iPhoto Slideshows dont work

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iPhoto Slideshows dont work

Hi. I am new to Apple. I bought a iMac couple of days ago. It did a bunch of updates on first time startup including to iPhoto. When i launched iPhoto and imported my SD card, it pulled in some photos. However, whenever i try to launch a slideshow, the screen "blinks" and return to iPhoto. I never see any slideshow. How do i fix this? I have already tried creating new library but that doesn't help. So far, its been a poor first impression :-(

Thanks,

Prateek

OS X 10.7.2

iPhoto 11 - 9.2 (626)

iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 25, 2011 8:04 AM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Oct 25, 2011 9:11 AM in response to prateekfromtokyo

How are you launching a slideshow?

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Answer 2

Nov 5, 2011 1:28 PM in response to prateekfromtokyo

I have exact same plroblem. I select an event and then I select the slideshow button like i did befoe I completed the lion and iPhoto 11 upgrade and it does not work. It just blinks.

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Nov 6, 2011 2:34 AM in response to dyanefromshelton

I should have mentioned - after making the post above, I checked the logs in console and it seems iPhoto theme database was missing. I solved the issue by uninstalling and reinstalling iPhoto. Post that, Apple released one more update to iPhoto which screwed iPhoto again - whenever I launched iPhoto thereafter, I would see the beachball of death for a minute or so before iPhoto finally launched. Solved again by uninstalling and reinstalling iPhoto :-/

As a new Mac owner, I still cant get over the fact that how can something that was supposed to "just work" have this issue in a new iMac. Maybe its simply the difference between tourism and immigration!

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LouSara

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Dec 21, 2012 10:46 PM in response to dyanefromshelton

Sorry, no solution, but I'm having the SAME PROBLEM. iPhoto is awesome, but is frustrating when it doesn't work as it is supposed to. I select the photos, click + and iPhoto freezes. Same thing happens when I try to open and play an existing slideshow project. There is plenty of room on the HD.

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