Iphoto won't open and has a message that it may be damaged or incomplete when I try to open.  It worked fine yesterday and I loaded ilife 11 and now iphoto won't open.

After I loaded ilife 11 and tried to open iphoto, I could not and had a message saying it may be damaged or incomplete.  It was working fine yesterday and I've never seen this message.  What should I do?

First run Software Update so you have the latest version.
If you still have trouble then hold down CMD and OPT as you click on iPhoto.  It will give you options to rebuild your library.
Regards,
Captfred

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