Iphoto failure
I just got my new macbook pro and when I clicked on iphoto, all that came up was a notice box that read 'You can't open the application iPhoto because it may be damaged or incomplete.' I'm not sure what I might have done wrong because I downloaded the applications disc. (And since I am new to macs, I am unsure of how to fix this problem.)
Thank you!
To re-install iPhoto
1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)
2. Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name. On 10.6 those receipts may be found in the Finder using the Go menu and selecting Go To Folder
In the resulting window type
/var/db/receipts/
3. Re-install.
If you purchased an iLife Disk, then iPhoto is on it.
If iPhoto was installed on your Mac when you go it then it’s on the System Restore disks that came with your Mac. Insert the first one and opt to ‘Install Bundled Applications Only.
Regards
TD
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On 2 April, she logged into the App store and, using her Apple ID, she downloaded and installed Mavericks. Her 7 year old iMac is currently running OS X 10.9.2.
I tried to launch iPhoto and got the alert <You can’t use this version of the application ‘iPhoto’ with this version of OS X.’
When I went to App Store > Updates > iPhoto, the App store screen opened with her Apple ID already filled in and the password blank. Filled in the password and were greeted with: Update unavailable with this Apple ID. This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or canceled.”
FWIW, since 2 April, she was offered and accepted the Security Update 2014-002.
Also, under Store in the menubar, there is : Sign out (so she is signed in) and View My Account, followed by her correct Apple ID name.
Found, under the App Store categories, a small screen shows: Welcome (her name), Account, Redeem, Support.
When I clicked on Account, we were asked for the password and then were taken to the Account and all the information was correct.
Can anyone suggest why she is being greeted with the - Update unavailable with this Apple ID. This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or canceled.”
I believe she has to buy a new copy, but how do we get iPhoto at the App Store to change from Installed to Purchase? Delete the non-functional copy of iPhoto from her iMac?
Thanks ever so muchHelping out my neighbor.
On 2 April, she logged into the App store and, using her Apple ID, she downloaded and installed Mavericks. Her 7 year old iMac is currently running OS X 10.9.2.
I tried to launch iPhoto and got the alert <You can’t use this version of the application ‘iPhoto’ with this version of OS X.’
When I went to App Store > Updates > iPhoto, the App store screen opened with her Apple ID already filled in and the password blank. Filled in the password and were greeted with: Update unavailable with this Apple ID. This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or canceled.”
FWIW, since 2 April, she was offered and accepted the Security Update 2014-002.
Also, under Store in the menubar, there is : Sign out (so she is signed in) and View My Account, followed by her correct Apple ID name.
Found, under the App Store categories, a small screen shows: Welcome (her name), Account, Redeem, Support.
When I clicked on Account, we were asked for the password and then were taken to the Account and all the information was correct.
Can anyone suggest why she is being greeted with the - Update unavailable with this Apple ID. This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or canceled.”
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1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash) (You can skip this step).
2. Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name
3. Re-install.
If you purchased an iLife Disk, then iPhoto is on it.
If iPhoto was installed on your Mac when you go it then it’s on the System Restore disks that came with your Mac. Insert the first one and opt to ‘Install Bundled Applications Only...’
Regards
TD -
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Movie to AppleTV
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Movie to iPHone
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Sorry,
Yes, the error message is exactly like that ("Database error: failured to persist version")
No photos will import at all. I use USB to import from iPhone 5s or iPad 2.
About the difference? iPhoto and Photos . Are there two softwares?
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, can I throw the app away and download a new one? or will it still not open?
You could, but the error message is indicating that your iPhoto library needs repairing.
Check, if iPhoto will run, if you launch it on a new library. Hold down the alt/option key, while you launch iPhoto. Select to create a new library from the panel that will show. Can you create a new library? If yes, try again to fix the library. Which options have you tried from the Library First Aid panel, when you launched iPhoto with the option and command key held down?
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Power failure then iPhoto library= POOF! :-( PLEASE HELP!
Power failure then iPhoto> library= POOF!
We had a power failure and of course iPhoto was open when my computer was improperly shut down. After powering up, I did the following; repaired permissions and ran disk utility (no problems found).
Upon opening iPhoto (6.03) I got the rebuild thumbnails message, and I said cancel (I was going to do it later), then IPhoto opened and it was BLANK! all 5000+ images were GONE! I am assuming the library got corrupted somehow on either the bad crash, or the canceling of the rebuild option.
Now, I am a bit neurotic about my pics, so I choose to make my own finder folders of pic when I take them off the camera, and then import into iPhoto that way. So the good news is I still have all my original pictures in folders in the finder.
From reading various threads here, and Googleing + Macfixit, etc etc. This is what I have done to try to recover my library. (not necessarily in this order)
[list]
[*]Trash/recreate the iPhoto plist preferences
[*]Clear caches using Cocktail software
[*]Repaired permissions (in Disk utility), and then repair iPhoto library folder permissions usuing instructions found here using Batchmod software
[*]Rebuild the iPhoto library (option, command) and selecting the 3 proper checkboxes.
[*]Ran iPhoto Library Manager software to rebuild the database with no success. I get the error message "This Library cannot be rebuilt because its XML file contains no data".
[*]Updated to iPhoto 6.04/repaired permissions and disk utility.
[/list]
Each time iPhoto loads completely blank and void of my photos!
My assumption is the XML file is corrupt since I am getting that message in iPhoto Library Manager.
So what to do? And hear are my questions /issues.
I would certainly like to preserve my 4 years of customization of keywords, titles , folders, smart folders, etc. (which I assume is held in the now corrupt XML file?).
