Frozen iPhoto

Greetings. My iPhoto is not responding. All I see is a blank gray screen. I can still see the listing of photo albums along the left size but can't see any photos in the album that is currently open. Program is frozen. Any suggestions? Thank you for your help.

Force quit it. What happens next depends on the version of iPhoto you have.
Regards
TD

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This is the iPhoto for iOS (e.g. iPhone and iPad) forum. You want to post in the iPhoto for Mac forum.
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Force restart your computer, back up your iPhoto library, depress the option an command keys, launch iPhoto and rebuild the library
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what version of iPhoto are you using?
what system version are you running?
importing from where?
what fixes have you tried?
where is your library located?
did you apply any updates or upgrades just prior to the problem occurring?
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how much free space on your boot drive?
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I have a brand new MacBook Pro using latest version of iPhoto - library on an external hard drive.
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Me again, Terence. It has now been almost 24 hours and the process is still not finished. i tried quitting through activity monitor ( it wouldn't let me stop the program using the cancel import button) but got the following message "photos are being imported, please wait." But when I highlight "importing photos" in iphoto the number is (0).
Just wondering if there is a way to really check if anything is actually happening or if I should just force iphoto to quit and start the whole process over (argghhh) and when I get the prompt "iphoto wants to import 125,000 photos" click No . Is there a way to do that and then try to import photos in smaller batches? Would that be possible?
Getting frustrated here (and kicking myself for not having at least two working backups at ALL times!).
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Hi. I just buy a version iPhoto 11 and it's not working. it's frozen. nothing... :-( any idea? tnx

Hi.
I wrote this message for 3-rd time....
I just buy a version iphoto 11 and it's frozen. simply not working.... no gallery import, no picture, nothing.... :-( any idea? tnx

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