iPhoto 9.3 problem when launching

Hi. I'm from Argentina. I have the same problem as descriptes. Mi iPhoto is stuck on step 5 of 9, 99,9%.

My problem is that Apple has no official support in Argentina, then I don't know how to solve it. When I try to install 9.2.3, mi Macbook Pro tells me I'm using a newer version of the app, and don't let me downgrade. Should I uninstall the whole app? That will not erase my photo library, right?

Then, I download and reinstall 9.2.3? Is that simple?

Please help me, I work with my photos and I'm really frustrated right now.

Thanks,

Julian

Hi, What I did was do 1) a "spotlight" search for the key word "iphoto", 2) erased the iPhoto application and iPhoto .dmg and .plugin files. 3) I then reloaded iPhoto from my iLife '11 DVD, and 4) I had to go to

http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_site.psp.more&locale=e n_US&q=iPhoto and download and install the 9.1 and 9.2.3 iPhoto updates. Specifically, the 9.1 update is at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1322 and the 9.2.3 update is at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1514.

I hope this helps.

In Spanish: (sorry for the mispellings) tienes que borar "iphoto" de computadora haciendo una busqueda por la palabra "iphoto" dentro de "spotlight". Tienes que borar la applicacion "iphoto" y otras applicaciones associadas con iphoto que terminan con .dmg y .plugin. Despues tienes que "download" o installar el original iphoto del iLife '11 dvd. Despues tienes que "download" o installar la version 9.1 y 9.2.3 de iphoto. Puedes encontrar la version 9.1 en http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1322 y la version 9.2.3 en http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1514. Cuando esto se hace, iPhoto regresa a la version 9.2.3 -- la version antes de 9.3.

I have the same problem like RobRz. It looks that I have to buy additional drive to make back up and try to find USB disk with originall IPhoto.

Thank You RobRz fo sharing with your experience in this particular case.

thank you RobRz, you solved my problem, for now. Hope Apple will fix this with a new update!

I installed old verresion of the iphoto and 9.2.3 update, but I can not open the library because it told me that it was converted to newer version of IPhoto 😟 So still problem is not solved 😟

PANIC!!

I called the app tech dept and used joachims case no. as a reference. no matter how many times i referred to his case, the different people on the phone didnt seem paying attention, and kept doing their normal trouble shooting, and pretending this could only be a stand alone problem with my hard drive - and not the case of a faulty new update from apple.

first we tried pressing the command+option key while launching iphoto, and then choose repair - but the update got stuck again on step 5, 99%..

then he had me go in to the iphoto library and remove the master file to the desktop before relaunching iphoto. now i got a completely clean new iphoto 9.3, and then dragged the master file folder into iphoto again to import the complete library again.

2 hrs later, after importing approx 22.500 photos I now have all my photos back, but all my endless weeks of creating folders, tagging names, places, creating meta data, and doing beautiful photobooks, ALL of this is now lost...

Hopefully I can re-create all my work from my time machine back-up. I think so, but I'm crossing my fingers.. Otherwise I will call the the App Tech Dept later today.

But how on earth can Apple create this problem and then now informing their helpdesk supporters?! I had to repeat at least 10 times that this wasn't just my computer behaving this way - this was a bug coming from Apple's new update...but they didn't seem to listen.

Good Luck!

After I have tried all possible one, I installed the same one updates once again. Then it functioned!

erlandjacobsen

Finally

I bought external drive to make a copy of my images

I found my old backup of MAC OS X before upgrade to Lion.

All folers are existing so now I can imoprt only images from last two months and rearrange them into folders.

I will stay with version 9.2.3 and wait at least 1 month before I will install any new update from Apple.

I upgraded iPhoto, but when I open it it freezes, and i have to ''force quit''. I open it again and it's the same problem. I've tried importing photos, but the library is full, so I created another library, but still the same problem. What do I do?