error(?) while exporting slideshow

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Do you have any idea which photo it's hanging on? Duplicate the sideshow (click on the sideshow icon in the left hand pane and type Command+D). Open the duplicate slideshow, select all of the thumbnails in the tray at top. With all thumbnails selected, drag the first photo to the end of the tray. This will reverse the order of the slides.

Now export the slideshow and see where it freezes if it does freeze. If it doesn't freeze, reverse the order of the photos and export again.

Export it out of iPhoto and open with Preview. Then do a Save As at maximum quality level and with a new file name. Import the new file and replace the bad file with it. And keep your fingers, eyes and toes crossed. 🙂

I have the same problem , I keep having the error 9459 (after waiting for about an hour for the program to do the export ) . I was not successful with 3 different slide shows. one of the suggestions by old toad was to export it outside i photo but I don't know how to do that. any suggestions or new ideas

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. How are you exporting it now? And to where? From the slidehsow mode use the File->Export->Slideshow menu option to get 4 size options.

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Or use the File->Export->Quicktime option to be able to customize the output.

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Thanks Todd for the quick response.. I tried the display option( in my case it is 1422x800) in the 3 times and all of them didn't finish, later I tried the lower resolutions and it worked with the mobile and medium resolutions. but the quality is not acceptable
later I tried the large resolution (in my case it is 960 x 540) and since it looks that it will take a long time I decided to have a walk for 1 hour and when I came back I saw the same error.
some posts talked about the sleeping mac so I decided to try keeping my mac awake so I tried the large resolution again while I was surfing the web from face book to future shop to amazon and to my surprise the slide show was completed successfully (400 pic 12 minutes 1Gb). it worked nicely on the mac then i decided to put it on DVD so I used iDVD but didn't know how so I just burned the file to a DVD which worked on the my mac but failed to work on my sony DVD.... if u have any suggestions or tips I will appreciate it

You need to use iDVD to make a disk that will play in a DVD player or other computer.

1 - open iDVD and select a theme.
2 - click on the "+" button and select Slideshow.

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3 - open the slideshow window in iDVD and drag the movie file into it. (Do not move the movie from it's location on the hard drive till you've burned the DVD project to disk).

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4 - finish up the iDVD project and save as a disc image: File->Save as Disk Image.
5 - mount the disk image and open DVD player and play. If the project plays OK in DVD Player the encoding was good.
6 - burn to disc with Disk Utility at the slowest speed available to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatium, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.

Adding the movie to the slideshow rather than to the menu area will let you scale it to the TV save area like you can with still photos:

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Set the scale to TV save area in iDVD's preferences:

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I had this same error (-9459) when trying to export in various presets and custom settings.
It seems to be linked to iPhoto not liking the computer or monitor going into sleep mode when exporting large slideshows. I just followed the comment mentioned earlier and in System Preferences/Energy Saver made the screen and hard drive not sleep before exporting from iPhoto. It worked straight away!

So give that a try and just adjust the pref settings once done.

I was also getting the error (-9459) upon export of slideshows. REBUILDING THE LIBRARY SOLVED THE PROBLEM. What I did: hold down option and command and lunch iPhoto, select the second option (rebuild all thumbnails) and last option (reclaim disk space) from the tick off options given, wait about ten minutes for the library to rebuild itself (i got a color spinner for about a minute then a progress bar), export slideshow as before. No more problems.

I suspect this will sort a lot of the problems discusses in this thread, and is not that time consuming in the scheme of things. My iPhoto library is about 60GB and it took appx ten minutes.

Hi,
I have followed the advices above by rebuilding the iPhoto library & stop the sleep mode for generating slideshow by iPhoto. However, it still fails with following message. Could somebody help how can I generate slideshow. Thanks.

Process: iPhoto [360]
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto
Version: 8.1.2 (8.1.2)
Build Info: iPhotoProject-4240000~8
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [74]

Date/Time: 2010-04-18 22:33:05.020 +0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573)
Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 28261 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 23610 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: 5C4B1D1F-61A7-4DF4-A6F2-7A70FAD3E3D9

Exception Type: EXC BADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN PROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 17 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-priority

Thread 0: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x941dc2fa mach msgtrap + 10.......

Your Library is corrupted.

That

> Exception Codes: KERN PROTECTIONFAILURE

is always a Data Related issue.


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

Thanks. I tried option 1 & 2 these few days. I had even deleted all the iphoto photos and re-input from the data source (backup diskette) and retried option 1 & 2. I still failed when exporting the slideshow using iphoto. I did it over night and went to sleep. Next morning I found my MacBook Pro was hang and need to press on/off button for few seconds to reboot the machine. I had even set the enegry save mode to 2 hours and turned off the screen saver.

Should I re-install the iPhoto? and How?
Thanks in advance.
Daniel

I don't think the problem is with iPhoto, and so re-installing it won't help. I suspect that there is an issue with one or more of the photo files in your library.

Where is your Library stored?

Regards

TD