Half the iphoto library won't display

I am using iphoto 2.0.1 the library is on an external hard drive (200gig) and all the pictures are in their folders. However I just went to look at pictures using iphoto and pictured downloaded between march 3 and today do not show. There are data files, thumbnail files and the year:month:day files with the correct jpeg files in them. How do I display these pictures (around 1000). As you can see I my computer is old and I am forcing 10.2.8 on it but until today everything was fine except the speed. There are 2 cards installed that support firewire 400 and usb 1.

Start iPhoto while holding the shift+option keys. Don't release them until you're prompted to confirm the intent to rebuild. Click "Yes", then click "Save".

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Tried deleting all relevant metadata (files in iphoto library folder and library>preferences)
What files did you delete in the iPhoto Library Folder, exactly?
Did not move or rename iphoto.app.
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Regarding not being able to open iPhoto. As a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Were you able to create a new library?
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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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2 - click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
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4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
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I'll try to be as detailed as I can:
I have a mid-2010 iMac. I backed-up and then wiped my Mountain Lion hard drive so that I could have a clean install of Mavericks. I am now in the process of importing my backed-up files, like iTunes and documents, from my external back-up to my new Mavericks machine. Everything in this process has worked so far. I moved the iPhoto library over from the external back-up to the proper location (Users->Pictures->iPhoto Library). Two hours later when the transfer was complete, rather than having a normol iPhoto Library icon (stack of pictures with a photo of a flower), the library appeared as a folder with a half done progress bar and an "x" close button in the corner.
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3 - however, if you get the navigation window
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Strangely enough we can not see you so it really helps if you share with use exactly what you have, exactly what you did and details about the problem
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Hello J have problem in the demarage d iphoto the dialogue displays and asks me for the following text? 138 photos not having been imported were found in the iPhoto library(bookcase). Would you care for import them? Yes or no you already have meet this

onjour
j ai des probleme au demarage d iphoto le dialogue s affiche et me demande le texte suivant ?
138 photos n’ayant pas été importées ont été trouvées dans la bibliothèque iPhoto.
Souhaitez-vous les importer ? oui ou non avez vous deja rencontrer ce proble si oui pouvez vous m aider
Merci
Hello
J have problem in the demarage d iphoto the dialogue displays and asks me for the following text?
138 photos not having been imported were found in the iPhoto library(bookcase).
Would you care for import them? Yes or no you already have meet this prowheat if yes can you m help
Thank you

Open your iPhoto Library package with the Finder as shown in this screenshot
and look in the folder named Auto Import. Move any files in that folder to a folder on the Desktop and close the package. Do not make any other changes. Launch iPhoto (the message should be gone) and drag the folder on the Dersktop into the open iPhoto window to import them.
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Colleen:
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Do you Twango?
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EDIT: Well, I was busily churning out my long reply while you were solving the problem. I'm glad it turned out well.

Rebuilt IPhoto Library does not display.

Recently my iPhoto has been crashing, probably because I unknowingly moved a file or files in the iPhoto Library with the Finder.
Heeding the advice posted throughout this forum I trashed the existing iPhoto Preferences file, the three thumb files, and rebuilt my iPhoto Library. (I don't recall in what order.)
I renamed my two respective iPhoto Libraries so now iPhoto automatically finds the new one.
In the Finder, the new iPhoto Library is nearly identical to the old one; it contains over 21 GB of photos, all arranged in their respective folders organized by year, month, and day created.
When I open iPhoto, however, neither the thumbnails nor the file names of the photos display.
In the "Source" pane, icons for "Early Photos," "2003," "2004," "2005," and "2006" appear under "Photo Library" but selecting them does nothing.
Nothing ever appears in the main "Organize" pane at all--it is completely blank. Below it "No photos" appears.
iPhoto will still display the pictures in the old Library, but it crashes almost immediately after I do anything.
Obviously there is some disconnect between iPhoto and the Rebuilt Library. Can anyone offer some insight?
Thanks.
Mike
Imac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

