Some missing thumbnails and can't edit names in iPhoto 08

Hi there,
I have a problem with some images in iPhoto. Had a crash a while ago and had to re-install everything from a back-up and I thought I could just drag a few recent events from back-up into the iPhoto folder structure on the hard disc (stupid I now realise after checking these discussions). The only problem is that the thumbnail image for the event is blank, and the thumbnail images inside the event are all blank too, though when double clicking them they open the right images.
Can I recover the thumbnails without re-importing them properly? (I have lots of slideshows etc set-up on this large (90GB) library) btw. Saw a post about dragging the few events from the 'Originals' folder back into iPhoto, would this be an option?
Also, I can't edit the event names - you can type but nothing happens after that.
(iPhoto08 - Version 7, Running on a PowerMac G5 1.8, pretty much as a music server, with storage for iPhoto, 10.4.11).
Many thanks
Richard

Just sorted the font issue by re-installing HelveticaNeue.db.
Just the main issue to sort - thanks in advance.
Richard

Similar Messages

Missing thumbnails and previews Bridge CC x64. Help!

Week ago have missing thumbnails and previews in Bridge CC x64.
Where are no thumbnails cannot preview and open in photoshop.
What can i do? Please help!
Thanks!

Thanks, station_two!
I have surprised there all pictures from OneDrive on Windows 8.1.
When i copy those out of OneDrive thumbnails generated
Then copy all folder with images back and all works good!
Very strange. But good!

I have a new Nikon D750 sitting on my desk and can't edit the photos with any adobe product? We are in full wedding season and am a little frustrated. Photo mechanics opens them right up to download them. I am using the Nikon software to convert them

I have a new Nikon D750 sitting on my desk and can't edit the photos with any adobe product? We are in full wedding season and am a little frustrated. Photo mechanics opens them right up to download them. I am using the Nikon software to convert them into tiffs. when is the camera raw update coming out. I am not the only photographer with this issue check out all the chatter about it.

This happens every single time a new camera comes out from one of the two big camera makers. Nikon and Canon do not send preproduction units to Adobe, so Adobe has to go out and buy a D750 or whatever from the store to test and profile it before they can update Lightroom. They can't get one earlier than you and I can. The profiling is quite an extensive operation. Other camera makers do send preproduction units, use dng, or do the profiling in-house and there you often get support right from release. If camera makers would finally embrace an open raw format such as dng, this whole problem would be gone but both Canon and Nikon seem to think they live in an upside-down world where their clients only use their software.
Usually the dead period only lasts a few weeks but it is frustrating nevertheless. My only advice is to not buy a new camera at the day of release and expect to have third parties to support it. You definitely should not be buying these cameras right away if your business depends on it. Aperture, Capture One, etc. have the exact same problem. No third party (read non-Nikon in this case) will support the camera from the release date. Some are quicker than other adding support. Adobe is somewhere in the middle of the pack in this respect. Nobody outside of Adobe knows when an update comes out. Could be tomorrow, could be a few more weeks or a month. They might jump straight to Lightroom 6 and never add direct support to LR 5. Sometimes they will first bring out a beta version of dng converter that will convert the new camera's nef files to dng, which will work fine in the current Lightroom before updating Lightroom itself.

My new tab page displays only an empty grid. Missing thumbnails -and- sites. I -think- my settings are correct. Please advise.

My new tab page displays only an empty grid. Missing thumbnails -and- sites. I -think- my settings are correct. Please advise.

What are the settings for clearing history when Firefox closes?
Make sure that you do not clear the Browsing Cache as that will remove the thumbnails that are stored in it.

*** HELP (adobe premiere pro cc) I blended my scenes and can't edit individual clips anymore!

I somehow blended my timeline clips (music, scenes and titles) and can't edit individual scenes anymore (the timeline clips are now green. How to I get my scenes back????

Its the green bar I need to get rid of.

I achieved some gmail emails and can't find the archive to retrieve them

I archived some gmail emails and can't find the archive file to retrieve them.

Rosetta Stone does make a Mac OS X compatible version of their software. You may be elligible for a crossgrade or a Mac version of their CD. Or you might need to consider installing Windows on your Mac, if the disc only has a .exe file.

I have Adobe XI program, and can't edit pdf files

I have Adobe XI and can't edit pdf blue prints

you have adobe reader or adobe acrobat?
if acrobat, what happens when you open a pdf file and try to edit?

