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iPhoto library hell
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Recently, I got a new PowerBook and gave my old iBook to my sister-in-law.
The problem I'm having is on the iBook. Before I gave her the computer, the Apple guy reset it for her. After I'd done this, she told me she wanted all my photos on her computer (which has since been transfered to the PowerBook). So what I did was copy my entire iPhoto library onto my iPod and replace her iPhoto library with my one.
Since doing that, it has been hell. Obviously, I did something wrong.
Her iPhoto library won't accept any new photos. If you try and drop a photo from desktop into iPhoto, it crashes. If you connect a digital camera, and press "Import Photos", it crashes.
What can I do?
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When you click on the iPhoto icon to launch it, hold down the apple+option keys and it should ask you to rebuild the library. Rebuild it, then try using it as normal.
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I wonder if this is a permissions issue with you account versus hers. I would try removing the library and restartin iPhoto allwing it to create a new library then importing ( File>Import) the old library. Fixing permissions might help, but kinda doubt it.
SAm
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Originally Posted by Philip J. Fry
When you click on the iPhoto icon to launch it, hold down the apple+option keys and it should ask you to rebuild the library. Rebuild it, then try using it as normal.
Hadn't thought of that.
SAm
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I tried holding down the apple+option keys. This didn't work. I got some message about needing a newer version of iPhoto (Sorry, her OSX is in Korean, and that's the best translation she could give me in her less-than-perfect English).
Out of desperation, I went into her iPhoto library and deleted all the data files. Unfortunately, this solved one problem, and created another.
Now iPhoto accepts new photos. But all the OLD photos in her library folder have disappeared from iPhoto.
How can I get iPhoto to recognize/display the 2000-odd photos in her folder? Just as a test, I dropped one manually directly into the iPhoto display pane, which promptly imported. I'm hoping there's an easier way of doing it.
Thanks.
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If it's iPhoto 4, you need to hold shift+option instead. Hope that helps.
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(Last edited by Ulrich Kinbote; Jul 11, 2006 at 10:34 PM.
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Originally Posted by Philip J. Fry
When you click on the iPhoto icon to launch it, hold down the apple+option keys and it should ask you to rebuild the library. Rebuild it, then try using it as normal.
Thanks!!! This is EXACTLY what I needed to solve why my photos are gone from my iPod!
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