Thank you Ronni for your prompt reply. I followed your steps carefully and unlocked the padlock. Unfortunately iPhoto still does not open, and I receive the same message
"Caution - the iPhoto Library is locked, on a locked disk or you do not have permission to make changes to it". No-one except me goes into these files. I transferred all information etc painlessly from my earlier Mac 10.6.2 about a month ago, and have had no problems since. I have edited photos, made slideshow etc. in the usual way. My version of iPhotos shows as V.8.1.1. I always carry out updates when prompted. Thanking you for your efforts. Peta On 01/01/2010, at 8:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > > On 01/01/2010, at 8:18 PM, peta belczowski wrote: > >> >> Help. >> >> I now have (for about 2 months) a Mac OS X Version 10.6.2, running on Snow >> Leopard - (which I did not know until today - when I foolishly declared that >> Snow Leopard had not caused me any problems). >> >> I have not used the Mac a great deal lately, but have downloaded my >> Christmas photos. >> >> I just clicked onto iPhotos in the dock to look at my photos, but >> immediately received a spinning ball and a blank iPhoto box, and eventually >> a message which flashed quickly on the screen along the lines of "iPhotos is >> locked" - it was too quick for me to take notes. A report was sent to >> Apple. >> >> How would I reinstate my iPhotos (which is the main reason for having my >> Mac). > > Hi Peta, > > What version of iPhoto are you using? > Do you have iPhoto on an external disk or on your Mac? > > Try this anyway: > 1.Click in the Finder icon (square blue smiley face) to bring up a Finder > window. > 2.It should open to your Home (if not, click on your user name on the left > column). > 3.Double click on your Pictures folder. > 4.Select IPhoto Library by clicking on it once. > 5.Select Get Info from the File menu (or click Command-I) and look for > Sharing & Permissions at the bottom of the Get Info window. > 6.If you only see the name, click the black triangle to its left to open the > section. > 7.Select your user name on the left and set your privileges to "Read & Write". > > You may need to click the padlock icon on the lower right and enter your user > name and password to enable the change. > > Let us know what your result is please. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo > 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB > OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
