iPhoto Album vanished

[Anne]

I have only recently started using iPhoto, and had made an album of photos of our new house - opening and closing iPhoto, the album was still there.  However, yesterday I restarted my computer, and on opening iPhoto (not used for a couple of weeks) the house photo album did not appear, and I cannot find any way to make it reappear. 

Has anyone any suggestions?

Thanks!

Anne

[Hound]

Hi Anne,

Are the individual photos also gone from the library?  Or is it just the album you created that is gone?

I hope you haven't lost any photos completely.


-Brian

[Anne]

I still have the photos, thank goodness!   But I spent a lot of time (as my first iPhoto project!) selecting the best photos, labelling then to get them in the right order in slide show, etc - so I am not a bit pleased to have lost the album - and certainly am not about to use iPhoto again if I can't find the album!

What do others use, if not iPhoto?

Anne

[ruisu]

Yikes!  I hope it's just somehow hidden. If that's the case, then maybe checking the WWW blogs might show up a similar problem and what s/he did to solve the problem.  I usually get much more helpful info about problems from the conversations on the WWW than from manufacturers or software people.  I still use iPhoto to manipulate my photos, but I had enough hassle with it for uploads that I switched to Image Capture which I like really a lot ... just plops the photos into whatever folder I indicate and then I sort the photos as I want.  Simple. Clear. Hands on. But not good for easily or nicely showing the photos.  You might check with Julian, though I think he doesn't use iPhoto.  Might be remembering incorrectly.

Hope the album shows up! Please keep us updated.   louise

[Hound]

Hi Anne,

Glad to hear that you still have the photos, but I do understand the work that went into arranging them. 

I haven't used iPhoto extensively -- partly because, IMHO, it tries to "read my mind" and presume to know what I want a little more than I would like.  I'm sure it's very powerful and can do wonderful things, but I too would like to know what others use besides iPhoto.


-Brian