HT5037 iPhoto Library Upgrader Not Working Properly

I followed the instructions, but when i clicked 'continue' in the Library Upgrader to upgrade my older iPhoto library, the original message about how my iPhoto library needs to be upgraded popped up

What version of iPhot do you ave hat is gving you this message?
You say
am trying to upgrade the iPhoto library to transfer it to my new MacBook Air.
Instead move the libray to the MBA and upgrade it there using the version of iPhotot that is there - you can not upgrade it on the old system with the old version of iPhoto
And the library upgrader does not upgrade the library - it modifies version 7 and earlier libraries so that the new version of iPhoto can upgrade them successfully
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
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> ddomtso wrote:
>> I am a long time Dreamweaver user and recently
upgraded from 8 to CS3.
>> When I update a library item, (which is navigation
for 10+ pages), DM
>> asks me if I want updates the pages the library item
is on, let's call
>> them page1.html, page2.html, page3.html, etc.. I
click "Update". DW goes
>> to update the 1st page and asks if I want to check
it out. I click "Yes
>> to all" and DW checks out the page and then I get
this message:
>>
>> Dreamweaver is currently interacting with a server.
Since checking out a
>> file requires interaction with a server as well,
Dreamweaver cannot
>> currently perform this task.
>> Please try again when the server task is complete.
>>
>> Under DW 8 when I clicked "Yes to all" DW would go
and check out all the
>> pages the library item was on. CS3 updates only the
first page and the
>> gives the previous message. Can anyone suggest how
to get CS3 to check
>> out all the files like 8?
>> I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit and Adobe
Master collection.
> Murray knows a lot more about this than I do, but I use
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> except I have check out turned off (single user here).
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> temporary solution, you could do the same (turn of check
out) for the
> duration of the update. Just a thought.
>
> Harvey

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