IPhoto freezes while emptying photos in trash?

I have iphoto 4.0.3 and need to delete photos to free up memory space. When I select "empty trash" from the file menu, the application freezes and I have to use force quit in order to shut it down. Has anyone else experienced this problem, and is there another way to delete photos from iPhoto? I have 3000+ photos in my trash and am desperate to free up memory space! Thank you in advance!

How long did you wait before invoking a "Force Quit"?
In iPhoto, go to the trash folder, select 8 or 10 of the images, then simultaneously press Command+Delete. Do those selected images go away?

Similar Messages

IPhoto freezes while importing photos

I have tried every help suggestion I can find in the Apple Support Community...repairing Library, rebuilding Library, iPhotoManager rebuild, created a new account and had same issue trying to import, deleted preference files, etc.
I'm running OS version 10.9.2 on an iMac. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

IPhoto freezes when ordering photo

As of today - 29 May 2012, iPhoto freezes when ordering photo prints with the message..
'There was a problem communicating with the Apple Online Store. Please try again.'
I had to 'Force quit' iPhoto to continue.
OK, so maybe the store is down but surely that should not affect the software on both of my computers?
Andy Forrest

It's OK now - I see the store is open again - but it does seem odd that lack of store makes te application freeze solid!

Iphoto freezes while importing iphone photos.

My iphone screen cracked (is 75% grey) and I need to get a new iphone asap. I am trying to sync and it syncs through itunes fine but iphoto freezes halfway on same photo (number each time -I have deleted the photo it stops on but that didnt help.) I have tried force quit and restarting but it does the same thing. Help! I have a new laptop is there a way to sync my old iphone to the new laptop without losing everything? Thanks!

Try getting the photos off the iPhone using Image Capture in your Applications folder.

Iphoto freezes while viewing pix

Iphoto almost always freezes while looking thru pix - the coloured ball comes up and stays like that, I either have to option-apple-escape or I think I can force quit and then the iphoto send error report box comes up, any ideas?

Rebuild your library - launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) and command (apple) keys - use the first three options
If this doesn't work download iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - and use its rebuild function - this will create a totally new library so it if does not do it you will still have your original library
LN

IPhoto crashed while importing photos

While importing photos, iPhoto crashed. Now the pictures are damaged. Is there a possibility to regain them or salvage them?

I recovered the pictures in "Today" but they are damaged. You see the pictures in iPhoto but they are very small and there is no information about the picture availabe (shuttertime, diafragma etc).
Those are not your photos, only the thumbnails used for display.
Option 1
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. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

IPhoto freezes after 46 photos exported

I Photo freezes after 46 photos. I have tried by eliminating photos and moving them around but it still freezes. I am trying to export an album of photos to burn to a CD and it just won't work.
It exports the first 46 then tells me it cannot export the photo which would be 47. But that should not be the case, since #47 is not the same photo when i go back after moving them around and deleting some.

Where are you exporting to and how much free space do you have on your boot drive. A test you can run is to launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import more than 47 photos and check to see if the same problem persists.
If it doesn't then the problem lies with your current library.
If it does then it could be an application issue, user account issue or system issue.
Report back with the results.
OT

IPhoto Stalls While Uploading Photos To Shared Photo Stream

Hi,
I'm running OSX Mavericks and iPhoto 9.5.
I created a new Event in iPhoto and imported my photos.
I selected all images (71 off) and clicked Share -> iCloud.
I created a new shared Photo Stream and invited subscribers.
Photos began appearing in the Photo Stream, but only six photos appeared, not the full set of 71.
To try to fix the issue,
I left it overnight.
I restarted iPhoto.
I restarted iMac.
I either removed the photos from the Photo Stream or deleted the Photo Stream itself—can't remember which.
Depending on which action I took in the previous point, I either selected all the photos in the Event again and shared them to the same Photo Stream or I created another, new Photo Stream and shared all the photos to it.
Photos began appearing in the Photo Stream, but only 15 photos appeared, not the full set of 71.
Any idea how to get the remaining photos to upload to the shared Photo Stream.
Thanks,
Ken.

Hi,
Okay, I did some searching here on the forums and found this post by Old Toad.
I followed his instructions and it fixed my issue.
Old Toad recommended:
Disabling Photos in System Preferences -> iCloud
Disabling My Photo Stream and Shared Photo Streams in iPhoto's Preferences.
Reboot machine.
Re-enabling Photos in System Preferences -> iCloud
Re-enabling My Photo Stream and Shared Photo Streams in iPhoto's Preferences.
In addition, I did the following in iPhoto,
Deleted the 15 photos in the shared Photo Stream.
Selected all the photos in the Event and shared them to the existing shared Photo Stream, i.e. I didn't re-create a new Photo Stream at this stage.
All photos uploaded successfully to the stream in approximately 10-15 minutes. Issue solved.
Hope this helps anyone with the same or a similar issue.
Regards,
Ken.

IPhoto - Error while importing Photos from Camera!

