Can't Quit iPhoto
While trying to print with iPhoto 9.4.2, 2 blank rectangles appeard in the middle of the screen. I can't use iPhoto, can't shut quit and can't restart or quit my MAC because iPhoto won't allow it. Thank you for any help.
Choose Force Quit from the Apple menu, select that application, and press the Force Quit button. If that doesn't work, save and close everything you can and use the Activity Monitor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to force quit the loginwindow process.
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I am unable to close down iphoto. It tells me that there are photos being imported. I'm not importing anything. Any ideas how to stop this phantom importing so I can quit iPhoto?
Apple menu ==> force quit
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Oh I think that quitting the app would count as interference.
However, for best support you should contact the Makers of the app.
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Have you tried to force quit iPhoto?
shift, command,esc
or force mac to power down?
Hold power button till it turns off.
If either of these don't work, take a trip to the Apple store. -
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Use Force Quit in the Activity Monitor (in your Applications/Utilties folder.
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Thank you!
Am new to Mac so still finding my way. -
How can I get iPhoto '06 to quit? It refuses to quit.
You know that loud, wind instrument sound that plays that means, "Don't touch that button again because nothing will happen if you do"? Ever since late last night my iPhoto '06 has been scaring me off my last nerve with that sound.
FIRST, it hid in the Dock, way far to the left (which is where I keep my Dock), barely showing its right edge, inaccessible as any of Mike Hammer's cool blondes. After switching my Dock to the bottom I was able to tweeze iPhoto out by grabbing on to a hair of that right edge and coaxing it back onto the desktop.
THEN, I could not quit iPhoto. Clicking onto any of those three buttons at top left yields that haunting wind instrument sound. Neither could I quit iPHoto by going to File > Quit.
THEN, I turned my iMac off, hoping that doing so would put iPhoto '06 away. I was wrong. So I let my Mac stay on through the night. "Let" is deceptive, too, since my Mac would not shut off with iPhoto still opened up.
NOW it is morning and iPhoto is exhibiting the same recalcitrance: It will not let me quit it.
I have been working hard on my iWeb website and hate to think that my brand new iPhoto '06, purchased in July, '06 as part of the iLife '06 package, has gone south and taken my iWebsite things.
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Lorna in Southern CaliforniaRunning Disk Utility from your Installer DVD. Insert
your Installer DVD. Once mounted, restart and hold
down the C key to allow the Installer to start up the
system. Select Disk Utility (I believe it's
accessible from the Help Menu).Click on your HD in
the left panel and select "first aid" - repair disk.
If there are errors, rerun the repair function until
you have a clean run.
.......... Lorna says ................................................
I am not so clear on what you said. I do have Disk Utility in my Hard Drive and perhaps two weeks ago I clicked onto it for REPAIR PERMISSIONS. I was told to do that about once a week, so I do.
So you are saying that I should also click onto REPAIR DISK. Well, you know, I never did that ... only did the REPAIR PERMISSIONS. 8-(
*You mentioned an Installer DVD. What Installer DVD? I do not have one, to my knowledge. Do you mean the Tiger DVD that I installed in June or July, '06?
Run a 3rd party Utility such as
OnyX. Automation panel - select repair
permissions, maintenance scripts, full optimization.
Once completed "restart".
.......... Lorna says ................................................
This is the second time that OnyX has come up. I think that I would be wise to get that Onyx. I now have your and Niel's posts printed out so I can refer to the specific instructions.
I think I'll click Repair Disk after I finish the Apple Discussions Forums.
Thank you!
Remember too, the best maintenance step is having a
current bootable backup of your HD.
.......... Lorna says ................................................
I have a LaCie external hard disk. How do I make a current bootable backup of my Hard Drive? Do I just drag my HD icon from my desktop to the LaCie icon? Is it just that simple? I was told that I could just drag icons from my Mac HD to the LaCie hard disk and have duplicates just like that, just that fast and simple. You concur even when it is a duplicate of my Mac Hard Disk/Drive?
Lorna in Southern California -
My SD card reader has caused my iPhoto screen to be locked with no list of files on the lefthand side and a blank main photo area apart from the rotating download icon operating in the centre of the photo part of the screen.
I have tried to quit iphoto but when I restart it the same locked screen appears.
I believe I caused this problem when I removed my SD device without first ejecting it when the blank screen appeared without downloading my new photos.
Can anyone help a 66 year old computer illiterate fool ?.
