Lost content of slideshow in Photos

Question

Level 1

6 points

Lost content of slideshow in Photos

Now up to Big Sur 11.5.2 upgrades in Macbook Air.

Made a slideshow in 2017 and stored under 'My Projects' in Photos. Had viewed it over the years but not recently. Several upgrades later now, I went to view it and the icon for the 'slideshow' is there with the label I put with it but--- when I open it and hit 'play', all that happens is the music I put with it plays but there are no pictures. I don't know what happened or how to recover it. I went into my USB's that I store things in and it (the slideshow) isn't there either.

The pictures used are no longer in my Photos in my Mac they are stored on USBs.

Any ideas what happened and if I can recover it or is it a 'do over' and if so, how do I keep this from happening again?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.5

Posted on Jan 15, 2022 9:10 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Top-ranking reply

TonyCollinet

Level 7

23,954 points

Jan 15, 2022 3:42 PM in response to m1019guerin

Hi. You say the pictures are not in the photos app but you’ve put them on usbs

if you removed them from photos then that also removes them from slideshows. Photos only keeps one copy of each image and uses it for albums and slideshows without duplication.

Reply

Answer 2

m1019guerin Author

Level 1

6 points

Jan 17, 2022 11:20 AM in response to m1019guerin

Thanks for the prompt reply Tony!

So that really is a bummer- if I understand you correctly. So anything I put together in Photos, like a slideshow or album, is not a 'keepsake' if I move the pics that make them up from my device; whether to delete them entirely or move it to a USB memory stick. Doing so will remove the content entirely.

So much for investing all that time to make up slideshows and albums.

So how does one go about creating those 'keepsakes' if not in Photos and stay within the Mac system or do I have to go to another type of app or one of those stores like Shutterfly to do that?

Reply

Lost content of slideshow in Photos

Similar questions