Iphoto 6 cannot see pictures in full size

when I get on iphoto it shows me all my thumbnails. However, when I click on one I get a grey screen with a dashed outline and a guestion mark in the center. Help please.

Sc0tt
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At a wager, I'll guess that the landscape are the only one's affected as your wife has renamed folders in the Modified folder, and these pics have been auto-rotated. The reason you're catching glimpses of the pics is because they are cached images. In doesn't really matter, in any event, as if you want to use iPhoto you will first have to recreate the library.
Remember: It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss.
iPhoto is not an image viewer, it's a photo organiser, that is a database. Like any database it requires you to manipulate the data - in this case your pictures - within the app and not via a back door such as the Finder. The good news is that everything you need to do can be done via the iPhoto Window - including adding descriptions to folders names.
If you bear this in mind, iPhoto will work very reliably.
To create and populate a new library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same film rolls and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, books, calendars etc.
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual rolls to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
My guess is that you want to apply descriptions to folders to make it easier to find specific pics? There are three ways (at least) to get files from the iPhoto Window.
1. Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. Show File: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
Then there's rolls. Every import you make creates a roll folder in the iPhoto Library Folder / Originals Folder. In the iPhoto Window switch to Rolls View (View -> Film Rolls). This corresponds exactly to the roll folders. You can move pics between rolls, create rolls, edit them, rename them - as long as you do it via the iPhoto Window. Check out the info pane - the little 'i' button, lower left. The Name and Date fields are editable. Edit the name in the iPhoto Window and it will be changed in the Finder too. Plus you get the opportunity to name a roll on import too.
So: There's your folders with you descriptive names, there's how to get to a pic from the iPhoto Window.
And, yes, I'm sorry you'll have to re=rate your pics.
Always with iPhoto: Whatever you want to do can be - and must be - done via the iPhoto Window.
Canon cameras, specifically, do not appear on the Mac desktop. It's a characteristic of that brand. Workarounds include using a USB card reader.
By all means post again if you need more help.
Regards
TD

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