IPhoto 7.1 (iLife '08)/ Preferences

When I select "Preferences" in the latest iPhoto (7.1) nothing happens. Is there a secret to this new version?
Thank you

In Applications/Utilities/ there is an application called Console. Applications generally spit out some stuff there when they encounter problems, and often this is human-readable.
Sometimes it helps, sometimes not. I look there because it used to help in the infamous "locked files" scenario in iPhoto and some other issues.
Anything else you can think of that's different between your two machines? .Mac setup? Any other system preferences? I saw another discussion on the board with a similar problem and I've never seen it.

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I've copied my iPhoto library to a new computer and even though all pictures are in the library, about half of them are not visible in iPhoto v8.1 (iLife 09).
• Only 74 events of 219 are visible.
• Picture count on new computer is 2752 and 7709 on old computer in iPhoto
• iPhoto on older machine is v7.1.5 (iLife 08)
• New albums have been created on new machine that must have disappeared during previous iPhoto updates.
• Photo library size is 3 GB larger on new machine
• Running 10.5.8 on older machine and 10.6.1 on new machine
I've played with "Hide Photos" and no change.
Any one has any ideas how to correct this?
Thanx in advance.

Just an update on this...re-copied and I'm having the same issue. Here are some additional testing I did.
• Updated iPhoto to v8 (iLife 09) on the original machine (G5 PM) and no issues.
• Copied updated Library to new machine (iMac 3.06) and still same issue. Its running iPhoto 8.1
• Updated iPhoto to 8.1 on G5 and I'm encountering the same issue as the iMac. Only see 74 events out of some 220 events and 2752 pictures out of 7100 pictures.
Conclusion - iPhoto 8.1 (iLife 09) messes up something in my photo library.
TD - thanx for your quick feedback.
BTW - just got notification that a new iPhoto update, 8.1.1, is available! Going to try it and update the results here.

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If you want iPhoto for Mac, click on this link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/iphoto/id408981381?mt=12
If you want iPhoto for iOS, click on this link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/iphoto/id497786065?mt=8
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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
This is normal. OS X doesn't come with iLife apps, so you have to reinstall them after reinstalling Mac OS X.
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drew61:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The "!" means that the library has lost the file path to the original file. This happens when there has been an interruption to iPhoto while it is writing to it's database file, Library6.iPhoto. Moving, renaming files or folder inside the library package while in the Finder is another way you can get that indication. Try the three fixes below in order as needed:
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the first three options.
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Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 -Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 -Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your User/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
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Creating a new library while preserving the Events from the original library.
Move the existing library folder to the desktop.
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Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
Drag the Originals folder from the iPhoto Library on the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
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Thanks much.
Indeed after I moved back the apps, they are now updating. I guess that's the trouble for being too anal.
One more thing, after iPhoto is updated, it still gives me a message "A photo has been found in the iPhoto library that was not imported", but if I click "Yes", nothing was imported, and there is a Recovered Photo folder, but it was empty.
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It's pretty easy to do over again. Just go to the picture folder under your Home and drag the iPhoto Library folder to the desktop. Next time you launch iPhoto it will create a new library with nothing in it. Then you can re-import the old library from the external hard drive.
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