Iphoto thumbnail view

My thumbnail view is not working in iphoto does anyone have a answer please

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My thumbnail view is not working in iphoto does anyone have a answer please
Unless I find a great Psyhic handy or you tell us more all I can say is ''Fix It
Reread your question and see just how you could possibley think that anyone could help you
LN

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i cannot get iphoto to return to thumbnail views of all my photos. instead it changed to a full view in the viewing screen.

Ok - you only gave iPhoto '11 - I assumed up to date
Glad you found it anyway
You are welcome
LN

Lost thumbnail view in iPhoto Library

I've been working on a very large iMovie project which is not going so well and somehow I lost my thumbnail views next to the iPhoto Library Source. I have tried everything, and like when I click on "View" I cannot highlight "show thumbnails". I have researched topics and found one that talks about the Pictures Folder & what folders contain what, and nothing on how to get my thumbnails back. It is almost impossible to organize without them. Help please, I don't know what happened.
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Marge,
In the view menu, "show thumbnails" is only an active option when you are in one of iPhoto's edit modes: it refers to the horizontal strip of thumbnails that can be shown (or hidden) across the top of the iPhoto window. When you are viewing your library or an album, it is normal for this option to be gray.
That being said, what do you see in the iPhoto window? Are any of your photos visible? Do you have blank gray squares? Have you tried using the slider in the bottom right of the window to change the size of the thumbnails (if this is all the way to the right you will only see one photo at a time).
Have you ever used the Finder to change anything in your iPhoto Library folder in any way? (This includes renaming and moving files or folders.) This causes big problems, so if you have, post back with some details and we'll try to help you repair the damage.
If iPhoto is acting quirky you can delete its preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist. Find it inside Home/ Library/ Preferences. Then when you launch iPhoto your preferences will be reset to their defaults, so you may need to reset them back to your liking.
One more thing to try is a database rebuild. Hold the Command and Option keys while launching iPhoto. Check the first 3 options and let it work. It can take a few minutes. This process allows iPhoto to recreate its database file, which can improve performance and stability if that file was causing problems.
Post back with some of the above info, and we'll go from there.

Thumbnail View No Longer an Option

After a recent iPhoto update I can no longer see my pictures in thumbnail view. I used to be able to get into an "Event" and see all of the pictures within the event in thumbnail view.
By default, it will magnify one of the pictures in the event as if I selected it by double clicking. Has anyone else run into this issue. Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. He probably had the slider at the bottom moved over to the far right.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

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I am doing a desktop app . In my app i am using JTabbedPane . In order to view the contents of all tabs in one shot,i need to bring the JPanel in each tab into a single frame,that contains a scrollbar.i.e,something like a thumbnail view of all the tabs.Is it possible to do so? Since i have several components like button, textbox,images,etc in each tab,and have set the layout property of the panel to null,i cannot reduce the size of the panel to thumbnail size.I have set layout property of jpanel in each tab to null,because i have enabled dragging of objects like buttons,textarea,images,etc.Can anyone help me to sort out this problem.
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Ok - you only gave iPhoto '11 - I assumed up to date
Glad you found it anyway
You are welcome
LN

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Thanks in advance
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Ok - you only gave iPhoto '11 - I assumed up to date
Glad you found it anyway
You are welcome
LN

CAN'T SWITCH TO THUMBNAIL VIEW IN ORGANIZE AN ALBUM

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up or down... The thumbnail view was so handy, How can I toggle back to the thumbnailview in Organize... I've tried
everything I can think of with no luck.... HELP???

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Problem with scrolling pictures in thumbnail view!!!

In thumbnail view, when I scroll over the key picture, other pictures come up that are pictures NOT from that event, but others. Anyone know why that is and how I fix it so that the correct pictures scroll?
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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.

Lost Thumbnail View of library suddenly!

I was transferring a photo that was misdated as a 2005 photo and when I went to look for it in the 2005 folder, I hit "organize" which usually brings me back to my preferred thumbnail view of all my shots in chronilogical order. Well, they are still in chron order from new to old but only full view is available. I have checked all the options on the toolbar, looked in preferences to see if there was an option to "view thumbnails". NOTHING. Any help?

