1. Every time I open it, it asks me to upgrade my photo library. When it closes it saves changes, but comes up with the same upgrade message each time.
2. It hangs when trying to import photos from a file.
3. It doesn't see my iPhone (not tried it with another camera yet, but not hopeful)
4. Cannot open books I've already made, and when I create a new book, nothing happens - other than adding a new book under the project list. However, even this disappears next time I open iPhoto '11.
I am currently regretting upgrading at all!
I have restarted the computer and tried repairing permissions.
I'm on a 2006 white iMac 24" and this version of iPhoto freezes up my machine like crazy. I checked the Console and it is littered with "NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!" messages.
There are threads of people experiencing freezes of their Macs, all related to this (graphics driver) error. Search for it on these forums. It seems this version of iPhoto apparently leans so much on the portion of the graphics driver that triggers the error that it makes iPhoto (my Mac even) unusable for me.
Fifty euros down the drain. Small change for mr. Jobs so I'm not expecting a fix. The threads on "NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!"-errors go back to early 2009 and they haven't been addressed - even with numerous feedback and a (non-functioning) Graphics Update for Snow Leopard a while back.
So, not holding my breath then. But I could've gone to the pub from that fifty note, that stings.
I have the same issues listed at the top. Every time I open iPhoto 11 it wants to upgrade the photo library. I let it, check around iPhoto and look at pictures, and quit iPhoto and it saves the library all 25000 pictures. So I open iPhoto again and it is asking to upgrade the photo library AGAIN. And it repeats every time I open iPhoto.
I also noticed this on other apps such as iMovie and Garageband. iMovie will upgrade all movies made on iMovie, and Garageband scans for Jam mixes every time I open the apps. After quitting iPhoto, iMovie, or Garageband it seems like it never saves changes. I have not tried iWeb or iDVD yet to see if the problem affects those apps aswell.
This is the first time I am angry at Apple for selling software for $50 when it doesn't even work properly.
I have a feeling that it has something to do with Time Machine backups, because after upgrading my library it started backing up all 120GB of photos again.
I have also heard cases of other people loosing photos, thank god I have a back up, all 120GB of it.
I always jump on early with the Mac releases and this is the 1st time Ive felt burnt
Even forgetting the fact that I cannot print the calendar I was working on (coming soon!! what the! just release ilife when its ready already)
but not cannot open my projects, all of them, books, cards, even the new ones I create just show in the sidebar but will not open
ouch!
from what Ive read downgrading is not a viable option
double ouch!
Ive repaired permissions, restarted
Ive got stuff to do, this hurts
Luckily I had just made a SuperDuper clone from my installation before I applied iLife 11. Since I couldn't get a downgrade to work (well, the restored iPhoto 9 complained that my Library had been upgraded, even though it too was from a backup) I did a complete clone back to my main drive.
All is well, but I'm fifty euros lighter and have nothing to show for it. Harumpf...
You can downgrade if you have a backup copy of your library under iPhoto 09. What system are you running? Your profile indicates that you can't run iPhoto 11.
Had the same problem as others with the inability to view my cards and books. The following solution worked for me (from another thread):
Booted in safe mode and confirmed the my cards and books were viewable in safe mode. Rebooted in normal mode, opened my font library and resolved duplicates.
Opened iPhoto and my books and cards were now viewable, and I am now able to create new ones.
I just upgraded to ilife 11 and iphoto went ballistic on my system. It upgrades every time i launch the app. I imported a new folder of pics and the importing window never stopped. I relaunched and upgraded again only to see all black tiles and no visible thumbnails. My library went from 200gb to about 18gb. This is unbelieveable. It apperars numberous people are having this issue, this appears to be a MAJOR bug in ilife suite. I hope a fix is coming soon - Glad i have a drobo. Nevertheless, I am furious at apple!!!
Someone said that deleting (moving) all *.avi files from your iPhoto Library is the solution.
I tried this and it worked well for me. Initially upgrading iPhoto library always stopped after few seconds before resulting in iPhoto becoming completely frozen. After moving all *.avi files from iPhoto Library upgrading process went well within few minutes (17.5 Gb) so now I can start using new version of iPhoto 🙂
Same deal here. I Photo 11 won't launch into the page editing section of the book app. I tried all the solutions offered up here. None work. The program is now essentially useless to me. It could and should be great but it's not. The product in it's current form is nothing that Apple says it is in it's marketing. I can't speak for Garage Band or I Movie because I haven't been there yet but I'm not anxious at this point.