How can I edit photos in iPhoto in Photoshop Elements? I select PE in iPhoto preferences but they stay in iPhoto for editing.

How can I edit photos in iPhoto in Photoshop Elements? I select PE in iPhoto preferences but they stay in iPhoto for editing.

Here's something you can try with a copy of your current library.
1 - go to iPhoto's Events preference pane and set the auto split option to 1 day per even.
2 - go the the Events mode, select all Events.
3 - go to the Events menu and and select Autosplit Selected Events.
which will give you an event for each day.
4 - again select all events (although it might be better do to fewer at a time) and export them to your desired destination via the File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu option with the following settings:
The workflow above will produce a folder for each days photos with the date as the folder's title.

I can't get rid of the message, n error occurred with the publication of album. It just keep coming back, and can't move around in IPhoto.

I can't get rid of the message, n error occurred with the publication of album. It just keep coming back, and can't move around in IPhoto.

Okay, folks, after a 3 1/2 hour phone call with a (very patient) telephone support person at Blackberry, here's what I learned.
You can check your USB drivers this way:
Plug in your phone into your USB drive. Assuming your Blackberry is "seen" by your computer...
Go into the Device Manager on your computer (control panel)
Expand the Universal Serial Bus controllers item on the bottom of the list
Right-click on BlackBerry Smartphone and choose Properties
Click on the Driver tab
Click on the Driver Details button
You should see one driver. I saw two. The one the BlackBerry likes is the RimUsb one.
So here's what NOT to do: We tossed the entire driver that was the "extra". This effectively made using my mouse and keyboard impossible, as they are USB, and sent my poor husband into the basement to find a million-year-old keyboard (and then a mouse) with the old fashioned kind of connectors (PS2). Bleh. Don't do that.
Here's what I did that worked (not saything this will work for you -- this modifies the Registry so better do a system backup with that backup and restore if you're nervous about this sort of thing):
From the start menu, choose run, and type regedit to get into the Registry editor.
Follow this file path: Computer, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Control, Class
Click on: {36FCE60-C465-11CF-8056-4445535400000}
If there's an item on the right called "UpperFilters", delete it. (see pictures)
Hope this helps someone.
Karin
First pic: shows "before"
Second pic: shows full file path and "after"

Just updated from snow leopard to yosemite and can't open or update iPhoto

Just updated from snow leopard to yosemite and can't use or update iPhoto- help??

i tried to download the free iPhoto 9.6 app but i can't.
Where did you try to download that? This looks like you tried to download an updater.
Move iPhoto.app from your applications folder to the Trash.
Launch the App Store.
Sign in with your AppleID in the Store menu.
Click the first tab "Featured" and enter iphoto into the search field. Hit the "Return/Enter" key.
You should be seeing something similar to this:
If you see iPhoto, download it.

Lost my thumbnails and can't recreate them

I'm using iPhoto 6.0.5. I started to edit some new pictures and noticed that every picture I edited had lost it's thumbnail. I checked out this site and found out it is a big problem. I tried all the suggestions including rebuilding the library.
After I rebuilt the library ALL my photos had lost there thumbnail. After trying and trying I finally gave up and exported all my photos to a folder. I then created a new library and then imported all my photos back. I new iPhoto would recreate the thumbnails for sure this time. To my surprise it didn't work, I still have no thumbnails just 1000+ black rectangles.
Does anybody have any idea what I can try next?

Mike:
As a first try, download and run BatChmod on the iPhoto Library folder with the settings shown here, putting your administartive name in the owner and group sections. You can either type in the path to the folder or just drag the folder into that field.
Then rebuild the library if necessary.
If the above doesn't help try using iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild the library. It creates a new library by copyingt the original files and dB data that it needs and creates the rest. It often succeeds when iPhoto does not. Worth a try. Here's how:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your User/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File->Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: It can take some time to create the new library if you have a lot of photos. One user reported that with a library of about 5,000 images it took about 12 hours so plan ahead.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.

Missing Thumbnails and Missing Photos

**** iLife!!
I updated iphoto to 6.02, and now I'm getting blank spaces for a bunch of photos in the thumbnail section, and I'm getting the empty grey square with the exclamation point in regular sized photos.
Everything was just fine before the upgrade.
HELP!!!

