Hi Matt, If you don't have a current backup of iPhoto I suggest you do a backup first. Remember to Quit iPhoto before backing up. Then Rebuild the iPhoto Library:
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 10 Dec 2015, at 12:11 PM, Matt Falvey <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > Hi I have a problem iPhoto will not open for very long. > > I am using OS 10.8.5 and iPhoto 9.4.3. and I have Aperture 3.4.5 > > Initially, iPhoto when I tried to open it would not work at all. It would > start to run and I would get an "iPhoto quit unexpectedly" note with three > options, Ignore, Report and Reopen. I tried them all, could not make head nor > tail out of the report and the Reopen just repeated the cycle. > > I thought I would try opening the library in Aperture as it is link to both. > I ran Aperture and it said something like as the library keeps crashing you > should try one of these three options. I think the first one was repair the > permissions, the second one was repair the library and I am not sure what the > third one was but it involved a more robust option. > > I chose the second option and Aperture rebuilt the library and it opened up. > All of the info that I had typed onto individual photos in iPhoto was there > as were the albums , etc. > > So I thought I would push the envelope as I already had a back up of the > iPhoto library. I closed Aperture and tried to open iPhoto. This time it > opened and stayed on the last page that I had displayed in Aperture for about > 10 secs before shutting down and the "iPhoto quit unexpectedly" message came > up. I tried Reopen and the "iPhoto quit unexpectedly" came up immediately. > > I went back to Aperture and that opened straight away, everything the same as > before. > > I have two questions: > > - Should I do a back up know? As it appears I have a working library thanks > to Aperture. (In the meantime I am keeping it open just in case) > > - What should I do to try and get iPhoto to work with what it obviously a > working library? > > Thanks > > Matt. -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
