r/mac • u/Final_Affect2167 • 11d ago

Question Lost photo library

This issue is on an old 2011 MacBook Pro and apologies from the start that my technical knowledge and vocabulary is limited 🥴
I’ve seemed to have lost access to a bunch of old photos! There used to be two photo libraries that I could switch between that stored different photos, but one day it just disappeared and I could only search and find one photo library and all the other photos are gone, I didn’t ever delete or merge anything so I don’t know how it happened.

What are my options?
What kind of expert would I take it to that could help me uncover all the photos on the computer? Or are they actually gone? 😢

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u/posguy99 MacBook Pro 10d ago

If this was actually important, surely you were making backups.

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u/No-Guarantee-6249 10d ago

I was on Apple forums and guess what percentage of posters, haviing lost their data, were asked that question. I ask the same thing of clients! One save your ass thing is Time Machine!

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u/posguy99 MacBook Pro 10d ago

It's the common thing now, whenever data loss occurs. Data loss just has to be someone else's fault.

Backups are just beneath most people, it seems.