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by: tdewolfe October 17, 2011 10:30 AM PDT

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Anyone have troubles viewing iphoto photos after reformat??

by tdewolfe - 10/17/11 10:30 AM

I recently reformatted my macbook (feeling regretful now) and after migrating my "iphoto library" file from external onto my macbook only certain photos will be viewable when I click on them. In addition, I cannot "preview" any when scrolling through events. I have iphoto 11 and am running Lion. PLEASE HELP!!!!

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Although you did not mention it,

by mrmacfixit Moderator - 10/17/11 4:40 PM

In Reply to: Anyone have troubles viewing iphoto photos after reformat?? by tdewolfe

you probably get some form of warning when you try to "view" a picture by double clicking on it.

The normal cause of this problem is that the picture was not actually in the iPhoto Library when you moved it to the external.
It was living somewhere else on your hard drive and was destroyed in the format.
However, iPhoto had a thumbnail of the original picture, which is what you see before you double click it, but iPhoto cannot find the original, full size, picture.

I hesitate to say this but, why not just reload the unviewable pictures from your Time Machine backup?

As an aside, what made you re-format the internal HD?

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by tdewolfe - 10/19/11 12:19 AM

In Reply to: Although you did not mention it, by mrmacfixit Moderator

Ok, so when i hook up my external HD and i make iphoto open up the iphoto library on my external all photos open, but the copy that is on my macbook HD is apparently corrupted (per your post). I just tried copy the library onto my macbook but it says "iphoto is in use" so it cant move it over. Am I doing something wrong? iPhoto def is not open when Im copying the library over, i double checked.

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Reboot and try again

by mrmacfixit Moderator - 10/19/11 5:07 AM

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without opening anything else

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