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Hi! I have this problem, because while I was editing pictures in iphoto, it suddenly froze while I was zooming... And now I can't close it! I can't move from last import to faces, just an example, and the little zoom-box so you know where you are on the picture won't go away either! I tried to close my computer and press the quit bottom on the iphoto-icon in my dock, but nothing happened! And now since it's constantly open, in the middle of editing a picture, I can't close my computer, not restart etc. What should I do?

Greetings,
If iPhoto is not responding to your quit commands try a force quit and then restart the computer: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3411
Cheers.

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1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
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2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
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3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
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