The Photo Library needs to be upgraded....
"The Photo Library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto." This came up as I opened iPhoto 4.0.3. which I have been running since June 05. I don't think and I looked to see if iPhoto got updated, all looks the same.
Please advise as to what to do now. I made a backup, on another HD, of my Pictures in iPhoto Library just in case.
Thanks, Spencer
Dual 1GHz G4, HD 80,120 & 200GB. Mac OS X (10.2.x)
So you have been running iP 4.0.3 all that time and you got the upgrade library message???? interesting.... something is fishy here...
well like you did, which was the smart thing to do, make a backup of the entire iphoto library (inside your pictures folder) and do upgrade the original library and see what happen!
when you say "of my Pictures in iPhoto Library just in case."
did you copy the entire iP library???
Make sure that you really copied the iPhoto library because it needs all the component that are inside for iPhoto to operate properly.
BTW, did you move anything in or out of the Ip library????
as a rule of thumb, DO NOT venture inside the iP library, move or take out anything in there...... if you did, this may be the cause of iP's need to want to be upgraded!!! Furthermore, any deletion from the iPlibrary not done within the iP applications will casue "mayhem later
my 2 cents!
michel
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Thanks in advance for the help!see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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