iPhoto not finding picture locations

Got exactly the same problem since I upgraded my MBP SN to a Mac 21" ML. Really ticks me off.

In the iPhoto preferences is look up places set to automatically?

LN

LN;

YES, the preference is set to look up places automatically.

Currently, I am persuing two other things I've found on the web. One is to DELETE the iPhote file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphoto.

The other is to put my applications back into the default location.

Unfortunatly, a while back I tried to 'group' similar applications a la iOS. Now when I right click on an image to 'add to iPhoto' the task FAILS. So far, I have not found any information on the 'proper' location for all the applications (I had just dragged them into new folders such as 'Images' 'Writing', etc. Think this was probably a bad move. and may be contrfibuting to my problem (can't say for sure that the problelm coincided with the moving, but it did work properly some time in the past).

Thanks,

Nik

I have encountered BOTH of those problems. First it was the jumping map/pin location. Now, typing a place into the search area spins and does nothing. This is the first time I've placed photos in a few months. I have done nothing to change iPhoto or my computer.

I really hope this isn't permanently broken, but since it's iPhoto '09 on 10.6.8 I fear it is.

There will (very, very probably) never be another update to iPhoto '09 - you csn purchase an iPhoto '11 DVD from a verdor like eBay or Amazon and upgrade to iPhoto '11 under OS X 10.6.8

LN

I understand that the application won't be updated. What I want to know is why/how the Places feature has just now/in the past six months steadily degraded in quality and usability until it's reached this point, where you can't type in a place and the map jumps when you try to move it. If there can't be anything done about it, I'd like an answer to that, so I know that there is no alternative except to upgrade to iPhoto '11 and hope everything I've done with iPhoto and especially Places to this point still works.

I'm able to assign and view places to photos with iPhoto 8.1.2. As a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?

OT

I cleared all my Google cookies in Safari as another thread suggested but it did not solve the issue.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5604719?tstart=0

I then did what you suggested - I created a new, test library for iPhoto, imported a batch of photos, and tried to use the Places function. In Add New Place, I type a town, it spins about 5-10 seconds, then stops. Nothing happens.

This is still frustrating me but after seeing what iPhoto '11 has done to the interface, I think I would prefer to live in iPhoto '09 even if this problem persists. Places (and Keywords) are really, really important to me.

think I would prefer to live in iPhoto '09 even if this problem persist. Places (and Keywords) are really, really important to me.

Even if you do upgrade to iPhoto 9 (11) faces and places will still remain. You don't lose them by upgrading to a newer version of iPhoto.

One more test: log into another user account and try the same test there.

If the you don't get the same results do the following in your account:

1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your

User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.

2 - delete the contents the following folder:

User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto

3 - reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.

NOTE: For Mavericks, 10.9, go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:

where you can check the Show Library Folder checkbox.

If the problem persists in the other account then the problem is system wide which points to a reinstall of the application.

I found the iPhoto preference file and deleted it, then restarted. iPhoto went back to a default state on some things, including the startup-window prompt and a smaller window. It did NOT solve the Add New Place issue.

I could not find any "Containers" folder in my library.

It could be in your Home/Library/Caches folder.