iPhoto crashes after opening repeatedly

Deleting GoogleMap files worked!

SOOOOO sad that we had to find out this way! 😟

Amazing that you found out how to fix the problem 🙂

Thank you Huxly647

Huxly647 wrote:

I found a fix that works for me..

1. goto /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Resources

2. delete the files ' googlemap.html ' and googlesearch.html

Iphoto no longer crashes, places doesn't work but it doesn't bother me too much.

Let me know if it works for you guys...

the other thing that worked for me:

Open iPhoto Preferences.

Go to Advanced tab across top.

Go to "Look Up Places"

Select "NEVER" (and "uncheck" include location information for published photos)

Places still won't work, but you don't have to delete any files, and you don't need to migrate your older iPhoto Library into the newer Photos App that is now standard with El Capitan to access your photos.

I'm on a late 2009 iMac, running OS 10.8.5 and iPhoto '11 (9.4.3)

UPDATE: ok, so I've since realized that if you disable "Look Up Places" (as I wrote above), the app still crashes when you click on "Info" for a specific photo. But at least you can access iPhoto Library photos and edit them.

Well done! I finally worked out it was to do with the Info pane (after many rebuilds of the library), and this has fixed the crashes. Why is Apple relying on Google, and why can't they be more proactive in posting fixes? I have lost hours on this stupid bug and come close to ditching iPhoto altogether.

Apple haven't relied on Google for three years now, and the fixes are there if you update iPhoto - or if you had done before it was EOL'ed

Hi Huxly

this totally worked for me. Thanks!

Do you have the same problem?

A lot of users seem to have the same behaviour of iPhoto 9.4.3.

It crashes as soon as you enter ⌘I (View > Info).

After a few crashes of this kind, iPhoto will start to crash upon opening.

Disconnect your Mac from the Internet.

If then, iPhoto is starting without crashing, and moreover lets you enter ⌘I (View > Info) on a photo

then you have the same problem as discussed here.

Irrelevant advice!

Since you proved yourself that iPhoto is working (once disconnected from the Internet),

then you can conclude that your iPhoto library is not corrupted.

The advice to rebuild it is useless, silly and dangerous.

Don't rebuild your iPhoto Library just to test, and waste your time and your trust.

Since you proved yourself that the actual version of iPhoto is working fine (once disconnected from the Internet),

then you can conclude that this version of iPhoto isn't the problem. You don't have to upgrade it.

The advice to upgrade iPhoto to check it fixes this problem is useless, silly and dangerous.

Your iPhoto library might become impossible to use with iPhoto you have on your other Macs.

Don't upgrade your iPhoto version just to test.

What to do?

Report every crash to Apple.

And if you are bored to fill such a bug report with no real feedback,

add as a humourous comment:

• My iPhoto library isn't yet corrupted, every thing is ok till now 🙂.
• Is this an advertising in disguise for next versions 🙂?

Meanwhile, if you need to work with your iPhoto on your iPhoto library, just temporarily disconnect from the Internet.

This isn't dangerous. This doesn't risk to corrupt your iPhoto library. This doesn't risk to break your working tool.

Huxly647, have you seen this fix by cotton-x? Re: iPhoto 11 - Problems With Photo Locations

It takes your brilliant solution even further. Instead of deleting the Google files, cotton-x is patching them with a private key. This way the javascript inside does no longer use the expired Apple key, but a new, valid private key, and the Goggle Maps are working again in iPhoto 9.4.3 amd 9.4.5.

There is zero point in sending bug report to Apple for a version of an App that they stop developing three years ago. The fix is simple. Update. It's free. Ditto when running an OS they stopped developing three years ago. Update. It's free. Then it's all even more pointless since they stopped developing iPhoto at all six months ago.

Terence - lighten up please. Its a bit bullish listening to you telling people to 'upgrade its free' in every response. People have their own reasons for not waiting at their keyboard for each new upgrade. All developers are very good at telling us whats new but they never tell us what they have taken away and that can be a real problem for some users.

My point is simple: that's Apple's answer. Telling people to send bug reports for a discontinued product is a waste of their time. It also gives people hope that there might, someday, be a fix from Apple for this out-of-date version of the app on an out-of-date version of the OS. There will not be one. Apple's solution is there now: free upgrades. If you don't want that, fine. But don't expect anything else.

It's not a waste of time at all - it tells Apple that there are still people out there using old or even out dated software. If Apple were really smart they would start asking why people CHOOSE to do this.

Take look at the App store reviews for El Capitain - more than 50% of the reviews last time I looked, rated that new release at 1 star with all of those reviewers expressing regret for taking the upgrade or recommending that you don't take it.

For me, updating Apple now is much more of a serious decision than it used to be, and never done without a full back up that I can roll back to when the update disappoints. There is always a useful functionality that is removed.

Terence: there is a zero point in telling update is the solution to everything.

There is zero point in lying to Apple about existing bugs within really used softwares.

The proof is within any version:

• Functions are suppressed regularly, and hence bugs are removed.
• New functions are added regularly, and hence new bugs are added.

Security, quality isn't improving with such a process!

This is mathematically provable.

Why to pretend that tomorrow will be sunier than today when everyone can see how is today and heard the same promise everyday.

A commercial speach doesn't make a truth, doesn't make a trust 😟.

It's not a waste of time at all - it tells Apple that there are still people out there using old or even out dated software.

Apple already know that. Now what's in this for you?

If Apple were really smart they would start asking why people CHOOSE to do this.

Well couple of things on that: I'm sure Apple think they're already plenty smart, and I've no idea why you think they might learn from a minute part of the installed base still running 3 versions behind on the OS. IN any case yhey offer the same solution: update. Supporting old software and maintaining backward compatibility is a drain on resources.

Take look at the App store reviews for El Capitain - more than 50% of the reviews last time I looked, rated that new release at 1 star with all of those reviewers expressing regret for taking the upgrade or recommending that you don't take it.

Actually, no I won't. Here's why:

Those reviews aren't worth the paper they're not written on.

The problems with them are manifold: for a start, happy people are less likely to review, unhappy happy are much more inclined to. That's why we don't have thousands and thousands of posts on this forum from all the people who have no problems saying "look I have no problems". Unhappy people get cross and are more likely to express that anger in negative reviews.

Then what about the reviewer? What is his or her knowledge, experience and skill level? No doubt they are having problems, and real ones, but how do you know if their issues are problems with the app, their own inexperience, third party conflicts and so on. I've seen people on here claim the fact that iPhoto won't edit video is a bug. I've seen hundreds and hundreds of posts from folks on here who are certain they've found a bug, only for their glitch to be resolved. No review is worth anything unless you know something of the reviewer, his or her knowledge and experience. So frankly, I never bother with those reviews on any such stores, not just iPhoto on the Mac App Store.

And by all means go back and check the reviews for whatever version of the OS you prefer: you'll see pretty much the same thing.

For me, updating Apple now is much more of a serious decision than it used to be, and never done without a full back up that I can roll back to when the update disappoints. There is always a useful functionality that is removed.

Well I'll quibble about the use of the word "always" in the last sentence, but it's no matter. You may choose to upgrade or not, that's your business. I'm not arguing with that. What I am saying is that Apple's answer is 'upgrade' and sending crash reports for discontinued apps running discontinued OSes is pointless. When was the last update to 10.8? Since then we’ve had 10.9, 10.10, 10.11. Do you really think they're going to update 10.8 now? For a minor glitch on a discontinued app, where there are free solutions existing? I wouldn't hold my breath...