Damaged iPhoto library, Library Manager chokes on .mov and .avi
I'll try to find a user community for iPhoto Library Manager too, since this question might be more relevant there. But my situation is as follows:
- A large iPhoto library of 150GB dating back several iterations of iPhoto, Mac OS X, etc.
- iPhoto 9.6.1 on Yosemite didn't like the library, hung on migrating it
- I'm trying to rebuild the library with iPhoto Library Manager, which runs iPhoto to import the old data
- But the problem is that every 2 minutes or so, iPhoto chokes on "unreadable files" which appear to be all .avi and .mov video files
- I can't sit at my computer and click "OK" forever while this silly thing runs
Any suggestions for a cranky iPhoto library?
Has anyone just jettisoned the entire iPhoto file structure and just imported all their image and movie files from scratch? I almost feel like that might be quicker, just leaving behind all the internal file structure iPhoto has erected but obviously keeping the precious pictures and videos themselves.
Thanks!
-Ryan
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Mid-2010