iPhoto '11 still quits unexpectedly even after re-install

This isn't Apple Support. This is a forum where Users can ask other Users for assistance with their Macs and Apple software.

As a Test:

Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'

Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?

Try this: make a duplicate copy of the library and:

1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your

User/Home()/Library/ Preferences folder.

2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your

User/Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.

3 - try launching iPhoto again.

NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.

OT

I was having the same problem, and it turned out to be one corrupted jpeg file out of the thousands in the iphoto library. I identified it by dragging a copy of my iphoto library to an external hard drive to copy, and in the copying process, the corrupted file wouldn't copy and was identified by the system. I then found that file, dragged it into the trash, emptied the trash, and from that moment iphoto '11 worked perfectly. Not the most elegant solution, and I was lucky that the corrupted file was one that was one that I had an uncorrupted copy of and was not an important picture to me anyway, but it did work.

If nothing else works, give it a try.