iPhoto crashes when accessing Preferences

Marujita, You are a genius, how the **** did you find that solution, I can't see any sense to it at all. Thank you.

Beauty! This worked for me. Big thanks!

Thank you, Marujita! I don't understand why iPhoto preferences hanging is connected to the Sign In button for MobileMe, but your solution Worked!!

Nice and simple.

Thanks Marujita.

I had this problem today, for the first time (iPhoto 8.1.2, OS X 10.7.5 on a 2007 MacBook). I could open iPhoto's Preferences pane, but clicking within it left iPhoto hung, and Force Quit was required. Rather than change the iCloud settings, I turned WiFi off, restarted iPhoto, and preferences worked! Thank you for that suggestion.

That's the good news. The bad news is that, with WiFi again enabled, clicking anything in the Preference pane still causes iPhoto to hang; one success does not fix the problem permanently. So, if you're experiencing the Preferences hang, you may need to turn off WiFi (or iCloud/MobileMe) any time you need to interrogate or change iPhoto's preferences.

Thanks a lot, Marujita. 🙂

Jack:

See léonie's post in this topic: I cannot start iPhoto. I get an error message that says iPhoto quit unexpectedly It describes a workaround and a fix if the problem is with locations. Otherwise iPhoto will always crash if connected to the internet.

Once you sign off from Mobileme you are screwed because you lose your Mobileme remaining features (syncing calendars and contacts, for example) forever. And no chance to use iCloud. I just did it and my three Macs with 10.6 are no to able to log in Mobileme anymore and new I have to get a workaround.

Thank you, Apple. 😝

Just to let people know.

MobileMe was discontinued years ago adn your use of it should have been discontinued then - you can use iCLoud to sync contacts, mail, etc

LN

MobileMe was closed in 2012, - after 18 months notice and lots of warnings - so you've obviously not synced since then.

As long you remain logged in MobileMe and dont make the move in your old 10.6.8 install, your contacts and calendars keep natively synching with iOs devices and Macs with iCloud. I know it. It was my case in three Macs at home with 10.6.8. Until a couple days when I managed to follow this article.

And NO, Macs under 10.6.8 cannot use iCloud.

Was MobileMe closed? Thanks for the news. I´m certainly impressed and puzzled over this novelty.

I´m just warning other people in my situation. That´s all. If you log off MobileMe to enter iPhoto preferences, it´s gone forever , want or not. Any Mac you had with 10.6.8. Not a big deal but it´s something I´d preferred to know.

helpful, thanks

worked for me, I need to remember this one. thanks