Problems after rebuilding IPhoto

I was having some trouble with lost photos and exporting to the desk top to use some photos for a web site. I decided to rebuild my iphoto library. After the rebuild NONE of my thumbnails match the actual photo. I have 2637 photos and NOT ONE of the thumbnails matches the photo. Basically my library is a complete disaster. Any help in fixing this would be very appreciated and any help in figuring out how to prevent this from happening in the future would help a lot too.

While I'm at it another thing I can't figure out. I have an album with about 100 photos in it. This is the one with the screwed up thumbnails. I'm trying to select all and click and drop to a folder that I'm going to later convert to a .zip by archiving. When I try to drop the photos into the folder a box shows up that says "The selected items cannot all be put into the same location, because at least one of them named "img_--11.jpg" is busy." I removed that image and tried again and it said the same thing for a differant photo and so on. If I try them one at a time it works, but with all these photos that'll take forever. Also at some point it won't allow me to add another image because there is one in the folder with the same name. How could they both exist in the same album with the same name? I'm starting with an empty folder too.

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I have actually been having problems with iPhoto since a while. My first problem was that iPhoto kept on crashing while I carried out the smallest kind of editing. After some time, iPhoto wouldn't start at all. I have therefore backed up the library in an external hard disk and started an automatic rebuild of the library. Now I can start iPhoto but I encounter the problems described in the first paragraph.
Do I have too many pictures for one library? Is it advisable to split the pictures in two libraries? How? Or should I rather get the latest version of iPhoto from iLife? Many thanks in advance.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
No, you don’t have too many pics for one Library. V5 of iPhoto is good for 25k images. (Later versions are good for 250k images).
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.
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Regards
TD

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after rebuilding iPhoto all 25,000 photos went into same event folder , can i undo this or separate them again in original events

No way to know without details
For sure you can select the "big event" and use the autopilot selected event to split it according to your iPhoto preferences
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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...
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BR,
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For that reason I suggest you look at the tip at the end of my signature for a way to protect against it.
Do you Twango?
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OT
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