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1. I stopped a Time Machine backup midstream.
2. System totally locked up
3. I had an Apple friend (teaches apple stuff at school & is very knowledgeable)
help me and it was decided only way to get this iMac going again was to reformat and start with a fresh O/S - this was OK because I had Parallels and wanted to get rid of it and go to Boot Camp. (all data was backed and I had alleys to reinstall apps such as Office & Quicken/Quickbooks etc)
4. Reformatted & installed Mavericks
5. Entered Time Machine and no backups were showing - they were obviously hidden there somewhere because it showed I have only 76GB remaining of a 1TB Time Capsule drive - so my backups were hidden
6. Went to Finder and after waiting to load in I was able to see my latest backup. (took a while to show as the spinning wheel spun for about 10 minutes)
7. Copied my latest backup of my documents and iPHOTO Library to my Desktop.
8. Put my documents into the right folder - all seem to be there.
9. PROBLEM - iPHOTO Library is missing MANY of the pictures.
10. Some missing pictures have the Thumbnails and some don't have Thumbnails. Either way when I click on the Thumbnail I get a triangle with an ! mark in the triangle and the original picture is not there.
11. Appears to be many of the pictures that I had edited (Cropped) - but not in all cases. Some were not edited.
12. I have 30K pictures so it is hard to determine just which originals are missing / corrupt
13. I have done the CMD/ALT Open iPhoto & done all the restore iPhoto options. None of these options helped the problem
14. HELP! I have no idea what to do now.
2. System totally locked up
3. I had an Apple friend (teaches apple stuff at school & is very knowledgeable)
help me and it was decided only way to get this iMac going again was to reformat and start with a fresh O/S - this was OK because I had Parallels and wanted to get rid of it and go to Boot Camp. (all data was backed and I had alleys to reinstall apps such as Office & Quicken/Quickbooks etc)
4. Reformatted & installed Mavericks
5. Entered Time Machine and no backups were showing - they were obviously hidden there somewhere because it showed I have only 76GB remaining of a 1TB Time Capsule drive - so my backups were hidden
6. Went to Finder and after waiting to load in I was able to see my latest backup. (took a while to show as the spinning wheel spun for about 10 minutes)
7. Copied my latest backup of my documents and iPHOTO Library to my Desktop.
8. Put my documents into the right folder - all seem to be there.
9. PROBLEM - iPHOTO Library is missing MANY of the pictures.
10. Some missing pictures have the Thumbnails and some don't have Thumbnails. Either way when I click on the Thumbnail I get a triangle with an ! mark in the triangle and the original picture is not there.
11. Appears to be many of the pictures that I had edited (Cropped) - but not in all cases. Some were not edited.
12. I have 30K pictures so it is hard to determine just which originals are missing / corrupt
13. I have done the CMD/ALT Open iPhoto & done all the restore iPhoto options. None of these options helped the problem
14. HELP! I have no idea what to do now.