What is the best way to recover my customization and most importantly the images!
I realize I can just re-import all my images from my original finder image folders that I have, but I assume this method will not recover my keywords ,etc?
Is there a way to recover my customization?
I do have a fairly recent backup of my iPhoto folder on a backup drive ( I think!) It does not have all my newer pics in it, but as I mentioned I do still have all my .jpgs, just not in iPhoto!
Thanks in advance for reading and any help offered!
PBG4 1.33 2gig Mac OS X (10.4.6) 120 gig hdI got all my pictures AND everything else back, folders, ratings, keywords etc
Fortunately I had a backup of the entire iPhoto library folder, it was about 3 months old (I know shame on me) so I didn't want to just use the entire backup folder and lose 3 months of photos.
So I just copied the AlbumData.xml file and the Library6.iPhoto file. PRESTO all my pictures were back WITH all the folders,keywords etc, etc intact!! (up till the 3 month old backup point).
Then I just re-imported the missing 3 months worth of pictures from the original folder in the iphoto library folder. So all I had to recreate was 3 months worth of customization. WHEW!!
Reading through the discussions it seems there is a fair number of users where iPhoto would go empty, but they knew the images were still on the computer. I am not a programmer, but it seems silly to me the their are files that get re-written everytime iPhoto closes....computers crash. and then what happens to the files? Mine got corrupted, lesson learned BACKUP more frequently!!
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Hi, Anyone else had this problem?
iPhoto import Browser failure.
No Events or Albums show, although PhotoBooth is visible, error message 'Open iPhoto 5 or later to see photos...'
This used to work, but not since installing Security Update 2010-006 (1.0),
with "iTunes" (10.0.1) and JavaForMacOSX10.6Update3.
Using iPhoto '09 (8.1.2), iMovie '09 (8.0.6).
Heard mention that now only alpha-numeric characters are allowed for file names and titles, so started replacing "&", apostrophes, etc. But there are a LOT of photos to change!
Console shows:
[0x0-0x15015].com.apple.iPhoto[264]
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Can no longer drag items from iPhoto either!
Any ideas of how to proceed (and remain sane)?Hi,
I've had something like this, since October.
Firstly, In the Utilities folder, open Disk Utility, select the disk where the Applications are (Main hard disk) click First Aid, then "Repair Permissions". Leave it running with nothing else open.
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Seen an Apple support doc 'Cannot see iPhoto in other Apps', basically you may be right about ampersands & apostrophes.
In iPhoto, look at all your smart album names for non-alpha-numeric characters, and replace or delete the possible culprits. I had lots of these, including brackets (which were not a problem until recently). Keep checking your smart albums to find others, such as these: !@£$%^&()[]{}'\"|~.
Quit iPhoto and all other iLife Apps, then in your home folder, Library, Preferences, move 'com.apple.iApps.plist' to the desktop (this will be recreated when you next open an iApp/iLife application, such as iPhoto).
You may need to remake the iPhoto AlbumData.xml file, after all that name editing. See later.
Open iMovie and click the photo browser icon, if you still get the message, rather than Albums and Events, Quit iMovie.
Open iPhoto, double check your source list for folders which you may have smart albums in, (click the triangle to the left of any folders that you've made to reveal their contents). Repeat the search and replace of special characters. I'd missed a few, hiding in folders.
Now would be a good time to remake the iPhoto 'AlbumData.xml' file.
Quit all applications, go to your Pictures folder, iPhoto Library, ctrl-click, 'Show package contents', drag 'AlbumData.xml' to the desktop.
Close the finder windows.
Open iPhoto, create a new album, then Quit, (this should remake the xml file).
Open iMovie again and click the photo browser icon. This is the point where I had success, I hope it works for you as well.
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Dear MAC-Friends.
PLEASE HELP ME.
I am extremely afraid to do something wrong - what will be a failure so I loose all the photos I had in my iphoto library before installing the Mountain Lion.
I have just installed the MOUNTAIN-LION and now I can´t use my Iphoto-programme without answering the following question:
Choose another Library ? ( But I only want the choose the photos which one was in the old iPhoto-Library and not the other photos on the MAC-computer ? ).
and the other possibility is:
Create a new Libray ! Which iPhoto-library ?
And why create a new and to risq to loose the old photos.
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Kind regards FINN GRABOWSKIOk. Let me first ask you, do you have any backups of your files - for example, do you use Time Machine or any other backup system?
Next, quit iPhoto. In the Finder, go to your Pictures folder. Is there a file there called iPhoto.Library? How large is it? (If it doesn't show the size, click once on it, click cmd-I to see the information). If it's a healthy size (ie, several GB), then that should be your library, and you can double-click it to launch iPhoto. (The application will remember where your library is next time, you can just launch iPhoto normally).
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Matt -
When restoring Time Machine after a failure, does it also restore the files to the same order, for example - within iPhoto I have pics/ videos in folders and sub folders organised as family/events etc - will it go back to this exact order after a restore?
Hi Stavros0203,
When restoring your entire system from a Time Machine backup, it is restored to the state it was when that backup was made. See this article for reference -
OS X Yosemite: Recover your entire system
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L -
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my photo's were in a 9.2.3 version of iPhoto. Now I can't move my library across. Help
What exactly is the problem?
You are now running Mavericks. What version of iPhoto do you now have installed? If you restored an iPhoto 9.2.3 version, it will not work with Mavericks, you first need to update iPhoto to the current version 9.5.1. Check, if you are seeing an update on the "updates" tab of the App Store, when you sign in with your Apple iD, or on the "Purchased" tab in the "Accept" portion of the tab.
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