Pictures composed by Email not being reduced properly.

Question

Just today I noticed that when I sent photos to my family, it was taking Mail a long time to send them. I am on the list myself and the email was coming with not all photos being shown, just file icons
The problem is that the email compose feature of iPhoto has suddenly stopped compressing the photos to the approximate sizes. For example,
when set to Medium, the size of image actually sent should be around 122k
Here are some examples. First figure is the total size of the photos. Second figure is the size that Compose for Email said they would approximately be.
Third figure is the actual size of these attached photos.
1.3 >>>>>496>>>>>744
4.7 >>>>>979>>>>>1.8
2.8>>>>>612>>>>>1.1
I tried two of my four libraries and they both were not compressing the photos with iPhotos email feature.
What do you think is happening? bob

Answer 1

First have you tried to repair disk permissions with Disk Utility? Do so if you haven't. There may be some files within the iPhoto application package (that do the job of resizing) whose permissions have been changed so that you don't have access to them. A complete reinstall of iPhoto 5 and subsequent update to the current version would correct that problem.
To do a reinstall of iPhoto you will first have to delete the current application and all files with iPhoto in the file name that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder. Then you can install v5 and update to 5.0.4 followed by another repair of disk permissions.
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