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iPhoto '11 stuck in loop trying to upgrade.

So I run iPhoto 11 and it tells me I have to upgrade. I do the upgrade and I get the progress bar. However, after the progress bar is done a grey screen with the spining pinwheel (not the beach ball) sets spining. I left it to run for three hours and it is still processing. I will let it run over night but I think it is a bug. If I select my photos the spinning pinwheel does go away, but when I close out and go back in it tells me I need to upgrade the library. My pictures folder is 34GB.

Anyone else having the problem?

Thanks

MacBook Pro 6,1 i7, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Mac Mini, Macbook

Posted on Oct 20, 2010 9:39 PM

172 replies

Mar 27, 2011 7:17 PM in response to WillGonz

try this http://iphoto11.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/iphoto-11-fix/

Jul 6, 2011 9:20 AM in response to ticzon

After reading your comment I decided to try the "safe mode" trick and it worked. Thank you so much as I tried other solutions mentionned above like the ones found at http://iphoto11.wordpress.com/ but none worked for me. I also have installed the "Hear" program, may be it is related.

Sep 7, 2011 5:54 AM in response to WillGonz

SIMPLE TO RESOLVE....... JUST INSTALL THE DMG OF ILIFE 11 AGAIN AND THEN DO THE UPDATE FOR IPHOTO IN SOFTWARE UPDATE BEFORE OPENING THEN RESTART YOUR MACHINE THEN GO TO SOFTWARE UPDATES AND THERE WILL BE ANOTHER UPDATE FOR IPHOTO INSTAL THIS THEN RESTART AGAIN THEN LOAD LIBRARY AND IT WILL UPLOAD AND WILL WORK HAD THIS PROBLEM TO START OFF WITH AND THIS WORKED!!!!!! 😁 (Good luck)

Oct 17, 2011 5:37 AM in response to tHe sR5

Brilliant - worked like a charm - thank you!

nsfw

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Oct 17, 2011 1:11 PM in response to BizTheBaz

Looks like the permission problems are happening again in the 9.2 update. I was stuck in a upgrade your library loop until I ran the intructions ont the above iphoto11.wordpress.com site.

I'm restoring from backup and going to try again. Not sure who is QA'ing over at Apple these days. Might need to bring in more beta testers or something.

Jul 2, 2012 5:38 PM in response to WillGonz

Awesome Post re - deleting the various Preference files by tHe sR5

My Upgrade worked like a charm after doing this.

THANKS HEAPS,

Cheers

Jul 23, 2012 4:33 PM in response to tHe sR5

Thanks, I did this and it worked great. Phew!

This solved my question by tHe sR5 on Oct 22, 2010 11:02 AM

I think I solved this issue, I went to my iPhoto_Library file, right clicked "Show Package Contents" Deleted "InterruptedUpdate, ThemeCache, ProjectDBVersion.plist, Projects.db, Projects.db-journal" Restarted iPhoto did the upgrade, Closed and reopened and BAM! works like a charm... Hope this works for everyone else! Small note i was in Safe Mode when i did this.

iPhoto '11 stuck in loop trying to upgrade.