After importing photos to iphoto I cannot find them when I want to insert them into documents or facebook.

When I import photos from my camera memory stick to iphoto and want to insert them afterwarts into Facebook or into documents or emails they do not appear in the 'choose picture' list.
Example: in a document I click 'insert', then 'photo', 'picture from file'. It is here that I do not find the photos I just uploaded.
However - and this is a mystery to me - there are some photos that I uploaded at another day and that are actually in the 'choose a picture' file.
Does anyone have an idea what is going on or what I have to do differently?
many thanks!

The following User Tip by Terence Devlin is the best treatise on how to access photos (for use outside of iPhoto): How to Access Files in iPhoto
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Here what I did..
I was empty my iphoto library before i import this new photos.
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my iphoto version is iphoto '11 version 9.2.3 (629.52) --> is that the right no? because thats what shown on the screen.
"requested what library to open" mean because i have no any pic in my library as i mention i empty my library.
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Bill,
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Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
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Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of the data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown asBackups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Reboot and it should go away.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore the volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
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b. Reformatting the card is much, much faster - takes a couple of seconds
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5. 'Resolution' is a very vague term. Some folks use it to refer to pixel density, some to refer to file size and others to refer to image quality. What do you mean by it?

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