My iPhoto programming hadn't been opening for quite sometime. I looked it up and found that when you create multiple libraries, sometimes it doesn't open. So I went into my main folder and rearranged the photos outside of the libraries so that it would open. I opened iPhoto and all of the photos loaded. I had created titles for each of the photos (example: "Me and so and so" rather than just the photo number. I rearranged the photos IN iPhoto. I closed the program, opened the main folder and thought I could deleted the original folders, each named after the original libraries (which had now been deleted through iPhoto and replaced with new ones). I went back into iPhoto only to find that although the pictures DO open and show up, they cannot be opened with any other photo programs and are NOT identified as photos at all. When I try to open the photos in another program or set it as desktop, etc, a message comes up telling me that the "original information" has been lost so therefore, the photo is unrecognizable. I emptied the trash after deleted the libraries from the iPhoto main library folder-a STUPID move, I know.

I have hundreds of pictures that I now think I lost...they won't even print b/c they're not being recognized...please help!

-Sarah

Rename one of the photos to Me and so and so.jpg (although by good practice I do not use spaces within file names MeAndAoAndSo.jpg) adding the file type's extension be it .jpg or .bmp or whatever they are supposed to be. I am not sure what IPhoto uses for it's extensions but most cameras add .jpg.

If that fixes that one then add the extension to all of them.

HTH
Bryan

THanks for the advice, Bryan. That was one of the first things I tried but it won't let me change the file name. It's blank, then I change it to .jpg (which they were before) and then as soon as I move on to another picture, it erases it and remains blank.

-Sarah

Can you still open them using IPhoto?
If so then use File, Save as and then dictate the file type of .jpg while saving.

HTH
Bryan

D/load picasa 2 see if that will help