IPhoto 6.0.5 Crashes when opening after asking to import photos not in lib

Question

Hi, I wonder if any one can help me with this. Each time i open iPhoto (6.0.5) I get a message stating "67 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library folder that were not imported. Would you like to import them?" if I click yes the program starts to import them then crashes. The next time I try to open the same message appears this time saying 96 photos have been found. Occasionally it will produce a dialogue box stating that some of the photos are duplicates and I check the box to same don't import but it the crashes in the same way. If I click no to the import iPhoto opens fine.
I have already tried doing a full rebuild of the cache and a repair of the disk permissions but the same problem occurs. Obviously the simplest solution is just to click no but is there any way of finding these photos in my Library and deleting them?
Black MacBook 2GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM OS 10.4.7    

Answer 1

Hi! Here's what I think is happening:
- A bad image or file in those 67 photos is causing iPhoto to crash.
- iPhoto, when it is trying to import, puts those photos in a temporary folder while it organizes the photos into the Originals folder by year and roll, creates thumbnails and does general tasks.
- Every time it encounters the bad file, it crashes and leaves the import unfinished. On relaunch, it wants to start importing again.
You have to break the cycle and hopefully find the bad image file. Go into your iPhoto Library and look for a folder called "Import". Remove that folder, or iPhoto will keep trying to import from it. You can manually attempt to import those 67 photos later, to identify the bad file.