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I'm sure you must have come across this terrible experience. When you open your iPhoto, attempting to enjoy funny photos you have imported to its library, but only to find all things of iPhone library are gone. You heart may skip a beat. Dear friend, please calm down yourself and continue reading this article. I must say YES in this question and there are still many possibilities to retrieve all your lost photos from iPhoto, in fact. Let's learn how to restore iPhoto library together.

How to Recover Deleted Photos from iPhoto

Recover iPhoto Library from iPhoto Trash

First of all, you may check your iPhoto Trash. You probably delete all photos iPhoto and haven't yet emptied the iPhoto Trash. To salvage iPhoto photos from Trash, you need to open the "Source list" to find the "Trash" option. Then check whether your photos in the Trash. If so, just select the photos you want to restore and choose "Photos > Restore to Photo Library". Or you may directly drag the checked pictures out of the Trash into and empty part of the Source list. If not, you have to skip to next method.

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Find iPhoto Library with Time Machine

If you have backed up your Mac OS X with Time Machine, you can restore lost iPhoto library with backup files made by Time Machine. Just open your iPhoto and Time Machine on your Mac computer as well. You may view pas versions of your iPhoto albums. If you find your target lost iPhoto pictures, just start to recover all of them. While, if you haven't used Time Machine to backup your computer or your Time machine is out of work, this solution doesn't work for restoring iPhoto library. Then, please skip to method 3.

Restore Deleted iPhone Library with Professional Lost Data Recovery

If you have tried all methods above but all efforts are in vain, please refer to this way with hesitating. Here we use professional iTunes Data Recovery for Mac as the assistant. With advanced technology, this software is able to recover all your lost formatted, deleted and inaccessible images, songs, videos, etc. No matter you want to salvage data from iPhone, iPod and iPad, this application can finish the task as easy as ABC.

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Step 1. Run this application and you will see an interface as follows. This software can auto-detect all backup files on your Mac. To recover lost iPhoto library, you may select the backup file of your iPhone and hit "Start Scan" to begin to scan for files.

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Step 2. Select the "Photo" or "Camera Roll" in the left panel to preview the scanning results to find out lost photos of iPhoto. Mark all of the photo files and press the "Restore" button to retrieve them back.

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OK, we have gone though all process now. Please free download this software to have a try if you are in need of such a great application.

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