A year ago I used a folder on an external drive as my iPhoto library. I went on a trip and used another library in my Pictures folder, so now I have two libraries and want to merge them.
However, now I open iPhoto, click "Switch to Library", select the external hard drive library, and iPhoto thinks there are no photos there - I get the "To get started with iPhoto" post-it note in the background, and there are no photos, events, etc.
I am running iPhoto 9.5.1 (902.17). I have a folder called photos with the following contents:
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 16B Jul 20 2011 .ipspot_update
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 2.0K Jul 10 21:10 AlbumData.xml
drwxr-xr-x 2 kevin staff 68B Jul 10 20:19 Attachments
drwxr-xr-x 2 kevin staff 68B Dec 21 2010 Auto Import
drwxr-xr-x 3 kevin staff 102B Dec 21 2010 Contents
drwxr-xr-x 3 kevin staff 102B Apr 25 2011 Data
drwxr-xr-x 20 kevin staff 680B Jul 10 21:10 Database
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 324B Jul 10 20:19 Info.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 kevin staff 20B Dec 21 2010 Library.data
-rw-r--r-- 1 kevin staff 20B Dec 21 2010 Library.iPhoto
-rw-r--r-- 1 kevin staff 5.4K Apr 25 2011 Library6.iPhoto
drwxr-xr-x 2 kevin staff 68B Jul 10 20:19 Masters
drwxr-xr-x 3 kevin staff 102B Apr 25 2011 Modified
drwxr-xr-x 3 kevin staff 102B Apr 25 2011 Originals
drwxr-xr-x 2 kevin staff 68B Jul 10 20:19 Previews
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 341B Jul 10 20:19 ProjectDBVersion.plist
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 576K Jul 10 21:10 Projects.db
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 11M Dec 21 2010 ThemeCache
drwxr-xr-x 3 kevin staff 102B Jul 10 20:19 Thumbnails
drwxr-xr-x 4 kevin staff 136B Jul 10 21:10 iLifeShared
drwxr-xr-x@ 25 kevin staff 850B Jul 10 21:09 iPhoto Library
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 35B Apr 25 2011 iPhoto.ipspot
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 1B Jul 10 21:10 iPhotoLock.data
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 kevin staff 102B Apr 26 2011 iPod Photo Cache
Info.plist contains the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
<string>iPhoto Library 9.5.1</string>
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>9.5.1</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Inside the iPhoto Library, I have the following:
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 16B Jan 25 14:30 .ipspot_update
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 2.0K Jul 10 21:05 AlbumData.xml
drwxr-xr-x 2 kevin staff 68B Jul 10 20:18 Attachments
drwxr-xr-x 2 kevin staff 68B Apr 23 2009 Auto Import
drwxr-xr-x 3 kevin staff 102B Apr 23 2009 Contents
drwxr-xr-x 12 kevin staff 408B Jan 25 13:40 Data
drwxr-xr-x 20 kevin staff 680B Jul 10 21:09 Database
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 324B Jul 10 20:18 Info.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 kevin staff 20B Apr 23 2009 Library.data
-rw-r--r-- 1 kevin staff 20B Apr 23 2009 Library.iPhoto
-rw-r--r-- 1 kevin staff 6.8M Jan 25 14:26 Library6.iPhoto
drwxr-xr-x 2 kevin staff 68B Jul 10 20:18 Masters
drwxr-xr-x 10 kevin staff 340B Jan 25 13:47 Modified
drwxr-xr-x 12 kevin staff 408B Jan 25 13:40 Originals
drwxr-xr-x 2 kevin staff 68B Jul 10 20:18 Previews
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 341B Jul 10 20:18 ProjectDBVersion.plist
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 576K Jul 10 21:09 Projects.db
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 7.5M Apr 23 2009 ThemeCache
drwxr-xr-x 3 kevin staff 102B Jul 10 20:18 Thumbnails
drwxr-xr-x 4 kevin staff 136B Jul 10 21:05 iLifeShared
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 50B Jan 25 14:26 iPhoto.ipspot
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kevin staff 1B Jul 10 21:09 iPhotoLock.data
drwxr-xr-x@ 56 kevin staff 1.9K Jan 25 14:28 iPod Photo Cache
I checked the Console and didn't find any messages from iPhoto in there.
I opened Database/Library.apdb in both the folder and the subfolder, and the RKMaster table seems to believe that there are no photos in my library (no rows in the table), however the Originals and the Modified folders have tons of photos there.
Any theories about why iPhoto can't find my photos? I have made backups of everything, so feel free to suggest destructive actions.
