How to stop iPhoto crops photos when importing?

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How to stop iPhoto crops photos when importing?

When importing photos from finder, iPhoto is randomly cropping the photos. Cropping appears very random - not all photos are cropped, and some are even cropped so that only a long narrow strip of the original photo is imported. It doesn't appear to be an issue of aspect ratio - sometimes it is the same aspect ratio but it just chooses to only import a small section of the original photo. I have tried importing the exact same photos on other computers with iPhoto and it works fine, so it doesn't appear to be a problem with the actual photos. I don't know why my version of iPhoto is doing this - I am running 9.5.1.

I can't see any settings to play with regarding the way iPhoto imports the pictures.... HELP!

Thanks 🙂

iPhoto '11, OS X Mavericks (10.9), iPhoto 9.5.1

Posted on Mar 14, 2014 10:29 PM

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Answer 1

LarryHN

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Mar 14, 2014 10:57 PM in response to cadlet

Back up your iPhoto library and launch iPhoyo while depressing the option and command keys, rebuild your database

LN

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cadlet Author

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Mar 15, 2014 1:37 AM in response to LarryHN

Thanks - I tried that but it didn't solve it! Any other ideas? The photos open perfectly in finder or preview, but when I import to iPhoto they automatically crop in a bizarre way.

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LarryHN

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Mar 15, 2014 8:11 AM in response to cadlet

What is the source of the photos? What is the color profile? If you to a save As in Preview will the new photo import correctly?

what are the pixel dimentions of the photo before and after importing?

LN

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chaset

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Jan 9, 2015 12:46 AM in response to cadlet

I would like to add that my sister is having a similar problem. It is a mac mini running mavericks, brand new. (hence, no prior iPhoto library). Photos imported from hard disk are being cropped apparently randomly. Selecting the photos and "revert to original" seems to restore them, but it is an extra unnecessary step.

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Answer 5

Yer_Man

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Jan 9, 2015 12:53 AM in response to chaset

As a Test:

Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'

Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?

Post back with the result.

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