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Hi, everyone --
Ever since upgrading my PowerBook G4 to Mac OS 10.4, iPhoto 5 frequently stops responding for no apparent reason. It started immediately after upgrading to Mac OS 10.4 and not after loading a certain photo or roll of photos. I would say it occurs during four out of five iPhoto sessions.
The symptom is that the "spinning beach ball" appears and then never disappears. The only way I know to recover from this is to force quit iPhoto.
By the way, I never experienced this issue using iPhoto 5 under Mac OS 10.3 and have no issues in any other applications on my computer.
The problem has persisted through each point release update to both iPhoto 5 and Mac OS 10.4. I am currently up-to-date with the most recent point releases -- including the 5.0.4 update -- on both.
I've tried to notice if I'm doing something specific when it happens, but it's completely unpredictable. I have tried repairing disk permissions and rebuilding the iPhoto library by holding down Command + Option during launch -- a couple of times, in fact. If there is a more "radical" way of rebuilding the iPhoto library without losing my albums, keywords, titles, and comments I would be open to trying it.
-- Steve

Old Toad, my iMac has 40 GB of free space. I use it to run a slideshow while I'm at work. I do so little else on it that it is pathetic. I sincerely doubt that it is a cache problem. I will be glad to give that a whirl, but it's likely to be after Thanksgiving before I get an opportunity to do so.
As to my other two other iPhoto crippled G4s, I have done all the Onyx, cache cleaning, plist dumping, fsck start, and library rebuilding recommendations over and over. These are not making it work. I keep doing them because I hope I hit the magic bullet one of these days.
All other programs and functions are working on all of my computers. It is only iPhoto that has crapped out on me. The fact that iPhoto was working fine on my iMac right up until I imported the library from my ex. hard drive and that I have all that empty disc space on its hard drive makes it hard to believe it's a problem with the computer. I'm open to the idea that there are corrupted files, but the tower and the Powerbook have a different set of photos on them. Where is the mini program or feature in iPhoto to identify corrupted files?

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