Iphoto crashes every time I try to process book

Question

Hi everyone,
I understand that others have had the same issue and have had it resolved, through help from this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2623935&tstart=0
I tried this - and my book order is still crashing iphoto, and the order doesn't go through. It stays in the "assembly" process, then crashes without ever getting to the upload process.
I've deleted duplicate fonts (thanks to this forum!) and can see my book in safe mode. I tried ordering it there and that doesn't work either.
This is part of the crash report I get:
Process: iPhoto [498]
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto
Version: 9.0 (9.0)
Build Info: iPhotoProject-4490000~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [312]
Date/Time: 2010-10-25 09:09:39.992 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F569)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 3883 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 8
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 2554 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 8
Anonymous UUID: 17A2F9E7-070F-4097-82B7-E77F8B5BD04D
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000010
Crashed Thread: 37
Any help or advice would be so appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi,
I had the same problem with a repeated crash on page 17 of a 78 page book.
I tried fix 1 and fix 2 recommended by Old Toad,checked and removed duplicate fonts, delete preferences, uninstalled & reinstalled iPhoto and then wiped my MacBook and did a clean install of Snow Leopard. I even bought more RAM as my MacBook was struggling with 2Gb and using the hard drive as virtual memory. Still the same problem with the crash on the same page.
After a bit of trial and error I found that the crash was related to a photo that I was using on a double page spread (it seems the page count includes the cover as page 1 when assembling). The photo I was using was either being zoomed too far or the zoom was extending beyond the page bounds of the book. I edited the photo, changed the resolution and cropped to the approximate proprtions. I then reimported the photo, did a bit of fine tuning and it worked fine.
I'm not sure this will work for others but it may be that zooming beyond a certain point that the effective resolution of the image is too low, or zooming in so that the exent of the photo goes beyond the page edge might cause a problem. I'd be keen to hear if this works or solves others issues.