Photo albums in front row help

Hi,
I am having trouble getting my photo albums to play via front row. I have numerous albums but when i go into them in front row, it just shows up random photos from the album and roll they came from, with none of the album pages showing. The photo roll and the name of the albums is the same ie: roll called sweden, album called sweden, would that be causing a problem, ie: iphoto unsure of which photos to show? They play fine in iphoto, with all of the album pages showing, but not in front row.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am getting a little frusterated!!
Thanks,
Mel

Heya Brendt,
Is the video within iTunes or just in your movies folder?
If it is not iTunes then ignore the "itunes" portion below.
Remove the following files to the trash (do not empty until you test for function):
~/library/caches
~/library/preferences/com.apple.itunes.plist
~/library/preferences/com.apple.frontrow.plist
- Repair your permissions - > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh17.html
- Restart your computer again
- Test and see how its working
Hope that helps!

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Trouble with photo albums in front row

Hi,
I am having trouble getting my photo albums to play via front row. I have numerous albums but when i go into them in front row, it just shows up random photos from the album and roll they came from, with none of the album pages showing. The photo roll and the name of the albums is the same ie: roll called sweden, album called sweden, would that be causing a problem, ie: iphoto unsure of which photos to show? They play fine in iphoto, with all of the album pages showing, but not in front row.
I'm not sure whether this is a iphoto prob. or a front row prob....
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am getting a little frusterated!!
Thanks,
Mel

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Play photo album in front row

Hi,
I am having trouble getting my photo albums to play via front row. I have numerous albums but when i go into them in front row, it just shows up random photos from the album and roll they came from, with none of the album pages showing. The photo roll and the name of the albums is the same ie: roll called sweden, album called sweden, would that be causing a problem, ie: iphoto unsure of which photos to show? They play fine in iphoto, with all of the album pages showing, but not in front row.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am getting a little frusterated!!
Thanks,
Mel

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I have recently received an iSight iMac (G5, not intel) and I think front row is a great little app, but I wondered about 2 things:
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i'm using a mac mini dual core with 1 gb of ram.
i've tried it (lib internal, pics external) without successs. FR still indexes/reads in every album, when i'm accessing the photo department. as i said: iphoto itself doesn't have any problems, nor this slowness. maybe i should give it a try and reimport everything and/or movev all the pics to the internal hdd. but actually this is what i don't want: i just want to have my library and my pics on the external hdd...
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I've used iPhoto to import all of my old photos/videos from my digital camera and have arranged these into a mixture of events and smart-folders. When viewing these via the Photos menu in Front Row, the automatic slideshows play back all my photos just fine, but any videos that were taken at the same time are just shown as a black screen. When I say videos, I mean little video clips that were taken using the digital-camera (640x480 and 30fps).
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With a bit of additional searching I seem to have found an answer to my question. Unfortunately it's not the answer I wanted and this seems to be a known issue. The post I found that describes this is here;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1380562&tstart=0
I'll be raising it in the feedback form.
Cheers,
Ian
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Well that's a really annoying problem that I was hoping it would be fixed in Snow Leopard, but IT DIDN'T!
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