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Iphoto-damaged, I rebuilt database,it worked but comes back when I quit iPhoto

My Iphoto is damaged and I cant open it, if I do there comes a alert : Your Iphoto Library is damaged or unreadable and cannot be opened. Please restore from backup. I googled it and saw that I could rebuild it by holding ''command'' and ''option'' keys and open Iphoto, I tried all the options and the last one, Rebuild database, woked and I could see my photos, and I thought everything was okay until I was dragging photos between folders and the photos didn't move, then Iphoto crashed/quit or something and when I open it again I always get the message like I got at first. I want to fix it and can someone please help me with that 🙂

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 13 ''

Posted on Jan 15, 2013 12:45 PM

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Posted on Jan 15, 2013 12:55 PM

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)



This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.



Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

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Jan 15, 2013 12:55 PM in response to kristín Gísladóttir

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)



This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.



Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

Jan 15, 2013 1:57 PM in response to Yer_Man

I don't know much about computers, but if I do this would I have like 2 libraries stored on my computer, because you said I could get the old one back? I'm kind of running out of space. Like I said I'm not good at computers so I just want to have it as easy as possible, I think I would never learn on this iphoto library manager

Jan 15, 2013 3:40 PM in response to kristín Gísladóttir

8 gb


Start of a very big problem.


/OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.


Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially.


Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do. Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk.

Iphoto-damaged, I rebuilt database,it worked but comes back when I quit iPhoto

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