Iphoto/Mavericks problem

I have been having major problems with iPhoto since upgrading to Mavericks. I can't upgrade to the latest iphoto as I keep being told my Apple ID is not recognised. Howvever, It has been OK for other upgrades I have made over the last 30 days. I was told to delete the iPhoto App from my powerbook and reinstall it via the App Store. But it now seems I have to buy Iphoto from the App store. Does anyone have any idea how I can get round this?

Unless you bought some vender's really old Mac stock, a new Mac bought 12 months ago wouldn't have come with Snow Leopard as the shipping install of OS X.
A Mac that shipped with Lion, Mt Lion or Mavericks requires that the user sign into their account in the Mac App Store, go to the Purchases pane and accept the pre-installed iLife apps into their account before using any of the three apps. If the user does not do this, then as per the user agreement on the apps, the iLife apps become one-time as-is apps that cannot be updated or installed on other Macs that you may own or control. As well as, future versions not able to be purchased on the Mac.
Now, if you did get an older Mac with Snow Leopard, then none of that applies and you may need to buy the most recent version of the apps if you want to upgrade.
Did your Mac come with Snow Leopard DVD install disks?
Go to the Apple menu, choose About This Mac. Then choose More Info. What is your Mac's listed year and model?

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Does anyone have any other ideas ?

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I having problem with my iphoto and imovie after installing 10.9. When i go to Appstore and ask me to recomfirm but there's nothing happen..why? kindly help me.

If you purchased the apps from the Mac App Store, log into the Mac App Store, go to Purchases and redownload them. If you didn't and you have the CD/DVD of iLife you can reinstall the apps from there.
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as I want to export some photos in an acceptable quality with music, I found the only possibility was by exportation them as quicktime file (xx.mov).
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even apple support couldn`t solve the problem.
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PS: I tried also other ways by using exportation as diashow in iphoto , or by using idvd - in both ways music is exported but photos are visible only in very low quality.
regards zacambo

Hi Léonie, All the sw is at latest update. The library was simply copied from the old machine to the new machine. When I launched the new version of iPhoto (on the new machine) I pointed it to the copied iPhoto library and it picked it up without any issue. The first time I opened it, iPhoto spent some time migrating the data format from the old iPhoto version to the new, but that was done only once. I am not sharing the library between the old iPhoto and new; now the migrated library is for the exclusive use of the new iPhoto.
Regarding error messages in syslog, it's quite funny, I do see them, and they reflect the fact that iPhoto has gone off to la-la land for extended periods of time, ignoring all user input (this is what results in the spinning disc in Mac OS):
1/28/14 9:16:18.792 PM WindowServer[127]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "iPhoto" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
1/28/14 9:16:20.926 PM WindowServer[127]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "iPhoto" after 3.13 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
So that was a common 3 second "hang" of iPhoto. Nothing apart from those kinds of messages.
Thanks for the links to iStat... i do in fact have the latest version of it and don't have that problem with Mavericks.

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Hi, after numerous problems with "Mavericks" I have ditched it and returned to "Mountain Lion" however, whilst I have been able to rescue "pages", "numbers" etc, I am unable to return to the "mountain lion" version of iphoto. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how to reinstall an older version of iphoto - one that will operate with Mountain Lion?

Restore the iPhoto app from your last Time Machine backup from before the upgrade to iPhoto. You cannot download a full version of iPhoto '11 from Apple's Support pages or the App Store, if you already upgraded to Mavericks and iPhoto 9.5.1.
How did you originally buy iPhoto? If it came preinstalled with an older system (MacOS 10.6), then you will find an iPhoto '11 installer on your system install media with the bundled application. If you bought an iLife '11 installer, use that.
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Back up all data before proceeding.
Step 1
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IPhoto performance problems with large library

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro Retina (2013 model) with top-of-line options. The hardware specs are 2.6Ghz Core i7 (8 cores), 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, and OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks).
The machine came with iPhoto 11 (v9.5.1). I successfully ported my iPhoto library from my old MacBook Pro to the new machine. The iPhoto library is about 550 GB on disk, and consists of about 2000 Events, 95000 Photos, and about 50 Albums & Smart Albums. The images in the library are a mix of JPEG, RAW and other content types such as MOV and AVI etc.
I have measured the performance of the internal SSD with tools like Black Magic and seen read & write speeds in excess of 850 MB/sec (obviously sequential). This is the fastest disk performance of any machine I've ever worked on, so I question whether iPhoto is slow because of this.
Despite the formidable hardware resources of this machine (proven running other workloads), iPhoto still behaves like a dog with my library. Opening iPhoto takes about 10 seconds to get to the first screen. Deleting a bunch of photos will result in a spinning disc for about 10-15 seconds while the images move to the Trash. Emptying the trash with 500-1000 photos takes about 15 minutes. Reorganizing events can take up to 30 seconds. Even browsing from photo to photo incurs lags of several seconds. This lack of response time makes the sw frustrating if not impossible to use efficiently.
During all these delays I have monitored system perfromance with various tools like Activity Monitor and iStat Menus. The odd thing is that when iPhoto is spinning its disc I am not seeing any kind of system resource bottleneck. In other worlds, CPU is barely utilized on any of the 8 cores, disk IO is minimal, and there is zero network IO. To ensure maximum RAM utilization, I run iPhoto after a fresh reboot and do not launch any other apps while it's running. For the life of me I cannot imagine what iPhoto is doing.
I have also tried several of the library recover / rebuild options as well, but no problems were reported with the library and performance did not improve.
I am considering upgrading to Aperture, but I wonder if both these solutions have serious design limitations when working on large libraries, which result in significant performance issues.
I would be interested in learning what experience other users have when working on iPhoto libraries of similar size.
Summary:
iPhoto library size on disk: 550 GB
Events: approx 2,000
Photos: approx 95,000
Albums & Smart Albums: approx 100
Regards,
Nico