Yes, ditto. I have same problem as Ted if not worse with iPhoto 6.02. There must be 10000s of us out there which means that someone must have figured out a solution by now. Please!
I followed Niantic's instructions but nada. I also updated my OS and followed the link to the Apple com article on images with !s but Show file got no response nor did show original file etc.
Before I rebuilt the library I could click on some (but not all) the blank thumbnails and see the whole photo, but now all the blanks remain blank with the ! in the middle.
Checking the missing photos I noticed two things that might help. First, a great wodge disappeared from those taken between July and September 2005. Although some were still showing.
Of the other that went missing it seemed pretty random with a few here and there from the beginning of my library (2002) onwards.
Also a bunch of photos I gave names to so I could identify them easily in the iPhoto library folders got jumbled in the library so they are now out of sync with when they were taken.
Also some photos have renumbered themselves so 015_13 has duplicated itself as 015_12
Also the dates are wrong (this must be pretty easy to fix), so for example photos I took in March 2006 say Jan 2005
Also when I examine the file directory on iPhoto library none of the dates correspond to when I took them (one strand starts 1970) and many of the subfolders are empty (so I cant quite understand how they came to be created).
Finally, yes I do have backups though I am not looking forward to the hours it will eventually take identifying all the missing photos by number and then reimporting one or several at a time.
I already tried to do this with several different photos and each time it read: "Unreadable file: the following file could not be imported: users/etc/etc/IMG_xxxx.jpg (The file is in the iPhoto library folder). Please could someone translate what this means!
Please excuse the length of this posting but I figured the more info I give the more likely there might be a clue for some bright spark to figure out what the xxxx is going on. Like Ted, my digital photo life was simple and peaceful until iLife 6 came along.
I suspect that messy file management that was tolerated in my earlier version is no longer tolerated by this new version. Whatever the reason i am completely stumped. Over to you, Sherlock…
iMac G5 (3.0) 512 MB Mac OS X (10.4.6) Bought July 2005

I just recently got a new laptop and transfered everything over and it seemed to be ok but now having issues playing videos and can't edit any of my song info in music files

I just got a new laptop so I had to transfer everything over and I thought everything would be ok but I'm having some strange issues especially with my purchased tv shows, movies, and music videos. They just wont play. Sometimes I'll get lucky and a tv show will play but if I stop it and try again it wont. If I open in Quicktime it works fine. The computer is authorized so that shouldnt be it especially if it plays in QT and like I said sometimes I'll get lucky and one will play. Now the other thing I just noticed is all my music files play fine but when opening and looking at the info of the music file I can't edit anything for example song title or artist the area seems shaded and won't let me do any editing. So I'm having those 2 issues. Video files not playing ones that I have purchased. movies, tv shows and music videos. Also like I said if I just sit there and click one after another I may get lucky and one will play but if I stop it and try again it will not play again. And I can't seem to edit any music file which play fine. I have a new Dell with windows 7 and I have never had this happen any help would be great. The computer is authorized for i tunes so it cant be that.

Right-click on your main iTunes folder and click Properties, then go to the Security tab and click Advanced. If necessary grant your account and system full control to this folder, subfolders and files, then tick the option to replace permissions on child objects which will repair permissions throughout the library. This is the XP dialog but Windows 7 shouldn't be too different.
tt2

Missing drivers and can't figure out what to install

I have two missing drivers on a fresh install of windows 7 64 bit and can't seem to work out what they are. It's a HP notebook 2000 365DX They show up under 'Other Devices' one is BCM207020A and when I open it the info says Location Port_#0002.Hub_#0003 the second is PCI Device and when opened it is PCI bus 2, device 0, function 0 Anyone got an idea?

Hi: You need these drivers... This package contains the Broadcom bluetooth driver and software for supported notebook models that are running a supported operating system. Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 Driver is required to enable Broadcom bluetooth 4.0 devices and is compatible with Broadcom bluetooth 3.0 and earlier versions. File name: sp54245.exe This package contains the driver that enables the Realtek Card Reader in supported notebook models that are running a supported operating system. The card reader enables users to read from or write to supported removable storage cards, which are typically used in digital cameras, digital music players, and cellular phones. File name: sp52186.exe

Editing video on mac desktop. In iPhoto and can't edit.

How can I edit video on my Mac desktop? Video is currently in iPhoto and I can't edit it. I need to rotate it.

You can do some minimal cropping of the movie file in iPhoto, i.e. change the start and stop points, but that's all.
OT

Some missing thumbnails and can't edit names in iPhoto 08

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for