After considerable culling of unnecessary and redundant files I was finally able to free up enough disk space to conduct a second iPhoto library rebuild without having to delete the first rebuilt library.
Unfortunately I've run into problems once again.
Since the rebuild took 2 1/2 hours I wasn't watching the computer the whole time; when I returned iPhoto had crashed but the second rebuilt library seemed complete. My original library is 21.9 GB; my first rebuilt library is 21.28 GB and contains most of the photos of the original--my second rebuilt library is also 21.28 GB.
After the second rebuild I now have 3.98 GB free space on my hard drive (and 2GB RAM).
iPhoto will open the first rebuilt library, although as I described previously, it won't actually display any photos, rolls, or albums. In contrast, iPhoto will not open with the second rebuilt library at all.
When I attempt to open iPhoto and select the second rebuilt library the file selection window opens and all my iPhoto libraries appear in it. None of them are grayed out (as are non-selectable files) but nevertheless I cannot select the second iPhoto library or even highlight it. It does not provide any message--it simply does not respond.
Unlike the first rebuilt library, the second rebuilt library never contained a Dir.data file, an iPhoto.db file, a Library.iPhoto file, or an AlbumData.xml file. It did contain the three thumb data files, but after opening it failed initially I tried deleting these files thinking they might be problematic. That apparently had no effect. Right now the second rebuilt library only contains my photos organized in year, month, and day folders.
Previously Brie Fly stated that iPhoto automatically opens the newly rebuilt iPhoto library after a rebuild, however, the first time I opened iPhoto after the second rebuild attempt and subsequent crash it automatically opened the original iPhoto library.
I copied the error report from the iPhoto crash that occurred after my second library rebuild attempt. Please see below. Does it shed any light on the situation?
Also, to answer your question Brie Fly, I am able to close all the open rolls in my original library before iPhoto crashes. I did that and after a short while it crashed anyway without any other action on my part. I also tried quitting iPhoto after closing the rolls, but every time I do, regardless of whether there are open rolls or not, it does not quit but crashes. It seems impossible to quit iPhoto while using the original library without crashing. Furthermore, every time I open iPhoto after a crash the rolls I previously closed are once again open, and iPhoto informs me it has recovered 17 photos and put them in a folder named "recovered photos." Since this occurs every time I try to quit while using the original library I now have 88 identical folders of 17 recovered photos. I deleted many of these before but iPhoto just keeps making new ones.
Here is the report I received after iPhoto had crashed during/after the second library rebuild attempt:
Date/Time: 2006-09-12 10:19:35 -0400
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2
Command: iPhoto
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Version: 4.0.3 (4H2)
PID: 2631
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xbbffde60
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a395f0 -[NSPathStore2 stringByAppendingPathComponent:] + 0xfc
1 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00080c48 0x1000 + 0x7fc48
2 com.apple.iPhoto 0x000ad26c 0x1000 + 0xac26c
3 com.apple.iPhoto 0x000ad4b0 0x1000 + 0xac4b0
4 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0007f758 0x1000 + 0x7e758
5 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0007f858 0x1000 + 0x7e858
6 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00080394 0x1000 + 0x7f394
7 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0007bc54 0x1000 + 0x7ac54
8 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0005c2b8 0x1000 + 0x5b2b8
9 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0005e24c 0x1000 + 0x5d24c
10 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00044938 0x1000 + 0x43938
11 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a27a94 nsnotecallback + 0xb0
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901db118 __CFXNotificationPost + 0x1b4
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901dfb7c _CFXNotificationPostNotification + 0x340
14 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a258e0 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 0x74
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x97e95328 -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 0x70
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x97e95214 -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification] + 0x5c
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x97e95444 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 0x78
18 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a7af18 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 0x164
19 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a817b0 _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 0x78
20 com.apple.AE 0x90706a10 Z20aeDispatchAppleEventPK6AEDescPSmPh + 0xd0
21 com.apple.AE 0x90709858 Z25dispatchEventAndSendReplyPK6AEDescPS + 0x2c
22 com.apple.AE 0x90706c50 aeProcessAppleEvent + 0x11c
23 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x91b70224 AEProcessAppleEvent + 0x3c
24 com.apple.AppKit 0x97d84420 _DPSNextEvent + 0x358
25 com.apple.AppKit 0x97d9acc8 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 0x74
26 com.apple.AppKit 0x97daf048 -[NSApplication run] + 0x21c
27 com.apple.AppKit 0x97e6b764 NSApplicationMain + 0x1d0
28 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0011da3c 0x1000 + 0x11ca3c
29 com.apple.iPhoto 0x000046d4 0x1000 + 0x36d4
30 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00004554 0x1000 + 0x3554
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900127f8 syscallthreadswitch + 0x8
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a332d8 +[NSThread sleepUntilDate:] + 0x98
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x97d7c3ec -[NSUIHeartBeat _heartBeatThread:] + 0x494
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a6a4b8 forkThreadForFunction + 0x6c
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024990 pthreadbody + 0x28
Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90018e78 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 0x8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9000ea14 pthread_condwait + 0x268
2 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x96310570 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon + 0xb0
3 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x92a65b34 ReadSchedulerThreadEntryPoint + 0x1458
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024990 pthreadbody + 0x28
Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90018e78 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 0x8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9000ea14 pthread_condwait + 0x268
2 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x96310570 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon + 0xb0
3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x963103f4 _Z15AsyncFileThreadPv + 0x38
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024990 pthreadbody + 0x28
PPC Thread State:
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cr: 0x44002212 xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x90a395c8 ctr: 0x00000000
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Imac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Loss of photos resulting from rebuilding the iPhoto library?

