IPHOTO 09+SNOW LEOPARD= TOTAL CRASH !

Question

Last july I upgraded from Tiger , iphoto 06, Powerbook G4 to the newest MBP 2,26,2 gb, 500 gb, iphoto 09 and now Snow Leopard.
The first migration was not so bad. But There were many duplicates and many Thumbnails without original pictures. so the library became of 95,000 jpgs (originally 25,000). after Trying to clean it (using Duplicator annihilator, and the script to delete vacuum spaces) i decide to create another library, re-importing pictures from the PB, now with more carefully.
The new library was ok, only 25,000 pics. Another time i got thumbnail without pictures and it was very slow, I tried to rebuilt the library and after this I found thumbnails and related pictures.
A week ago, i upgrade to snow leopard... TOTAL CRASH!
Opening Iphoto and trying to open a picture... crash
...In Italy we say "dalla padella nella brace"...
After reading many posts and forums
I tried to:
- Rebuilt library
- Trash iphoto and re-install it
- Upgrading Ilife 09 with the last support
- Check permissions of Iphoto and of all the disk
- create another user, (using the same library)
Nothing to do to Iphoto, is still Crashing.
I'm thinking to my old powerbook...
Now i'm using Aperture, Trial version, using iphoto library. It's no bad, but a little bit slow, But next month i'll must to pay It!
Please help Me!.. I loved iphoto (the old one)
and sorry for my English
many greetings from Naples, italy...

Answer 1

"+Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder."
*Done. Still slow, but not stopped. A little bit better.*
(Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)+
*How i can reset my account options? Some things are different in Italian language.*
+Doing this:+
+create another user, (using the same library)+
+Is pointless as the problem is the Library. In the new account simply create a new Library to see if it works.+
+Post the Crash Log.+
*It's not a really crash, but an endless waiting with the multicolor circle. After many minutes i have to make an hard exit (commandoptionesc)*
+Happened because you imported one library to another, as opposed to simply updating it.+
*How I can do a simply update? Using "import" in the archive menu?*
*But so I must move the library to import in another folder, because i can't import from other iphoto library folder. I will try it.*
*thank's Terence, You're great.*
riccardo
Message was edited by: miluleo