IPhoto doesn't show thumnails

iPhoto 9.2.3 seems to have lost all my thumnail. all my events and albums have the same thumnail of me and when I open an album or event it doesn't show me the thumnail, it's an empty grey box. I have to click on the grey box to open the picture. What should I do?

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Include the option to rebuild the thumbnails. It can take 3 or 4 goes for this to work

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I would post in the iPhoto forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iphoto

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How are you getting the images into the library? You must import them. This is from the iPhoto help:
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If you’re using Mail, you can drag photos directly from an email into iPhoto. To import photos received when using another email client, including webmail, or when downloading photos from the web, first save the photos to your desktop or in a folder on your hard disk.
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iPhoto supports popular file formats such as JPEG, TIFF, and RAW. Other formats also work but are not fully supported.
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In iPhoto, choose File > “Import to Library.”
Navigate to the location of the photos you want to import (for example, a CD icon on your desktop or a scanned photo file saved in a folder on your hard drive).
Select one or more photos, or select an entire folder or disk.
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You can also drag individual photos or an entire folder from the Finder into the viewing area. If you drag a folder, one or more Events are created based on subfolders and the dates the photos were taken.
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Hi,
I have the iPhoto-Lib in the public folder of my user-account. All other users have full access to this folder and subfolder. When another user logs in and opens iphoto (no other user has iphoto open) it shows the preview off all pictures. He can open older pictures by double click. Newer Photos are not shown after double click. An triangle with exclamation mark shows up shortly after the picture was shown.
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Peter

Using that form of sharing the Library should be in the Users/Shared folder, not the Public folder.
However, lots of people report permissions issues with this form of sharing and instead I suggest using an external HD set to ignore permissions and formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
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TD

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Hello foo-on-air,
I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on the exact nature of what you are seeing. If you are having issues viewing all of your tagged photos in iPhoto for iOS, you may find the following article helpful, in particular this portion:
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SGMS,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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In the iPhoto keyword list, click on your first keyword to select it. Then use the down arrow key to highlight each keyword in succession. If you come across a blank space in the list that becomes selected, click on the - symbol below the list to delete it. I have seen several reports of a blank keyword causing the problem. Another easy check is to click on a keyword, then click Rename to highlight it. If you see a blank space before or after the keyword, delete the space.
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You click on an "event" and it brings up a picture from that event, however you can only see one picture. Clicking left-right on either the buttons or the keyboard move you to different events, not to different pictures. You have tried to go to "View -> Thumbnails -> Show" but it's all gray, meaning theoretically you ARE in thumbnail view, even though you can only see the one picture.
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this is a known bug (or maybe a "feature" - who knows)
Please provide feedback to Apple re this to be sure they understand users view of it - iphoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
LN

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