iMac Intel Core Duo 2.4 GHz with 4 GB RAM and OS 10.68. iPhoto has about 5% black thumbnails, most of which , but not all, disclose a picture upon clicking. Other than backing up the iPhoto Library and following this Apple tech note: iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library - Apple Support is there anything to do ?
Would you agree that Options 1, 2, & 6 should be checked ?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
In iPhoto '11 the Library First Aid panel looks different: Which iPhoto '11 version do you have exactly?
Make backup of your iPhoto Library and start with "Rebuild Thumbnails", followed by "repair Permissions" and the other options.
If not all black thumbnails are showing the photo, when you click them, iPhoto has lost the connection to some of the originals. In that case rebuilding with the free trial version of iPhoto Library Manager will usually help.
Download it here: http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/
And see tis manual page:
Okay ! I put an asterisk by the largest iPhoto library, then used your OPTION key and launched iPhoto. Selected the one with the asterisk and that Liobrary loaded in with 32,271 photos. They are all grey, but show a picture when clicking on each one. Now what ?
In the All Photos window select all of the photos, right click and select Rotate Clockwise.
Repeat but this time hold down the Option when right clicking and select Rotate Counterclockwise
This will force Photos to recreate the thumbnails. Thanks to léonie for this trick.
Thanks Old Toad. Will try your way tonight.
Found these threads: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4039120 and http://www.philmug.ph/forum/f19/fix-iphoto-black-portrait-images-84679/
Heard a rumor that iPhoto was never meant to manage > 20,000 photos. True ?
How about the people getting a new i7 iMac, and importing the file into the replacement Application, Photos ?
Heard a rumor that iPhoto was never meant to manage > 20,000 photos. True ?
No. The earliest versions of iPhoto were good for 25k images, iPhoto 6 to iPhoto 09 had a top limit of 250,000 images and iPhoto 11 was good for 1,000,000 in any one library. It's the kind of factoid someone misread on the back of a cereal box about 10 years ago. It was wrong to begin with and takes no allowance of the fact that apps change as the develop.
Thank you, Mr. Devlin. Any documentation of this? Please provide a link which gives your limits. That 20k limit was alleged to me by two highly trusted people.
I haven't tried the IPLM yet. After using IPLM is used, then the Library is opened in iPhoto, will anything change, such as the separation into events on the left hand column ?
All documentation on this is in the Apple Support site and I'm sure you can search as well I can. Even trusted people make errors.
Library Manager will 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.
Thanks, Mr. D. Both the people were Apple Geniuses in two different Apple Stores.
May I keep the original (or duplicate) iPhoto Library on an external drive and make the IPLM reprocessed Library also on the external drive?
Then when opening the Library made by IPLM in iPhoto, will iPhoto's repair sequences still need to be run, or will the repaired Library by IPLM have an excellent chance of working properly?
(I tried acknowledging your posts which "helped me" but that feature has not be working for weeks)
Apple Geniuses in two different Apple Stores
That's a job title not an actual description. We've seen many folks on here confused by information from that source.
You can read the help on Library Manager - or indeed, read it all at the Website for the app. That will answer all your questions. But yes it is possible to run on an external and there is an excellent chance that the Library will work normally.
You only have two helpful statuses to award per thread.
Thank you. Will try it tonight.
Not doing well with IPLM. It recognizes the GB of the Library on one partition of the external drive, but when going to Rebuild Library nothing happens… except it repeatedly adds the process entries. Any suggestions?
Although nothing is happening, when trying to quit IPLM, this warning flag appears:
Got IPLM working by quitting each of the processes by quitting the app. It starting rebuilding, but for 35 minutes is hung up here:
The good news is that there is on going external drive access. The program defaulted to reconstructing the library two here: Rebuilt library located at /Volumes/Buffalo 1/iPhoto Library (rebuilt).photolibrary. Would have preferred it put it outside there but on the external drive.
Suddenly it finished stating that 41,960 photos were scavenged. Why scavenged instead of recovered ?
The original Picture folder (not the iPhoto Library alone) was 142.31 GB with 32,273 photos, and the iPhoto Library was 28.42 GB
It's been working on FACES for about 8 hours. Is this normal ? There's no picture count yet.
Now, how to direct iPhoto to this new Library? Can the reconstructed Library be relocated if desired, that is, pulled pout of the Picture folder?
QUESTIONS:
• 1. How to get this repaired Library extracted to the internal drive of the other computer ? Does one transfer the old AND repaired Library, or just transfer the repaired Library ?
• 2. How to prove success ?
• 3. The original Library listed 32,273 photos.in iPhoto. Now there are 41,960 photos. Is this success or duplications ? If duplicated, what is the best way to remove duplicates ?
TIA
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LOG FILE
2015-06-12 07:09:51.653 Finished importing events
2015-06-12 07:09:52.286 Quitting iPhoto
2015-06-12 07:10:06.640 iPhoto quit
2015-06-12 07:10:06.736 Restoring photo attributes…
2015-06-12 07:10:07.967 Copying faces…
2015-06-12 07:10:08.980 Opening library /Volumes/Buffalo 1/iPhoto Library (rebuilt).photolibrary
2015-06-12 07:10:09.222 iPhoto opened
2015-06-12 07:10:14.968 Regenerating face thumbnails…
2015-06-12 07:10:14.969 Quitting iPhoto
2015-06-12 07:10:15.122 Presenting error message to user Could not quit iPhoto <4/9/15
2015-06-12 07:10:15.123 Displaying error 1612: Could not quit iPhoto <4/9/15, iPhoto <4/9/15 did not quit successfully. Please check to see if iPhoto <4/9/15 is displaying any errors or other windows that may be preventing it from quitting, or quit iPhoto <4/9/15 manually and then click “Try Again”.
2015-06-12 18:25:39.155 iPhoto quit
2015-06-12 18:25:39.452 41818 photos were imported
142 movies were imported
2 albums were copied
1278 events were copied
2015-06-12 18:25:39.452 Search for the phrase "iPhoto failed" to find photos that iPhoto did not successfully import
2015-06-12 18:25:39.453 Displaying error 0: Rebuild complete, 41818 photos were imported
142 movies were imported
2 albums were copied
1278 events were copied
2015-06-12 18:25:39.486 iPhoto opened
Many black thumbnails iPhoto '11. What to do ?
