IPhoto 5.0.4 won't open

I have been using iPhoto since late 2003 to store digital photos. As the library has increased, start up time has taken increasingly longer. Approximately two weeks ago, it refused to open or start up at all. Using "Preview", I was able to review photos from the last photo down load and discovered unreadable, "corrupted" photos in the Library. I was fortunate that these same photos are still on the memory card of my camera. I transferred those to the trash. iPhoto still will not open. I followed the instructions of an earlier posting and transferred the entire "iPhoto Library" to an external hard drive and renamed the iPhoto Library remaining on the hard drive - "Old iPhoto Library". I dragged "Old iPhoto Library" onto the desk top. I then followed the instructions to start iPhoto, using the external drive's "iPhoto Library" as the photo source. iPhoto still will not open, giving me the same error message. I then disconnected the external drive. When starting iPhoto without the external drive, iPhoto asked me to create a "new" iPhoto Library. When I followed this instruction, iPhoto opened successfully, with a blank iPhoto Library! I shut down iPhoto, trashed the new iPhoto library and tried to reopen using the external drive iPhoto Library. Once again it refused to open. Any suggestions as to what may have happened and what I can do to fix or repair?
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Hi Ed,
Since iPhoto opened a new library we can rule out iPhoto.app as the problem. It seems the problem is coming from the data files or corrupted photos in your iPhoto Library. You might want to download iPhoto Library Manager and use the rebuild option within that app. It has resurrected corrupt libraries in the past.
If the IPLM rebuild is unsuccessful, it might be better to create a new library and import the photos from the old library.
iPhoto Library Manager
iPhoto Library Manager documentation
this page will show you everything you can do with iPhoto Library Manager.
Following are the instructions to create a new library if all else fails.
Close iPhoto
Rename your messed up iPhoto Library to "iPhoto Library_old"
Drag this library to your desktop
Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
This is the window you will get
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library
Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
Go to File>add to library
Navigate to the old library on your desktop and highlight it in the window, then click the "import" button.
iPhoto will start importing the images from your old library
This is what to expect:
Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
Once all you images have been imported, check through the library and make sure everything looks ok.
You can now start making your Albums, and do your keywords or any other organizational steps.
You can also delete the old library on the desktop.
It is also a good time to backup this new library to CD/DVD by burning the iPhoto LIbrary folder in the Finder, or copying the iPhoto Library folder to an external drive formatted for Macs, or copying the iPhoto LIbrary folder to an iPod.
Good luck!
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