For almost a year, I have been constantly facing this error: “56 photos have been found in the iPhoto library that were not imported. Do you want to recover them.” The dialog has two choices, No and Yes. No matter what I do, it does not do anything useful or harmful.
It was just a minor inconvenience. I finally decided to get rid of the message. Here is the solution.
Open the iPhoto Library (by right clicking on it and selecting “Show Contents”.) Then find the folder called Import. Move it out of there.
Mine did not have any real pictures in it, just a bunch of place holder folders. I deleted them all. And the problem is gone.
Did this work for you? Please let me know in the comments.
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gonfor
September 13, 2012 at 7:03 pm (UTC -8) Link to this comment
Not quite the same but your advice pointed me in the right direction. I found the folder ‘import’ under the folder iphoto copy library which was under my home user (GO’, HOME, and then searched using the magnifying glass symbol). There was then a folder ‘MASTER’ in which there were a lot of empty folders but named as though they were photos (and also copies numbered -1 -2 etc of the same folders, also empty) I recognised some of the names as photos I’d previously named but dont know how they got into that location – possibly named whilst on a previous computer running microsoft before bringing them across to MAC and maybe thats how they got mixed up. Anyway, looks like as the folders/phots were empty/non existent that I’ve lost some phots forever. As you said though, I dragged the entire folder ‘MASTER’ out, onto the desktop and then restarted iphoto and the error message has gone – which is good as it was annoying me. Somehow lost 110 phots but thats prob down to me stuffing something up in the past. Thanks for initial help.