Cannot open thumbnail photos in iPhoto

Cannot open thumbnail in iPhoto for editing or viewing

Could be a permissions issue. Try the following:  make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and:
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - Since only one option can be run at a time start with #1 followed by #3 and #4 as needed.

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    Fiona

    Fiona,
    You can try and see if creating a new library will recover all the photos that you can't see in iPhoto.
    Close iPhoto
    Rename your messed up iPhoto Library to "iPhoto Library_old"
    Drag this library to your desktop
    Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
    This is the window you will get
    Create a new library or choose a library to open
    Choose to create a new library
    Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
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    Navigate to the old library on your desktop and highlight it in the window, then click the "open" button.
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    Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
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    You can now start making your Albums, and do your keywords or any other organizational steps.
    You can also delete the old library on the desktop.
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    As a test  launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library.  Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?
    If it doesn't your current library is damaged and needs repairing. Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
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    Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
    Since only one option can be run at a time start
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    Fix #2
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    2 - click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
    3 - 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.
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  • I have a problem when updated the new release of iphoto version(11 jun 2012). After that I cannot open any photo libraries and program is error.

    I have a problem when updated the new release of iphoto version(11 jun 2012). After that I cannot open any photo libraries and program is error. I must to force quit iphoto window. There are any fixed bug update.

    If you have no photos:
    Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library' and start.
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    TD

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    and
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    can not open Events photos in iPhoto 9.5.1

    We need detaoils
    What does show for the ones that do not have the picture?
    Is is an ! - if do
    This indicates a disconnect between the Thumbnail and the original
    this can be caused by two things
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