Hi,
Can any one help me with my issue, I am using a canon EOS40D, and sandisk Extreem2 Compact Flash Disk. Whenever I try to download images from my camera, it shows the images available on the camera in a thumb nail format in mac, but while downloading it says "one or more of the images could not be downloaded" and it lists all the images in the exceptions list. I tried the same operations with another camera too there also i had the same issue. If I copy a set of images from some other source to my Air laptop folder and from there if i try to import those images into this iPhoto it works properly! I tried reinstalling iPhoto many times without any luck. Somewhere I read that if i format my CF disk i should be able to download pics directly from my camera, but even that didnt work. I tried creating different image libraries iPhoto too, even then i had the same issue.
I also noticed that, many of my old pics that i had in this iPhoto, though it shows the thumbnail properly, when i click them to view in the full size it shows a warning exclamation symbol and not the pic! I am really tired of our iPhoto stuff.
The version of iPhoto is 9.1.1.
I have another MacBook Pro, there i have absolutely no issues and there i am using two year old version of iPhoto.
Can anyone help me here?
Thanks
Venu G

First step is to get the photos off the camera and reformat your memory card using the camera's format command
a best practice to is to never have any computer program (including iPhoto) delete the photos from the card but to import the photos and keep them and then after at least one successful backup cycle has completed and the reformat the card -- I use three very large (32 GB) cards in rotation so I do not reformat for typically a year or more giving me one more long term backup of my photos
LN

Iphoto hang while importing photos

Hi, my iphoto in macbook air hang while importing half way.
i cant quit the iphoto now.
pls advise hw can i shut down?

I recovered the pictures in "Today" but they are damaged. You see the pictures in iPhoto but they are very small and there is no information about the picture availabe (shuttertime, diafragma etc).
Those are not your photos, only the thumbnails used for display.
Option 1
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. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

IPhoto freezes while downloading large cards

My iPhoto 6.04 gets "stuck" when trying to import large numbers of images (like 646 on a 1 GB card). It shows the import window, but the progress bar doesn't show anything, and eventually it freezes and has to be force-quit. When restarted, it will show a partial import.
I can import the images just fine if i use Image Capture to download them elsewhere on the mac, then copy them over to iPhoto. It's just kind of a hassle, and creates duplicates.
Is my problem likely to be with iPhoto, or with the cam, card, or cardreader? Or does iPhoto just tend to choke on large downloads? I have thrown out iPhoto prefs/plist, but i haven't rebuilt the library, which has about 3000 images.

Hi Lisa,
To answer your first question, no iphoto has no known issue with importing large amounts of images at a time. Unless of course you have reached the capactiy for your computer in respect to RAM (iPhoto 6 is memory scalable up to 250,000 images...but it is based on amount of RAM).
If you already pulled the plist for iphoto then I would do the following:
Make sure you are connecting your Media card reader directly to the computer - do not go through a hub.
Remove ~/library/caches and restart computer - test - if issue persists proceed to next step
Reset PRAM by holding down Apple key - option key - P - R during start up of computer - listen for 2 chimes and then release - test - if issue persists proceed to next step
Hold down the option key while opening iphoto - click on create library - attempt to import into the new library - if it works you know that the issue is with your current iphoto library - follow kbase 107947 to rebuild your library - if it does not work then create a new user account and test again - if it still does not work then I would try using a different media card / or a different media card reader.
One common mistake that people make is that they never reformat their media cards between use. Not just erase...but reformat...this is a function of the camera itself, not the comptuer. Consider whether your camera manual has a section on reformating.
Hope that helps.
Cheers!

IPhoto freezes looking for photos on an external hardrive

I have a MacBook Pro and am running 10.4.6 and iPhoto 6.0.2
Since my laptop has a limited hard drive I store the most recent photos on my laptop and the rest on an external hard drive. iPhoto allows me to do this as long as I turn off "copy photos to iPhoto Library".
The problem: When my laptop is away from home and my external hard drive, I receive errors the tune of "The volume containing 'filename' cannot be found" Obviously I cannot view a full resolution of a photo that is not stored on the laptop, so I would click 'cancel'. But now it happens at a random time interval after launching iPhoto and it always targets a movie file (*.avi). Although it lists the option to cancel, i cannot click on it because the colored spinning ball of death prevents me from doing anything. I must 'force quit' iPhoto and relaunch.
Does iPhoto have to be connected to ALL the photos in the library at ALL times without recieving errors? And why do the errors happen at random times and not immediately when I launch the program?
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I haven't tried adding keywords yet. (largely due to the fact that there isn't a universal binary of Keyword Assistant available yet). You've brought up a good idea about storing the movies seperate from the pictures. I might try that if I can think of a good way to do that. What bothers me, is the fact that iTunes already operates exactly as I want iPhoto to. I store all my movies and music videos on an external hard drive. iTunes doesn't care unless I try to play them, and even then it doesn't crash the program. You would think that iPhoto would operate similarly. Perhaps I should just cram a 200GB hard drive into my laptop
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Iphoto freezes after deleting photo

I have an issue after installing the newest version of iphoto. Everything seems to be working fine except when I attempt to delete a photo the application stops responding.

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

Iphoto quits while preparting photos for email

I'm using iphoto 4.03. recently, when i try to email selected photos, iphoto quits during the "preparing photos for email" step. i've never had this problem before. any ideas???
thanks!

Try manually setting the permissions on your iPhoto Library folder and contents as follows:
Setting Permissions for iPhoto Library Folder
1 - Select the iPhoto Library folder and type Command-I.
2 - When the Info window comes up go to the Ownership and Permissions section and make sure You have Read & Write permission and that the Owner and Group have Read & Write also. Others - Read Only.
3 - Then click on the "Apply to enclosed items..." button.

IPhoto froze while importing photos from iPhone to Mac, unable to stop import

My iPhoto on my Mac Book Pro (Retina, 13-inch, 2.4 GHz intel core i5, 8GM memory 1600 Mhz DDR3, in the OS X Yosemite version 10.10.1) froze while I was importing pictures from my iPhone 6. I am unable to 'Stop Import', as when I press to stop the import my Mac does not respond. There is a continuous loading sign next to my iPhone device. I am still able to use other features of my Mac and iPhoto, only the import page is not responsive.

apple menu ==> force quit
LN

IPhoto freezes while emptying photos in trash?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for