IPhoto '11 sits on 'Pending' when uploading to Facebook

Question

Aside from my many grumbles over iPhoto '11, which I won't bore you with as everyone else has done that plenty already, my biggest gripe with iPhoto is an issue that some people seem to have but nobody has said what/if it is resolved and that is uploading to Facebook.
Since I upgraded from iPhoto '09 to '11 I have been unable to upload to facebook, a feature that worked great in '09. I have done all the things that were suggested through various googling such as removing my facebook account in preferences and removing albums, but it still doesn't work. iPhoto can create a new album on my fb account, but that's it, when it tries to upload a photo it just sticks with a progress indicator bar saying 'Pending'... that's it.
What a rip off!
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
I have updated to version 9.1 (475) of iPhoto and I updated Mac OS X to 10.6.5 on Friday so afaik I'm up to date with all the iPhoto type updates.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I had this same problem, exactly. It was a brand-new install of iPhoto 11; and an empty library, not an upgraded one. I had uploaded an album or two to Facebook, and then it stopped working. Every time I'd restart iPhoto, the spinner next to the Facebook section would appear and start spinning. It wouldn't publish anything. My network monitor revealed that iPhoto was not sending or receiving any data, not even an occasional "ping". It said "pending", and would never finish. It would go for hours. Besides that, it wouldn't let me quit iPhoto. It would warn me that a sync was in progress, and ask if I wanted to cancel the sync and quit; but if I said yes, it still would never quit. The Quit menu item would gray out, and I would have to force quit it.
I tried removing the Facebook account from iPhoto and recreating it, but that did not help, until I followed the recommendation above, which is to delete the Facebook account from iPhoto, quit iPhoto, restart, and then add it back. That worked.
I've had so many problems with iPhoto 11. It was some cool changes, but it is far, far more buggy than the previous version. In fact, I had no significant problems with the previous version. Not sure what Apple did, but they really bungled this release. The annoying thing is that the bugs seem to be about very elementary things (accounts, permissions, and other low-level things), not the new whiz-bang features. I'd expect more from a shareware developer, but this is from a multi-billion dollar corporation.