Slideshow goes black

I get a black screen and that annoying music when I try to do a slideshow from certain files. Have to click Apple>Option>Esc in order to get back to desktop. Any reasons anyone would know of why this happens.
Also, I loaded a CD full of jpegs and they are scattered all over the place, in different files, thumbs, etc. Could this be a possible conflict with the slideshow?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Jim

If Mac is so easy, why does it take me, computer-literate on FCP in Mac, not able to find a particular photo
Jim,
It's not that hard to decipher. The hierarchy starts with folders, potentially one for each year. Each year can contain up to 12 folders (that correspond to the 12 months of the year). A "month" folder can contain up to 31 folders (that correspond to the up-to 31 days in a month. Each of your image files has a creation date made up of day, month, and year components. A photo you took yesterday would end up in a folder named "28" in a folder named "09", in a folder named "2005".
If you imported that picture today, it would appear on a "roll" in your photo library with other photos from the same import session, and that roll would be dated "9/29/2005". If the picture had special significance, you'd do things like title the photo, or put it in an album (or multiple albums) having a particular theme, or associate key words with it.
I'm not certain how many more ways you'd want to organize things, but the flexibility to find any important photo in an instant is certainly there.

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