Problems sharing from iPhoto

I have been having lots of issues with iphoto lately, but one that I can at least easily explain relates to sharing photos.  I select 5 photos to share, choose to share by email and when the next box opens where I can choose what layout I would like to use and it shows the photos I have chosen....the photos are wrong.  Sometimes, it duplicates a photo, other times it selects photos that I did not choose.  I have closed out, re-opened, but no diference.  What is going wrong.
Jocelyn

That was a test, and tells us that there is an issue within your main library that iPhoto's own tools can't resolve.
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
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.

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