Viewing Photos - can only see thumbnails

Hi - Just upgraded to iPhoto 6. I can see all my thumbnails but when I double click to view the photo, I just get a grey box with an exclamation mark. Any ideas how I can sort this? cheers

mazshep2001:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Here are some threads that discuss that issues and some potential solutions.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=313814&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1665923#1665923
http://homepage.mac.com/dsjosephson/iphoto6framework/FileSharing24.html
Hopefully one of them will work for you.

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