Upgrade to iphoto 11 crashing - solutions not working?

Wow - Did what just happen that I think happened? Because of the mention of a nonapple product?

Anyway, assuming this posts, I am midway through the process and it seems to be loading photos into iPhoto 11.

Watching it go - is "Restoring Photo Attributes" when it's applying changes if it's a Modified image? And, it seems to only be importing events by date - will I lose all the old Event names or any batch photo renames (or time) because they weren't attached to the actual photo files?

Just trying to figure it out - but it seems to be tracking along. Hopefully I'll be using iPhoto 11 in no time!

PS I have a separate iPhoto 11 library now on my Macbook - I can use THIS solution to bring those together, right?

Weird - now the moderated messages are back...?

Anyway tracking along and I actually see the Event names coming through and read in Documentation that Restoring Photo Attributes is applying my modifications.

I am still thinking I can use this to "clean up" my two iPhoto libraries?

Ugh - Been *a lot* of hours and I'm still in the process. It annoyingly stopped importing when it found a duplicate which prevented it from running continuously unless I was sitting in front of it. (In the end, I used my LogMeIn app on my iPad and watched the iMac from downstairs!)

Anyway, now it's updating the thumnails.

SO, here's what I discovered along the way. There were 4 files that it wouldn't import into the rebuilt library at all and I believe they were all avi files.

Then, there were 19 "events" that crashed iPhoto 11, so iPhoto Library Manager would ask me if I wanted to "skip" them (or continue which would make it try again) - I skipped them and noted them down.

These are all events that I know were fine in iPhoto 09 - is there just something in there, one photo or file that is a problem? How can I regain access to those 19 events?

Thanks - I'll keep you updated when I finally finish!

Oh. my. Well, that took a LONG TIME!

Finally finished this evening - didn't anticipate all the time it would take b/c it went back to rebuild the thumbnails, then the Faces, and that was for a lot of photos!

Anyway, OK, so I think in the end, I have two issues: (for reference "Big Dog My Book" is the external drive where my iPhoto Library previously lived!)

1) There were 19 Events that had problems - during the rebuild process, it would say the event would crash iPhoto and then give me the option to "skip" or "continue" (try again) - I skipped and recorded the Event name. I put some of the error log below but it's REALLY long. It basically says that either: "No match found in destination directory" or "Missing photo" or "Missing file"

I can't quite figure out why because they were fine before in iPhoto 9? What should I do to try to recover these? Obviously the photos are still there in "Original" and "Modified"? Should I try to re-import somehow (either with iPhoto Library or directly?) Is there a bad photo - or something I could look for?

And, when I look at the errors, there is only ONE event where it lists *every* photo - this Halloween album. Could that be at the root of something?

One other thought (and I know I shouldn't wonder!) is whether I accidentally saved a file INTO the iPHoto library folder from Photoshop accidentally and that threw off each of these events. I try to never do that but know there's been a couple occasions where Photoshop (my external editor) pulls up the folder within the Modified or Originals and I've accidentally hit save. Maybe if I find that's the case and remove them, even the original upgrade might be OK?

It ends up being about 4,500 pictures (that's double the actual amount of photos though I think b/c of the original and modified structure) - I'd like to be sure I have them.

2) It looks llike iPhoto 11 (or something with my set up) doesn't like AVI files. Or maybe iPhoto Library just doesn't move movie files? I put a copy of the log below but the files are there - they aren't "missing" in the original iphoto library, but they say they're "missing" in the log. While it's a slight bummer, I can live with that b/c I have the video files. Maybe it had something to do with the thumnail vs the video? At any rate, I've got the names of the files - I can find/convert the AVI files (it was my old camera.)

Thanks for your help -

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SAMPLES OF EACH TYPE OF ERROR MESSAGE: (there are a repeat of each of these!)

11-10-20 14:03:28.938 *** Error: No match found in destination library for /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Modified/2009/2009-01-MiscGirls_3/2009-01-MiscGirls_0008.JPG

11-10-20 19:02:53.921 *** Error: Missing photo: no file found at /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Originals/2007/2007-XmasKlimas/2007-XmasKlimas194.AVI

(So for this one Event, it has this error for 203 JPG images):

11-10-20 23:29:34.942 *** Error: No match found in destination library for /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Modified/2005/2005-10-HalloweenGirls/2005_10-HalloweenGirls001.JPG

11-10-20 23:29:34.943 *** Error: No match found in destination library for /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Modified/2005/2005-10-HalloweenGirls/2005_10-HalloweenGirls002.JPG

11-10-20 23:29:34.943 *** Error: No match found in destination library for /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Modified/2005/2005-10-HalloweenGirls/2005_10-HalloweenGirls003.JPG

11-10-20 23:29:34.943 *** Error: No match found in destination library for /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Modified/2005/2005-10-HalloweenGirls/2005_10-HalloweenGirls004.JPG

11-10-20 23:29:34.943 *** Error: No match found in destination library for /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Modified/2005/2005-10-HalloweenGirls/2005_10-HalloweenGirls005.JPG

11-10-20 23:29:34.943 *** Error: No match found in destination library for /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Modified/2005/2005-10-HalloweenGirls/2005_10-HalloweenGirls006.JPG

Then there are a BUNCH of these - I haven't tracked them all back but I'm guessing they go with the different Events that I had to skip - it does say OSStatus error - 1708 - what's that mean?

11-10-21 04:41:57.793 *** Error: Could not update thumbnail for photo "IMG_0434" (The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -1708.))

11-10-21 04:41:59.193 *** Error: Could not update thumbnail for photo "2009-06-26-CECKinderkick_015" (The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -1708.))

11-10-21 04:41:59.307 *** Error: Could not update thumbnail for photo "2008-10-31-HalloweenNight_0086" (The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -1708.))

**All of the error messages are one of the types above**

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MISSING LOG: There are more of these but they are exactly the same and are ONLY AVI files.

11-10-20 19:02:53.921 *** Error: Missing photo: no file found at /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Originals/2007/2007-XmasKlimas/2007-XmasKlimas194.AVI

11-10-20 19:02:54.038 *** Error: Missing photo: no file found at /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Originals/2007/2007-XmasKlimas/2007-XmasKlimas202.AVI

11-10-20 19:05:30.476 *** Error: Missing photo: no file found at /Volumes/Big Dog My Book /iPhoto Library/Originals/2007/2007-12-24-XmasEve/2007-12-XmasEve031.AVI

11-10-21 14:57:06.099 Search for the word "missing" to find photos that were missing from the original library and could not be copied

OK - I'm just worried that I'll copy over whatever file was the offending one and put myself in the same position?

OK - how do I deal with the original and modified photos? These were photos that lived in iPhoto so I'm sure in the 19 Events they are pictures that were edited from the original?