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Q: iphoto not working - i get spinning rainbow wheel

My iphoto does not work.. It has suddenly stopped!

When I open iPhoto, the spinning rainbow wheel comes up, and I am unable to do anything - so I have to force quit..

I'm not sure what to do? I have the extended warranty for my laptop - it is less than 12 months old

iTunes also wont update to the latest version either.....

Any suggestions on what I should do?
Im mostly concerned about iPhoto...

MacBook Pro

Posted on Aug 21, 2012 3:14 PM

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  • by Courcoul,Helpful

    Courcoul Aug 21, 2012 3:41 PM in response to baileymc
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    Aug 21, 2012 3:41 PM in response to baileymc

    Don't know about iTunes, but iPhoto may have corruption issues with its database. See here for remedies: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2638

  • by baileymc,

    baileymc baileymc Aug 21, 2012 3:43 PM in response to Courcoul
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    Aug 21, 2012 3:43 PM in response to Courcoul

    Thanks, sadly neither of those worked.. I have no idea what to do! I also just tried downloading the iphoto manager, but that didnt work either...

  • by Beauco,

    Beauco Beauco Feb 17, 2013 2:53 AM in response to baileymc
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    Feb 17, 2013 2:53 AM in response to baileymc

    Hi,

     

    I've had this issue twice now when importing photo's from my iPhone.

    First time I rebuild library from backup. The backup did not contain the imported pictures so iPhoto worked fine again.

    Yesterday I "retried" to import. So the problem re-occured (duh).

    This time however I noticed there was an "update icon" next to places when iPhoto froze.

     

    So I decided to disable automatic "Lookup Places". The trick however is to get into a responsive iPhoto.

    For this: start iPhoto while holding the Option (or alt) key, create a new library, open iPhoto using this new library, go to Preferences, Advanced Tab, set Look up Places to " never".

    Close iPhoto, open again using Option (or alt) key (because the new, empty, library has been set to default automatically), select your original library and your iPhoto should be fine again.

     

    This did the trick for me. Hope this helps.

     

    Cheers!

  • by hanshack,

    hanshack hanshack Jul 27, 2013 4:38 PM in response to Beauco
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    Jul 27, 2013 4:38 PM in response to Beauco

    You are my hero! Months of pain with iPhoto, now solved I think! Thank you.

  • by BarBilly,

    BarBilly BarBilly Nov 7, 2014 7:00 AM in response to Beauco
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    Nov 7, 2014 7:00 AM in response to Beauco

    You're a legend, had the same problem too. Thanks for posting....

  • by hoseasmum,

    hoseasmum hoseasmum Dec 29, 2014 4:18 AM in response to Beauco
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    Dec 29, 2014 4:18 AM in response to Beauco

    Thank you so much Beauco!! This worked for me, you legend