Relinking Library/User Pictures to Users & Groups

My continuing saga of the missing default icons still eludes me even after the latest Mountain Lion update. I happened to find the /library /user pictures folders intact with all of the default icons YET regardless of System re-installs and permissions repairs I still see this under my User & Groups panel.
SOMEONE OUT THERE MUST KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS. I've certainly given up on Apple Geniuses who have sent me down the re-install, re download Mountain Lion route. See attached image.

Thanks for sharing, unfortunately I'm still without avatars but am not about to kill tonnes of time wipeing everything off and performing a clean install for an Apple created bug. It's honestly not worth it. Unless of course there is a really quick way to replace everything I've currently installed.

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I was using Aperture (3.4.1), when he appeared a notice that asked me to stop the Mac with the power button. When I restart Aperture no longer opens and the following message appears: There was an error opening the database for the library "/ Users / Andrea / Pictures / Aperture 3 Library.aplibrary."
How can I solve this problem?
Thanks

After a system crash your Aperture Library may be corrupted, because Aperture may not have been able to finish the ongoing database transactions.
Have you tried the Aperture Library First Aid Tools?
Aperture 3 User Manual: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library
Try "Repair Database", and if this does not help: "Rebuild Database"
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Léonie

When I try to open my aperture library, I get the message "There was an error opening the database for the library "/Users/alyssabouma/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary". help!

When I try to open my Aperture Library, I get this message: "There was an error opening the database for the library “/Users/alyssabouma/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary”.
I have already uninstalled and reinstalled the library....Help!!

lyssalou,
what is your Aperture version and what is your MacOS X version?
What happened, before this problem occurred? Did you import images, install software, move the Aperture library?
I have already uninstalled and reinstalled the library....Help!!
What do you mean by reinstalling the library? Did you reinstall Aperture?
You might start the trouble shooting with using the Aperture Library First Aid Tools - repairing the permissions, repairing the library, and rebuilding, if necessary, see:
Aperture 3 User Manual: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library
Before rebuilding the library, make a backup of the Aperture Library, if you do not have one.
Regards
Léonie

There was an error opening the database for the library "/Users/madis13/Pictures/Nikon Transfer3/Aperture Library.aplibrary".

There was an error opening the database for the library “/Users/madis13/Pictures/Nikon Transfer3/Aperture Library.aplibrary”.
What to do when it comes to such a notice?
If I want to open the aperture program, followed by a message, and the only option is to quit, but the program is not avanegi

chose import library.
That might be the problem.
If you want to import an image file in to an Aperture Library, you use the command
File > Import > Files
or
File > Import > Folders as Projects.
The command
File > Import > Library
is for importing whole iPhoto Libraries or Aperture Libraries. Have you tried to import the Aperture Library into itself?
However, the program did not open the catalog yet, and I did force quit.
Do you mean, after you tried to "import as library"?
Any success with the First Aid Tools as I suggested?
Hold the key combination ⌥⌘ firmly down and double click your Aperture Library. Then select a repair option from the panel.
Léonie

There was an error opening the database for the library "/Users/james/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary". what now?

I was uploading 655 images from my Nikon D300S to aperture, all was going fine, went to make a coffee and came back to find Aperture had quit and this message was on the screen ––
There was an error opening the database for the library “/Users/james/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary”.
–– when I now try to open aperture I always get the same message and it won't open.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Aperture 3.4.5 and OSX 10.8.5

Thanks William Lloyd and IeonieDF
First opened First Aid by holding down alt and cmd while double clicking Aperture
Tried Repairing Permissions and repairing Database in First Aid but neither worked –– so then did a 'Rebuild Database' and I'm back in action
Thanks for taking an interest guys

Trying to open Aperture, but I get the message, "There was an error opening the database for the library "/Users/davewasson/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary". - and it forces me to quit. What do I do?

Trying to open Aperture, but I get the message, "There was an error opening the database for the library “/Users/davewasson/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary”. - and it forces me to quit. What do I do?

Dave-
You can try opening the old (problem) library by launching Aperture into Library First Aid mode and choosing to Repair (first option) or Rebuild the library. Before doing this, make a backup copy of the old library, since both Repair or Rebuild will write changes to the library database.
Repair is the faster and less drastic option, so try that first: After backing up your library, hold down both the Option and Command keys while dragging and dropping the problem library on the Aperture icon. The Photo Library First Aid window appears. Select Repair Database, then click Repair. After some time Aperture should open the library, if possible.
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Tell us more please - what is your Aperture version? What version of MAcOS X?
What happenend directly before the problem occured? Did you update software? Install new software? Import new images?
Did you move your Aperture library? Run a cleaning app for your mac?

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Then I'd check the system drive, if it has problems.
To check your System drive boot into the Recovery Partition, see: OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery
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Library recovery: how can I recover a library after I get this message: "There was an error opening the database for the library “/Users/Jim/Pictures/Libraries/K2 Library.aplibrary”???

