'fun house' effect on some older photos since OSX 10.8.5 installed
since installing OSX 10.8.5 i've discovered a problem with some of my older photos in my iphoto library. there doesn't seem to be any consistency to which photos were affected.
some photos are no longer in their correct orientation. some photos have been stretched horizontally and some vertically.
i can see these problems in the thumbnails, but when i click on the photo to look at more closely, it vanishes. in fact it seems like it shrinks to a dot on the screen. kind of an 'alice in wonderland' effect.
since it's mostly fixed, i'm wondering what step 4 would do. the message makes it sound a little risky.
See this manual page:
Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual
Rebuilding will completely recreate the library from the parts in the Aperture library. It is a routine repair tool and in itself not risky, only I would never try it without having a working backup. The problem is, taht rebuilding can take a very long time - you would not want to invest the time, if it is unnecessary. Also, if something should happen in between - a system crash, a probem with the drive, you would be left with an incompletely rebuild library.
In your case, I doubt that the rotation would have been fixed by rebuilding, so it does not appear to be necessary.
Reagrds
Léonie
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