I get "Caution The iPhoto Library is locked, or on a locked disc, or you do not have permission to make changes to it" when I try to launch it, even though I've double-checked and nothing is locked and I do have permission as far as I can tell. What gives?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Couple of things to try:
Restart your mac and try launch iPhoto again.
If that fails:
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for a file called ‘iPhoto’Lock.data or similar. Drag it to the Desktop. Make no other changes. Start iPhoto. Does that help?
If not: Where is your iPhoto Library stored? If it's on an External Disk, what format is that?
Couple of things to try:
Restart your mac and try launch iPhoto again.
If that fails:
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for a file called ‘iPhoto’Lock.data or similar. Drag it to the Desktop. Make no other changes. Start iPhoto. Does that help?
If not: Where is your iPhoto Library stored? If it's on an External Disk, what format is that?
Thanks for trying to help out! The restart didn't change anything, still get the message.
Dragging the "iPhotoLock.data" to the destop didn't work either. Also I noted that it doesn't actually drag out of the folder to the desktop, but gets copied there instead and still remains in the exposed window. My iPhoto Library is in the Pictures folder.
When I used Control Click on iPhotoLock.data and chose "move to trash," it left that folder and iPhoto launched... creating an other iPhotoLock.data file with today's date in the exposed window.
So THANKS VERY MUCH! I think I'm good to go now! Fingers crossed.
Arrrghghgh. I've got the program open, but now every time I try to import a jpg image it says the import failed, but gives me no reason as to why.
Going slowly crazy........
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?
Post back with the result.
There's another file inside the iPhoto Library package that may be the culprit. See this post by LInc Davis:
Re: Locked iPhoto Library unable to open
Jun 10, 2014 10:29 AM (in response to FreezeTech)
This issue can be caused by sharing the photo library on a network (against Apple's advice) or by opening it in more than one local user account at the same time. You may be able to clear the error by logging out or restarting the computer. If not, do as follows.
Quit iPhoto if it's running, locally or on any file-sharing client. Select the iPhoto Library in the Finder. Usually it's in the Pictures folder, but you may have moved it somewhere else. Right-click or control-click the library icon and select
Show Package Contents
from the popup menu. In the folder that opens, navigate to
Database/apdb/lockfile.pid
and move that file, if it exists, to the Trash. Close the Finder window.
Credit for this observation to ASC member Elijahg.
I followed those directions and the new library imported the jpeg just fine! I closed iPhoto did a few other things with the computer, then went back and opened it again. It opened fine and chose the new library with the jeg in it.
Fingers crossed this may have actually done it! 🙂 THANK YOU Terence!
Thanks for the reply Old Toad... but it looks like Terence's last answer may have worked!
iPhoto issue
