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Calendar won't create in iPhoto 11

I still havent seen a fix for this yet. Whenever I chose to create a Calendar project iPhoto hangs showing a orange background screen but no templates to start working with,

Creating a card works though,

I have done what other forums suggest I've sought out the com.apple.iphoto.plist file and deleted it and restarted iPhoto.

I've rebuilt my database, using other software. This was because holding down Alt doesnt worlk, I get to chose my iPhoto database and then it starts as normal??

Anyway, its driving me mad and no one in these forums or Apple seem to have a fix.

I don't have a huge database, probabaly 600 photos. 21GB of HD space and my 18mth old MacBook Air is still pretty zippy RAMwise.

Any thoughts?

iPhoto '11, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Dec 8, 2013 1:35 AM

20 replies

manselnott Author

Level 1

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Dec 9, 2013 11:25 PM in response to Old Toad

Did this. And it worked!!

I had to switch libaries to my usual photos as it wanted to start afresh with no pictures.

Also I noticed before hand that in my applications there were multiple versions of iPhoto and IMovie. So I deleted all of them and redownloaded. Also I cleared the the relveant icons in the Shortcut Dock bar.

It took all night so I left it running whilst reinstalling.

Next morning its working.

Great!

Thanks for your help.

LarryHN

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Dec 10, 2013 5:54 AM in response to manselnott

good

Dec 11, 2013 7:45 AM in response to manselnott

I use iPhoto one time every year to build calendars for my family. Otherwise I use aperture.

Now it seems I have to find an alternative vendor to supply this functionality. And that is just to bad.

Is somebody from apple development taking this problem serious?

Also I dont want to do a lot of manual stuff in MacOSX. Its a mac its just supposed to work :-)

So pls. Apple take this here serious and continue to maintain a high degree of responsibility to make your apps easy and userfriendly.

Old Toad

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Dec 11, 2013 8:52 AM in response to manselnott

Boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down) and select Reinstall OS X

That will reinstall OS X without losing any of your other documents or files. Of course you do have current backups of all your important files and documents, right?

Dec 11, 2013 10:46 PM in response to Old Toad

This did the trick.

Thank you very much. 😁

Calendar won't create in iPhoto 11