Q: Iphoto won't open thumbnails

"Swtich to another User Account on your Mac and make a library there. Try import a couple of these shots there. Does that work?"

To make it short. Nope. It didn't work. (details how I did it are below, if that helps.)

What is cymk?

If you mean the new .jpg from my email which I tried to open with iphoto, it was just from my mom, who's not doing anything different and they always worked before.

If you mean the rest of the photos I've been trying to open from the thumbnails, they're from my iphone.

I don't know what greyscale is either, unless it just means b&w. (all the photos are in color)

I'm the only user on this computer. I just made a new user account. I figured out how to switch users without logging out each time.

I went to the new user's iphoto, tried to import a photo from the old user. The pictures folder had a red thing on the icon which apparently means I can't access it from new user. But I did have some regular pictures in another folder and guess what. I got the same message. "unreadable files" "unrecognizable format". 

Can I delete that new user account now? :-)

(I hope you guys are finding this as more of a challange then a pain...)

At the shop, (when I brought it in because after I tried to restore from time capsule because it kept freezing, and I kept getting "you must restart your computer" over and over)  he reinstalled it, chose "archive" files or something, and all my stuff was back and my computer seemed to be working fine.

But one of the things I noticed when I got back home was that the updates had been installed. (including, I'm pretty sure, ilife, which I thought had an update from iphoto in it)  They always do that and it infuriates me. I don't need to fill my hard drive with updates to apps I never use...

Then I tried to use iphoto and it didn't work.

Maybe I should bring it back to them and see if they'll fix it for free, since they updated things that I didn't want updated.

Hasn't that been known to cause problems? After updating things that ran fine, they then are broken? But maybe it's my fault since I didn't tell them to not update it.

Any other suggestions before I give up? 

Old Toad?

I've always had automatic updates turned off and check once in a while for security updates.

When I took it to the shop, I neglected to tell them not to download and install the updates.

I'm curious, though. You say it doesn't take up more space, but when I click on "show details" in the software updates available window it tells you the space you need for that update. Sometimes, such as with itunes, it's alomst a gb. Now I have a new itunes that I have to relearn how to use. It's just frustrating that they can't ever leave anything alone. You get used to how something works, then you have to learn it all over again. It's a pain.

Thanks for the cymk info.

I guess it's time to give up on iphoto.

Thanks for trying.