iPhoto can't open

You'll need to try that again...

There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on seven different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary from version to version and OS to OS. So before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Things like:

- What version of iPhoto.

- What version of the Operating System.

- Details. What were you doing when the problem arose?

- Did it ever work properly?

- Are there error messages?

- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.

Anything else you can think of that might allow someone else to understand your issue.

My iPhoto is not opening:

- What version of iPhoto.

9.4.1

- What version of the Operating System.

10.8.2

- Details. What were you doing when the problem arose?

I just tried to open when I started to work

- Did it ever work properly?

always

- Are there error messages?

No

- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.

I did nothing, because I am concerned about loosing my photos.

Can you help me?

Not unless you tell us what actually happens -- not opening is not enough - does it crash? show a spinning rainbow wheel? Exactly what?

LN

Sorry, Larry, Old Toad and Brazil.

My original thread was called : iPhoto 08 icon on dooc not working

Appreciate your answers but could not locate my own thread and latched onto this one as it parallels my own woes. Have tried to re-install my original Leopard disks but they contain no Restore feature. The iPhoto icon reappeared in the App folder but wouldn't open the file. Have perused every advice you have given here and tried them all.

Short of buying a new computer, is there any way I can order a new version (am on Snow Leopard now) so as to re-activate my iPhoto that came with my Leopard v. 10.5, upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.3? That might not fix my problem if there's something hidden that could re-appear in a new version.

Please include instructions on how to get back to my original thread since I don't want to violate protocol. Your advice is too valuable. Your last suggestion to delete "Receipts" led me to a window with 4001 ominous error and exception warrnings.

My 3-year Apple Care subscription ran out. Living in the boonies places me some 150 miles from the next Apple store. I hate to depend on my old Windows machine which has only about 5,000 of my 12,000 photos on it. Fortunately all of them are on an external drive and are not lost, just inaccessible.

Thank you again!

Your thread is here - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4481821?answerId=20202287022#20202287022

Youe issues has nothing to do with this thread

Please continue with the original thread

LN

Since I updated iPhoto to 9.4.2 I've not been able to run it. (OS is 10.8.2)

I've tried everything short of reinstalling only because I can't figure out how to reinstall something from the App Store. And it seems a bit extreme.

It asks me to repair the photo database, I do, it does, it quits. Here's the start of the crash report.

Process: iPhoto [7996]

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

Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto

Version: 9.4.2 (9.4.2)

Build Info: iPhotoProject-710042000000000~2

App Item ID: 408981381

App External ID: 11723545

Code Type: X86 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [162]

User ID: 502

Date/Time: 2012-11-16 11:19:30.468 -0800

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)

Report Version: 10

Interval Since Last Report: 80890 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 1887

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 181 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 8

Anonymous UUID: C914C1F5-F038-39FC-34FE-D9C080C60408

Crashed Thread: 3 Dispatch queue: com.apple.CFURLCACHE_work_queue

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000f8082c88

VM Regions Near 0xf8082c88:

CG backing stores 00000000c720f000-00000000c738f000 [ 1536K] rw-/rw- SM=SHM

-->

Submap 00000000ffff0000-00000000ffff1000 r--/r-- process-only submap

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

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x967307d2 mach_msg_trap + 10

1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9672fcb0 mach_msg + 68

2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94cea599 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 185

3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94ceff7f __CFRunLoopRun + 1247

4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94cef63a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378

5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x94cef4ab CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123

6 com.apple.CFNetwork 0x951bc207 CFURLConnectionSendSynchronousRequest + 444

7 com.apple.Foundation 0x927e4de2 +[NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:returningResponse:error:] + 332

8 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00970642 0x54000 + 9553474

9 com.apple.iPhoto 0x009703db 0x54000 + 9552859

10 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0096fe65 0x54000 + 9551461

11 com.apple.iPhoto 0x008dd766 0x54000 + 8951654

12 com.apple.iPhoto 0x003c30bd 0x54000 + 3600573

13 com.apple.AppKit 0x91dcdcca -[NSTabView selectTabViewItem:] + 1182

14 com.apple.AppKit 0x91dcd7c5 -[NSTabView selectTabViewItemAtIndex:] + 64

15 com.apple.prokit 0x024a885b -[NSTabView(MKTabModuleAdditions) selectTabViewItemWithIdentifier:] + 71

16 com.apple.iPhoto 0x003ce550 0x54000 + 3646800

17 libobjc.A.dylib 0x946ef5d3 -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:] + 70

18 com.apple.AppKit 0x922afc6b -[NSToolbarButton sendAction:to:] + 94

19 com.apple.AppKit 0x922afcca -[NSToolbarButton sendAction] + 82

20 com.apple.AppKit 0x922bb76f -[NSToolbarItemViewer mouseDown:] + 5473

21 com.apple.AppKit 0x91d91a21 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 6968

