iPhoto '11 [9.2 (626)] crashes when trying to import photos

I had exactly the same problem - iPhoto 11 crashing on all imports, completely unuseable. And no 3divx installed. I got a new MB Pro with Lion pre-installed, and the data was migrated from the Snow Leopard machine (which did not have 3dvix either) via firewire.

In my case, the problem were apparently some "odd" ICC profiles in ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles. In particular, there were some manually created "named colour" profiles - not something most people have in their profile folder, I guess. Apparently, these profiles confused iPhoto so much that it was not able to import any single photo (the crash log made it obvious that something relating to ColorSync was the problem). Once I removed these profiles (which were valid profiles, according to ColorSync.app - just not RGB ones), everything went smoothly.

So in addition to the 3dvix issue, it would seem that iPhoto, even in the latest builds, has some flaky ICC profile code. Named colour profiles are not very common, but their presence should not bring an app like iPhoto, which has no business accessing them in the first place, down.

I have this freeze and it's really annoying. Apple could at least answer or provide work around...Any hints ? The stuff describe in this post does not help, I dont have 3dvix or odd icc profile. I guess the bug is triggered by some cache issue or something else.

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I am starting to be disapointed by this os it's supposed to be less buggy and have a better experience than other os. It's not better than my previous other os (linux/windows).

</nothappy>

How do you know you have a bug?

Because when I connect my phone to import the my picture it freezes seconds after the ddevice is connected. I worked one week before.

You're sure it's not just a local glitch of some kind? Damaged cable? Damaged library database?

Humm I dont think so, I was able to get the picture from a file manager from my phone. It excludes the damaged cable. I was able to import picture to iphoto from picture on my local disk, plus I rebuild the database launching Iphoto holding cmd key. So the problem clearly appear only when I connect my device and Iphoto try to get picture on it

What kind of phone? What version of iphoto and the OS?

galaxy nexus ( It worked the past week, so it's not like it never worked )

Iphoto '11 - 9.2.1

osx lion

If it help I could provide the stack trace with process ... would it help you ?

btw thank you for taking time with me

So I did the lat update of iphoto a few days a ago Iphoto 9.2.3 on osx lion. It still freeze when I connect my phone to import photo 🙂

Still no hints what's happen ? is there someone in Apple who is looking this thread or have answer if this bug will be fixed in any new release of iphoto ?

I have this problem with iPhoto crashing for several months now. It occasionally stops and starts again.

My crash logs do not mention anything like 3vix or perian (though I tried everything suggested here with no luck).

Please have a look. What could I possibly remove from my system to help it?

Process: iPhoto [596]

Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto

Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto

Version: 9.2.3 (9.2.3)

Build Info: iPhotoProject-629052000000000~2

App Item ID: 408981381

App External ID: 7243044

Code Type: X86 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [110]

Date/Time: 2012-05-17 00:07:31.898 +0400

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50)

Report Version: 9

Interval Since Last Report: 600411 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 7

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 1255174 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 4

Anonymous UUID: EBFE8D02-B2C1-4E13-94CD-8B454C14BAEF

Crashed Thread: 36 Import thread 0

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)

Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000256

VM Regions Near 0x256:

--> __PAGEZERO 0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [ 4K] ---/--- SM=NUL /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto

__TEXT 0000000000001000-0000000000d2a000 [ 13.2M] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto

Application Specific Information:

objc[596]: garbage collection is OFF

Thread 36 Crashed:: Import thread 0

0 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x968cd867 0x96655000 + 2590823

1 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96de3bf1 0x96655000 + 7924721

2 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96d94dff 0x96655000 + 7601663

3 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6d96b4 callComponentStorage_4444 + 39

4 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a78843d _ZL38CallComponentFunctionCommonWithStoragePPcP19ComponentParametersPFlvEm + 45

5 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a78847d CallComponentFunctionWithStorageProcInfo + 30

6 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96d92844 RAW_CDComponentDispatch + 64

7 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe45d CallComponent + 223

8 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe4a6 CallComponentDispatch + 29

9 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x9721b4cd 0x96655000 + 12346573

10 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96d40f76 0x96655000 + 7257974

11 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6d937c callComponentStorage_44 + 25

12 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a78843d _ZL38CallComponentFunctionCommonWithStoragePPcP19ComponentParametersPFlvEm + 45

