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I just updated from iphoto 5 to 6, installed off the iLife cd. iPhoto is displaying a grey screen with dashed boxes (that show the jpg names of the photos). When clicked, the enlarged photos show an exclamation mark"!"
I have trashed the program and reinstalled it and gotten the same result.
I have also relaunched with the option/apple keys and run OnyX to repair permissions and then restarted.
I did not mess around with my iPhoto library. All the photos exist in their original folders. I could reinstall them BUT I have some very nicely done photo books and albums I'd like to keep and many of my photos have been retouched. I have around 5000 photos I'm dealing with.
OF COURSE I did not Back up ILife before I upgraded. $%^&
Manually Imported photos from another folder are showing up fine. - Which makes me think that there is some database that thinks that all the other pictures are of a grey box ... is there a database that can be thrown out?

Well, I purchased and installed iPhoto Library Manager.
Unless I am missing some magic button, It doesn't seem to be the answer. All it does is move the selected phantom file references and then tells me that 0 files were moved.
I guess I get to manually add my old photos into the new "improved" iphoto 6 and forget about saving 2 years worth of albums and photo books.
II don't know if this matters, I was running my old billing program in system 9, which I shut down while updating the photo list.
Let this be a lesson, one I've learned too many times going back to 1985 MacII-1 simRam. BACK UP. Things have been running too smooth for too long. I got too comfortable. Its my own fault.

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