Hi, Kristin. Your mistake was thinking it would be OK to move anything around inside your iPhoto Library folder. It isn't. Stay out of there at all times. Only iPhoto itself should ever arrange, rearrange, move, edit or rename anything inside that folder, as this quote from iPhoto Help indicates:
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If you move, delete, rename, or otherwise tamper with files or folders in the iPhoto Library folder, you may be unable to see your pictures in iPhoto."
This is a real annoyance, and it flies in the face of a core principle that all long-time Mac users take for granted: that they're in charge of where things are filed on their computers. But it's a fact, and you ignore it at your peril.
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I am running iphoto version 5.0.4 and some of my pictures have the wrong thumbnail linked to them.
In the thumbnail view it shows 1 picture, but when you double click and it opens the large image, it is a different picture. When I search in the actual file folders, and find the thumbnail with the corresponding number as the full size picture, they are two different pictures.
It seems to me that iphoto has the incorrect thumbnail linked. I have tried rebuilding the directory, thumbnail images, regular images, and recover orphaned images. None of these fixed my problem.
It only is affecting a few images in the library. My total library is only about 470 images.
Is there an easy fix to this? Can I just erase the thumbnail image folder in the folders that have issues? Will erasing this folder mess up my iphoto directory or will iphoto just recreate the thumbnails automatically?
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Hi diverdan,
a rebuild should have fixed the thumbnail problem. Since you have so few photos in your library, you can create a new library and have new thumbnails created when the images import.
Close iPhoto
Rename your messed up iPhoto Library to "iPhoto Library_old"
Drag this library to your desktop
Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
This is the window you will get
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library
Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
Go to File>add to library
Navigate to the old library on your desktop and highlight it in the window, then click the "open" button.
iPhoto will start importing the images from your old library
This is what to expect:
Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
Once all you images have been imported, check through the library and make sure everything looks ok.
You can now start making your Albums, and do your keywords or any other organizational steps.
You can also delete the old library on the desktop.
It is also a good time to backup this new library to CD/DVD by burning the iPhoto LIbrary folder in the Finder, or copying the iPhoto Library folder to an external drive formatted for Macs, or copying the iPhoto LIbrary folder to an iPod.
Good luck!

No "Thumbnails" View? ?

OK, I've labored long enough with the fundamentals... now I want to see if I can have some fun with this thing...
I just plugged in an SD card reader (none built in... bummer) and loaded in a card with some photos I took this afternoon with my Nikon D80. The card shows up, no prob (well, I did have to look for it) and I opened a the folder with the photos. Now I would like to see them in the folder.
On a Windows machine that's "thumbnails" view. But "thumbnails" is not one of the view options that I can find here on the Mac.
So, is there a "thumbnails" option somewhere else that I just haven't quite latched on to?
Gonna see what's up with iPhoto next...
Thanks,
--PS

PS,
If what you want is viewing of photos, you need to get them into iPhoto. I know why you want what you describe, now that you have given a little more detail. What I suggest is that you try to adapt a bit. Once you do, I think you will find the tools that are now available to you are much more powerful than what you are used to. Just adapt a bit.
Use the Finder's "Slideshow" ability to filter what gets placed in iPhoto. Do this once with a batch of photos, then burn the originals to a data CD/DVD (label it, then put it away). TIP: When you close the slideshow, iPhoto will come to the front, then import all of the photos you selected to "send to iPhoto." Trouble is, these photos all get placed one-to-a-roll in iPhoto. No problem: simply select the bunch (click the first, find the last, then hold SHIFT and click it), then choose File>Create Film Roll.
Once you have your good photos in iPhoto, the sky's the limit. The key, here, is that you will always use iPhoto to handle, view, and manage your photos, not the Finder.
Alternatively, of course, you can just directly import into iPhoto from the camera or card every time, thereby leaving the Finder out of the equation entirely. iPhoto is designed for management of photos, and it usually does a much better job than you can ever do manually.
Scott
Scott
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Thumbnail viewing is gone!

I used to see all my photos when I clicked on the event in thumbnail view but now it's not an option. Anyone know how I can get that back or restore old settings??

Sorry, this is my first post. I used to view all of my photo in iphoto as thumbnails and could drag them out onto my desktop, copy them etc. I opened it one day and now the photo takes the whole iphoto window up and I can't copy them or drag them onto my desktop. When I go to view - thumbnails in the top menu, 'thumbnails' is in grey so I can't click on that option. I don't know what I did and I can't do anything with my photos at the moment so very frustratiing. Is that clearer? I don't know technical terms sorry

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Old Toad,
Thank you for your assistance. Your solution worked perfectly. But for anyone else reading this, a few caveats are in order.
1) To delete the Data folder an the thumbnail files, you have to use the Finder.
2) If you have a very large Library (I had over 5,000 images) the process takes a VERY long time (over 12 hours for me).
3) The process also uses up an immense amount of hard disk space. I had to move some other large folders off the main drive to an external drive.
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