iPhoto hangs "closing the library"
Every time I close iPhoto on my iMac it endlessly displays "Closing the library." But it never closes unless force quit the program. Suggestions?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 8GB Ram
True-I am a lawyer. With most databases, etc.. going web based, I pretty much just use MS Office (with Exchange), Quickbooks and Adobe Acrobat.
On Windows, i just use the native Photo importer, which easily renames Photo files and indexes them. The MS Office products for Mac are difficult to use and crash frequently (10-20 times the frequency of a Windows 7 machine). No MS Access for Mac, no Quickbooks Pro for Mac Mac doesn't recognize Outlook features (like email groups) and the manner in which it organizes contacts in libraries can slow a machine to a crawl if you change anything in the display order of contacts. Something in my Mac OS is preventing me from searching Outlook-I gave up trying to fix it.
Since all of my clients use Office, I really have no option. Pages and Numbers are not useful for business and are not compatible, despite what Apple claims.
I like the Mac hardware (except for my Time Machine which is a constant disappointment).
Some things I can work around, like using Outlook web access, but Mac is just not a business quality machine without the right software.
So, for a home machine, it offers a lot of functionality, almost enough to do some work form home. But I recently had to drive to my office late in the evening to complete a brief because Word for Mac crashed whenever I tried to insert a section symbol from the Word program-something that my Windows machines have never done.
Not sure why no-one writes good office friendly software for Mac, but it just doesn't exist, or if it does, it's not compatible with Office.
(I think Microsoft may make some features in Word difficult to find/use and discourage a migration to a Mac platform-if so, they are doing a good job).
