Photos are the essential part of our beautiful past that reminds us of our friends & family in their absence. Today in this digital world, Cameras and Smartphones have become the main source of capturing pictures. People have multiple modes to store these digital images in their capturing devices or external storage devices. In order to bring more advancement there are multiple software available to run photo management activities, iPhoto is one of them, which was introduced by Apple for their Mac operating system. Further on this post, we will discuss about the ways to recover lost or deleted photos from Mac iPhoto library.

Without any doubt, Mac iPhoto is an incredible application that is capable enough to handle all the tasks included in photo management, such as storage, edit, print, share etc. The application is specialized in organizing all images keywords, metadata, ratings, albums and many other details and save the data into a folder named iPhoto Library folder. Due to all of these features almost all Mac users use iPhoto to manage their picture collection. However, at times, iPhoto can also show errors that may lead to data loss due to multiple causes and frustrate the user. Missing or lost photos is  common in Mac iPhoto and this could get worse if  iPhoto Library folder goes missing.

Reasons of missing/lost photos from Mac iPhoto Library are given below:

• Improper synchronization of photos from digital camera to Mac iPhoto Library.
• Improper backup created by Time machine.
• Formatting complete hard drive or partition where iPhoto was stored without proper backup.
• Accidentally deleted important pictures along with some unwanted photos.
• Mac iPhoto Library got corrupt due to the damaged system log file.
• Interrupted synchronization process.
• Data loss while upgrading iPhoto to the latest version

Options to rebuild or restore iPhoto to recover lost photos:

Apple Mac iPhoto is facilitated with a module that allow user to rebuild iPhoto Library in order to retrieve deleted photos from trash as well as fixing issues including missing or disappreared photos, inaccessible library and many more related to photo loss.

Steps to restore or rebuild iPhoto Library Rebuilt:

1. Close iPhoto.
2. Now again run iPhoto by holding Option and Command keys on keyboard.

3. Hold both the keys together until it prompts to rebuild the iPhoto Library.
4. Rebuild option appears; select the choices according to your need.
5. Now click on Rebuild to initiate the process.

Other ways to  recover lost photos in iPhoto

At times, in spite of following all the above mentioned instructions users still face data loss issues with iPhoto. In case you are still dealing with the missing picture issue and not able to fix your lost pictures then try out reliable photo recovery software. These tools have dedicated photo recovery engines, which allow you to quickly restore all lost or missing pictures from the iPhoto Library without any traces of data loss.

Tips to avoid photo loss from iPhoto:

• Take regular backup.
• Do not use digital camera in low battery status.
• Do not use a damaged to half working camera card.
• Immediately stop using the system volume or drive that has data loss.
• Never install recovery program on target drive.