IPhoto 9.01 update - a cautionary tale

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I upgraded from iPhoto 8 to iPhoto 9 with the iLife 11 pack and it was fine. The library of about 7000 pictures upgraded very quickly too. A couple of days ago I allowed Software Update to update iPhoto to 9.01 and it refused to boot. In Activity Monitor iPhoto was showing as running and using 100% of the CPU but it was not showing in the Dock or when app switching using CMD-Tab. The acyivity log showed lists upon list of stuff happening which was meaningless to me, and nothing which was obviously an error. I'm no programmer though and I don't really need to know what was happening I restored 9.00 from Time Machine and it works fine again, so I'll be avoiding 9.01 I think. I obviously didn't have the library issue associated with 9.00 and I suppose there are no other obvious changes.

I have this, too. With 9.01 and also with 9.1 ... So I am using 9.0 happily.

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