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Help! I updated to iphoto11 a month or two ago and now when I start iphoto it loads but is unresponsive for 5-10 minutes... afterwhich all if fine. I quit and restart iphoto and the same thing all over again. the activity monitor shows maybe 10%cpu use for iphoto during this startup time... there are no messages or alerts as to anything happening. Help please!
iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 8gig ram
OK... finally got time to do this... xfered over 10,000 photo's and some 300 vid's. and there were two pictures that were not importable -uncrecognized format (jpg's) so maybe they were messing things up???
The new iphoto is working well... but what is missing is my notes on photo's. I used the comment or notes feature to put in keywords for smart folders and I see ratings didn't get carried over... again I use ratings extensively.
so....
do you think those two unrecognized pics were the problem... maybe I can go and delete them in the original iphoto library and make things work again for that... or is there a way to bring back my notes and ratings to the new libray?
do you think those two unrecognized pics were the problem... maybe I can go and delete them in the original iphoto library and make things work again for that.
It's worth a try.
Ye Ha!! That did it... I navigated to these bad pics in my original iphoto library... one of the bad files was a movie clip and the other a jpg... they would not open in their respective app's so yes the files were bad...I just deleted the bad movie and I replaced the bad jpg one with a good one. Started it up and iphoto wanted to repair database, it did, and now it's opening correctly and no delays...
So doing the copy of master folders into a new iphoto file detected the bad files... I got rid of the bad files and that fixed the problem and I get to keep all my ratings and comments. Thanks Toad, for the help!
Thanks for the feedback. We have another troubleshooting tool to use now.
One last thing... I may have found an additional causal factor for the iphoto freeze... I don't use iphoto too much so I just opened it to load the last couple months of photo's from my iphone... and it was freezing again. I realized that iphoto was continuously accessing the external hard drive (used for time machine)... I force quit iphoto, ejected the external and voila iphoto started good again. On the external was a folder with 1,000 photo's that I didn't need to/want to put into iphoto... like 880meg worth. so i guess iphoto was trying to get all these photo's loaded for importing?? but it didn't say so- it just sat there opened but frozen...
Is there a way to tell iphoto to ignore the external hard drive, like we can do with spotlight?? If not, I'll have to eject the external before starting iphoto
iphoto freeze for 5-10 min. @ startup
