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iPhoto hangs while trying to quit

I just tried to clean up my iPhoto library by running duplicate annihilator and 2400 pictures out of 14,000 or 8 gigs were identified as duplicates. They have been moved to the trash but iPhoto will not quit.

I have had this issue before whenever I make many changes to iPhoto (merge events etc). It seems that if I am doing a lot of changes it is wise to quit iPhoto every 5 minutes or so so it doesn't hang during the quit.

At this point, iPhoto has been trying to quit for about 15 minutes, but if I try to force quit it tells me that doing so will not save any changes. This would undo all the work of finding all the duplicates.

This is getting ridiculous. I have seen countless threads on the slowness of iPhoto but not many work arounds other than a rebuild etc.

Under my activity monitor iPhoto shows to be using 0.01% of my processor.

What is the deal!?

Message was edited by: Cult Hero

iMac 20 inch, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Nov 25, 2009 1:41 PM

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Nov 29, 2009 8:08 AM in response to Cult Hero

Then that database is fried.

Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.

If that fails:

Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords, faces and places back.

Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

Regards

TD

iPhoto hangs while trying to quit

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