Hi All,
I am not able to open Iphoto on my mac, it opens up and then shuts down and due to that , I am not able to delete photos and free up space on my hard disk which is almost full. Kindly suggest an action.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Try starting in Safe Mode
OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
Next when the problem occurs not the time and then open the Console app that is in Finder>Applications>Utilities and look for log entries at that time. Post supsicious one here.
Also you can try posting in the iPhoto for Mac forum
it opens up and then shuts down and due to that
What exactly happens, when iPhoto shuts down again immediately after launching? Do you see an alert panel with a "Report" button? Then press this button to show the crash log and copy the first 50 lines of this report into your next post, so we can see the exact error message.
yes, it comes up for 2 seconds and then closes , giving an alert panel.
please see the first 60-70 lines of the log.
Process: iPhoto [40942]
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier: com.apple.iPhoto
Version: 9.4.3 (9.4.3)
Build Info: iPhotoProject-720091000000000~1
App Item ID: 408981381
App External ID: 15017489
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [160]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2015-03-03 20:02:11.020 -0600
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report: 7280887 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 56
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 331658 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 52
Anonymous UUID: F704E501-8393-B597-0415-DC9E07EC722E
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:]: object cannot be nil'
Application Specific Backtrace 1:
0 CoreFoundation 0x99121e8b __raiseError + 219
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x9558452e objc_exception_throw + 230
2 CoreFoundation 0x9902d07b -[__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:] + 299
3 CoreFoundation 0x9902cf40 -[__NSArrayM addObject:] + 64
4 iPhoto 0x000a9858 iPhoto + 256088
5 iPhoto 0x00390d0c iPhoto + 3300620
6 iPhoto 0x002a065c iPhoto + 2315868
7 libdispatch.dylib 0x91373cb1 _dispatch_barrier_sync_f_slow_invoke + 80
8 libdispatch.dylib 0x9136dc82 _dispatch_client_callout + 46
9 libdispatch.dylib 0x913732e3 _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 223
10 CoreFoundation 0x9901dc29 __CFRunLoopRun + 1961
11 CoreFoundation 0x9901d01a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378
12 CoreFoundation 0x9901ce8b CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
13 HIToolbox 0x91750f5a RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 242
14 HIToolbox 0x91750cc9 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
15 HIToolbox 0x91750b44 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88
16 AppKit 0x93eeb93a _DPSNextEvent + 724
17 AppKit 0x93eeb16c -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119
18 AppKit 0x93ee15cc -[NSApplication run] + 855
19 AppKit 0x93e845f6 NSApplicationMain + 1053
20 iPhoto 0x0007b0b9 iPhoto + 65721
21 iPhoto 0x0007a705 iPhoto + 63237
That is a genuine crash. You need to make a few tests, to narrow down the problem - to find out, if iPhoto is crashing because of a problem with a corrupted photo in your iPhoto library, a problem with your user account, or a system wide problem with the iPhoto installation.
Does iPhoto work in Safe mode? Post back with your test results.
I tried option 1 and it launched the iphoto, but there were no photos from the previous library , neither, could I import them from previous library. Also, I guess, the photos are taking a huge space, as I have started getting alert for "startup disk full". Is there anyway to delete photos in iphoto library without getting in iphoto ?
You can move/copy the iPhoto library to another disk. It is located in Home>iPhoto Library.
You can also see the contents of the iPhoto Library by right clicking and selecting Show Package Contents. You may be able to delete the photos from the pack but that might mess up the library
as I have started getting alert for "startup disk full". Is there anyway to delete photos in iphoto library without getting in iphoto ?
"Startup disk full" is a serious warning. Never let the free storage on your startup disk drop below 10 GB free space at least.
If your startup disk is too full and the operating system has no working space your mac will slow down and finally you will see crashes that can result in corrupted iPhoto libraries or data loss.
Move your iPhoto Library as an entity to an external drive. You can just drag and drop it over in the Finder. Any external drive you are using with iPhoto needs to be formatted as MacOS Extended (Journaled), otherwise the iPhoto Library cannot be stored there- How to format is described in this document for Aperture, but the same goes for iPhoto: Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture
You may be able to delete the photos from the pack but that might mess up the library
It will sure open a can of worms, don't do that 😉
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