IPhoto ´08 gets Stuck

Question

Hi there,
First entry here, so hello all!
Have my first Mac now since some Days. It came with Tiger, but i did the upgrade to Leopard 2 Days Ago. I have some Problems with iPhoto now. I can't tell if it came with the Upgrade to Leo, because i didn't use iPhoto on TIger.
Here is the issue:
When zapping through the Photos of an Event, and turning some of them, it happens quite often that iPhoto gets stuck. The "busy-collourwheel" apears, and iPhoto doesn't react anymore. When checking the running Processes 2 Processes are marked as "does not react":
- iPhoto
- UserEventAgent
I did read in another Topic here in the Discussions, that lots of other users have it on UserEventAgent too.
Hovever it's really sad, that such a cool Software than iPhoto is gets pretty useless, when it gets stuck all the time.
Maybe someone can help me?
Here some further Details:
Untill now it allways happened, when I was turnig a Photo. I had it in big fiew, so the fiew you have, when doubleclicking on a photo of an Event (so not screenfilled).
2nd small issue: The eject knob of my wireless KB seems not to do it's job.. how can i set it up right?
Well i think the iMac rocks. And i think i will not want to go back on a win PC anymore. now just iPhoto has to work as well, and am totally happy :o)

Answer 1

Britzel:
First delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder. See if that will help. Next, create a new temporary library, import a an event or two of photos and see if it will perform as intended. If it does, then your primary library is the culprit. In that case I'd get the paid version of iPhoto LIbrary manager and copy the events and albums from the problem library to the working one like this.
If the temp library doesn't work as intended log into another account and see if iPhoto will open and run there. If not then it's a system wide issue and maybe a reinstall of iPhoto would be warranted. If it does work OK in the other account then your primary account is suspect. In that case it could be a bad preference file other than iPhoto's. Here's how to check that out:
Trouble Shooting Preferences in Leopard
1 - Create a folder titled "Preferences A" on the Desktop.
2 - Open the working Preferences folder, HD/Users/your_name/Library/Preferences, and move the contents to the Preferences A folder on the Desktop.
3 - Make a duplicate copy of the Preferences A folder on the Desktop as a precautionary backup.
4 - With the working Preferences folder empty run the application again and determine if the problems is fixed.
5 - If the problem is fixed:
A - open the working Preferences folder (HD/Users/your_name/Library/Preferences).
B - Open the Preferences A folder on the Desktop, select all of the contents and drag them into the working Preferences folder.
C - When the Copy window pops up check the "Apply to All" check box and then click on the Don't Replace button as seen here.
5 - If the problem is NOT fixed, empty the working Preferencess folder and move the contents of the Preferences folder on the desktop back into it.