Incomplete book message

No - low quality is a warning &you can ignore at your own risk. Missing frame means there is a frame or text block with nothing in it. All text blocks must have something in them even if it is a space. For photos make sure that there in not a full page photo layout with no photo behind a full page photo

LN

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The full page layout is either a photo photo per page or use a photo for the background. The latter looks like this:

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click here for a discussion on finding and fixing this issue (note that this is specifically about iPhoto '08 - '09 does not use thegray palm tree anymore - it has a graydown arrow.

LN

For the first time since upgrading to OSX I'm experiencing this error message. I've created a 90page photo book, with around 200 photos (this has taken a lot of time!) - all pages have varying layouts, some include text, most don't, and a few are photo-backgrounded.
Following the advice given above, I've laboriously gone through the book a number of times over last few nights, trying to work out if there's text missing from a text box, or a photo background page missing a photo. Nup. I'm very confident it's all laid out as it should be.
Has anyone got another explanation for why I'm still getting this error message when I try to 'Buy Book' (ie: "your book seems to have frames on one or more pages that do not contain photos").
Could it be to do with the variety of layouts I've used? Do the layouts have to be consistent on adjacent pages? Is my book too big? Please any suggestions gratefully considered.

" Your book seems to have frames on one or more pages that do not contain photos. You must either change the layout of those pages or place photos in those frames before you can buy this book."

In my experience that has always meant that there was a photo frame missing a photo - and if you are having trouble finding it it probably is a full page background photo missing that is behind a full page photo layout that has a photo making it impossible to see unless you change the full page layout to a different single photo layout so you can se the background then change it back to the single photo full page as described in my discussion -

you will need to go through the book again and select every full page photo layout and change it to a single photo layout that is not full page so you can see the background - when you find a grey background change it to a solid background and change the photo layout back to full page

Has anyone got another explanation for why I'm still getting this error message when I try to 'Buy Book' (ie: "your book seems to have frames on one or more pages that do not contain photos").

It is just what it says - you have one or more photo frames that do not contain photos and you will have to find them.

Could it be to do with the variety of layouts I've used?

No

Do the layouts have to be consistent on adjacent pages?

No

Is my book too big?

No

Please any suggestions gratefully considered.

FInd the missing photo frame and add a photo to it

LN

Try doing a Print to PDF of the book and look carefully at the bock page by page to see if you can see any anomaly. That night make it easier to see a missing photo. The text message isn't critical since the empty text boxes will not show the placeholder text once printed. It's the photos that are the show stopper.

Larry (and old toad) - thankyou both so much for your help. I also had separate advice along the same lines from Apple Support who gave me a tool for previewing the order (without having to pdf it). In case you're not aware of this, (highly unlikely I know!) here's the relevant message with tool.When you attempt to submit your order and receive the error message you should be taken to the page in question. If that is the case please highlight that page and then check to see which background you have selected. If you find the "palm tree" background option is selected you'll need to choose another color for your background. If you are not taken to a specific page when you receive the error you'll need to check the background of each page.

++Kate, please also use this tool (and always use it before submitting book/card/calendar orders):++
+How to preview an order in iPhoto or Aperture++
++ http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040++

However, having spent 4 hours last night on this, following all this advice re. searching for missing hidden photos, I still have the same problem - ie: missing frames error message prevents printing. I'm convinced there are NO missing or hidden photo backgrounds.

I then thought that the culprit might be either or both of the 2 map pages I had created (first time using maps). So I deleted them and re-created them. Since doing that I now have a new problem, just to try my sanity.

Now I can't move anywhere in the book without being 'beeped' at. Can't perform ANY function in iPhoto without the beep. Can't preview because those fields are 'faded' and not chooseable. I can however work quite ok in other applications, so the problem is not with the computer - it's with something in the book. I've sent another request to Support and they've told me I now need to use their techical people over the phone - which I'm trying to avoid.

If you can advise further I'll be most extremely grateful.

I'm having the same (original) problem as Kazabon (book won't print due to "missing" pictures).

I, too, am 100% convinced that I don't have any hidden/background issues.

Nevertheless, I was going through and changing (slightly) any full-page images or backgrounds, just in case that might trigger a fix.

All was going well until about the 3rd background: when I deleted and restored that one, ALL of the thumbnails of all 100 pages (plus covers & inside covers) turned blank!!

They still "work" (i.e. if I highlight the thumbnail for page 23, I get page 23 in the large editing frame), but they are useless for navigation.

Any guess what happened? Any more importantly, how to fix it?

AND, I still have Kazabon's original problem.

Gotta love this new iPhoto09.

First, make a temporary backup of the library. Then launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the first two options.

Nope - that didn't do it.

What DID work was VERY tedious. I had to make some (ANY) change to EVERY page. Even just re-selecting an existing background color would do it. One by one (up to 100) the thumbnails re-appeared.

So, that brought me back to the original problem (i.e. Book won't print because of "missing" pictures)

Well, to my embarrassment, my 100% certainty was wrong! One of the full-page pictures indeed had no "background" under it. Now, if only iPhoto had told me which page was causing the trouble, this would have taken 10 minutes, instead of 5 hours. (Yes, I'll post "Feedback" to Apple).

Yes - iPhoto should tell you what page it is - no question

So far it is 100% - the incomplete book message means that there is a missing photo and it is often very hard to find

LN

So you had a layout for a full page photo and the background for that page was the photo background. Yes, that would do it.

When I duplicated that scenario I got the warning triangle on that page in the page thumbnail tray as see here:

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Did you get any such indication?

I'm not sure if I got the yellow warning triangle - I tend to ignore those since I get that for MANY of my full-page pictures, even those that seem plenty "big". I've never had a problem with a low-quality result in the actual printed book.

I think I had the background set up to expect a picture, then I pasted into a regular full-size template instead of putting it in background.

I was having this exact same problem. My thumbnails were blank and my book wound not print. I re-clicked all of the backgrounds and the thumbnails came back (as suggested) - but still it would not print.

I was about to give up but then I changed the LAYOUT of the cover and the inside flap. Suddenly, I was able to print my book. Give it a try!

aubsie,

Yeah - this is obviously a more random process than it should be. My book printed (and it's been delivered, and looks great) after I fixed the "background" problem (AFTER fixing the "thumbnail" problem)