Iphoto 08 don´t read the library

iphoto 08 don´t read the library. The library is 35 gigas, if I see the package contents and go to originals, I can see all the photos, but I need that the iPhoto reads my folders and everything in the same way that it did until 2 weeks ago. Any help??, thanks.

Easiest solution: Restore from back up.
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download <a href="http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/"><b><u>iPhoto Library Manager</b></u></a> 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.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
To create and populate a new *iPhoto 08* library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.

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Depress and hold the option key, launch iPhoto and use the resulting select library to look st the libraries you have
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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.
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Restore from your back up, repair the Library and try again.

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You have written a very long story, and I admit I have skipped most of it. But I think the question is you are on iOS 7, and cannot get the latest version of iTunes (11.1.5) on your computer because your OS X is too old.
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OS X 10.5 is very old (about four years). iTunes 11.1.5 (current version) requires at least OS X 10.6.8 to run. Very likely, you could upgrade your computer's software to at least OS X 10.6.8 and then download the current iTunes on it.
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I did this because my laptop became too full and I ran out of hard disk space. The original Library resides on an external hard disk.
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I tried DiskWarrior, assuming that there was a Directory malfunction. That did not help.
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First, thank you for keeping up with me.
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I am trying to manage under a same travel project different albums sorted by country.
So I created a project (World Trip) and I started to import the picture from the first country. I have created a folder (Russia) under which I created different album all related to that country. I have then attached all the pictures in the different albums.
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My next step was to import the pictures from the next country. So I launched the import of the Mongolian pictures, I have imported them inside the existing project, but I don't see them where I would expect them: under the project.
If you look at the screenshot above. Under the Travelling section, if I click Projects, in the browser view I see my only project and when mouse-hovering it I can see pictures from Russia and Mongolia. But if I double click on this project, the view is empty.
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I really don't get it. Even after reading the Aperture manual, it did not explain the behaviour I'm seeing.
If someone could explain me better what are projects and folders, and especially what is a folder within a project and vice versa.
Also, if you know how I could arrange (better) my photos? I would like to have all the pictures sorted by country, but within one main top structure. And under each country, I would have different albums, with subset of pictures, and sometimes pictures could be in more than one albums. How should I structure my library then?
I'm using Aperture 3.4.1.

IMO organizational structures that over-use Folders are what I call Folder-think or film-think, and should be avoided in favor of database-think. Try to use keywords and Albums as much as possible in your organizing in lieu of folders. A country, for instance, should simply be a keyword applied to all pix from that country; not a folder.
Organize into Projects first and import one Project at a time; it should only take a couple of minutes to import each Project. Larger Project sizes can slow some computers. Personally I set 500 as my arbitrary maximum number of images in each Project but your mileage will vary. Experiment to see what number of maximum images in a Project may or may not slow your particular setup/workflow down; my guess is that 500-image projects will be fine unless maybe you are shooting a D800 or if there are scan files involved.
Before importing one should:
• Back up the originals before importing into Aperture. This is an absolutely essential step to a safe workflow.
• Decide what keywords to batch-apply to each Project.
From an earlier post of mine on this topic:
Projects should be just that: individual-shoot (i.e. time) based projects rather than some kind of organizing tool for all the architectural photos or whatever. For performance reasons personally I keep each Project under 500 20-MB images, making a second Project if the shoot is large. E.g.
110829_KJones_Wed_A,
110829_KJones_Wed_B,
110829_KJones_Wed_C, etc.
One or more albums will always organize the KJones wedding pix together anyway. All three Projects (110829_KJones_Wed_A, 110829_KJones_Wed_B, 110829_KJones_Wed_C) would have the keyword "KJones_Wed" applied to each pic, which allows an Album "KJones_Wed" to be quickly created at any time.
The way I look at it conceptually:
Aperture is a database (DB), and each image file lives in one and only one Project.
Albums are just collections of Pointers that point to individual image files living in one or more Projects. Since they just contain pointers, albums can be created or deleted at will without affecting image files. Very powerful. And Albums of pointers take up almost zero space, so they are fast and do not make the Library size grow.
Keywords can be applied to every image separately or in batches. Keywords are hugely powerful and largely obviate the need for folders. Not that we should never use folders, just that we should use folders only when useful organizationally - - after first determining that using keywords and albums is not a better approach. Most of the time folders are inappropriately used.
As one example imagine the keyword "flowers." Every image of a 100,000 images Library that has some flowers in it has the keyword flowers. Then say we want to put flowers in an ad, or as background for a show of some kind, or to print pix for a party, or even just to look for an image for some other reason. We can find every flower image in a 100k-image database in 2 seconds, and in another few seconds create an Album called "Flowers" that points to all of those individual images.
Another example is a european train trip. It may be one Project but spans multiple countries in a few hours. No problem, just keyword each pic with the appropriate country and create an album for each country; or another album for some combination of countries (e.g. "Baltic," "Scandinavian," etc.).
Similarly all family pix can have a keyword "family" and all work pix can have a key word "work." Each individual pic may have any number of keywords. Such pic characteristics (work, family, flowers, country, etc.) should not be organized via folders.
So by using keywords and albums we can have instant access to every image everywhere, very cool. And keywords and albums essentially take up no space in the database.
Another (IMO poor) approach would be to use a folder "Family" for family pix, a folder "Flowers" for flowers pix and another folder "Work" for work pix. IMO such folders usage is a very poor approach to using an images database (probably stemming from old paper or film work practices). Note that one cannot put an image with family in a field of flowers at a work picnic in all three folders; but it is easy using keywords.
As an aside note that empirically many users find that even though the Aperture DB can contain hundreds of thousands of image files, no problem, individual Projects should be limited in size for speed reasons. Personally I limit Projects to a maximum of ~400 to ~500 RAW NEF files, but hardware and workflows vary.
HTH
-Allen

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