Finder-My Pictures; photos won't open

v. 10.9.2, MacBook Pro:
1. Am I correct in assuming that a white circle and the photo name is a directory?
2. These photos cannot be opened in Finder-My Pictures no matter which View is used.
3. They can be opened in All My Files.
4. How did they get the white circle?

What do you do? Start by providing detailed information
what version of iPhoto>|? Of the OS? what ahs recently changed? why do you think this might have happened? where is your iPhoto library located? Do you have a good, current backup (you should is yoru phoots have any value to you)
LN

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First off the bat, this is my mother's computer and I have no idea what to do with a mac, I've always used a PC. I've asked her about it & she's looked into it with me but we can find no answer. Mom had updated iPhoto to 5.0.4, and wanted to buy me a photo album as a gift. I could design it, blah blah blah, long story shorter - While saving an edit, iPhoto froze & I had to close it. When I opened it again, I have the tumbnail of the picture I was editing, but the picture itself won't open, and in the album it's got one of those beautiful exclamation points over it. In the information box, other pics have a size of 2201x1709, but this one is 0x0. I really liked this picture. What in the world is going on?
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Path:            /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Identifier:      Finder
Version:         ???
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [156]
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there is a big blue circle next to the name (on the left)
Next to what, the iPhoto application?
Do you get the left hand pane with the Events and Photos icon at the top when you try to open iPhoto? Do you also get a blank window on the right where thumbnails should be?
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TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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We have our iphoto library loaded on the shared directory, so that all 4 users can see it (me, my wife, my 2 sons). We each have our own login profile, and all had sharing permissions turned on for iphoto. For whatever reason, Iphoto cannot seem to handle this setup - it seems Iphoto isn't really set up for families / multi - users. Odd, since iTunes does this fine.
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Recently my son downloaded his camera while on his login, and although it seemed to download fine and the thumbnails are visible, the images will not open. The images were deleted from the camera, and now seem lost. I am looking for suggestions on any way those images might be recovered ?
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It is astounding to me that Iphoto allows a download to appear to have worked but the images are not there. It is also confounding how a new $1300 computer is not capable of handling a simple setup where one image database can be accessed and utilized by 4 users withut adding an additional hardware component.
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Terence - Thanks. You are right and I was ranting - apologies. It is indeed a software shortcoming, and my frustration stems from the fact that it was the 'Genius Bar' guys at Apple who recommended this approach and assisted me in setting it up, (the shared iphoto library) as I was totally new to the apple platform. And honestly it worked fine for viewing, copying, and dragging images into other applications - like if one my kids want to drop a photo into a report for school or something. The only problem seems to be downloading permissions. You can apparently only download from one user profile.
But even more frustrating - when my son executed the download, the thumbnails showed up, no error message, but images aren't there.
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