My IMac is frozen and will not allow me to get to the desktop screen. How can I stop it from freezing?
My IMac is frozen. When I power up it will only take me to the white screen with the apple on it. I cannot get to the desktop screen. Any help in fixing would be very much appreciated. Thanks Pete
That's an ongoing problem with this recent version of iPhoto as you can see from the topics at the right under "More Like This". The workaround that works for all is to export the photos to a folder on the Desktop and upload to Facebook with your browser until a fix is found.
Report your problems to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html
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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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