IPhoto 6 Can't Edit Photos

Question

I've just installed iPhoto 6 (and used 5, 4 etc), and I find that I can't Edit my pictures. When I try to edit a seleced picture in the Library, (via context menu, double-click or toolbar), either nothing happens, or the edit window opens, with thumbnails across the top, and nothing in the main window. If I try doing something in the edit window, I lock up iPhoto 6.
In the console log, I can see that each time I do this, a pair of errors is generated:
2006-01-11 22:00:37.157 iPhoto[536] * +[CIPlugIn _addPlugIn:allowNonExecutable:]: selector not recognized
2006-01-11 22:00:37.158 iPhoto[536] * +[CIPlugIn _addPlugIn:allowNonExecutable:]: selector not recognized
It seems to me that the file isn't getting passed along correctly.
Very disappointing to become one of the folks for whom an Apple program doesn't work out of the box. I don't think I've modified anything to interfere with iPhoto, so I'd appreciate any suggestions on what is going wrong.
Cheers,
Gregory

Answer 1

Hi Gregory,
Since iPhoto 6 is so new there is not much info to work on. Why don't you try reinstalling iLife 6.
Here are the instructions:
Navigate to /Applications and drag the iLife applications to the trash
Navigate to /Library/Receipts and drag all of the iLife receipts to the trash
Navigate to ~/Library/Preferences and drag com.apple.iPhoto.plist, com.apple.iMovie.plist, com.apple.iDVD.plist and any other plists for the iapps you have installed to the trash.
You do not have to touch iTunes or any files associated with iTunes.
Insert your iLife 6 DVD and choose to do a custom install.
Install all the iapps except iTunes.
Open itunes first, then iPhoto, then iMovie, then iDVD, then Garageband if you installed it. You can quit each application after you launch it.
Hopefully that will work.