A little tip for the software engineers at Apple: test your apps on every OS and machine you make before release!
A little tip for the marketing people at Apple: make sure your software engineers test your apps before release. We'd rather wait for the right stuff than be burned by crap that's rushed to market.
Events like this make you Apple people look so dumb and/or so unconcerned about your customers!! Are you under so much pressure to get the sales for this upgrade into the fourth quarter that you were able to somehow convince yourselves that this obviously incomplete product should be released?! You can and you have done better. Stop spending all the money on expensive ad's and video's telling us how wonderful Apple is and shift some of those resources into proper product testing next time. And somebody out there please develop the nads to tell the big bosses when something isn't ready for release no matter what the financial needs of the company!? Now please fix this so we can move on!
I experienced some of the problems listed in this thread.
My photo library has ~60,000 images in it - just under 200GB in size.
With iPhoto '09, I noticed iPhoto performance degrading as the library grew from 40,000 photos to 60,000, to the point that I have recently been thinking about splitting the library into multiple libraries.
Here is my experience with the upgrade, starting around 8 pm on Friday.
1) The installation of iLife '11 including iPhoto '11 itself went fine (I have not yet spent much time with iMovie '11 as my iPhoto '11 problems have been all-consuming since then). The update of the library took over 2 hours. Once it was complete I confirmed that all my photos were still there, but then noted several problems.
2) Most of my Smart Albums were gone. These were each previously inside of Folders. It does not appear that I lost any Photos, Albums, Projects, or Slideshows.
The strange thing is that the Folders that previously contained the missing Smart Albums still displayed the photos that were previously in the Smart Albums in each folder. So it appears the library is partially corrupted.
3) Next I noticed what others have noted - that creating calendars is now missing. I find this a shockingly poor decision by Apple as it is one of my family's favorite things to do with iPhoto, and the holidays are approaching - the most popular time to buy and give calendars as gifts.
4) Performance was very very poor. Switching between events, selecting images for editting, etc. all just crawled. iPhoto was unusable at this point.
One thing I continue to wonder as all this plays out below is whether iPhoto is having to rebuild thumbnails and other reduced size images of the photos, and that is what is making it run so slowly.
5) So next I decided to rebuild the library (alt+command & start up iPhoto). The first time I did this I accidentally selected all the check boxes including rebuild from Time Machine backup which I did not intend to do. Luckily I was able to quit iPhoto while it was still initiating this process. I have no idea how the process would have proceeded, so I was happy I could stop it. So I then restarted it, selecting to rebuild the library and also the photo thumbnails. I forget now, but I don't think I asked it to rebuild the other size images.
This process proceeded incredibly slowly and after 2 hours I went to bed around 1 am. When I got up this morning, it had still not completed, and the status bar did not appear to be moving at all - it had rebuilt the library and was stuck at about 45% complete making the thumbnails. So I Force Quit iPhoto and started it all over again with identical settings. I went away and returned about 5 hours later. This time the rebuild process was complete. The process found 1 photo that it recovered into a Recovered Album. But when I checked the Event, the photo was already there as well.
6) iPhoto now seems to be running better, but I would say it feels 20% slower (hard to guess) than iPhoto '09.
7) Regarding the changes in the User Interface, some of the decisions like deleting the Split Event button are just bizarre. The idea of full screen is great, but the details seem to have missed the mark. I'll give it all a few days before passing judgement, but the changes seem overly extensive and frankly gratuitous.
8) AND FINALLY THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IN MY MIND - AND IT HAPPENED WITH IPHOTO '09 ALSO...The upgrade process makes changes in the library obviously. Either those changes are incredibly extensive, or Time Machine is brain dead when dealing with an iPhoto update. A complete backup of the iPhoto library (200GB) is now underway. This is an incredible waste of space on my 1TB Time Capsule, and will push it to over 85% full. Once I convince myself that my photos are all still in the iPhoto library and nothing strange is going on with the overall system, I am going to reformat my Time Capsule and start the backups over from a clean Time Capsule. I shouldn't have to do this - now a second time - with both iPhoto '09 and iPhoto '11.
Apple develops incredible products and I love all of them including iPhoto on most days, but the iPhoto upgrade process is more typical of the junk developed by Microsoft.
