OSStatus error -9459 ?

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OSStatus error -9459 ?

Greetings Gurus,

I present to you my recurring error from iPhoto. I'm posting here because of the "OSStatus Error" part. I can't seem to find any reference to this particular code.

It occurs when trying to export a slideshow from iPhoto '09. The album is rather large - 4.6GB, and contains 935 pics. The originals reside on an external drive. The Slideshow was being saved in the Pictures folder in my Home Dir.

iPhoto chugs away for a considerable amount of time, and then when I come back I see this error message: Operation could not be completed. (OSStatus error -9459.)

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris.

MBP 15" 2.93 GHz core duo, 4GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 19, 2011 10:05 PM

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Answer 1

BGreg

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Mar 20, 2011 5:44 AM in response to chris giuffre

In researching this error, there were several similar OSStatus errors (not that number though) where people solutioned trying to export large photo albums by cutting the size down, which fixed the problem.

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Answer 2

Mar 20, 2011 9:00 AM in response to BGreg

Thanks BGreg,

I've been considering that, especially in light of the fact that no one wants to sit through a 70 minute slide show anyway. I'll try that and see what happens.

I'm still curious as to why the size is an issue. Caching problems past a certain size?

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Answer 3

TheCraw

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Mar 21, 2011 2:54 PM in response to chris giuffre

In searching around on this problem the answer that I found is that this error is being created by the quicktime module that is doing the exporting and the screen saver. I had the same error yesterday first time I did it (only a 1.37 gig export) and I did it again but was using my machine so the screen saver did not kick in and it finished. I had to make some minor changes to the slide show today and twice now it has kicked out with the error message you have shown. I am now doing it a 3rd time with my screen savers and energy savings setting moved so they do not kick in. There was a detailed posting over in Mac Osx Hints that talked about this and the conflict. Will keep my fingers crossed.

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Answer 4

TheCraw

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Mar 21, 2011 3:09 PM in response to chris giuffre

Just tried it with the screen saver off and it completed with no errors. I think they were probably correct that it is a conflict with the screen saver.

Hope this helps

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Answer 5

J/D

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Mar 28, 2011 4:41 PM in response to TheCraw

Re: OSStatus error -9459... I have been having this same error message coming up countless times. Tried it with the screen saver off and no luck. My file is a slideshow with only 91 photos and takes 7 minutes 16 seconds. What am I doing wrong?

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Answer 6

Apr 2, 2011 7:02 PM in response to chris giuffre

I wound up making 5 separate slide shows, each around 1.2 GB. It seemed to work okay. I did change my Energy Saver settings to no screen saver or display sleep. Not sure if that was the trick or not. There was one larger sized slide show I attempted (1.5GB +) and it failed with the same error message. Still not sure what's going on.

- c

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