Iphoto 1.1.1 unexpectedly quits

Question

After moving, with great difficulty, most of my photos from my old blueberry iBook, I can't launch the iphoto (on the blueberry) to try to retrieve some of the photos not transferred. The "unexpectedly quits" message appears; however, in Users/my name/ string, there are JPG photos that can be opened in preview. If I continue the string: Users/my name/Pictures/iPhoto Library some individually listed jpg photos can also be displayed, as can photos in one folder, but in my iPhoto/Albums/Albums folder, the photos can't be opened because "the original item connot be found."
What I've done so far:
- repaired disk permissions
- deleted iPhoto preference file: com.apple.iPhoto.plist
- have been unable to locate the 3 thumbnail files suggested for removal on the discussion boards.
In addition, the screensaver slideshow of photos had been appearing on the blueberry, but at some point while I was fiddling with this today, it was replaced by a black screen with a message to move images to the pictures folder or select "configure"??
I hope this makes sense & someone can help me.

Answer 1

Elk,
What files, exactly, did you move "with great difficulty"? Normally, there are two easy methods to transfer photos from one Mac to another with iPhoto. One is to make a copy of the entire iPhoto Library folder, and the other is to export to a folder, those images to be transferred. Neither of those methods would have had any impact on the original photo collection. If you did anything else, then it's likely that you have rendered your original iPhoto collection unusable.
Your only option is to create a new iPhoto Library, and manually harvest whatever images are left in the original, and import them into the new library.