Will do:
This is a 15 month old thread so you need to clarify the details of your problem:
iPhoto. 11
OSX 10.7.5
- Details. As full a description of the problem as you can.
I was having problems with my iphoto library -- specifically I discovered that three years of my Events had disappeared, though those photos could still be seen under Photos.
To repair this, I did a rebuild with Iphoto Library Manager, giving the rebuilt file a different name.
The events are all back. But as with the OP's description above, many of the thumbnails now are now rotated, or distorted (too wide). When I click on one of the distorted thumbnails within an event the distortion goes away, but the image flips a quarter turn. I can rotate the image to get it right way up, but when I click on the event heading at the top left of the screen, the image returns to its prior distorted thumbnail.
So when a single distorted image is open, it looks normal but is rotated one turn.
(This par isn't important): I read somewhere that Revert to Original might be helpful. Here's what I found: If I try editing the photo and then click "Revert to original" it returns to what I had before the edit. If I simply open the photo and immediately select the editing command "Revert to original" I get the message telling me I'll lose all changes. If I then I click on revert, the image doesn't change rotation, which is the only thing wrong at that point. And the thumbnail remains distorted and or rotated.
When I open one of these photos in Photoshop I do not get any error message.
I then tried to see what the distorted images have in common. Some are photographs sent to me by my children. Here are the camera that took them: iphone 5, iphone 4, ipad 2, iphone 4s (but i have nondistorted thumbnails made by all of these cameras too).
There seems to be a difference between edited and unedited photos.
1. I have taken one distorted photo, rotated and cropped it, then clicked on the "event" in the upper left corner and the photo thumbnail was normal. Ditto in Photos (not Events)-- cropping and hitting "done" seems to give me back a good thumbnail.
2. In fact, opening any distorted photo and doing an edit seems to create a good thumbnail. Rotating isn't enough (probably because it doesn't affect the image) but actually changing one tiny thing on the image suffices, including adjusting levels etc. So I can fix this photo by photo.
3. And I've found that after the editing change, and going back to the thumbnail (which looks good), I can reopen the image, choose "revert to original" and the thumbnail is still good.
4. Here's another interesting fact: thumbnails of unedited photos often look perfectly fine, but if I click on them the image itself will (invariably, it appears) be rotated one turn.
5. History: Is this going on long? Has anything been installed or deleted? - Are there error messages?
No error messages, nothing installed.
However, I recently moved some travel photos to a new library file using Iphoto File Manager. I then went through my main library and removed some of the duplicate travel photos. I just looked at the travel photo library and have found some distorted thumbnails there too. So this has been going on since I moved those photos.
Interestingly, I don't find those distortions in a third library I made two months ago from a set of photographs that went directly into that library. None of those photos has been edited.
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue. I've thought about running another rebuild on the same library (because I renamed the last rebuild, I have the original library I was having problems with), but think I should get your advice first.
- Anything unusual about your set up? Or how you use iPhoto? Not that I know of.
Anything else you can think of that might help someone understand the problem you have. Not that I can think of.
Thanks.
