Stuck on "loading photos" when i try to open iphoto
Hi - This is a brand new problem. When I click on the iphoto icon to open it, the iphoto window appears, everything is blank, except for"loading photos" and a spinning circle. i left it up, thinking maybe it was just being slow...came back hours later to the same thing. the pictures are still accessible in Finder, but I can't do anything in Iphoto. no library, no albums, nothing. thanks for any info anyone might have! --joanna
apparently messing with your photos via the finder can cause cataloging problems. But being that you only have a few hundred pictures now, it's not as difficult to create a new library as was directed by the link that Philly Phan provided. HOWEVER when you have several THOUSAND pics like I do, and with albums and keywords assigned to them, you LOSE all if that when creating a new library.
this all ***** and I have yet to find a way to avoid that and even if you archive the original library, iphoto can't recoup that once this software grinds to a halt like this.
I never messed with the library this time so I don't know what caused my problem to begin with but to plow through all my photos again, its killing me. I am po'd to say the least.
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