Blogs with missing photos

Using iWeb 1.1.1., my Blog entries typically include several photos. Increasingly I am finding that over time some of the photos on my Blog entries disappear, i.e., I now have an empty photo rectangle where I used to have a photo. All Blog photos were brought in from iPhoto and are resident on the same computer as my iWeb Domain. I also have many Photos pages on my site and I've noticed that the same photos that are disappearing from my Blogs are fine on the Photos pages.
I bring photos into my Blog entries through the Media Browser, but in two different ways. 1. Using Command drag so that the photos will be inline. 2. Simply dragging, so photos will be fixed. Only inline photos disappear.
I would greatly appreciate any advice about how to solve/avoid this problem.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1GB RAM/80 GB Drive
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1GB RAM/80 GB Drive

This happened to me. There were three things that caused it...
1. I had reduced the size of the blog description lines (in the Inspector I had told it to display two lines instead of three or four for the description, I think) and there wasn't enough "room" for the picture to show up beside the 1 or 2 line blog entry. So, I just told it to expand it back to three or four line description length. Pictures all showed up again.
2. The pictures also 'disappeared' when the actual text box for the entire blog entry page wasn't "big" enough to display all the entries, PLUS their pictures.
I fiddled about adjusting the size of the particular box on the page (turn on the layout in the menu so you can see the gridlines) - just expanded the box and voila, there were the pictures and their corresponding entries.
3. Also, when I replaced the default picture that shows up in the entry page, I didn't drag my own photo into the box to actually replace it, so I deleted the original default picture out. Now I had my replacement picture show up, but it didn't "kick in" in the Blog description page. I've found that the picture you want to show up must REPLACE the original that iWeb places there, or else it seems to not display in the Blog page.
Don't know if this helps you, but they were the three culprits when it happened to me.
Rachel.

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I submitted this problem via the Apple support site but have not received an answer. I am hoping someone visiting this forum might have advice.
I ordered a 50-page hardcover 8.5x11 iPhoto Book (theme: Modern Lines) that I created using iPhoto 6.0 on a G5 Mac running OS 10.4.4. This was my first iPhoto book. The book, when assembled, looked perfect in the main book window, and I also saved a pdf of it, which was (and is) perfect as well. When the book arrived, I was very pleased with the quality of the printing, except that seven photos (some but not all of the photos on four separate pages) were not printed in their places in the book (there is just white space there).
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First check iPhoto's Advanced preference pane to make sure you're running a "managed" library.
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Since you don't have the "source" photos available to relink to your best bet, IMO, would be to continue using your current library and delete those missing photos from it whenever you come across them in day to day use. If you click on the thumbnail of a missing photos and drag it to the iPHoto trash and empty it that will delete it from the library. This way you will retain all of your organizational efforts, i.e. albums, books, keywords, etc.
When you rebuilt with iPhoto Library Manager what did the resulting library contain? If it contained your photos without the missing photos you could use it. You would retain your albums, keywords, faces, places and other metadata. You will lose any keepsakes, i.e. books, slideshows, cards, etc.
Or, you could start over as follows:
Creating a new library while preserving the Events from the original library.
1 - Move the existing library folder to the desktop
2 - Open the library package like this.
3 - Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
4 - Drag the Originals folder from the iPhoto Library on the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
You will end up with all your photos (no missing photos) in the same events as in the original library. But there will be no albums, metadata or keepsakes. It's for this reason I made the original suggestion of continuing with your current library above.
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Ryetee
To create a library from scratch - which is what you need to do as you do have a damaged library:
To create and populate a new library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
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