Double-Click on photo = Black Screen

I have some high quality (for me) photos that came from a professional wedding photographer. They are about 4mb a piece. In iPhoto 08 I had no problem with them. I could move them around, print, do whatever I needed.

With iPhoto 09... when I double-click on them to bring them up to the larger size so that I can see greater detail and edit them... the picture goes to black.

Any clue as to what is going on?? My wife is going to kill me if she can't get to her wedding pictures easily!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 28, 2009 7:20 AM

23 replies

A.M.B.

Level 1

8 points

Mar 15, 2009 7:24 AM in response to phastings

This is so so bad. For all intents and purposes I have lost more than 2000 photos, some of which represented a considerable amount of labor in Photoshop. Much of this thread seems to be written in the kind of Greek I associate with MSDOS and Windows, and those solutions don't seem to be working anyway. I am certainly not going to do an archive and reinstall if it isn't likely to help. Moreover, iPhoto won't even export the corrupted files to the desktop, and the files cannot be located by searchlight. So there is no way to simply work with them outside of iPhoto.

I am absolutely irate. Apple needs some serious clarification on the concept of "upgrade." I want iPhoto 6 back.

Yer_Man

Level 10

165,984 points

Mar 15, 2009 7:36 AM in response to A.M.B.

If you want to access these files

Try right click on the pic in the iPhoto Window and go Show File from the resulting menu.

To recover them from iPhoto simply go to the iPhoto Library in your Pictures Folder and right click on it. Form the resulting menu choose ‘Show Package Contents’. A Finder window will open with the Library exposed. The Originals are in the Originals folder. If they’ve been edited the edited version is in the Modified folder.

I am absolutely irate.

IPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback

I want iPhoto 6 back.

Re-install it.

Regards

TD

Feb 4, 2009 6:04 PM in response to samatsem

Found the fix! Reloading the MAC OSX 10.5.6 Combo update brought my computer back to usable status 🙂

http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_6_ComboUpdate

samatsem Author

Level 1

8 points

Jan 28, 2009 12:04 PM in response to Yer_Man

My holding down the option key I get to choose which library I open, but there aren't any other options (like rebuilding or repairing permissions).

samatsem Author

Level 1

8 points

Jan 28, 2009 12:19 PM in response to samatsem

I apologize. I didn't follow your instructions. Will try again when I get home. Thanks for your help TD.

Sam

Yer_Man

Level 10

165,984 points

Jan 30, 2009 11:45 AM in response to phastings

I think you’re going to need an Archive and Install of the OS.

Regards

TD

Feb 2, 2009 8:43 PM in response to phastings

Any bet that it is PowerPC related?

Yer_Man

Level 10

165,984 points

Feb 23, 2009 7:33 AM in response to Michael Reid

Any messages in the Console?

Regards

TD

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Double-Click on photo = Black Screen