IPhoto hang on Import

iPhoto 11, update 9.2.3, is hanging when importing photo's, no matter if the source is a file, iPhone or a camara.
I reinstalled iPhoto, did a mediathek db repair, a mediathek acces rights repair but nothing worked. iPhoto can only be forced terminated after it is started.
Any ideas?

First, let me say, I haven't really used a mac since about 1999 (PowerMac G3, I think?), so forgive my out-of-dateness. Also, this is the closest discussion I could find to the problem we've got, but it's not an exact match.
My other half has a MacBook Pro that is just a few months old and has issues with iPhoto that I said I'd look into. After he's been using it awhile and imported a bunch of photos into it (i.e. over the course of a couple months), it'll start hanging up when opening, or even not wanting to open the program at all. Over the course of the 2 years I've known him, I've seen it happen at least 3 or 4 times between this computer and its predecessor. I don't know the exact number of photos, but I don't think it could be near the 250k number I saw posted about being the limit. Could the data size of all the pictures contribute to the problem instead of just the quantity of pictures? Does this happen often? Is there a known reason it does?
So far it seems that his solution has been to wait for it to start working again on its own (and it seems it eventually does, for some reason. This time it took a week or so of not even trying to open the program, trying to open and hang while not loading any pictures, and then today just started working while i was trying to search out what to do to recover photos or something) and then exporting a batch of photos out of the program to make a smaller library.
If it hadn't started working again about an hour ago, I would suggest the rebuilding thing to him, but since it has started again, I don't know. Would that still be a good idea? Are there any suggestions for preventing this in the future? And if it does happen, is rebuilding the library the proper solution to try when it does?
Hope that made some sort of sense.

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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.
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thanks for reply,
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Colleen:
What versions of iPhoto and Quicktime are you running? They should be 6.0.6 and 7.1.6 respectively. Try a couple of fixes:
1 - run the BatChmod on the file before importing it.
2 - download the "Embed sRGB Profile-Applescript" application, unzip and place on your Desktop. Then drop the files onto it before importing into iPhoto. See if that will let the photos get imported.
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Open Copy B on the Desktop and select all of the items inside. Drag them into the open new library folder. When the Copy window comes up check the Apply to All check box and then click on the Don't Replace button as seen here. That will keep the new files created and bring back all of the others.
If the problem is NOT fixed, trash the new Prefs folder and move the intact Copy A folder back to the Library folder .
Sorry if this is such a long winded response. Just trying to cover all options in one response. Good luck.
Do you Twango?
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- What version of iPhoto.
I'm using iphoto '11 9.1.15 (615) and i think it is the latest one
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First time it has happen when i tried to import photo from an sd card then i tried to put some of this photo on desktop and import directly from there but iphoto kept shutting down.
Then I have open iphoto with cmd + alt and i have try to rebuild library and evrithing else but nothing fixed issuue, on the contrary, now i have also thumbnails disappeared.
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ies it was ok till first time i have had the issue.
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- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
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