iPhoto 4.9.3 used to run fine on my Mac mini under Mountain Lion 10.8.5. Now it crashes a few seconds after launch with the error message 'iPhoto quit unexpectedly'. Tried repair permissions and restore backup from Time Machine - no help. What next?
iPhoto 4.9.3? I think that's a bit old. Did you get the numbers interposed? Click once on iPhoto in Applications folder, and select Get Info from the Finder's File menu. That will give you the version. iPhoto version 6 is the earliest that will run on Mac OS X 10.7 or later, because 10.7 and later do not have Rosetta.
Sorry about that - it is iPhoto 9.4.3 Since then I tried the 'Repair the iPhoto Library Database' option when holding the command/option buttons during launch and it seems to be working now. I will let you know if it should go south again. Thanks.
Actually, now that I had time to try various things in iPhoto, I find it crashes whenever I push the info button. I can edit pictures and peruse the various albums (at least the ones I tried), but trying to get info crashes it. Thanks in advance for any ideas.
I might add that when I click on the info button, it does bring up the info side panel appropriate for the picture, but it then crashes within a couple of seconds.
Might be a corrupted .plist.
Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.
Quit the application.
In Finder hold down the option/alt key while selecting the Go menu item. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.iPhoto.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart the computer, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer ones.
If you want to make your user library permanently visible, run the below command in Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
The plist procedure did not change the symptoms - it still crashes if I click the info button within a couple of seconds after the info panel appears.
Thanks for the suggestion. So far I can do everything else though.
Check to make sure your Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver is only configured to use a built-in wallpaper, and not one of your photos. It may have too many photos in your library to handle the library of your size.
We normally have the screen saver pointed to an iPhoto album of 88 dragonfly pictures. I changed to a built-in wallpaper but it didn't help. By the way, we have over 13,000 pics in our iPhoto library, but I am would think there are many others who run with more. Thanks.
Try opening iPhoto with the command - option/alt keys held down and do the repairs.
I did these a couple days ago with no change in the problem, but did them again just in case. iPhoto still crashes shortly after displaying the info panel. By the way, by crash I mean that the program ends with an error message that iPhoto quit unexpectedly and giving a choice to ignore, report, or reopen. I have reported a couple of times and then selected the option of sending the report on to Apple. But I have heard nothing back from them.
I've encountered the same behavior using the Info button.
I DO NOT have a solution, but I have determined that in my case, the error is directly related to behind the scenes communication occurring between iPhoto and Google.
Those messages & communications might be a controlled by default or preference set somewhere else within OS X, such as the default Safari search engine, which I have intentionally set to Google. I have not tried other search engine options yet.
In any case, using Little Snitch and clicking the Info button on my OS X 10.8.5 system with iPhoto 9.3.2, iPhoto attempts to connect to several Google-related urls and apparently api's.
The first attempt is to contact chrome.google.com
The second attempt is to csi.gstatic.com
The third attempt is to contact googleapis.l.google.com
Finally, an attempt to contact googleadapis.l.google.com
At this point, the attempted connection to iPhoto is terminated according to Little Snitch (what the red text box in the upper left corner indicates) before I can approve or deny it, and brings up the crash screen.
One more thought.
Since Apple has stopped development of iPhoto, there is zero chance that this will ever be resolved by Apple with a program update.
In an attempt to avoid knowingly violating the Terms of Use of Apple Support Communities, I will not duplicate-post the additional information I've discovered, but instead, direct you to the last information I shared about iPhoto crashes in this thread: iPhoto
Bingo! Upon reading your posts at both places, I immediately turned off my Wi-Fi on the mac mini. This disconnects me from the internet since we are connected via a Verizon modem plugged into a router hooked to our mac mini. And that lets my iPhoto info work correctly. But this work-around is good enough for me since whenever I want to check on the details about a photo, it is just a couple of clicks to turn off the wi-fi from the desktop menu bar. Eventually I will upgrade to the latest OS and Photos after I assure myself it will not break other software I use daily (like Office 2011 and Bento).
Thanks.
iPhoto 4.9.3 used to run fine on my Mac mini under Mountain Lion 10.8.5. Now it crashes a few seconds after launch with the error message 'iPhoto quit unexpectedly'. Tried repair permissions and restore backup from Time Machine - no help.
