iPhoto book not available in library copy

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iPhoto book not available in library copy

Dear all,

I have my iPhoto Library in a external drive, and replacing the external drive, I copied the Library to the new drive.

All looks fine using the copied Library in the new drive... except for the Books that I have made in iPhoto. They show up in the menu, but when I press the items, nothing happens.

Any suggestions?

I tried copying several times, but that does not help.

Regards,

Jeppe

MacOS 10.10.1

iPhoto 9.6

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Jan 4, 2015 12:53 AM

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léonie

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Jan 4, 2015 1:07 AM in response to jeppefalck

Is your new external drive correctly formatted? It needs to be formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled) and directly connected. An iPhoto library must not be stored on a network volume. See these links:

iPhoto: Issues with FAT32-formatted drives
Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library(for iPhoto holds the same)

If the format of your drive is not supported, save all content of the drive to a different location and reformat the drive using Disk Utility. Reformatting will erase the drive, so your documents and data must be moved elsewhere while you are doing this..

Once your drive has a supported format, repair your iPhoto Library with the iPhoto Library First Aid tools:

Make a backup copy of your iPhoto Library, but don't overwrite any older backups.
To launch the "First Aid Tools" hold down the options-command keys ⌥⌘ while double clicking your iPhoto Library.
Keep the keys held down firmly until the First Aid panel appears.
Then select "Repair database" from the First Aid pane.
If this does not yet fix it, try the other options in turn, starting with Repair Permissions. Run "Rebuild Database" only if you have a good backup .

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jeppefalck Author

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Jan 10, 2015 7:45 AM in response to léonie

Thank you, Léonie, for your suggestions.

I have checked all volumes and they are all "MacOS Extended (Journaled)".

Then I tried to Repair Database, which was unsuccessful, and then subsequently Repair Permissions, Rebuild Thumbnails, and finally Repair Database.

None of it works, and I still have the same result. All photographies and folders are fine, except for the Books. Nothing happens when I select them. :-/

Any other suggestions?

Regards,

Jeppe

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léonie

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Jan 10, 2015 7:52 AM in response to jeppefalck

Have you tested, if books are still working at all?

Create a new iPhoto library on your internal drive (in iPhoto: File > Switch to Library > New) and try to create a book, just for testing. Can iPhoto create and open a book in a new library?

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jeppefalck Author

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Jan 10, 2015 10:32 PM in response to léonie

No, I had not tested it, but I have now, and it works fine.

I can make and edit new books and cards. ✅

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léonie

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Jan 11, 2015 7:10 AM in response to jeppefalck

No, I had not tested it, but I have now, and it works fine.

I can make and edit new books and cards.

Then iPhoto is working fine and it would not be of any use to reinstall iPhoto.

Only the books in your main library are corrupted. It looks like you tried all First Aid options, but rebuilding the library.

Then I tried to Repair Database, which was unsuccessful, and then subsequently Repair Permissions, Rebuild Thumbnails, and finally Repair Database.

Try rebuilding as we all, after making a backup. But some corruptions to books cannot be repaired at all. Then it only helps to delete the book and start over. For example, we had recently seen a bug, that corrupts a book, if places are added to a map in certain themes.

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