13 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a78847d CallComponentFunctionWithStorageProcInfo + 30

14 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96d3fb13 Base_CDComponentDispatch + 64

15 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe45d CallComponent + 223

16 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe484 DelegateComponentCall + 24

17 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96d92864 RAW_CDComponentDispatch + 96

18 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe45d CallComponent + 223

19 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe4a6 CallComponentDispatch + 29

20 com.apple.QuickTime 0x997d011a ImageCodecBandDecompress + 43

21 com.apple.QuickTime 0x997c2f6e DoBandedDecompress + 18591

22 com.apple.QuickTime 0x997be666 ICMAction + 2916

23 com.apple.QuickTime 0x997bd91a ICMDeviceLoop + 4098

24 com.apple.QuickTime 0x997c48f6 DecompressSequenceFrameWhen + 748

25 com.apple.QuickTime 0x997c4601 DecompressSequenceFrameS + 61

26 com.apple.QuickTimeImporters.component 0x901df1c5 importGraphicDrawInternal + 1981

27 com.apple.QuickTimeImporters.component 0x901dfac7 importGraphicDrawOrDecide + 2115

28 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6d92c4 callComponentStorage_4 + 15

29 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a78843d _ZL38CallComponentFunctionCommonWithStoragePPcP19ComponentParametersPFlvEm + 45

30 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a78847d CallComponentFunctionWithStorageProcInfo + 30

31 com.apple.QuickTimeImporters.component 0x901d7b28 ImportGraphicComponentDispatch + 64

32 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe45d CallComponent + 223

33 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe484 DelegateComponentCall + 24

34 com.apple.QuickTimeImporters.component 0x9017301b ImportJFIFComponentDispatch + 96

35 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe45d CallComponent + 223

36 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe4a6 CallComponentDispatch + 29

37 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x9721a54b 0x96655000 + 12342603

38 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96f2a588 0x96655000 + 9262472

39 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6d9546 callComponentStorage_444 + 32

40 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a78843d _ZL38CallComponentFunctionCommonWithStoragePPcP19ComponentParametersPFlvEm + 45

41 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a78847d CallComponentFunctionWithStorageProcInfo + 30

42 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96f29573 ExportBaseComponentDispatch + 64

43 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe45d CallComponent + 223

44 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe484 DelegateComponentCall + 24

45 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96f2de38 ExportJFIFComponentDispatch + 96

46 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe45d CallComponent + 223

47 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe4a6 CallComponentDispatch + 29

48 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x97219893 0x96655000 + 12339347

49 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96f29a4f 0x96655000 + 9259599

50 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6d937c callComponentStorage_44 + 25

51 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a78843d _ZL38CallComponentFunctionCommonWithStoragePPcP19ComponentParametersPFlvEm + 45

52 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a78847d CallComponentFunctionWithStorageProcInfo + 30

53 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96f29573 ExportBaseComponentDispatch + 64

54 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe45d CallComponent + 223

55 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe484 DelegateComponentCall + 24

56 com.apple.QuickTimeComponents.component 0x96f2de38 ExportJFIFComponentDispatch + 96

57 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe45d CallComponent + 223

58 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9a6fe4a6 CallComponentDispatch + 29

59 com.apple.QuickTime 0x999cca08 GraphicsExportDoExport + 43

60 com.apple.iPhoto 0x001577b9 0x1000 + 1402809

61 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0015730e 0x1000 + 1401614

62 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00151bee 0x1000 + 1379310

63 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00150c2f 0x1000 + 1375279

64 libsystem_c.dylib 0x9bf37ed9 _pthread_start + 335

65 libsystem_c.dylib 0x9bf3b6de thread_start + 34

That problem seems to be with the

QuickTimeComponents.component

usually found in

System/Library/QuickTime

Regards

TD

Where is the other folder in system preferences?

I don't have a 3ivx folder what could the problem be ?!

Create a new thread for a new issue.

There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on seven different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary from version to version and OS to OS. So before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Things like:

- What version of iPhoto.

- What version of the Operating System.

- Details. What were you doing when the problem arose?

- Did it ever work properly?

- Are there error messages?

- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.

Anything else you can think of that might allow someone else to understand your issue.