Freezes when rebuilding library

My iphoto library is a little over 50 gbs. Its been crashing upon loading recently and its instructed me to hold command+option while I open iphoto and then go to the bottom option to rebuild the library. It loads, then after some time, my computer freezes. I've let it run overnight thinking it was just slow but nothing. I've even let it run for two days.

what version of iPhoto (there are several versions of iPhoto '11)? Of the OS?
download iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - and use its rebuild command - this creates a totally seperate new library leaving the existing one for future use
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I'll make this post short and sweet.
Yes, I have read the FAQ.
I'm just wondering, its happened to me twice now that when i turn on my zen micro, it goes straight to the rebuilding library screen, and when the bar gets to the end it just freezes. Replacing the battery does not help. Only until i attach it to my computer at home does the library finish rebuilding. And no, on both occasions the battery was not dead. I just found out now about recovery mode and disk cleanup.
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I'll probably be returning this product if I'm forced to replace the battery etc each time i want to use it.
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I have had a very similar problem with my 5GB Zen Micro. I have not added music to the player in weeks but during a cold boot a couple of times a week the player will not start clean, many times hanging at the end of a library rebuild.
The player is always shutdown orderly, though most of the time it's via the 4 hour firmware shutdown included in the ..0 firmware. Each time it hangs I boot to rescue mode, run a clean-up, then reboot. During the reboot it always runs a successful rebuild, so I wonder, why didn't it do that last time and why does it keep acting up when nothing has been added or deleted to the player?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009), 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB.
OS X Yosemite, Version 10.10.
iPhoto 9.6
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Are Apple investigating the problem or just doing nothing till the Press get wise to it?
Is an Apple team of technology experts investigating that you BobRi can not load your library? Did you tell them and give them time to mobilize the vans and helicopters? Given that millions of people are loading their libraries with no problems at all I sincerely doubt this is an Apple cover-up that you alone have discovered. Probably your library file is corrupt. I don't know how you can load "small batches" unless you are cutting up your .xml file and trying to rebuild your library from pieces (not at all easy). With loading the main library file it's either all or none.
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- Photos was unchecked in iCloud preferences
- moved iLifeAsset Management out of the way
- booted
- started iPhoto with option+control, selected "rebuild library" (fourth option)
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Processes: 128 total, 3 running, 1 stuck, 124 sleeping, 441 threads                                   09:39:42
Load Avg: 3.58, 3.25, 2.31 CPU usage: 80.25% user, 19.74% sys, 0.0% idle
SharedLibs: 10M resident, 10M data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 23153 total, 3616M resident, 70M private, 355M shared.
PhysMem: 6088M used (491M wired), 54M unused.
VM: 324G vsize, 1066M framework vsize, 0(0) swapins, 0(0) swapouts.
Networks: packets: 4436/1130K in, 4483/483K out. Disks: 155489/4415M read, 46637/2698M written.
PID COMMAND      %CPU      TIME     #TH #WQ #PORT #MREG MEM    RPRVT PURG   CMPR VPRVT VSIZE PGRP PPID
355 iPhoto       170.3     22:57.93 19/3 6/2 255   10266 3166M+ 3125M+ 16K    60K 20G+   23G+   355 177
369 top          10.1      01:14.70 1/1 0    24    33    1772K 1544K 0B     0B   26M    2385M 369 342
91   WindowServer 4.1       00:58.59 4    0    303   793   35M    28M    0B     0B   79M    2933M 91   1
0    kernel_task 3.8       00:33.54 71/2 0    2     335   380M+ 13M    0B     0B   61M    5693M 0    0
192 SystemUIServ 1.2       00:08.05 3    0    287   465   13M    9496K 0B     52K 61M    2509M 192 177
1    launchd      1.2       00:03.73 3    0    1440 59    2936K 2692K 0B     0B   39M    2397M 1    0
338 Terminal     0.8       00:12.17 6    0    176   183   23M    13M    0B     68K 62M    2508M 338 177
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- the Console log prior to booting:
9/12/14 09:18:56.578 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary discoverLocalIAAccounts]: Unknown high level account: com.apple.account.google - 368D8510-C9A3-4162-8CD5-F27575EBC52C
9/12/14 09:18:56.657 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Got the following deleted accounts: {
9/12/14 09:18:56.657 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Looking for UUID: (null) from remote key: e67d795dbf1072667cdcc039a4afe0d53ae216ad
9/12/14 09:18:56.658 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Account not found during local discovery, however was not found in list of deleted accounts, will not delete: e67d795dbf1072667cdcc039a4afe0d53ae216ad
9/12/14 09:18:56.658 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Got the following deleted accounts: {
9/12/14 09:18:56.658 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Looking for UUID: (null) from remote key: d7a098bab92bc3548f77136b6285b3bb58f6926
9/12/14 09:18:56.658 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Account not found during local discovery, however was not found in list of deleted accounts, will not delete: d7a098bab92bc3548f77136b6285b3bb58f6926