Hi Léonie, All the sw is at latest update. The library was simply copied from the old machine to the new machine. When I launched the new version of iPhoto (on the new machine) I pointed it to the copied iPhoto library and it picked it up without any issue. The first time I opened it, iPhoto spent some time migrating the data format from the old iPhoto version to the new, but that was done only once. I am not sharing the library between the old iPhoto and new; now the migrated library is for the exclusive use of the new iPhoto.
Regarding error messages in syslog, it's quite funny, I do see them, and they reflect the fact that iPhoto has gone off to la-la land for extended periods of time, ignoring all user input (this is what results in the spinning disc in Mac OS):
1/28/14 9:16:18.792 PM WindowServer[127]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "iPhoto" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
1/28/14 9:16:20.926 PM WindowServer[127]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "iPhoto" after 3.13 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
So that was a common 3 second "hang" of iPhoto. Nothing apart from those kinds of messages.
Thanks for the links to iStat... i do in fact have the latest version of it and don't have that problem with Mavericks.

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Did the migation from a 2008 MB pro (maverick) to a new 2014 MB pro. Most of the photos did disapear from iphoto and i can not open any jpeg file even from an extern SD card ...Wwith jpeg files..What hapens?The message is like file can not be found.Is there any bug in the apple iphoto migration software that i had to use ? Even the original hiden iphoto file bugs when i want to open it...helpppp

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2 - Run Option #4, Rebuild Database.

Att: Apple Customer Service representatives - iPhoto order problem

Hi,
I've had the following problem using the iPhoto book ordering system:
Last week, I decided to make a photo book in iPhoto and buy several copies of it to use as christmas gifts. I bought the most recent version of iPhoto from the App Store even though I had an earlier version installed, just to ensure reliability and the most up-to-date features. After this, I made my book and on wednesday evening, tried to order it several times, with iPhoto telling me my order couldn't be completed.
On thursday morning, I tried once again ordering the book, and this time, iPhoto tried to upload my book. In the end, iPhoto gave me a message worded something like "Your order could not be completed. Try again at another time". So I waited a bit and tried again, and I got the same error message.
Later in the morning, however, I was sent 2 order confirmations from the Apple Store, both for 5 books. I only need 5 in total, so I tried cancelling the last order, but the order website said that I could not cancel the order as it was being processed - this was only some 15 minutes after me receiving the order confirmation. I tried phoning Apple in Denmark, and their phone pointed me to the iPhoto website, which had no relevant information whatsoever. I tried finding information on the web and responding to the order email. No help here either, the email was bounced, and I could not find anybody else who had experienced this problem. I decided I would cancel the payment for the last order with my bank and return the 5 extra books.
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Please contact me by email in order to arrange the pickup of the surplus books.
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CDCNuit
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
1. How much free space on that HD?
2. Assuming there is enough: try Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder using the settings found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/BatChmod.png
(Credit to Old Toad for this one).
Regards
TD

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iPhoto 11 (9.2) Lion 10.7.3, iPhoto Library Manager, duplicate annhilator, thumbnail annihilator
27 inch, Mid2011, 2.7 Ghz Intel Core i5, 4 GB mem 1333 MHz DDR3.
When my Mac G5 tower hd crashed in December, it did a terrible thing to my photos. I was using iPhoto Buddy, a 3rd party ap, to separate the photos into different categories so I could find what I needed quickly. Apple store could not repair the tower. I bought a new iMac 27 inch in January and an external 2 terabyte HD to hold the photos as well as backing them up on Time machine. After the crash the Apple store transferred the files to my new computer. However, something caused the photos to multiply like rabbits and they did not stay in the library where I had placed them but moved to other libraries. It is now three months and I am still trying to get them organized again.
At suggestions in the apple support forum, I purchased iPhoto Library Manager, duplicate Annhilator and Duplicate Thumbnail annihilator. They don't work very well, but better than nothing. It is a little overwhelming. Here's the procedure I am following. Open iPhoto library (for instance, 2007 photos). I go through the events first and get them back in order (clip art, family files, tombstones, travel, flowers, wildlife, holidays, etc) Until I am worn out I use info to compare the duplicates and try to delete the ones under 50 kb, and saving the ones with more pixels - but they are scattered all over the place. Once the events are in order, I run Dup Annhilator which might find 2-3,000 dups placed in the trash. (the program says marking the dups is safer, but I tried marking them once so I could compare but could not FIND where the program had placed the dups). Anyway, once they are in the trash I have two more problems I need help with.
1. I cannot get the "info" column to work on trashed pics so I can compare size and be sure only the smaller versions are to be deleted.
2. When I want to restore an irreplaceable photo I don't take a chance of deleting since I don't know the size, I drag it up to the events -- but then cannot find it again.
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Your welcome.
What would have caused the mulitple libraries to import to each other if not iPhoto 11?
Human error, at a guess. There is no way for iPhoto to import anything without some form of instruction from somewhere. Consider your own description:
After the crash the Apple store transferred the files to my new computer. However, something caused the photos to multiply like rabbits and they did not stay in the library where I had placed them but moved to other libraries.
The multiplying photos is a sure sign of one Library being imported to another. When someone does this every version and thumbnail is imported like a distinct photo, you lose all your Albums, Keywords etc., the link between Original and Previews is destroyed, the non-destructive editing feature is ruined and so on. In summary: it's mess.
Also, it would account for how photos have apparently moved from one Library to another - something else that can't be done without human intervention.
If you have back ups then trash these messed up libraries and restore your back ups.
Yes I am familiar with the apps you mention.
Regards
TD

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