IPhoto freezes mac

To the point of absolute stop.
i Cannot boot the computer anymore as when I turn the mac on it auto loads iPhoto and freezes everything... Dock, shortcuts, menus everything.
i Cannot access the menu to close the apps on reboot, I cannot force quit.
i Have to post this from the iphone.
what the **** do I do now?
OH, mac, iphone everything is fully updated

That was a bit drastic, but if you do not want use iPhoto, it may be the perfect solution for you.
after finding out that iPhoto cannot cope with a large (25gb) photo library and the file was corrupt..
Just for the record - iPhoto can cope with a library with 1 000 000 photos; the size of your library cannot have caused this.
There must be another problem. Either you have been running out of disk space with less than 10GB free space, your library may have contained a corrupted image, or you may have installed incompatible third party software. All of these may cause the symptoms you described.

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