[Yana21rk]

for some reason my iPhoto just does not work. I click on the icon, the program opens up on my screen and then the waiting sign takes over the screen saying it's "Loading photos" and that's all i get out of it.
any leads on what happened?
Yana

[Yana21rk]

i looked through Apple support pages and disgussions and surprise surpirise it seems like i'm only one in a million who has the same problem with iphoto. the problem is noone really says properly what will help and what to do to fix it.
it sucks. i am really dissapointed. my ibook is brand new and i only ever used iphoto a couple of times before it freakin quit on me.

[Powaqqatsi]

trash the preferences. It can be found in ~/Library/Preferences/ and is called: com.apple.iphoto.plist

[Yana21rk]

hhmm turns out i don't have that at all.

[AKcrab]

Find where your pictures are stored, and try deleting the thumbs:
Thumb32.data
Thumb64.data
ThumbJBG.data

If that doesn't help, you may want to delete everything in that folder except the folders with your photos.

[Yana21rk]

i did that. it still doesn't work.
tell me, do you know WHY this happened in the first place?

[AKcrab]

Mine "broke" once, but my symptoms were different. iPhoto would load, the pictures would appear for a split second, and then iPhoto would crash.

Turns out, one or more of the thumbs had become corrupted.

Sounds like you have a different problem.

Have you tried launching iPhoto with another user?
How about reinstalling iPhoto?

[Yana21rk]

how do i reinstall? should i just download it from the apple.com?
i don't remember ever having a seperate iphoto cd

[AKcrab]

I believe you'll have to use Pacifist to get the application out of the packages on your install/software restore CD's or DVD's.