IPhoto crashes when burning

Question

Hi,
This topic as been talked about, but except for not having enough hard drive space for the disk image, no good solutions.
If I try to burn a DVD with my iMac G5 to back up my iPhoto library, iPhoto crashes. I say burn, a small window pops up, I click burn and iPhoto crashes.
iPhoto 5.04
I have enough hard drive space 179GB free on the 250GB drive!
iPhoto only thing running with 2 GB of memory. and ~1500 photos.
I can export the photos to a file and then burn that through the finder.
But, if I try to burn the iPhoto library with finder, it gives me a -43 error and won't burn.
I can burn through iDVD and through the finder other things, so it is not the MATSHITA DVD-R drive.
Trashed the iPhoto preference file, but it did not help.
So I used my PowerBook G4 laptop. Both computers on a LAN. (File sharing on). Moved my Powerbook iPhoto library ( so iPhoto could not find it), started iPhoto on the Powerbook, and when it asked for the library, I pointed to the iMac G5 library! I then went to burn a DVD and NO PROBLEM!!!
It burned just fine. I had thought it might be a problem with the library as it wouldn't burn through the finder but...
So I trashed the iPhoto application on the G5 and copied it over from the Powerbook, but it still crashed when trying to burn a DVD.
This is a bit long winded, but a lot of info (and clues?).
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
PowerBook G4, iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Answer 1

Hi,
This topic as been talked about, but except for not
having enough hard drive space for the disk image, no
good solutions.
If I try to burn a DVD with my iMac G5 to back up my
iPhoto library, iPhoto crashes. I say burn, a small
window pops up, I click burn and iPhoto crashes.
iPhoto 5.04
I have enough hard drive space 179GB free on the
250GB drive!
iPhoto only thing running with 2 GB of memory. and
~1500 photos.
I can export the photos to a file and then burn that
through the finder.
But, if I try to burn the iPhoto library with finder,
it gives me a -43 error and won't burn.
I can burn through iDVD and through the finder other
things, so it is not the MATSHITA DVD-R drive.
Trashed the iPhoto preference file, but it did not
help.
So I used my PowerBook G4 laptop. Both computers on a
LAN. (File sharing on). Moved my Powerbook iPhoto
library ( so iPhoto could not find it), started
iPhoto on the Powerbook, and when it asked for the
library, I pointed to the iMac G5 library! I then
went to burn a DVD and NO PROBLEM!!!
It burned just fine. I had thought it might be a
problem with the library as it wouldn't burn through
the finder but...
So I trashed the iPhoto application on the G5 and
copied it over from the Powerbook, but it still
crashed when trying to burn a DVD.
This is a bit long winded, but a lot of info (and
clues?).
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
PowerBook G4,
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  
Hi,
This is how I resolved the problem:
Since I was able to back up my iPhoto library thru my laptop (see my original posting. Connected to iMac thru LAN),
I trashed the whole iPhoto library and used the back up DVD to make a new one. I could then burn a copy thru the iMac.
Something was corrupted in the library. I have no idea why i could back up thru the Powerbook (LAN). That makes no obvious sense! If the library is corrupted it is corrupted! But I could and it worked! The backed up library was "fixed".
One other option (if you cannot make a backup like I did) is to export the library(I was still able to do this), trash the library, then recreate it by "adding to library". If you made notes, rotated photos, etc, you might loose that info, but I haven't studied that so I don't really know.
Let me know if you fix the problem.
Jeff