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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:
The screen shot is what is seen AFTER IPLM did a rebuilt. The list above are the FOLDERS missing (and many files within each folder) missing. Is this clear now ?
What version of iPLM did you use? Can you post screenshots of its preferences?
IPLM 4.2.1
Here are the prefs secreenshots
That's pretty much what I have. There's no reason you albums in the sidebar should not have been recreated. Contact the developer. He's very good at replying and helping users.
Many black thumbnails iPhoto '11. What to do ?
