I opened iPhoto this morning and all I have is a black screen with the circle thing that says it is working going on. It says the program is in Slideshow (at the bottom)  I have treid restarting, opening iPhoto andtrying to change display, etc.

I cannot get iPhoto to open.  It "opens" in Slideshow which shows that it is "working" but no pictures show, I cannot get out of slideshow.  I cannot see my pictures although if I tell Picasa to import photos from iPhoto it does so I assume they are there...

1. Back up your Library now. You don't use iPhoto to back it up, you can do it simply by dragging the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder to the External Disk
2.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

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