Go Option in the top menu bar of your Mac. You can also click on the Finder Icon in the Dock of your Mac to activate the Go Option. Hd library mac.

On new Mac computers with the latest macOS such as Catalina, Mojave, you can repair Photos Library and make Photos application work on Mac again

Conclusion

The Mac data recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac to restore lost photos after accidentally deleted iPhoto Library is easy and effective for every level of Mac users to apply and try. When you don't have Time Machine backups of lost data, you can also apply it to restore data on Mac without Time Machine.

The two methods provided for restoring deleted iPhoto Library will effectively restore your lost iPhoto Library. If you have further file recovery issues on Mac computers, follow our Mac file recovery resource page for further help.

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.

Rebuild Photo Library Macos

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.

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 ;-)

Rebuild Photos Library Mac

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