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Hi All,
My client is running iPhoto 09 (8.1.2). On occasion, when he loads up the app, the preview images for the events show in black, with the grey dotted line around the perimeter (rather than showing a cover image of one of the photos within the event album). Then when you double click to open the event, all of the images are displayed the same. Yet, you can open an image & view it without fault.
Oddly, some of the newer events which are viewed when you scroll down the page have the images. I have tried restarting the app & the mac but you still get the issue. Then as if by magic, they re-appear.
The iPhoto folder is located on an NTFS share from an XP machine, which the mac can read & write to as it has Paragon NTFS X installed.
This has only happened twice in 6 months despite being used fairly regularly, but my client would like for it to not happen at all.
Any ideas as to what might be causing the issue? The only thing that I can put it down to is latency issues accessing the files, but surely if this was the case, it would occur far more frequently, & surely the newer events (of which there are around 20 - 25) wouldn't be able to be displayed instantly?
Thanks in advance for the help.

Any ideas as to what might be causing the issue?
Yes. This is:
The iPhoto folder is located on an NTFS share from an XP machine,
iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos.
Later versions of iPhoto simply won’t allow the library on an inappropriate disk.
Regards
TD

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