IPhoto hanging on opening Prefences
Hi,
Have recently, after updating to iLife 2009, encountered two problems.
1. I cannot, anylonger, upload photo's to the me.com gallery, but uploading to Flickr is no problem.
2. iPhoto freezes when I open the preference pane.
Any advice?
Quit iPhoto and delete the iPhoto preference file ("your username" ==> library ==> preferences ==> com.apple.iPhoto.plist) - launch iPhoto which will create a new default preference file - reset any personal preferences you have changed - and if you have changed the location of the iPhoto library repoint iPhoto to it
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I have a problem with opening my iPhoto 5.04, I can go in a roundabout way by clicking to create a book and then I get access to my library. If I only open iPhoto, it just hangs. Does anyone know why?
It seems as though there is something in your library giving iPhoto a problem. could be corrupt images. could be a data file. I don't think anyone would know for sure.
Another question: When I have created the book, in the middle of it all the program suddenly decides to close down, afterwards, my book is nowhere to be found. Does anyone know why?
All book information is stored in a dat file/files. If iPhoto quits when you are editing a book, the data does not get saved.
Just a final question:
Those books I have created are nowhere to be found in my Finder even before they crash. Does anyone knows how iPhoto organises these things on the disk, is there anyway I can retrieve it?
There is no way you can retrieve the information as it is in a data file. This has been frustrating to many people who have worked hours on a book only to have iPhoto crash during the process.
all this said, there is a problem with your library.
I can only suggest some steps to try and fix it.
First step would be to do a rebuild:
Try this:
Before doing a rebuild make sure iPhoto's trash bin is emptied. You can do this by control clicking on the trash bin, or from the menu bar under iPhoto.
Close iPhoto
Duplicate the iPhoto Library folder
Drag the duplicate to the desktop (hopefully you have enough room on your hard drive for the duplicate.)
Launch iPhoto holding down the Command and Option keys until you see the rebuild options screen.
Choose the first three options. If you were missing photos in your library, also choose the last option. Be advised that you will get a roll of orphaned photos and it might be quite huge. Most of them will already be in your iPhoto library, but use caution when deleting anything from this roll until you are sure the photos are still in your library in another place. It might be a good idea to share/export this roll of photos just in case you need to import them again.
Back to the rebuild, depending on the size of your library it might take some time. When it is done, hopefully your photos will be there.
You might see some unexpected results as I did when I did a rebuild. Photos had been moved to wrong dates, video clips had lost their duration info and some were even orphaned from the jpg pointer file. It took me some time to straighten it out again.
This is the reason to make a duplicate before you rebuild, in case you do not like the result. If you don't like the result, close iPhoto, then delete the rebuilt library and drag the duplicate back into the Pictures folder making sure the name is iPhoto Library. Launch iPhoto and it should open the library in the Pictures folder.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. I believe TD's suggestion was directed primarily towards the editing issue. The preferences and accessing iTunes from iPhoto issues we'll have to live with until iPhoto issues a fix via an update.
Boot into Safe Mode and try the editing again. If the problem goes away there there's an issue with your account. If it persists then it's either the library or the application.
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If the editing problem continues in the test library then a reinstall of iPhoto might be warranted. To do so you'll have to delete the current application and all files with "iPhoto" in the file name that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder. Then reinstall from the disks that iPhoto came on.
Do you Twango?
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- What version of the Operating System.
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Process: iPhoto [352]
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: iPhotoProject-4090000~8
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [197]
Interval Since Last Report: 18466 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 18
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 0 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 13
Date/Time: 2009-07-18 18:55:50.224 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.7 (9J61)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: EB09B494-16B2-4BA0-B288-EA5377151D46
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @executable_path/eOkaoCom.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
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Build Version: 2
Project Name: iPhotoProject
Source Version: 670063000000000
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App External ID: 9487287
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Steps: 26 (100ms sampling interval)
Hardware model: MacBookPro4,1
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Free pages: 97126 pages (+12705)
Pageins: 3 pages
Pageouts: 0 pages
Process: iPhoto [488]
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Architecture: i386
Parent: launchd [164]
UID: 502
Task size: 19644 pages
CPU Time: 2.441s
Thread 0x2ad6 priority <multiple> cpu time 2.379s
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26 ??? (iPhoto + 65344) [0x10f40]
26 NSApplicationMain + 1053 (AppKit) [0x91b668e6]
26 -[NSApplication run] + 855 (AppKit) [0x91bc36dc]
26 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119 (AppKit) [0x91bcd28c]
26 _DPSNextEvent + 1655 (AppKit) [0x91bcddfd]
26 AEProcessAppleEvent + 100 (HIToolbox) [0x96593394]
26 aeProcessAppleEvent + 318 (AE) [0x949a8c9d]
26 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 44 (AE) [0x949a8dde]
26 aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned long, unsigned char*) + 331 (AE) [0x949d25b3]
26 _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 173 (Foundation) [0x9a386cce]
26 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 430 (Foundation) [0x9a386ed1]
26 __76-[NSAppleEventManager setEventHandler:andSelector:forEventClass:andEventID:]_block_invoke_0 + 121 (Foundation) [0x9a38737a]
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26 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenEvent:] + 751 (AppKit) [0x91bd1cef]
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26 -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 367 (AppKit) [0x91bd50ce]
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26 ??? (iPhoto + 194231) [0x306b7]
26 ??? (iPhoto + 2261959) [0x2293c7]
26 ??? (iPhoto + 2301220) [0x232d24]
26 ??? (iPhoto + 203205) [0x329c5]
26 ??? (iPhoto + 206639) [0x3372f]
26 ??? (iPhoto + 219814) [0x36aa6]
26 ??? (iPhoto + 6808232) [0x67f2a8]
24 ??? (iPhoto + 6779995) [0x67845b]
6 sqlite3_step + 5019 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee3f0b]
1 sqlite3_log + 32 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ec4340]
1 <executing in user space>
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_log + 4 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ec4324]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_log + 12 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ec432c]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_log + 199 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ec43e7]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_log + 24 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ec4338]
1 <executing in user space>
5 sqlite3_step + 146 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee2c02]
4 <executing in user space>
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2 sqlite3_step + 4 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee2b74]
2 <executing in user space>
2 sqlite3_step + 4960 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee3ed0]
1 <executing in user space>
*1 thread_exception_return + 0 (mach_kernel) [0xffffff80002b196b]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_step + 4888 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee3e88]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_step + 165 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee2c15]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_step + 4935 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee3eb7]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_step + 4995 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee3ef3]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_step + 17 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee2b81]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_step + 2516 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee3544]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_step + 143 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee2bff]
1 <executing in user space>
1 sqlite3_step + 4973 (libsqlite3.dylib) [0x92ee3edd]
1 <executing in user space>
1 ??? (iPhoto + 6780005) [0x678465]
1 <executing in user space>
1 DYLD-STUB$$sqlite3_result_text + 6 (iPhoto) [0xa93ef2]
1 <executing in user space>Back to the other library:
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. 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 -
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After 3 months of owning and using my MacBook, I have finally found that iPhoto isn't a bad software at all, and I want to start using it. So of course the first thing I did was to import some recent photos I made.
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Within Mail.app preferences, have you chosen it to be the default Mail application? Within iPhoto Preferences, have you chosen Mail.app as the Mail application to use?
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Here is a sample of the iPhoto process:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B19QIIT26PDVO GM1OWM5MjctYzdkOC00ZWQ2LWFhMGUtMWYzOWU3YTJiYzQy&hl=en&authkey=COmenZcJ
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