iPhoto 9.4.1 crashes opening pictures

Post the first 50 lines only of the crash report

Regards

TD

To re-install iPhoto

1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)

2a: On 10.5: Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name.

2b: On 10.6: Those receipts may be found as follows: In the Finder use the Go menu and select Go To Folder. In the resulting window type

/var/db/receipts/

2c: on 10.7 they're at

/private/var/db/receipts

A Finder Window will open at that location and you can remove the iPhoto pkg files.

3. Re-install.

If you purchased an iLife Disk, then iPhoto is on it.

If iPhoto was installed on your Mac when you go it then it’s on the System Restore disks that came with your Mac. Insert the first one and opt to ‘Install Bundled Applications Only.

If you purchased it on the App Store or have a Recent Mac you can find it in your Purchases List.

Given all you've tried your next step is to reinstall the OS

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

Have a read of the linked article above. Make a back up. After that it's rather less complex than you think.

Hi Terrance,

Not sure if I should be creating a new question for this, but I appear to have the identical problem to felipefromburnaby. iPhoto 9.4.1 crashes a second or two after double clicking to open a photo. I can see the thumbnails flickering as I move the mouse over an Event, I can run a slideshow of an event that shows the photos perfectly (although it crashes when I close the slideshow). I can open the master images from within the iPhoto library with Preview. I have done the following with no solution:

• rebuilt the Library permissions and repaired the Library
• moved the iPhoto application to the Trash and re-installed from the App store (including deleting items with iPhoto in the title from the various receipts folders)
• re-installing OSX from the Recovery menu as you suggested immediately prior to this post - which was very simple as you said it would be!

I have also disabled PhotoStream from all my iOS devices (2 iPads, 2 iPhones and the iMac that is running iPhoto).

I have Time Machine - should I restore a backup of the library from a month or so ago when the problem wasn't happening? I'm struggling to pin down when this started - I think it might have been after the recent 9.4.1 upgrade but can't be sure.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received. I haven't done anything with .plist files that you have suggested to other users with problems of iPhoto crashes, although that problem seemed slightly different in that it was linked to opening the preferences pane. I also don't appear to have a 3ivx folder / app which was the cause of other users' problems, although I do have Flip4Mac installed - but haven't done anything with it recently, so would struggle to see the linkage.

I will post the error message I get next time it crashes (a few minutes - it's currently rebuilding the library again).

Thanks in advance for any help.

This is the error message I get. I remembered I tried a couple of other things:

- creating another user account, creating a library in iPhoto and importing a couple of photos. Same problem - which would suggest it isn't a problem with my main iPhoto library?

- doing the same from my own account.

Process: iPhoto [643]

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

Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto

Version: 9.4.1 (9.4.1)

Build Info: iPhotoProject-701067000000000~10

App Item ID: 408981381

App External ID: 11126036

Code Type: X86 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [207]

User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2012-10-20 18:33:33.755 +0100

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)

Report Version: 10

Interval Since Last Report: 22304 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 8

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 2794 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 8

Anonymous UUID: 5E0371A7-B68C-2DD3-D066-56D2473B67C8

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

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000008fe00000

VM Regions Near 0x8fe00000:

__LINKEDIT 000000008f923000-000000008f96e000 [ 300K] r--/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GeForceGLDrive r

-->

__TEXT 000000008fe2b000-000000008fe5e000 [ 204K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /usr/lib/dyld

Application Specific Information:

objc_msgSend() selector name: _sharesParentFirstResponder

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

0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x91206a8b objc_msgSend + 27

1 com.apple.AppKit 0x987c71d9 -[NSWindow _willRemoveChildWindow:] + 49

2 com.apple.AppKit 0x987c703b -[NSWindow removeChildWindow:] + 64

3 com.apple.iPhoto 0x00a3252b 0x2c000 + 10511659

4 com.apple.iPhoto 0x009134ac 0x2c000 + 9335980

5 libdispatch.dylib 0x94942f8f _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 15

6 libdispatch.dylib 0x9493ec82 _dispatch_client_callout + 46

7 libdispatch.dylib 0x94943b97 _dispatch_after_timer_callback + 28

8 libdispatch.dylib 0x9493ec82 _dispatch_client_callout + 46

9 libdispatch.dylib 0x94941007 _dispatch_source_invoke + 699

10 libdispatch.dylib 0x9494000a _dispatch_queue_invoke + 66

11 libdispatch.dylib 0x949442af _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 171

12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9a2831d5 __CFRunLoopRun + 1845

13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9a28263a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378

14 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9a2824ab CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123

15 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9806815a RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 242

16 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x98067ec9 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374

17 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x98067d44 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88

18 com.apple.AppKit 0x98632a3a _DPSNextEvent + 724

19 com.apple.AppKit 0x9863226c -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119

20 com.apple.AppKit 0x986286cc -[NSApplication run] + 855

21 com.apple.AppKit 0x985cb6f6 NSApplicationMain + 1053

22 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0003b8f9 0x2c000 + 63737

23 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0003af45 0x2c000 + 61253

Hello felipe... Bummer that we seem to have got some mysterious bug afflicting iPhoto. I can't think of an association with Flip4Mac - it has been there installed for ages (over a year?) and not upgraded to my knowledge. The iPhoto problem seems to have just magically "appeared" - although this is obviously not the case, there must have been some change that precipitated it. I'm fairly sure it was the most recent upgrade from Apple which must be clashing with something. But it's really hard to know what - definitely nothing in my library, as the test of creating a new library, importing just one photo and then opening it demonstrated. Must be something buried pretty deep, and probably present in another program, if re-installing OSX and iPhoto doesn't fix the problem.

Doing Recovery was genuinely painless, so you might want to try it too - maybe you have better luck.

Now, it turns out that I also have Aperture 3 installed, which can access iPhoto libraries seamlessly (i.e. you see everything looking identical, albums etc). And it is working just fine. So I can still access all my pics and update my library. You could buy it - it's not that expensive - although on my 2010 iMac it runs quite a bit slower than iPhoto (which is why I'd switched back to iPhoto as complement to Lightroom).

I think I will most likely just wait until the next iPhoto update and hope it fixes things.

Good luck - let me know if you have any luck!

J.

I also have the exact same issue. I have tried everything mentioned in this post except a complete rebuild of the computer to no avail. Looking forward to a solution. I do not have apareture so this is very inconvenient.

Same here. I am still having the exact same issue. Though I have updated to iphoto 9.4.2

Meanwhile 9.5 is out and I am having the same problem after restoring my macbook with time machine after HD crash. Don't you think restoring your mac with time machine and apple time capsule is an easy task. It took me ages to get all these apps run again. However, there seems no solution for the iPhoto issue. It seems somehow more promising to clean your HD entirely, install the system and then the apps one by one manually. Or is there someone out there with the golden hint?