Article:		Top Ten iPhoto Tips
Subject:		Retrieving lost pictures from iPhoto
Date:		2003-04-01 11:24:35
From:		anonymous2
I mistakenly deleted about 200 precious pictures from iPhoto after uploading them to the laptop. I have tried everything I can possibly think of with no luck. Is there a way to retrieve them either from the laptop or from the memory chip. If you know of any software that can help retrieve them from the digital camera's memory chip after they have been uploaded please, please advise. Thank you much.

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• Retrieving lost pictures from iPhoto
  2006-05-06 18:53:54  rcornelius [View]
  
  
  I have found that "iBuddy" is an excellent program for retreiving your deleted photos. Once you have understood just how this program does things, you will probably be able to see your photos in its list of retreived images.
  
  Another thing you might try is this…after you discovered that your original photos were gone from iPhoto most folks think they are gone forever! Not so. Go to your desktop and make sure you see the Finder as being active. From the Finder depress the Command key and the letter "f". This will bring you to a section of your Mac many people never realize exists. You will be creating a "Smart Album". For the first box, depress the mouse on the little scroll bar and scroll down to "kind". This will cause the word, "Kind", to be entered in the first box, and also a second box with the word, "Content". Scroll down and select, "image". Go to the right side of the window and click on the "+" button. This will bring up another row of two boxes. Depress the scroll button in the first box and scroll down to "Other". This will open up a whole list of options you can use. Scroll down to "Visible" and click on it with your mouse. Once you have done this, you "Smart Album" will take off searching like Sherlock Holmes"
  
  
• Retrieving lost pictures from iPhoto
  2010-07-04 18:51:49  Amecar [View]
  
  
  My daughter was distraught after iphoto told her that it couldn't find the files and she had already deleted them from the memory card. We tried your second tip using Smart Album and she recovered everything...Thanks! She was sure it wouldn't work and they were gone forever, but now they're already on FB!
• Retrieving lost pictures from iPhoto
  2010-08-26 19:54:25  creativegal [View]
  
  
  I tried this, but when i got the part where you are suppose to select visible, i didn't see that option.
  Did your daughter follow the steps exactly?
• Retrieving lost pictures from iPhoto
  2010-07-04 18:51:41  Amecar [View]
  
  
  My daughter was distraught after iphoto told her that it couldn't find the files and she had already deleted them from the memory card. We tried your second tip using Smart Album and she recovered everything...Thanks! She was sure it wouldn't work and they were gone forever, but now they're already on FB!

• Retrieving lost pictures from iPhoto
  2003-06-02 01:46:18  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  I don't know, if this helps you yet, because I read your posting perhaps 2 month too late. Since the same happend to me, I searched for a solution and read (too late), that there is a possibility on Win machines to recapture even pictures from deleted (but not newly loaded) memory cards. Sorry about the software (shareware, but should be possible to find that via versiontracker) name, I forgot about that, but if you still have the untouched memory card, just look for a PC solution.
  Regards
  Claus