Numerous problems with iPhoto '11

luteslinger wrote:
*iPhoto '11: Worst Apple application I have ever ever used in my Apple life.*

Destroyed my photos and events, hosed my Aperture. Can't revert back to '09.

Tell us how you really feel.

Yes this works. I tried this on an other machine. Problem here we had. In the photo library were some small avi-clips taken with mobile-phones. Converting this avis to ilife 11 causes the application to crash.
Problem was that we have iphoto_library on an external macmini-server connected harddisk. And here ilife11 kills / deletes ... or whatever it did, all master and original files .. puh:
We reinstalled all from backup, deleting the avi files with iphoto 8, then new iphoto was able to convert the complete library.

no problems here, have upgraded to iphoto 11 and everything is working perfectly, I think a lot of problems are people not knowing how to use it. Try watching a video or read the tutorial

Issues I am having:

I cannot change the name of an Event if you are in the Event or are viewing all the photos. The only way I have found is to go to view all Events. Also, there is no button to split events anymore, you have to go the menu at the top and select split Event, there is not even a keyboard short cut. Sorting does not seem to be working correctly. iPhoto overall seem slower, especially when you hit a movie file in the iPhoto library.

This is now the fourth day of the install. I installed iPhoto 11, and it said it was going to upgrade my images. OK that took 2-1/2 days for 36,000 images. It then turned them into over 900,000 images. When I looked in the new library, all of the events were gone. There's only one event, where I had hundreds before (Ski Trip 10/09, etc). All gone. And every image was duplicated at least twice... some three times or more. And then because I used the "faces" feature on iPhoto '09, for some reason 11 imported every single face in every single image, so the duplication and faces import multiplied my images to nearly a million. I'm running duplicate annhilator (a 3rd party program that I had to buy) and it's been running for a day and a half. The little face icons will probably have to be deleted by hand. I am about to use TimeCapsule, format my drive and take my entire program back to the day before I had iPhoto 11. Thank goodness I use TimeCapsule. At the rate I'm going, I'm going to be installing this thing for a week.
Before installing iPhoto 11, and I STRONGLY urge you to stay away from this program, make sure you run a timecapsule backup just in case it hoses your photo library, like it did to mine. Thank goodness I backed up.

yeah thats right, the thousands and thousands that are having issues dont know how to use their mac's...and you do.

of course, i see no comment from you on the features that have been removed so it seems your happy with your software 'upgrade' is actually a downgrade. enjoy

unless of course, you dont know how to use the features of your iPhoto...try reading a manual or watching a video.

sorry, you will have to go onto youtube because your upgraded software's help menu probably wont load...as per mines.

My issue: iPhoto '11 can't open the iPhoto '10 library (at least it says so), when I open iPhoto '11 for the first time. The error occurs after a short library analysis preparing for library upgrade.

I repaired the permissions, same error.

Awaiting the iPhoto upgrade, which hopefully comes soon.

Apple, what's wrong? You're approaching Microsoft's quality standards (from a wrong direction, though).

Sorry ... I meant iPhoto '09, when I said iPhoto '10...

Same problem here, no ability to work with the books or cards. Create adds them to the list on the left, but nothing appears. Interestingly, I can print the book that is selected to a PDF file and view it there, but of course, none of the text has been edited.

I'll have to agree - DON'T UPGRADE until they get the product sorted. Let me add these problems:

I can't edit photos without iPhoto constantly crashing.

Calendars can neither be edited nor ordered "currently" - would have been nice to have been told that, too bad about Christmas!

Who will be the first to notify all of us on the official Apple fix? A prize should go to him!

Yes, differs1, I'm having the same problem with Time Capsule constantly running (60-some hours so far...) and out of space when it had plenty before iLife '11 came along.

Besides that, iPhoto '11 scrambled my Events AND it scrambled the photos within my Albums. Since many of those Albums contain pages of photographed sheet music, scrambling is a big problem!

I've owned Macs since 1984 and this is the first time an upgrade has been such a disaster for me...

iPhoto '11 is causing me all sorts of problems. It randomly freezes up, including a complete freeze of OSX, so I can't force quit or do anything else but sit and wait until I can start using it again.

Yes, these are real users with real problems.

I am running iPhoto '11 with few problems (although I don't like the changes), I am not a new user (I have run iPhoto versions since it first came out).

Perhaps there are some things true for older users:
- we might run Repair Permissions before installing new software
- we might be updating from the most recent version of iPhoto instead of jumping several versions
- we might be more faithful making backups

Nonetheless, people are having problems. And Apple dropped the ball on this one, it looks like.

Those who have lost photos do have a right to be upset - photos are precious. But they also should have made backups - because photos are precious.

I trust Apple will have a fix out soon.

The realease of iPhoto 11 is a shame for Apple! Who is responsible for this disaster? Until now I spent several hours to keep the programme running. No way!