IPhoto 9.3.2 crashing on startup after upgrade to 10.8 then 10.8.1

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Help,
after opening iphoto this morning and importing a bunch of photos from my camera I started getting constant crashes. I successfully imported the photos (first connection), then I took some more and connected my camera agian for a second import. Shortly after that iphoto (9.3.2) crashed. At that stage I was running 10.8. I have unable to successfully open iphoto all day - at least 20-30 attempts. I have restarted. Verified and repaired disk permissions. Verified the disk. Ran a hardware test. No apparent problems and no improvment to iphoto. I downloaded the 10.8.1 upgrade this afternoon - no fix.
I have ran the rebuild with iPhoto Library Manager - built a new library but could not connect to iphoto to complete the library copy/rebuild.
This is not the only crash problem I have been experiencing with Moutain Lion. I have also had similar, yet not as persistent, problems with iTunes - requiring a new libary rebuild. This caused all of my apps to disappear off my ipad. They still existed in the media files (music/itunes/media/etc) but had to be manually copied back to the itunes lib.
Also third party apps are crashing. Vectorworks 2012, Livesribe, Endnote X5.
Upgrading to Mountain Lion was the worst apple software experience I have ever had. I'm a 10-15 year user.
It took me clean installing 7 times. Back tracking to Snow Leopard, then a new user install of 10.8. Took me 4 days and required too many time machine recoveries. I seemed to have some serious corrupt file issues rleated to using migration assistant over a number of machines????
I digress.Back to iPhoto. Any ideas of this error report:
Process:         iPhoto [838]
Path:            /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:      com.apple.iPhoto
Version:         9.3.2 (9.3.2)
Build Info:      iPhotoProject-670063000000000~1
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [305]
User ID:         503
Date/Time:       2012-09-02 19:53:38.315 +1000
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.1 (12B19)
Report Version:  10
Interval Since Last Report:          7451 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           1010
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  4156 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   7
Anonymous UUID:                      22997E21-443E-4329-84B8-5010A0075397
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000ddcf9089
VM Regions Near 0xddcf9089:
    CG backing stores      00000000c4df0000-00000000c537d000 [ 5684K] rw-/rw- SM=SHM 
-->
    Submap                 00000000ffff0000-00000000ffff1000          r--/r-- process-only submap
Application Specific Information:
dyld: in dladdr()
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   dyld                                    0x8fecc200 dladdr + 202
1   libdyld.dylib                           0x92e79d0b dladdr + 80
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x9a294386 backtrace_symbols + 93
3   com.apple.Foundation                    0x981e19fc -[_NSCallStackArray objectAtIndex:] + 145
4   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92bb17db -[NSArray getObjects:range:] + 251
5   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92b73a89 -[NSArray initWithArray:range:copyItems:] + 729
6   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92c546f7 -[NSArray copyWithZone:] + 119
7   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x96ee69e3 -[NSObject copy] + 41
8   com.apple.AddressBook.framework          0x96837faa -[ABAddressBookImpl init] + 164
9   com.apple.AddressBook.framework          0x96837930 -[ABAddressBook nts_InitAddressBookWithDatabaseDirectory:options:] + 98
10  com.apple.AddressBook.framework          0x968377ed -[ABAddressBook nts_InitDefaultContactManager] + 144
11  com.apple.AddressBook.framework          0x968375ee +[ABAddressBook nts_SharedAddressBook] + 106
12  com.apple.AddressBook.framework          0x96837490 +[ABAddressBook nts_CreateSharedAddressBook] + 68
13  com.apple.AddressBook.framework          0x968365f5 +[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] + 180
14  com.apple.imcore                        0x04d57a08 0x4ce8000 + 457224
15  com.apple.imcore                        0x04d2c061 0x4ce8000 + 278625
16  libdispatch.dylib                       0x942f9d0a _dispatch_client_callout + 46
17  libdispatch.dylib                       0x942f9c79 dispatch_once_f + 57
18  libdispatch.dylib                       0x942fa899 dispatch_once + 31
19  com.apple.imcore                        0x04ce987a 0x4ce8000 + 6266
20  com.apple.imcore                        0x04d26038 0x4ce8000 + 254008
21  com.apple.imcore                        0x04cf321e 0x4ce8000 + 45598
22  com.apple.imcore                        0x04cf3084 0x4ce8000 + 45188
23  com.apple.imcore                        0x04cf036c 0x4ce8000 + 33644
24  com.apple.imcore                        0x04d0b227 0x4ce8000 + 143911
25  com.apple.imcore                        0x04d0c6e6 0x4ce8000 + 149222
26  com.apple.imcore                        0x04cf2e59 0x4ce8000 + 44633
