Iphoto book will not upload even in safe mode when trying to buy book, any suggestions on how to complete the "BUY BOOK" process?
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
What happens? What errors do you get? Have you been able to order *any* books?
This is my first book order and I am a first time owner/user of a Mac. Got to the point of "Uploading" and after 8 hours of trying, progress bar showed no progress. "Cancel" upload would not work either. I was able to create a PDF file of the book and saved it to documents before the whole upload process. Had to do a force quit and shut down. Tried 3 more times the next morning. Same problem and iPhoto hadseveral "unexpected shut downs".
But then...I opened Mac in "safe mode", tried to buy book 3 more times and at some point a box appeared saying something about repairing photo files and I clicked yes. After the repair was completed, I shut down, reopened in regular mode to try one last time and finally everything worked! Took about 2+ hours to complete. Don't know if it was a corrupt photo file, don't know if it was my ISP (use a wireless broadband service), but whatever it was, it finally worked and I can breathe again! Thank you for your quick response.
Well done - I am also running a thread on the very same subject - can't upload and get the computer locking ujp etc, force quit not working, safe mode doesn't work - when I tried it the computer shut down. Also had a file saying that a repair was necessary - didn't help. Have ordered in the past with Lion and the previous iPhoto version.
Derek
Back up your iPhoto library, depress and hold the option and command keys, launch iPhoto and rebuild your library and try again
LN
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 fix below:
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.
After each run thru the repair process see if you can create a PDF file of the book as described in this Apple Document: iPhoto '11: Preview a book, card, or calendar before you order or print it. If you can try ordering the book. If you can't finish trying all of the otpions and then boot into Safe mode and try there.
OT
Ok I have tried this and apart from finding one photo which was missing from the library - no joy. Still won't upgrade - what happens it assembles the book, then when it come to upload it jumps to about one fifth of the way immediately then stops. I cant even use force quit - every thing frozen. I have now got a complete back up of my library and am thinking of deleting all the photos, iPhoto, re-installing, putting back my library and trying again. Do you think this is an option or a waste of time.
Thanks
Don't know, but you can rename your iPhoto Library file and try again with a new, smaller library. If that works, go through the effort of re-doing yours.
You can try the following but will have to recreate the book from scratch:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
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.
Spent all day following your suggestion for which I thank you, but it didn't make the slightest difference - still wouldn't upload and when I tried it in Safe Mode again simply closed down the programme.
Now beginning to wonder whether I have a computer problem.
Do appreciate you trying to help me
Thanks
Derek
Now beginning to wonder whether I have a computer problem.
Maybe. Run Disk Utility and verify the disk.
Have done so but all is well. Done it in both normal and safe mode.
Thanks
Derek
iPhoto project will not upload even in safe mode when trying to buy book, any suggestions on how to complete the "BUY BOOK" process. Christmas gift, really need to get this done, have worked MANY hours on putting it together. Please help!