RegardsUse Force Quit (under the Apple menu at the top) to close iPhoto. Then try opening it again. If it locks up again force quit and try this: launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and check to see if the same problem persists.
If the problem does not persist try the following: make a temporary, backup copy (select the library and type Command+D) and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #1, followed by #3 and then #4 as needed.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
If the problem persists in the test library do the following: make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home()/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
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3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
OT -
I burned photos to a CD-R and the CD-R automatically ejected. The photos are now on the CD-R. Now I keep getting an error message that says to complete the burn before I can quit iPhoto. I can not shut down the computer until iphoto shuts down.
Hit Command + Option + esc on your keyboard and force quit iPhoto. I'm sure it just got stuck talking to your optical drive.
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Shut down and restart your computer, and then open iPhoto again. If the problem persists, try rebuilding your photo library. To do this, quit iPhoto, and then reopen it while keeping the Option and Command keys pressed. You can also try restoring your photo library from a backup.
Before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Basic stuff:
- What version of iPhoto.
- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. What were you doing when the problem arose?
- Did it ever work properly?
- Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
Anything else you can think of that might allow someone else to understand your issue.
With this kind of information somebody can develop a starting point for troubleshooting the issue.
Posts that consist of "iPhoto doesn't work. Help" or "iPhoto won't print" or "Suddenly I have no photos!!!!!!!!!!" mean that any helper is simply guessing. With information, s/he may be able to get your issue resolved sooner. -
Unable to quit iphoto. When I try to quit by clicking red close button, or using command Q, I receive Error message: Photos are being imported to the photo library. Please wait for import to complete.
Apple menu ==> Force Quit
LN -
i cannot open iphoto- the message I am getting says Shut down and restart your computer, and then open iPhoto again. If the problem persists, try rebuilding your photo library. To do this, quit iPhoto, and then reopen it while keeping the Option and Command-
I tries and it doesnt work!!What version of iPhoto? Assuming 09 or later:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD -
I don't know what has happened but I now can't open iphoto. I get a caution when I try which says the iphoto library is locked! It was working perfectly fine this afternoon until I tried to upload some photos from my camera and my computer started to run very slow and wasn't recognising my camera. I tried to quit iphoto and then when I came back in to it, this was the message I received. As far as I am aware I didn't alter any settings or put on any locks. Please help!!
What version of iPhoto? Assuming 09 or later...
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD -
Can't use iPhoto/updating thumbnails/original can't be found
I haven't used iPhoto in a long time, and have rarely ever used it, have always found it counterintuitive and unnecessarily difficult. The last time i used it was probably in the past 6 months and it worked OK. Today i'm having a new problem that i can't fix, hoping someone more knowledgeable can help me.
I opened iPhoto because i was going to try using iCloud for storing photos. The "beta" iCloud Photos opened and said that i would have to turn on Photo Library on my iPhone. I looked at that and it said "automatically upload and store your entire photo library in iCloud to access photos and videos from all your devices."
I'm not sure i want to do that, i don't want all my storage used up. I googled "Can i store selected photos on iCloud photos," to see if i can choose which photos in my photo library i want to put on the cloud. I got a link to an Apple Support page which was titled My Photo Stream FAQ. I was reading the beginning of it and it said i needed to have iPhoto v.9.2 or greater. So, i clicked on the iPhoto icon in the doc to open it and see the version number that way.
That was the beginning of the trouble.
I can't remember the whole sequence of what happened, but at the beginning, i got a message window telling me that there were problems with my data directory, it didn't use those terms but something about inconsistencies between different things which it said could cause problems, and one of the options was a button that said Repair. So i clicked on Repair.
Then i got a small window with a progress bar that said Updating Thumbnails. Pretty soon after that, i got another window, a message window that said something like "Alert - The photo “IMG_9673.JPG” could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found." The two options were Cancel or Find Photo. I clicked on Find Photo, a window opened with a field to type the name of the photo but iPhoto had taken the window away that had the file name, so i had to close out and wait for the window to come back. Then i memorized the obscure file name and put it in the search field after clicking Find Photo. Nothing happened. Nothing was found or not found, there was no response and no button to click on. there was no way to use that window to search with. There was a grayed out "open" button. What a waste of time. This is why i don't use iPhoto.
