Problem with an iPhoto restore.

Good Morning Folks, I recently had my HDD replaced under the Apple scheme. I restored everything succesfully from time Machine. However for some reason I was convinced that I needed to reinstall iPhoto 11 (Don't ask). So I did, now when I open iPhoto I get a box saying that,
"You can’t open your current photo library using this version of iPhoto."
"You have made changes to your photo library using a newer version of iPhoto.
Do you want to quit and use the latest version of iPhoto, or do you want to create a new photo library?"
But it only gives me a box for "QUIT" I spent hours yesterday cataloguing and culling my library. I've got all the photos but I don't know how to get back to where I was or why this has happened. And I really quail at the thought of replicating yesterday's work. Any help appreciated. I'm using Snow Lepoard 10.6.8 on iMac 27 and I've installed all the updates this morning. I don't know what newer version of iPhoto there is other that 11.
I've tried to use time Machine to go back to yesterday but
the 'RESTORE' arrow is greyed out.
All ideas gratefully received.Wilf

I believe that the latest version that runs on 10.6.8.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places 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.
Regards
TD

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hello folks
I did downloaded the OS X Mauntain Lion recently on my mac and also the Aperture programan. both programs were working fine until, I started to do some upgrade present on my app box, all of then installed without problem but it was an error on Iphoto upgrade, i click many times to see if the upgrade work but nothing so i decided to deleted.
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You can also try restoring your photo library from a backup."
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Smart albums should be visible in both applications, see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5260
Do your albums contain images, that have been rejected in Aperture, or hidden in iPhoto?
Or have you additional smart filters set by searches? These will not be visible in iPhoto.
If you have neither rejected not hidden photos in the smart albums, I'd recommend to rebuild your library (after backing it up). See: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual
Regards
Léonie

Problems with a clean restore

I have an iMac at my office that is about a 2007 machine. For the first time this spring, I began to have some real problems with it around March or April; the details of those problems aren't important here. The tech support guy at my university finally decided that the best option was probably a complete wipe of the hard drive and then a systematic restore that wasn't completely Time Machine based. The reason for this was because we were afraid there might be something in the settings and things in other places that might perpetuate the problems. I put all of my data in Dropbox (I don't use iCloud yet but will soon) but left things like my music in Time Machine and also created a folder on the external drive for all of the items on my Desktop. The tech wiped the drive, reinstalled Mountain Lion and iLife and I then began to slowly put the apps back on the drive that I wanted. So far, all is going very well and virtually all of the problems have gone away.
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warrenfromfargo wrote:
However--when I try to either look at the backups or open a file/folder in my saved Desktop folder, I get a message saying that I don't have permission to view any of this.
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Then log on to the account you want to have the data, and copy from the Shared folder to that home folder. That will get the permissions right.

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Hello,
(sorry for my bad english, i'm french ans i dont speak english very weel)
I have a big problem with the the online restore of Lion with my MBA.
I have made the EFI Update and now is not possible to restore Lion with the online restore (CMD+R at the startup)
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Library not loaded: ...
... Reason: no suitable image found.
Try re-install iPhoto and then run Software Update to bring it all to current versions.
To re-install iPhoto
1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)
2. Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name
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If you purchased an iLife Disk, then iPhoto is on it.
If iPhoto was installed on your Mac when you go it then it’s on the System Restore disks that came with your Mac. Insert the first one and opt to ‘Install Bundled Applications Only...’
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TD

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125 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
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99 MB Finder
94 MB Pages
73 MB mds_stores
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961 MB Inactive RAM
543 MB Wired RAM
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When you installed the Trial of Clean My Mac 2, there should have been an uninstaller in the installer bundle. Check, if there is the uninstaller, then run this application.
If there is no uninstaller, download and install "FindAnyFile" and search for files with CleanMyMac2. in the name. You can reveal the files that are found in the Fnder and delete them this way. Download it here: http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php
To recover your iPhoto Library:
Make copy of the library as it now on an external drive.
Then use your Time Machine backup to restore the iPhoto library from a date before you cleaned the library. If you let CleanMyMac 2 remove duplicates, it will have deleted original image files and replaced them edited versions, and these links may be incorrect. It is hard to fix this manually. Restoring from your backup will be the best solution.

Problem with imported iphoto library

I imported my photo library from an older mac, all photos are there, but when I click on anyone to blow it up I get a giant exclamation mark and no photo. thumbnails are there, but can't view photos. Some permissions problem? Thanks
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It is odd because the photo is visible for an instant before the ! shows up.
That's just a cached image.
Alternative:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 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, faces and places 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.
Regards
TD

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Anyone having this problem?? I just got this computer last week and I scanned one picture. I tried to import it and the program keeps going and going and it won't import. But now everytime I go into I photo it asks do I want to import of course NO and here's for the weird part, everytime I try to import it the photo gets duplicated so now instead of 1 photo I have 10????
I have scanned and import other photos after this and I don't have this problem.
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But this iPhoto Library came from somewhere else? Right? From another machine? So, how did those photos get into that iPhoto Library? Did you import one Library to another? I ask as this is one of the ways you could find yourself working with thumbnails and not the actual images.
Regards
TD

Problem with rebuilding iPhoto library

Hi,
I'm having problem to rebuild my iPhoto library. I have more than 11 000 photos / video clips and 70Gbs in my iPhoto library and everything has been ok until I started to import photos from my new iPhone 4. First issue was that when I imported photos from iPhone those new photos disappeared after restart of iPhoto. I read from somewhere that iPhoto library rebuild -functions might help and I rebuild the library and thumbnails. It actually worked for that problem. After that those photos which I imported from iPhone remained in iPhoto and I even got some disappeared photos back. But after that rebuilt I noticed that most of the video clips could not be opened inside iPhoto. When clicking thumbnail of a video clip just a big exclamation mark jumped up. I checked from iPhoto library originals -folder that those video clips still remain. From there I can open the clips in Quicktime Player. So, I tried to rebuild my library again. Rebuilding started ok, it went smoothly up to 65% but ceased there. Now it has been in that 65% -condition for 24 hours and I don't know what to do. I don't know if it's still actually doing something or not. "Force to quit" -function does not say that iPhoto is not answering and "System Monitoring" shows that there are still some messages going on in iPhoto -process. I don't know should I force iPhoto to quit or just wait another 24 hours...
Any advices what I should do and how I can get my video clip viewing back to iPhoto?
Computer is iMac 2006 with OS 10.6.8 and iPhoto is version 9.1.5. I have both Quicktime players (7 and 10) installed.
BR,
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If the rebuild doesn't help try Fix 101: make a temporary, backup copy of the library if you don't already have a backup copy and try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
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2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
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