Thanks a lot, Frank. The lsregister did the trick! I am testing this on 10.8.2.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24770 : I deleted the "com.apple.LaunchServices.plist", and restarted the Finder, even logged off and on again; did not change anything. The file has not been recreated, so it may not be used anymore.
http://itpixie.com/2011/05/fix-duplicate-old-items-open-with-list/#.ULZqa6XAoqY
The direct "copy and paste" from the post did not work: I had to retype it :
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
but then it worked like a charm!
Cheers
Léonie
And btw: I turned on the "-v" option for the lsregister to see, what was going on, and saw plenty of error messages (error -10811); so I repeated the command with "sudo". After that I still saw five iPhotos. Repeating as regular user finally got rid of the redundant iPhoto entries. It looks like registering as super user may be causing this trouble.

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"No Items" listed under defaults tab of Users & Groups

After Mountain Lion upgrade from Snow Leopard, "No Items" listed under default images from Users & Groups as well as Contacts (which) I'm sure share the same library. Have repaired permissions, redownloaded and re-installed Mountain Lion as recommended by the Apple Geniuses, but to no avail. Anyone got any ideas? See image.

Hi Leroy - Sy Kim, another user in the community posted a solution that worked, see below.
SY Kim
Sep 10, 2012 6:42 AM
After upgrade(from snow leopard), user picture list have no items. (Users & Groups)
Finally, I got the solution.
The key is to delete every '.DS_Store' files in the directory '/Library/User Pictures/'.
Open Terminal application and follow these.
1. Chagne directory by command below :
cd '/Library/User Pictures'
2. Listing all files including hiddens in the directory by command below :
ls -al
3. If there is a .DS_Store file. Remove the file by command below :
sudo rm .DS_Store
(It need user password for execute)
Then, it'll show every pictures in 'Users & Groups' control panel.

Can't open Users & Groups preference pane?

I am only user on my MBA. I was going to add wife as another user, but each time I try open User and Groups in System Preferences I get:
Preference Error
Could not load Users & Groups preference pane.
I found this post on the same issue. I also recently upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard. I tried to follow the suggestion to open via Terminal app by entering /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Accounts.prefPane, but only got response that it is a directory.
Armando

1. You have a corrupt user picture.
2. Read this whole message before doing anything. If you're not sure you understand it, STOP. Get someone with more experience to help you; e.g., by making a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store.
3. Back up all data if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to the state it’s in now. If you don't have backups, or you don't know how to restore from them without being able to log in, STOP.
4. Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility.app
Rght-click or control-click the highlighted text and select
Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu.* The application Directory Utility will open.
5. In the Directory Utility window, click the lock icon and authenticate. Select the Directory Editor tool in the toolbar. Select Users from the Viewing menu in the toolbar, if not already selected. Select your user account in the list. On the right is a list of properties and values. Select the property "JPEGPhoto" and delete it by clicking the minus-sign icondirectly below the property list. There are two such icons in the window. You want the one on the right, not the one on the left.
CAUTION: Do not click the minus-sign icon on the left, below the user list.
Then click the Save button in the lower right corner of the window. Quit Directory Utility.
6. Try again to open Users & Groups. If it still doesn't work, repeat the above steps with any other users you created. You'll need to reset the user pictures. Don't use the same ones.
7. Besides the users you created, there are many other items in the user list, representing built-in accounts. Don't change those accounts.
8. CAUTION: There is no "undo" in Directory Utility. If you make a mistake and delete something in the Directory Editor that should not have been deleted, restore your whole system from a backup and start over. I have no other help to offer in that case.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.

Manually augmenting users/groups for wiki server.

can someone tell me what a group looks like after its been augmented for use by wiki server? i need to manually change this because i need leopard installed in advanced mode and i also need to use my tiger OD server as my OD server NOT leopard. what i am trying to do is unsupported, i know, but i don't care if i have to write lines of code for every user, i just need to get it done.
is anyone else out there dealing with this?

Hi
You could have tried this yourself however what follows takes all of 10-15 seconds and should give you pretty much anything you want:
dscl
list
cd LDAPv3
list
cd IPaddress or FQDN of your LDAP Server
You should now see something like this:
AccessControls
AutoServerSetup
CertificateAuthorities
ComputerLists
Computers
Config
FileMakerServers
Groups
Locations
Machines
Mounts
Neighborhoods
People
PresetComputerLists
PresetGroups
PresetUsers
Printers
Users
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list
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diradmin
root
user1
user10
user2
user3
user4
user5
user6
user7
user8
user9
vpn_73565997fb81
Follow this with read followed by the the name of the user you are interested in. eg:
read user1
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NFSHomeDirectory: /Network/Servers/serverfqdn/Volumes/HardDrive/Users/user1
Password: ******
PhoneNumber: 12345 678901
Picture: /Library/User Pictures/Nature/Cactus.tif
PostalCode: NG16 2DQ
PrimaryGroupID: 20
RealName: User1
RecordName: user1 User1
RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Users
State: addressinfo
Street: addressinfo
UniqueID: 1025
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Tony

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