9/12/14 09:18:56.659 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Got the following deleted accounts: {
9/12/14 09:18:56.659 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Looking for UUID: (null) from remote key: a45163ca64e658282898b6d7ade534a811f482
9/12/14 09:18:56.659 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Account not found during local discovery, however was not found in list of deleted accounts, will not delete: a45163ca64e658282898b6d7ade534a811f482
9/12/14 09:18:56.661 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary writeLocalMapping:]: Status: Writing out local mapping to disk
9/12/14 09:18:56.662 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary getIdMapping]: Mapping Error detected: ID Hash a193de52fd26431d89a5d2d38a08b3e434dd23d has localUID: 22192694-F24F-41C2-B5E0-43245D63ECDC-com.apple.calendar.iaplugin rather than 2E078712-CAE3-4758-A513-84007C3D54E4-com.apple.calendar.iaplugin
9/12/14 09:18:56.662 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary writeLocalMapping:]: Status: Ending writing out local mapping to disk
9/12/14 09:18:56.662 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBRemoteDictionary writeDevices]: Status: Writing out of devices
9/12/14 09:18:56.662 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBRemoteDictionary writeDevices]: Status: Ending writing out of device
9/12/14 09:18:56.000 kernel[0]: fsevents: watcher dbfseventsd (pid: 302) - Using /dev/fsevents directly is unsupported. Migrate to FSEventsFramework
9/12/14 09:18:58.813 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary discoverLocalIAAccounts]: Unknown high level account: com.apple.account.google - 368D8510-C9A3-4162-8CD5-F27575EBC52C
9/12/14 09:18:58.858 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Got the following deleted accounts: {
9/12/14 09:18:58.858 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Looking for UUID: (null) from remote key: e67d795dbf1072667cdcc039a4afe0d53ae216ad
9/12/14 09:18:58.858 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Account not found during local discovery, however was not found in list of deleted accounts, will not delete: e67d795dbf1072667cdcc039a4afe0d53ae216ad
9/12/14 09:18:58.860 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Got the following deleted accounts: {
9/12/14 09:18:58.860 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Looking for UUID: (null) from remote key: d7a098bab92bc3548f77136b6285b3bb58f6926
9/12/14 09:18:58.860 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Account not found during local discovery, however was not found in list of deleted accounts, will not delete: d7a098bab92bc3548f77136b6285b3bb58f6926
9/12/14 09:18:58.861 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Got the following deleted accounts: {
9/12/14 09:18:58.861 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Looking for UUID: (null) from remote key: a45163ca64e658282898b6d7ade534a811f482
9/12/14 09:18:58.862 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Account not found during local discovery, however was not found in list of deleted accounts, will not delete: a45163ca64e658282898b6d7ade534a811f482
9/12/14 09:18:58.881 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary writeLocalMapping:]: Status: Writing out local mapping to disk
9/12/14 09:18:58.882 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary getIdMapping]: Mapping Error detected: ID Hash a193de52fd26431d89a5d2d38a08b3e434dd23d has localUID: 22192694-F24F-41C2-B5E0-43245D63ECDC-com.apple.calendar.iaplugin rather than 2E078712-CAE3-4758-A513-84007C3D54E4-com.apple.calendar.iaplugin
9/12/14 09:18:58.882 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary writeLocalMapping:]: Status: Ending writing out local mapping to disk
9/12/14 09:18:58.882 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBRemoteDictionary writeDevices]: Status: Writing out of devices
9/12/14 09:18:58.882 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBRemoteDictionary writeDevices]: Status: Ending writing out of device
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/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
9/12/14 09:18:59.649 Dropbox[244]: ICARegisterForEventNotification-Has been deprecated since 10.5. Calls to this function in the future may crash this application. Please move to ImageCaptureCore
9/12/14 09:19:00.452 awacsd[62]: InnerStore GetWakeInfoForZone: no external port for 172513282.members.btmm.icloud.com.
9/12/14 09:19:01.025 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary discoverLocalIAAccounts]: Unknown high level account: com.apple.account.google - 368D8510-C9A3-4162-8CD5-F27575EBC52C
9/12/14 09:19:01.069 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Got the following deleted accounts: {
9/12/14 09:19:01.069 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Looking for UUID: (null) from remote key: e67d795dbf1072667cdcc039a4afe0d53ae216ad
9/12/14 09:19:01.069 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Account not found during local discovery, however was not found in list of deleted accounts, will not delete: e67d795dbf1072667cdcc039a4afe0d53ae216ad
9/12/14 09:19:01.070 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Got the following deleted accounts: {
9/12/14 09:19:01.070 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Looking for UUID: (null) from remote key: d7a098bab92bc3548f77136b6285b3bb58f6926
9/12/14 09:19:01.070 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Account not found during local discovery, however was not found in list of deleted accounts, will not delete: d7a098bab92bc3548f77136b6285b3bb58f6926