So, then i used the Finder Find file window and typed in IMG_ because there were a lot of them, not just a few, so i wanted to find out where they all were and maybe i could just delete them. Find file showed that a lot of them were in Mail, apparently mail attachments, and there was a total of over 4700 of them. So, there was no way i was going to be able to click Cancel 4700+ times, this was a very slow process, each time, there was an extended pause until the next window with 'cancel' came up, and of course, it would be too easy to have an option to apply the choice to all. That didn't exist. I couldn't do anything functional with iPhoto, everything was grayed out, including Quit. I used force quit.
i tried restarting iPhoto, the same thing happens, i got the same 'updating thumbnails' and 'Alert - original cannot be found'. One time, i got the original "you have inconsistencies" message and the options to repair or or cancel, and i chose cancel this time, but it still brought up the Updating Thumbnails/Alert - can't be found' windows.
Each time, i force quit.
Is there anything i can do? i don't want to reinstall the whole system. Is there something somewhere i can throw in the trash? I do not want to have to reinstall the system software for a program i rarely if ever use because i find it so difficult.Terence--thank you for the reply. To my knowledge i haven't ever done anything with iPhoto preferences to change it from the default. i have very rarely used iPhoto because i have found the interface difficult and awkward. Because i use it so little, i would've had no reason to change the preferences that i can remember. i certainly would not have known anything about the options you describe and would not have selected a Referenced Library because i don't know where else i would put the photos. I have been managing my photos on the iPhone for the past 5 or 6 years, and before that, i used a Canon photo management program. i mostly store my photos on the phone but i email photos to my computer in order to post them on facebook etc, before that became easier to do from the phone . i would edit photos in Preview or on the phone. I have barely used iPhoto. i think occasionally, i sync the phone photos with the computer as a back up. That would account for there being a lot of photos in the iPhoto Library, maybe. As far as i know, i have the default settings on iPhoto.
I used iPhoto a couple of times in the past year, to find some old photos, and the program opened normally. Today, it did not open normally but gave me the message about having some inconsistencies and asking if i wanted to repair them, which then led to the Updating Thumbnails window, which then led to the Alert - The photo could not be opened because the original could not be found message window. Nothing else opens. There is no functional iPhoto at this point. I can either open it and look at a screen with those messages on it, or i can force quit it. I can't check the preferences settings, not from within the program.
I searched for the IMG_ files and found about 3000 of them and put them in a photo on my desk top. Does that mean they are in a Referenced Library?
Do you know of any way of getting this 'updating thumbnails' process to stop?
There was a time when dragging a plist file to the desk top or the trash could help to fix problems, and i was hoping there would be something like that i could do. i don't know what changed since the last time i opened iPhoto that has caused this problem that i have not had before. Maybe it was after the change from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I can't remember. -
Hello people,
I can't update iPhoto after installing OSX 10.9.2, it has the name otto@**** in the apple ID box and will not let me change it. Any thoughts?
Thanks
<Email Edited By Host>You installed a hacked app, originally from the Mac App Store. It contains the receipt for a different app, downloaded using an account that you don't control. You need to identify and remove the hacked app.
Important: The app you need to remove is not necessarily the one named in the App Store alert. For example, the App Store may prompt you to update "Angry Birds" or "Twitter," but the hacked app may be something else entirely. Don't make any assumptions about which app you're looking for. To find it, you must carry out a systematic search with Spotlight.
1. Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
kMDItemAppStoreHasReceipt=1
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
2. In the Finder, press command-F to open a search window, or select
File ▹ Find
from the menu bar. In the search window, select
Search: This Mac
from the row of tokens below the toolbar. Below that is a popup menu of search criteria, initially showing Kind. From that menu, select
Other...
A sheet will drop down. In that sheet, select
Raw Query
as the criterion, then click OK or press return.
Now there will be a text box to the right of the menu of search criteria. That's where you enter the raw search query. Click in that box and paste the text you copied earlier by pressing command-V.
4. The search window will now show all the App Store products that are installed. Compare those search results with the list of your purchases from the App Store. To see the complete list, you may need to unhide hidden purchases. If any apps were download from the App Store using other Apple ID accounts that you control, sign in to the store under each of those ID's and check the purchases.
At least one of the apps in the Spotlight search results is not among your purchases in the App Store. Move each such item to the Trash, after quitting it if it's running. You may be prompted for your administrator password. Empty the Trash.
Quit and relaunch the App Store. Test.
If you find these instructions confusing, ask for an alternative method.
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