iphoto imports upright photos as black

Hey,

have an issue with iphoto '11 9.2.3. since a couple of weeks.

When importing photos using the SD card from my Canon Powershot SX130IS I regularly have issues that weirdly all photos that were taken not in landscape but upright are just black when imported.

I already checked the SD card on other computers and its fine. Furthermore, I even can see the Photos uncorrupted in Finder when accessing the SD card manually. Just when I import them they are not imported correctly, the landscape photos are fine though. Already checked for newer versions but everything is up to date (2011 MBP with Mac OS X 10.7.3 Lion, iPhoto mentioned above).

Any ideas on that?

Best, david

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 6, 2012 7:41 AM

107 replies

Dave414

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Oct 16, 2013 9:37 AM in response to david_mbp

I have the same issue with black photos. It is very frustrating.

So far I have run "Repair Permissions", "Rebuild Thumbnails", "Repair Database", "Rebuild Database" without a fix.

Any other ideas?

Come'on Apple, let's fix this bug.

Old Toad

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Oct 16, 2013 9:38 AM in response to Dave414

Try this:

Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library

Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.

Click on the Add Library button,

and select the library you want to add from those in the selection window.

Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option

In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.

Click on the Create button.

Note 1: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost.

Note 2: Your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.

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iphoto imports upright photos as black