Iphoto app

then th the app just closes down.

Is there an error message with a crash log?

If yes, please post the first lines of the crash log.

Do you have enough free storage? If you are running out of storage, iPhoto may crash, because upgrading a library needs plenty of working space, depending on the size of the library.

Which version of if did you have before the upgrade?

Check your iPhoto library. By default it should be in the "Pictures" folder in your home folder. Do you keep the iPhoto Library there or on an external drive? Is the library still there and of the correct size? Ctrl-click it and select "Show Package Contents". Is the folder "Masters" still there and does it contain photos?

TThank you Leonie I'll check it out when I get home

See you later!

It will be good to know the version of iPhoto you had previously. If it was iPhoto '08 (version 7.1.2 or earlier), you need to run iPhoto Library Upgrader, see this link: iPhoto '11: About the Library Upgrader

To make sure, that your photos are still in the iPhoto Library, select it in the Finder and ctrl-click it. Select "Show Package Contents" and look for folders "Masters" or "Old Masters". Is any of these folders there? Are there photos in them?

Yes they are all still there

Good. In a folder Masters or Old Masters? Which ist it?

If your photos are inside the "Masters" folder, try to rebuild the iPhoto Library with iPhoto Library Manager as described by Terence Devlin in this post:

uprgraded to yosemite all good but iphoto crashes every time I attempt to upgrade the photo library

But if the photos are in "Old Masters" post back.

Then your iPhoto Library is has still not been upgraded iPhoto Library to iPhoto 9.6 format.

It still looks like iPhoto 9.2.4 or earlier.

Make a backup copy of the library and try to rebuild with iPhoto Library manager:

uprgraded to yosemite all good but iphoto crashes every time I attempt to upgrade the photo library

Download form FatCat software - iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ -

The free trial will do the rebuild - it keeps albums, events, photos and the organization - it does not keep projects, slideshows or other non-sharable components - the original library is left untouched so you can always go back to it if you do not like the rebuild

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The last line in my post is a link to a post by Terence Devlin:

uprgraded to yosemite all good but iphoto crashes every time I attempt to upgrade the photo library

Download iPhoto Library Managerand use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)

This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.

Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

Download iPhoto Library Manager here: http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/