9/12/14 09:19:01.071 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Got the following deleted accounts: {
9/12/14 09:19:01.071 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Looking for UUID: (null) from remote key: a45163ca64e658282898b6d7ade534a811f482
9/12/14 09:19:01.072 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBSyncOperation mergeLocalChanges:]: Account not found during local discovery, however was not found in list of deleted accounts, will not delete: a45163ca64e658282898b6d7ade534a811f482
9/12/14 09:19:01.074 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary writeLocalMapping:]: Status: Writing out local mapping to disk
9/12/14 09:19:01.075 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary getIdMapping]: Mapping Error detected: ID Hash a193de52fd26431d89a5d2d38a08b3e434dd23d has localUID: 22192694-F24F-41C2-B5E0-43245D63ECDC-com.apple.calendar.iaplugin rather than 2E078712-CAE3-4758-A513-84007C3D54E4-com.apple.calendar.iaplugin
9/12/14 09:19:01.075 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBLocalDictionary writeLocalMapping:]: Status: Ending writing out local mapping to disk
9/12/14 09:19:01.075 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBRemoteDictionary writeDevices]: Status: Writing out of devices
9/12/14 09:19:01.075 icbaccountsd[274]: -[ICBRemoteDictionary writeDevices]: Status: Ending writing out of device
9/12/14 09:19:01.536 awacsd[62]: InnerStore GetWakeInfoForZone: no external port for 172513282.members.btmm.icloud.com.
9/12/14 09:19:01.654 awacsd[62]: InnerStore GetWakeInfoForZone: no external port for 172513282.members.btmm.icloud.com.
9/12/14 09:19:01.686 awacsd[62]: InnerStore GetWakeInfoForZone: no external port for 172513282.members.btmm.icloud.com.
9/12/14 09:19:01.709 awacsd[62]: InnerStore GetWakeInfoForZone: no external port for 172513282.members.btmm.icloud.com.
9/12/14 09:19:01.759 awacsd[62]: InnerStore GetWakeInfoForZone: no external port for 172513282.members.btmm.icloud.com.
9/12/14 09:19:04.565 osascript[317]: Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
9/12/14 09:19:19.915 com.apple.SecurityServer[31]: Session 100003 created
9/12/14 09:19:23.981 mds[41]: (Normal) ImportServer: Ignoring blacklisted Spotlight importer plugin:/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/SourceCode. mdimporter uuid:548A3091-3C5D-498A-A329-B532A6C896BB version:1801
9/12/14 09:19:24.458 mds[41]: (Normal) ImportServer: Ignoring blacklisted Spotlight importer plugin:/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/SourceCode. mdimporter uuid:548A3091-3C5D-498A-A329-B532A6C896BB version:1801
9/12/14 09:20:22.357 mds[41]: (Normal) Volume: volume:0x7fabdb0b0000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/firmwaresyncd.u85AiR
9/12/14 09:20:36.009 login[341]: USER_PROCESS: 341 ttys000
9/12/14 09:23:53.721 SystemUIServer[192]: Couldn't contact spell checker for Multilingual
9/12/14 09:23:55.029 Console[362]: setPresentationOptions called with NSApplicationPresentationFullScreen when there is no visible fullscreen window; this call will be ignored.
9/12/14 09:24:00.793 WindowServer[91]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Console" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
9/12/14 09:24:02.328 WindowServer[91]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Console" after 2.54 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
9/12/14 09:24:15.160 com.apple.SecurityServer[31]: Session 100017 created
9/12/14 09:24:17.085 com.apple.IconServicesAgent[216]: main Failed to composit image for binding VariantBinding [0x2b7] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x1c1] - extension: mp3, UTI: public.mp3, fileType: ????.
9/12/14 09:24:17.128 quicklookd[372]: Warning: Cache image returned by the server has size range covering all valid image sizes. Binding: VariantBinding [0x203] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x103] - extension: mp3, UTI: public.mp3, fileType: ???? request size:16 scale: 1
9/12/14 09:25:24.000 kernel[0]: process iPhoto[355] thread 4446 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 85%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.876998 seconds, (78.552468 user, 12.324530 system) ledger info: balance: 90000479700 credit: 90000479700 debit: 0 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 104880530912
9/12/14 09:25:24.721 ReportCrash[377]: Invoking spindump for pid=355 thread=4446 percent_cpu=85 duration=106 because of excessive cpu utilization
9/12/14 09:29:20.000 kernel[0]: process WindowServer[91] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 267; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 101162
9/12/14 09:31:20.000 kernel[0]: process Dropbox[244] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 202; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 106255
9/12/14 09:31:20.218 ReportCrash[386]: Invoking spindump for pid=244 wakeups_rate=202 duration=223 because of excessive wakeups
9/12/14 10:25:15.000 bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1410535515 0
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The article below may be able to help you with this issue.
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Having problems since updating like everyone else! Was missing files, etc.
I am trying to change the library location in preferences, but the program locks up when it is opening the window. Also freezing when I try to add a folder to the library.
I tried to restore my ipod on the summary page and same problem, opening window and it freezes. I have now reformatted my ipod and am trying to start fresh. Even reinstalled software, but no luck.
Help!

