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Map not moving & Google Search not working

I am so frustrated. I am trying to add a custom location in iPhoto.

To do this I am using the Google Search in Manage My Places section. The google search just does not work. I type in London and the map greys out and the round timer comes up and then nothing.... It runs like this forever!

In addition, I have tried to grab the map to centre a part of it I am interested in. Grabbing the map just picks up the square of the map I have selected and tries to copy it. If I hold on and take it over the desktop and then release, it copies a square of the map into a file and deposits it on the desktop. I have tried this in all of the parts of the app that let me see a map. They all behave the same.

I have read from the forum that other people have had this kind of problem when their internet connection isn't working but mine is.

I have switched off the firewall. No change

Google works fine on Safari and it can find London....

Help!!!

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 8, 2009 4:59 PM

68 replies

Jun 11, 2009 7:33 AM in response to LarryHN

Good tip LN
But unfortunately not working here. german version of os x and iphoto 8.0.3.
send feedback to apple and waiting...

holger

dave1939

Level 1

8 points

Jun 11, 2009 10:55 AM in response to dave1939

I spoke with Apple technical services this morning. The same thing happened to him, so they're on the case.

fascik

Level 1

10 points

Jun 11, 2009 11:02 AM in response to pelpinda_nl

delete plist file work once when You open iPhoto first time. Next time problem still exist. 😟

Jun 13, 2009 4:50 AM in response to LarryHN

Thanks. this worked great! i had same issue with places after installing safari 4, even though beta worked fine.

Jun 14, 2009 6:49 AM in response to neilmccrossen

This worked the first time (trashing iphoto plist). But Places stopped working again on relaunch and trashing plist did not help.
Expect Apple to fix soon (I hope).

FredCG

Level 1

19 points

Jun 14, 2009 7:22 AM in response to TeeTw0

Deleting the preferences did it for me. You do have to reset a few things after doing this, but now looking up places and moving the map works fine for me. Thanks!

Message was edited by: FredCG

Jun 14, 2009 5:18 PM in response to neilmccrossen

Same problem here, hope the solutions comes soon!

komet1

Level 1

0 points

Jun 14, 2009 7:04 PM in response to neilmccrossen

The same thing is happening to me. Locations in iPhoto worked just great until I did the iPhoto update but hadn't thought about the Safari update (that it may be causing this problem). I was using Safarai Beta and had no problems whatsoever but I did update Safari and maybe that's the problem. Whatever is causing this, I hope Apple will come up with a fix. I really liked the locations feature and have been telling everybody I know about how great it is, then I went to tag some pics last week and again tonight and can't get the location to come up. Also, when I try to move the map with the arrow it takes out a little square area from the map and seems to "pull it away" from the map although it snaps back in place. What's that all about???!!

komet1

Level 1

0 points

Jun 14, 2009 7:18 PM in response to neilmccrossen

I just went in an tried the suggestion to delete the iPhoto plist and IT WORKED!! Everything in iPhoto is back to normal, map works, location works. It's great to be able to get answers here from people with similar problems.

tmendo

Level 1

0 points

Jun 14, 2009 9:37 PM in response to komet1

Well, I have delete the iPhoto plist file and it did work, but the next day it was with the same problem?

Any suggestion?

Thanks

LarryHN

Level 10

106,116 points

Jun 14, 2009 9:56 PM in response to tmendo

Tmendo

Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums

Report to Apple - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback

This appears to be an issue with Safari 4 and iPhoto - possibly to do with a problem with webkit that is part of Safari 4

LN

Jun 15, 2009 5:39 AM in response to neilmccrossen

Same problem - maybe related to the 8.03 update? It used to work fine.

LarryHN

Level 10

106,116 points

Jun 15, 2009 8:56 AM in response to Nathan Jones2

Same problem - maybe related to the 8.03 update? It used to work fine

same answer

Report to Apple - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback

This appears to be an issue with Safari 4 and iPhoto - possibly to do with a problem with webkit that is part of Safari 4

Jun 15, 2009 9:15 AM in response to neilmccrossen

This is all due to Safari 4 final, unfortunately.

iCoco

Level 1

116 points

Jun 15, 2009 9:26 AM in response to neilmccrossen

Same problem here: deleting the plist file worked fine for once. But the problem occured again on relaunch. I just sent a bug report to Apple (http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html). Hope they'll fix it soon.

Map not moving & Google Search not working