Canon Elph SD600 & iPhoto

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Canon Elph SD600 & iPhoto

I have a few Macs, and old iMac G4 and an iMac G5. When I connect my Cannon PowerShot SD600 with these machines iPhoto works perfectly.

I have a MacBook Pro 2.26 Ghz, when I connect the camera to this machine iPhoto it takes iPhoto a very long time to load the photos. Sometimes it says the photos are not in a recognizable format. If I disconnect and reconnect, it sees the photos but only lets me import one photo at a time. I am really perplexed.

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MacBook Pro 13", iMac G5, iMac Dual Core (white), iMac G3, iPhone 3G,iPod Touch2G

Posted on Jan 11, 2010 8:07 AM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Jan 11, 2010 8:17 AM in response to Richard Ross

As a Test:

Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'

Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?

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TD

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Answer 2

Richard Ross Author

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Jan 12, 2010 9:40 AM in response to Yer_Man

This seemed to work. I still had to reconnect the USB cable 2 x but it loaded the pictures quickly and let me import them all.

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Answer 3

Yer_Man

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Jan 12, 2010 10:32 AM in response to Richard Ross

Back to your original library:

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

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Richard Ross Author

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Jan 13, 2010 6:44 AM in response to Yer_Man

Thanks!

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