On behalf of myself and Susan Pease: Can following the directions to rebulild the iPhoto library (by holding down the option and shift keys while opening iPhoto) result in a loss of the photos? Is there some precaution we should take to make sure that the photos are not lost?

Hi, aag. I didn't make myself clear, at least not to you. Inside your personal Home folder on your hard drive is a Pictures folder, and inside the Pictures folder is an iPhoto Library folder. You can see this folder structure by visiting your Home folder in the Finder. What I was advising against in my prior post is opening that iPhoto Library folder in the Finder and adding, deleting or moving any of its contents. Don't do that.
When iPhoto is open, what it displays is the contents of that folder. It expects to find them exactly as they were the last time you closed iPhoto, and it counts heavily on finding them structured exactly the way it structured them the last time you ran it. If you have changed anything in there while iPhoto wasn't running, you're going to have trouble: iPhoto won't load the library, it won't display all your pictures, some of your albums may be missing or incomplete, etc.
"Nobody has any business in there except iPhoto itself" means that the only methods you should use to tweak, edit, delete, import, copy, export or organize the photos in your iPhoto Library folder are the methods offered by iPhoto itself when it's running†. When iPhoto isn't running, leave your iPhoto Library closed and stay out of it.
† Note that, at least in iPhoto 4 (I'm not familiar with iPhoto 2), these allowable methods include the designation of a different application for use in iPhoto's Edit mode, allowing you to use Photoshop, GraphicConverter, etc. to tweak your photos without removing them from iPhoto's control. But under no circumstances should you import a photo from your camera into Photoshop or GC and then save it in your iPhoto Library folder without opening iPhoto and importing it properly. And similarly, you should never open one of the photos in your library with another application, make changes to it, and resave it in the same place (or worse, a different place in that folder) without going through iPhoto to do so.
If you can train yourself to think of the iPhoto Library folder as a locked box to which only iPhoto has the key, you'll be doing yourself a big favor.

IMac 20-inch on OSX 10.7.4 running iphoto 11, my photos from my iphoto library have been deleted. I have time machine but the iphoto library file is missing when I access time machine, help please.

I have an imac 20-inch Late 2006 model on OSX 10.7.4 running iphoto 11, somehow the application ccleaner has deleted my photos from my iphoto library. I have time machine but the iphoto library file is missing when I access time machine.
To restore photos I have followed the steps below
Quit iPhoto.
Connect your Time Machine drive.
In the Finder, open the folder containing your iPhoto Library. Unless you've moved your iPhoto Library, it can be found in Home/Pictures/iPhoto Library.
Enter Time Machine. (Time Machine can be found in the Dock or in the /Applications folder.)
Choose your desired backup. The timeline on the right side of the screen displays a purple tick mark for each of the backups stored on your Time Machine drive.
Select the iPhoto library you would like to restore, and click the Restore button.
I dont get the option in step 6 as I dont have an iphoto library file to choose? Does anyone know why?

Hi Barry
Thanks but as mentioned all is intact, even at step 3 I can see the current library in Home/Pictures/iPhoto Library which has no photos, but when I access time machine any point before the NOW option the iphoto library in Home/Pictures/iPhoto Library is missing from the finder window.
As you can see here it is
and now its gone. I have no explanantion.
How do I go about moving this question as you suggested.

Half the iphoto library won't display

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