22 com.apple.AppKit 0x91d8ca0f -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 4278

23 com.apple.iLifeKit 0x02274c9b -[iLifeKit sendEvent:] + 55

24 com.apple.iPhoto 0x000d4344 0x54000 + 525124

25 com.apple.AppKit 0x91ca672c -[NSApplication run] + 951

26 com.apple.AppKit 0x91c496f6 NSApplicationMain + 1053

27 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00063c99 0x54000 + 64665

28 com.apple.iPhoto 0x000632e5 0x54000 + 62181

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

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x967339ae kevent + 10

1 libdispatch.dylib 0x9364ec71 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 993

2 libdispatch.dylib 0x9364e7a9 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 53

Thread 2:

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x967330ee __workq_kernreturn + 10

1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x961ee04c _pthread_workq_return + 45

2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x961ede19 _pthread_wqthread + 448

3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x961d5cca start_wqthread + 30

Thread 3 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.CFURLCACHE_work_queue

0 libsqlite3.dylib 0x96a82eda sqlite3Update + 9370

1 libsqlite3.dylib 0x96a06ee0 yy_reduce + 30720

2 libsqlite3.dylib 0x969ff660 sqlite3Parser + 240

3 libsqlite3.dylib 0x969fd757 sqlite3RunParser + 295

4 libsqlite3.dylib 0x969fcf4d sqlite3Prepare + 1293

5 libsqlite3.dylib 0x969fc98e sqlite3LockAndPrepare + 270

6 libsqlite3.dylib 0x96a78b65 sqlite3_prepare_v2 + 53

7 com.apple.CFNetwork 0x952246eb __CFURLCache::PrepareSQLStatement(sqlite3_stmt**, char const*, sqlite3*, long) + 69

8 com.apple.CFNetwork 0x952245bb __CFURLCache::PrepareInsertStatement() + 441

9 com.apple.CFNetwork 0x952233f1 __CFURLCache::OpenDatabase() + 519

10 com.apple.CFNetwork 0x9522308f ProcessCacheTasks(__CFURLCache*, bool) + 1296

11 com.apple.CFNetwork 0x9522259f _CFURLCacheTimerCallback(void*) + 714

12 com.apple.CFNetwork 0x95224a81 __SignalWorkerTaskToPerformWork_block_invoke_0 + 18

13 libdispatch.dylib 0x9364ff8f _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 15

14 libdispatch.dylib 0x9364bc82 _dispatch_client_callout + 46

15 libdispatch.dylib 0x9364d160 _dispatch_queue_drain + 206

16 libdispatch.dylib 0x9364cffa _dispatch_queue_invoke + 50

17 libdispatch.dylib 0x9364cecb _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 230

18 libsystem_c.dylib 0x961ede12 _pthread_wqthread + 441

19 libsystem_c.dylib 0x961d5cca start_wqthread + 30

Thread 4:

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x967330ee __workq_kernreturn + 10

1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x961ee04c _pthread_workq_return + 45

2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x961ede19 _pthread_wqthread + 448

3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x961d5cca start_wqthread + 30

editing to add, that I did reinstall it -- and it installed 9.4.2 *sigh*

Try this: launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and try to create a new, test library. Import some photos and check to see if the same problem persists.

If the problem does not exist with the new library your current library is the culprit. If that's the case make a temporary, backup copy of your library if you don't already have one (Control-click on the library and select Duplicate from the contextual menu) and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:

Fix #1

Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.

Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #1, followed by #3 and then #4 as needed.

Fix #2

Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library

1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.

2 - click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.

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

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

5 - Click on the Create button.

Note: 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. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.

OT

option #1: got as far as entering the new library name and it quit! (I've removed the iPhoto preferences from library. So the problem is with iPhoto. Which I've reinstalled twice now.

Try the following: make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and try the following:

1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your

User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.

2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your

User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.

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3 - launch iPhoto and try again.

NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.

NOTE 2: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.

nope. did exactly as you described above.

Fortunately, I have Time Machine, so I'm rolling back to the previous version. Did that before I got your message above and it worked fine so I'll restore that.

Some more info for you. Having rolled back to the previous version (9.4.1), I went and checked my preferences to see what needed changing. When I clicked on the Accounts pane, it crashed. But when I reopened, it reopened just fine.

Good Morning.

My situation was just like Volterra's. Thanks to Time Machine I rolled back to version 9.4.1 and it is working fine. I really believe there is a problem with the 9.4.2 version, and I will not install it again.

Tks.