Yellow Alert Icon in iPhoto 6 on scanned photos
I just purchased a new Mac Book, 10.4.7, in Aug. I'm trying to design a photo book in iPhoto 6.0.4. I scanned in several pictures and made a practice book with them. Every photo had the yellow alert icon on it. I have downloaded new digital photo's on the new Mac Book, and made a practice book and none of the digital photos had the yellow alert icon on it.
I also have my iMac OS X, 10.3.9, that I've used for 6 years and designed many books on it with no problems. So I scanned the same photos into iPhoto 5.0.4 version, on my iMac and had no yellow alert ion's show up on them. So I just went ahead and made my book on my old iMac OS X.
Is the new technology on the new Mac Book so advanced that the iPhoto program won't accept old scanned in photos.
I even tried to change the resolution from 200 to 300 and then to 600 and the Mac Book iPhoto version still showed the yellow icon.
Can anyone help me?
Mac OS X Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Ms. Ethyl:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Did you by chance change any of the scanning setting for this new batch? Were you able to edit them in iPhoto 6? Try this expeirment: select one of the photos and do some very small edit. Then see if that photos still exhibits the warning triangle. If not, then it's something to do with the original file and it's format/mode.
Do you Twango?
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