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Q: I downloaded the apple upgrade to try and view photos from an old external hard drive unsuccessfully. Now I am unable to access my current iPhoto on my desktop with an error stating it first needs to be prepared. I have done all recent upgrades.

unable to access iPhoto after downloading iPhoto upgrade.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 9, 2015 9:44 AM

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Feb 9, 2015 9:48 AM in response to apfliakas
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    Feb 9, 2015 9:48 AM in response to apfliakas

    Need details

     

    What version of iPhoto do you have? What version were the problem libraries created with?  If it was iphoto '08 (version 7.x.x) or earlier you need to download and run the iphoto library upgrader before launching iphoto 9.6 (required for OS X 10.10.x)

     

    LN

  • by apfliakas,

    apfliakas apfliakas Feb 9, 2015 10:11 AM in response to LarryHN
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    Feb 9, 2015 10:11 AM in response to LarryHN

    it is version 8.1. Not sure what the old version was, it wouldn't let me open it at all even after installing upgrade. iPhoto keeps quitting unexpectedly and won't let me open it at all even with the upgrader installed.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Feb 9, 2015 10:17 AM in response to apfliakas
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    Feb 9, 2015 10:17 AM in response to apfliakas

    If you're running Yosemite then you can't possible run iPhoto 8.1 as it is not compatible with Yosemite.  Any iPhoto application older than 9.5.1 will look like this in Yosemite:

    Screen Shot 2015-02-09 at 10.15.48 AM.jpg

    Do you have iPhoto 9.6 in your Applications folder?  If so then do the following:

     

    1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down to open the First Aid window. Be sure to follow the circled recommendation in the screenshot.

     

    iP95firstaid4.png


    2 - run Option #4, Rebuild Database.

     

    OTsig.png