Me too .. very frustrating, spent the last 3 hrs looking for solutions.
Also noticed Apple has suspended downloads of itunes 6 for the time being ... wondering if its a related bug.

Why does screen freezes when I attempt to play certain songs in my library

Why does my screen Freeze when I attempt to play certain songs I have downloaded from CDs into my library?
I have just received my Nano and I'm unsure if I want this to keep happening

Apple removed my previous post because I referenced jailbreaking which is a violation of the TOS. Sorry about that!
That said, I can't think of any way to get around the file size limitation. I suppose itunes match isn't really meant to give you access to play all your songs anywhere. It instead gives you the opportunity to download your songs via wifi when you aren't at home. I can't see that it makes any difference one way or the other to Apple but it obvioiusly would make a difference to the wireless provider.
So now, my question is whether this happens on with all carriers. I have experienced this on AT&T. Does anyone here have Verizon or Sprint?

IBooks won't rebuild library when dialog box requires that I rebuild

When I open iBooks in OSX 10.9 Mavericks, a dialog box appears saying my library could not be located. It gives the option to 1) Quit, 2) Try Again, and 3) Rebuild Library.
Selecting Quit quits iBooks
Selecting Try Again immediately pops up the same dialog box
Selecting Rebuild quits iBooks. There is no crash log that appears (otherwise I would have posted it here)...it just quits.
I am able to see my iBooks library files buried in my HD in the correct location.

The page you linked to refers to Windows malware. It can't affect a Mac, unless it's running Windows.

The hard drive on my MacBookPro crashed. The Apple store replaced it. Since then I can't open iphoto. It asks to rebuild library; when I click yes, I get: "Aperture cannot access this library; reset permissions." I don't own Aperture!

The hard drive on my MacBookPro recently crashed. The Apple store replaced it. Since then I can't open iphoto. It asks to rebuild library; when I click yes, I get: "Aperture cannot access this library; reset permissions." I don't own Aperture! Any thoughts on how I can rebuild the iphoto library? Currently I can't even get into it.

Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click the following line to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

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