Can anyone help me. Every time I open iPhoto 9.2 and try to go to photo stream iPhoto quits unexpectedly. When I reopen I get "iPhoto has detected inconsistencies in your library. Please click Repair to avoid any potential problems."

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?

To re-install iPhoto

1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)

2a: On 10.5: Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name.

2b: On 10.6: Those receipts may be found as follows: In the Finder use the Go menu and select Go To Folder. In the resulting window type

/var/db/receipts/

2c: on 10.7 they're at

/private/var/db/receipts

A Finder Window will open at that location and you can remove the iPhoto pkg files.

3. Re-install.

If you purchased an iLife Disk, then iPhoto is on it.

If iPhoto was installed on your Mac when you go it then it’s on the System Restore disks that came with your Mac. Insert the first one and opt to ‘Install Bundled Applications Only.

If you purchased it on the App Store you can find it in your Purchases List.

hello-

i am having the same issue. i reinstalled iphoto 11 per instructions above, from an ilife11 disc on OS 10.7.2

after that iphoto then works fine untill photo stream starts streaming recent images and then it crashes, repeatedly.

any thoughts?

thanks

Post the first 50 lines only of the crash report

I am also having this crashing problem. I am running lion on a 2010 mac mini. My iPhoto library is kept on an external drive. I just upgraded to iPhoto 11 and everytime I try to enable photo stream the app crashes. I have tried all the above suggestions, including re-installing iphoto from the Mac App store. Below are the first 50 lines of the error message. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Process: iPhoto [430]

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

Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto

Version: 9.2.1 (9.2.1)

Build Info: iPhotoProject-628000000000000~1

App Item ID: 408981381

App External ID: 4641130

Code Type: X86 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [160]

Date/Time: 2011-11-02 22:33:22.628 -0500

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74)

Report Version: 9

Interval Since Last Report: 526713 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 9

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 4439 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 8

Anonymous UUID: 8147E0FC-2622-4A56-920E-44498E48B55B

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)

Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000

VM Regions Near 0:

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

__TEXT 0000000000001000-0000000000d1b000 [ 13.1M] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto

Application Specific Information:

objc[430]: garbage collection is OFF

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00824501 0x1000 + 8533249

1 com.apple.iPhoto 0x001678d6 0x1000 + 1468630

2 com.apple.Foundation 0x91bdff49 __-[NSNotificationCenter addObserver:selector:name:object:]_block_invoke_1 + 49

3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x95508ff3 ___CFXNotificationPost_block_invoke_1 + 275

4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x954d3d78 _CFXNotificationPost + 2776

5 com.apple.Foundation 0x91bcb136 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 92

6 com.apple.Foundation 0x91be03ca -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:] + 55

7 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0016716a 0x1000 + 1466730

8 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00167111 0x1000 + 1466641

9 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0015c6f4 0x1000 + 1423092

10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x95520e1d __invoking___ + 29

11 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x95520d59 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 137

12 com.apple.RedRock 0x01d62e61 -[RKInvoker _invokeTarget:] + 33

13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9551e091 -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:] + 65

14 com.apple.Foundation 0x91c1cf64 __NSThreadPerformPerform + 503

15 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9549584f __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 15

16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x95495206 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 246

17 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x954bf0d8 __CFRunLoopRun + 1112

18 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x954be8ec CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 332

19 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x954be798 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 120

20 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93bcca7f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 318

21 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93bd3d9b ReceiveNextEventCommon + 381

22 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93bd3c0a BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88

23 com.apple.AppKit 0x97b27040 _DPSNextEvent + 678

24 com.apple.AppKit 0x97b268ab -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 113

25 com.apple.AppKit 0x97b22c22 -[NSApplication run] + 911

26 com.apple.AppKit 0x97db718a NSApplicationMain + 1054

27 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0001159a 0x1000 + 66970

28 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00010a29 0x1000 + 64041

Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x91bbc90a kevent + 10

1 libdispatch.dylib 0x9a5bbc58 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 969

2 libdispatch.dylib 0x9a5ba6a7 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 53

Option 1

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.

If that fails:

Option 2

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.

Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .

Regards

TD

Terence Devlin's post re iPhoto Library Manager worked for my Borg'd thumbnails and Events. Good call, TD. Thanks.