IPhoto hangs on text entry to notes
I have a Core i3 iMac running OS 10.6.7 with iPhoto 8.1.2. The photo library is about 21,700 photos. Recently, it has started to hang up when entering text into the notes. (This comes from my wife who is the primary user of iPhoto tho I have tested the problem with the same results.) I have trashed both iPhoto prefs and repaired the permissions. I still get the hang on text entry.
I have a Time Machine backup on an external drive as well as a SuperDuper backup. I have tried switching to the library on the bootable back up but it does the same thing. I suspect the library on the Time Machine drive is similar.
What is my next step in solving this problem? Thanks.
Try this: launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and check to see if the same problem persists. If it does then a reinstall of iPhoto is indicated. To do so you'll have to delete the current application and all files with "iPhoto" in the file name with either a .PKG or .BOM extension that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder and from the /var/db/receipts/ folder,
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Then install iPhoto from the disks it came on originally and run the necessary updaters.
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