media browser does not show photos

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media browser does not show photos

When I use the media browser in iLife, the photos in my iPhoto library do not appear in the photo pane. The tunes in my iTune library appear in the audio pane, but not the photos do not appear. The photo pane contains the message,'open i Photo2 or later or Aperature 1.5 or later to see your iPhoto or Aperature library in this list.' I have iPhoto 6.0.6, and it is open.

I used the media browser in iDVD and iWeb about 2 months ago without any problem. Does any body have any experience with this problem and its resolution?

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Feb 12, 2009 12:40 PM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Feb 12, 2009 12:53 PM in response to solviturambulando

Try this:

Go to your iPhoto Library Folder (in your Pictures Folder) and find the

AlbumData.xml

file there. Move it to the desktop. Restart iPhoto and the other apps. This will force iPhoto to recreate this file, and perhaps the other apps will see the pics again.

Regards

TD

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Answer 2

Feb 13, 2009 8:25 AM in response to Yer_Man

Thanks,
I gave it a try but still not go.

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Answer 3

Yer_Man

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Feb 13, 2009 8:34 AM in response to solviturambulando

Do you have any non-ascii characters in your Keywords, descriptions or titles - by that I mean any character no in the a - z, 0 - 9 range?

Where is your Library stored?

Regards

TD

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Answer 4

Feb 13, 2009 11:58 AM in response to Yer_Man

The iPhoto library lives on the computer's hard drive. I also back it up on an external hardrive. I have not used keywords and I have deleted the default keywords. I have used the following non ascii characters in my titles: - ' ( ) ,

These characters have been in my library for three years and the difficulty with the media browser has only shown up this week. I hope I don't have to go through the titles on my library which contains 3700 photos and remove the non ascii characters on at a time. But whatever, thanks for the reply.

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Answer 5

Yer_Man

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Feb 13, 2009 12:11 PM in response to solviturambulando

Have a look at Dave E’s post here

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3870956&#3870956

he details how he went through the AlbumData.xml file and found a malformed element and fixed it.

Regards

TD

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