Re: Does Mac have System restore points

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Skookum <ndale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On PCs if some really bad crap happens one final resort is to revert
to a system restore point, like going back in time. Is there any
equivalent with Mac OS 10.4.x? I seem to have somehow lost all my
iPhoto library and haven't a clue. A Spotlight search turned up no
trace of my 1500+ photos. I have looked into some data recovery
software (StellarPhoenix) but before investing wanted to know if a
simpler, cheaper solution exists.

Others have spoken of the need to make regular backups of your data, as
a guard against disk failure or human error. The simplest, albeit
somewhat brute-force method, is to simply copy the contents of your home
folder to an external drive, give the copy a distinct name, and repeat
doing that from time to time. Special backup software such as Retrospect
or Time Machine do that more efficiently and automatically, but that is
basically what you need.

A quicker, but more dangerous way, is to use software that makes a
synchronized copy, that is, only copies the changes. The trouble with
that is that if you delete something inadvertently, then the
synchronization will delete it from the backup, and so it will be gone,
unless you also have an archival copy.

Regarding iPhoto, it is possible that the photo files are still on your
disk, but are not identified as being in the iPhoto library. This can
happen. If the photos are still on the disk, they would probably be
inside the Pictures folder within your home folder. Normally, they would
be inside a folder named iPhoto Library, inside the Pictures folder. If
somehow that iPhoto Library folder got renamed to something else, iPhoto
will not recognize the library and so will not show the pictures. So
look inside your Pictures folder, and rummage around a bit, and see what
you find. If all that happened is that the iPhoto Library got renamed
something else, it may be just a simple matter of renaming it back to
iPhoto Library to cure the problem. If it is not that simple, but you
find the photos on the disk, you can simply import then into iPhoto
again.

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Bill Collins
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