Printing re-crops photo

After working fine for printing the photos I cropped, 2 weird things started happening. Every time I cropped a photo and went to print it, the thumbnail in the print window looked correct, but the edit window under the print window automatically put a gray crop box about a 1/2 inch inside the photo, and the picture printed according to that new crop box and not according to the thumbnail. This happened for each of my 4 printers, and no settings were changed from when it was printing correctly.
The second weird thing was that the the thumbnails in the main thumbnail window seem to have become separated from the photo in the edit window. After I cropped a photo in the edit window, and then reverted to original, the edit window reverted to original but the thumbnail did not, and there was no way to revert the thumbnail to original.
I tried everything I know to fix the problem to no avail.
Thanks for any help. I am about to ditch IPhoto for another program.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Sounds like a damaged database file.
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
To create and populate a new *iPhoto 6* library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Rolls and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Roll Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
Regards
TD

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