OH MY GOD HELP!!! lots of black event thumbnails and lost images with (?)

I opened iPhoto today and over HALF of my photos events are BLACK! when i go deeper into that event, the thumbnails show (phew), but if i choose an image to enlarge i get a big FAT ( ? ) for an image!!!! WHAT IS GOING ON??? are they gone? i'm freakin out, i've guarded these nearly 4,000 missing photos for years! I have backups of most, but what gives with the black events and question marks?? do i have to delete an event and re-import it?? help!

Experianced this problem just yesterday. After rebuilding the iPhoto database and all the other options to try and repair it I followed directions to recreate the library which solved the issue. All of the created events will still be retained using this method but I believe any edits made to photos might be lost. Although if you import the modified folder in the same manner as before you should have your edited copies again but I don't think you'll be able to revert to original on them.
First move your existing iPhoto library from your Pictures folder to the desktop.
Start iPhoto and tell it to create a new library.
Ctrl-click your iPhoto library on your desktop and show package contents (might be listed as something else but don't have access to my Mac to check).
Drag the originals folder from there into the iPhoto window and it should import your photos.
At that point all should be back as they were. If you've edited a bunch then drag the modified folder in just like you did for the original folder. Then you should see both your edited and the original photos side by side in your library.
Try the other options first but if nothing works then this certainly does. Even if it's not the best way to do things.

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(1) Sometimes I get the wrong thumbnail. I have many duplicate file names. (Blame Canon (or the way I use the camera.)) The confused thumbnails are always from other images with the same file name. My fix is to rename the >title< (not filename) to something unique and then rebuild the thumbnails. The easiest way to rename the photos is use Photos>Batch Change (use set the title to text and append a number (I name them after the subject.)) You can rebuild the thumbnails by starting iPhoto with option and command keys down and selecting the rebuild thumbnail options.
(2) Sometime when I go to edit a photo, the photo never comes up I just get the spining "beach ball". Exporting the broken image seems to fix it. (You don't need to re-import. Just try exporting the broken image to somewhere (the desk top works) and see if that fixes the problem. (Then throw the exported images away. You don't need them.)
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Are those negative images B/W photos? If so they may be Grayscale mode. Download the "Embed sRGB Profile" Automator application form Toad's Cellar and drop the original files for those photos onto it. If it's a grayscale mode file it will correct the situation. iPhoto 6 does not play well with Grayscale images.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto 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.
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My company primarily uses HP machines but I've been a long time IBM (now Lenovo) fan so I recently had IT purchase me a new Lenovo W520 (product ID 42763LU).
Once the machine arrived I had them do the following:
Remove the 500GB HDD and replace it with an Intel 520 series 240GB SSD
Remove the optical drive and install the 500GB hard drive that came with the machine in the optical bay (with the bay adapter of course)
Format both drives and put a preconfigured windows 7 64-bit image on the SSD
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Hitachi 500GB HDD (optical bay) [HTS727550A9E365]
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TouchChip Fingerprint Scanner
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2. Removed the cover on the machine and removed/reinstalled the drive to verify it was secure.Everything looked good.
3. Verified the latest firmware is installed on all my Intel hardware. Everything seemed up to date.
4. I performed a number of troubleshooting steps like booting the machine with/without the battery, with/without the HDD in the optical bay, installed/removed from the docking station, etc. and none of these things helped (also a note – occasionally when running on the battery I was hearing a strange “buzz” or “static” sound coming from the area around the SSD).
5. Next I did some internet research and learned quite a few things. First, it sounds like others have had similar problems with this machine and/or SSD combo and there were quite a few options suggested to “fix” these issues. The general consensus for troubleshooting steps were:
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5.2. Turn off PCI express link state power management in the power manager. This didn’t fix anything.
5.3. Disable superfetch, prefetch, indexing, defragmentation, page file, system restore, and hibernate. A few of these were already disabled by windows so in those cases I just verified they were disabled in the services and application editor. These things may have slightly increased performance but did not fix the major hang/lockup issues I was having.
5.4. I followed online steps to edit the registry to disable the PCI link power management by adding ports, adding the required variables, and setting them all to 0. This did seem to have fixed the hangs and/or lock-ups but the machine is still much slower than I would expect (boot times are still pretty slow and it does “stutter” when I’m doing more than one thing at a time. Also a note here – I have the Intel SSD toolbox installed and I noticed that it was giving me a warning for DIPM not being optimized. I made the mistake of clicking “Tune!” and then started having the hang/lock-up issues again. I went back into the registry and sure enough the PCI link power management variables for ports 0 and 1 were set back to 1. I set them back to 0 and the hangs have gone away. I will not be “tuning” the DIPM through the Intel SSD toolbox again…
6. I also fixed a couple of other minor errors I was seeing in the event viewer by disabling benign services and/or making slight timeout modifications (I researched each issue on the internet to verify they were benign before I implemented any changes). These fixes didn't seem to do anything other than make some of the errors/warnings go away. So, the list of errors/warnings has become much smaller but I’m still getting the following (maybe an issue, maybe not?):
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4K: 15.83 / 44.92 (s/b 21.70 / 62.60) [MB/s]
4K-64Thrd: 165.23 / 154.46 (s/b 241.38 / 234.08) [MB/s]
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Please let me know if you have any suggestions and/or need additional information. Thanks in advance for your help!
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Lol gotcha about the drive as an option. I didn't go SSD with mine. Do you have the latest firmware on your drive? It is supposed to be v1.97. Just checking (ah and I see item 3 so guess so). Do you have the SSD drive toolbox software installed?
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Solid+State+Drives+and+Cach...)
Seems some useful tools are in there. I can't say much beyond that with the drive. Oh. Why does your fan always run at high speed? Can you describe that? I mean, are we troubleshooting the right kind of issue? Is there anything else going on with your system? I saw about the reduced core speeds message. what are your system loads like? Anything causing high cpu utilization? Could be something other than the drive causing your low numbers and lockups.

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revsue
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1) I can't figure out how to differentiate between originals, thumbnails, and modified versions to know what to move (or not).
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2) Do I have to create two different iPhoto libraries, one for/on the external drive and one on the internal drive？
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Go to the Desktop
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