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iPhoto '11 Major Problems

Hello,

There are major problems in the new iPhoto '11 and I am wondering if anyone is having the problems listed below.

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.

Please Apple release a fix ASAP!!!!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 22, 2010 5:43 PM

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Amilmar

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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 6:54 PM

Sounds like a permissions problem to me.

Try launching iPhoto with alt and cmd keys down, and choose to repair iPhoto’s database persmissions (you can also rebuild few other things)

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Kaomaru

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Aug 23, 2012 12:19 PM in response to chester4444

What worked for me when having the consistent 'iPhoto needs to upgrade' error continuing to prompt was because iPhoto not saving after quitting. The fix for me was to tell iPhoto to repair the library permissions. Hold down Shift + alt + option and open iPhoto (one click from the dock is how I did it). Select repair permissions and let it do its thing. After, it will ask you to upgrade etc, after it's all done when you quit iPhoto it should relaunch without the upgrade prompt. I'm assuming my problem is because I have my library stored in the Shared folder and point all my other accounts (wife n kids) to it so everyone's photos from their phone syncs and photo stream moves into the same library. The permission repair can take some time, as its scanning every photo and its subsequent files (like originals from edits) so larger libraries may be slower. Hope it works for you all!

Ran999

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Mar 3, 2013 6:29 AM in response to Yer_Man

Hey folks. So why has my iPhoto11 just decided to not let me add additional pages to the book I am creating? I am at 77 total at the moment.

iPhoto ***** compared to several other options, including the old iPhoto I replaced. wish i hard read this forum early.

thanks.

Oct 29, 2013 11:13 PM in response to Yer_Man

Bothersome iPhoto IOS7 update taking forever... How long should it take to update 534 gigs photos? Too bad for this mess... How do I even know it's working on the update? There is something that caught my eye in Activity Monitor:

QTKitServer-(432) TranslateBox (Not Responding)

0.0

0.15

469

maximuzeek

16 KB

65 KB

32 Bit

0 bytes

What the heck is this?

Thank you Terence,

-Brian

iPhoto '11 Major Problems