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Numerous problems with iPhoto '11

I am having a nightmare with iPhoto '11

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.

iMac 20" Core2Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 21, 2010 2:53 PM

460 replies

Oct 27, 2010 12:42 AM in response to FlowFFM

Problem solved. Everybody calm down and check the fix on:

http://iphoto11.wordpress.com/

LizCastro

Level 1

104 points

Oct 27, 2010 12:47 AM in response to Henry Carlson

Henry, Apple told me that a batch change of permissions was not the definitive answer, though it was 'part of it'. I recommend waiting for the fix from Apple, which should not be long in coming.

best,
Liz

Oct 27, 2010 12:59 AM in response to Richard Tanner

Uhhh.. haven't got any of those problems yet... but these issues made me aware.
The issue I am posting is quite marginal:
My Internet connection at home is very poor (<1Mbit) and i am sharing it with the rest of the family.
When I try to create a diashow with places as theme it takes too long for downloading all maps perhaps due my crap connection. So far so good, but when I try to cancel this nothing happend. I had to press Cmd AltEsc to quit iPhoto... remebered me back to those Ctr-Alt-Enter days...

fotomomo

Level 1

4 points

Oct 27, 2010 5:11 AM in response to Richard Tanner

ILife installed on a MacPro 2x2, 8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon and everything went well. The mac does not have a time capsule and collage has not turned TimeMachine. The photos in iPhoto were about even with 4600 videos.

I hope this post is useful to understand that mistakes and problems with iPhoto '11 is not systematic and widespread. In my opinion, depend very much on the situation of our iPhoto library and what it contains.

Tonic

Level 1

0 points

Oct 27, 2010 6:52 AM in response to Richard Tanner

I am also having similar problems. Every time I log in a get the message that my library needs to be upgraded, I then click upgrade and a timer appears in the centre of the screen. This just then loads and loads and nothing happens. I have left it for 10 hrs and still it is just loading and loading!! If I then do some work on iphoto such as add some faces, then log out, when i go back all this work has disappeared. and I still get the message that my library needs to be updated. Whats going on...?

Oct 27, 2010 6:54 AM in response to LizCastro

Thanks LizCastro. While I do recommend that people wait for Apple's official updates than making a mess using the trial and error method, there are people who just can't wait, as in the professional photographer who contacted me. For those people I do have the fix and it is * easy AND safe.* See: http://iphoto11.wordpress.com/
As for apple, they still don't know what's wrong because until thousands of people complain, they won't even invests resources on fixing it.
To ALL: Please send me a feedback if this doesn't work out for you!

Oct 27, 2010 7:04 AM in response to Tonic

*IMPORTANT:*

For these people who already upgraded and think that all went smooth. Please double check your photos and videos!!! I am getting reports of many missing in action! This is especially true if you find that your iPhoto 11 re-loads or updates the database with each use. Check the details at: http://iphoto11.wordpress.com/

Oct 27, 2010 9:08 AM in response to Old Toad

Ran the Fonts App, found some minor errors. Deleted some duplicates. Then returned to create a book and worked fine. Used over 600 photos just to see what would happen. Worked again. Ergo... thanks for the info on checking fonts.

Oct 27, 2010 9:36 AM in response to Michael Staubes

Hi, just to add. I followed the "solution" using BatchMod, also did the FontBook thing and backed up twice (once with TimeMachine and once manually). Ran iPhoto 11, took about 10 mins to convert 102Gb photo library, now photo library is about 102.5Gb and seems fine.

Br

RudolfX

Oct 27, 2010 11:22 AM in response to Richard Tanner

Hi there, I fixed it by opening Font Book and validating my fonts. Hope it works for others.

Oct 27, 2010 12:52 PM in response to Richard Tanner

Rec'd my copy of iLife '11 yesterday evening and completed the install in under 45 minutes with no problems.

janwit

Level 1

1 points

Oct 27, 2010 12:52 PM in response to Henry Carlson

Although your suggestion started promising (adaptation of the library to iPhoto 11 started), the end result was that the structure of events etc. was present, but the photo's themselves were gone...

Oct 27, 2010 3:33 PM in response to Richard Tanner

Mine wants to update library also every time I start program. Also freezes when I try to trash. Does not recognize iPhone or Canon.
If I start iPhoto with option key I can create another photo library. When idid this iPhoto works fine. Problem lies with my original photo library.

When I did the upgrade I had some existing projects, two books and two unfinished cards. I think this is the problem. Somehow it corrupts library when doing the install with existing projects in your old iPhoto.

This is my guess anyway. I'm working with second tier apple support and hope to hear something soon.

Oct 27, 2010 4:25 PM in response to Richard Tanner

This is a disaster. I installed iLife 11. When I open iPhoto, the library is present on the screen. When I expand a thumbnail and then try to go back to the Library the iPhoto and my computer freezes. When the computer finally comes back, the thumbnails are distorted like a television that loses its' vertical sync. The application does not respond and I have to do a restart. I've done the repair permissions Disk Warrior, Disk Genius, etc.

Apple what are you doing about this?

Oct 27, 2010 4:53 PM in response to Richard Tanner

So far, so good. iLife loaded in 15 minutes, required no restart and reconfigured 16,000+ photos in about 7 minutes. iPhone movies play fine. No crashes of anything. iPhoto works great and so does GB.

Numerous problems with iPhoto '11