27  com.apple.imcore                        0x04cf2bef 0x4ce8000 + 44015
28  com.apple.imcore                        0x04d192e6 0x4ce8000 + 201446
29  com.apple.imcore                        0x04d1bc13 0x4ce8000 + 211987
30  com.apple.imfoundation                  0x04dac28d 0x4d9f000 + 53901
31  com.apple.imfoundation                  0x04daddca 0x4d9f000 + 60874
32  libobjc.A.dylib                         0x96ee64ee +[NSObject performSelector:withObject:] + 69
33  com.apple.Foundation                    0x981b0200 __NSThreadPerformPerform + 395
34  com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92b39dcf __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 15
35  com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92b398c9 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 441
36  com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92b5f576 __CFRunLoopRun + 934
37  com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92b5ed6a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378
38  com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92b5ebdb CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
39  com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x92ed38aa RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 242
40  com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x92ed3545 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 162
41  com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x92ed3494 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88
42  com.apple.AppKit                        0x907b7a5a _DPSNextEvent + 724
43  com.apple.AppKit                        0x907b728c -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119
44  com.apple.AppKit                        0x907ad6dc -[NSApplication run] + 855
45  com.apple.AppKit                        0x907508e6 NSApplicationMain + 1053
46  com.apple.iPhoto                        0x00010f40 0x1000 + 65344
47  com.apple.iPhoto                        0x00010409 0x1000 + 62473
Thread 1:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x986640ee __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x9a2a704c _pthread_workq_return + 45
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x9a2a6e19 _pthread_wqthread + 448
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x9a28ecca start_wqthread + 30
Thread 2:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x986649ae kevent + 10
1   libdispatch.dylib                       0x942fccc5 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 993
2   libdispatch.dylib                       0x942fc7fd _dispatch_mgr_thread + 53
Thread 3:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x986640ee __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x9a2a704c _pthread_workq_return + 45
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x9a2a6e19 _pthread_wqthread + 448
3   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x9a28ecca start_wqthread + 30
Thread 4:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-priority
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x986617d2 mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x98660cb0 mach_msg + 68
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92b59cc9 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 185
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92b5f6af __CFRunLoopRun + 1247
4   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92b5ed6a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378
5   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x92b5ebdb CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
6   com.apple.Foundation                    0x981b8a86 -[NSRunLoop(NSRunLoop) runMode:beforeDate:] + 278
7   com.apple.AppKit                        0x906d0627 -[NSAnimation(NSInternal) _runBlocking] + 458
8   com.apple.AppKit                        0x906d043e -[NSAnimation(NSInternal) _animationThread] + 79
9   com.apple.AppKit                        0x906d03d6 __42-[NSAnimation(NSInternal) _runInNewThread]_block_invoke_0 + 36
10  libdispatch.dylib                       0x942fdfe3 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 15
11  libdispatch.dylib                       0x942f9d0a _dispatch_client_callout + 46
12  libdispatch.dylib                       0x942faf6a _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 285
13  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x9a2a6e12 _pthread_wqthread + 441
14  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x9a28ecca start_

Answer 1

I was having a similar problem.  After upgrading to iPhoto 9.3.2, it was continuously crashing when I tried to open it.  I re-installed OSX, upgraded to Mountain Lion, checked my memory, installed a new HD, deleted every plist, db, and cache, did a complete re-install of all of my applications and data only to have none of it work.  The final solution was very unsophisticated, I installed an old version of iLife11 which "broke" the installation of iPhoto (it wouldn't run at all) and then I installed a fresh copy of iPhoto 9.3.2.  Problem solved!  I certainly don't guarantee that this will work for anyone else, but I wanted to pass it along just in case it works for someone else.