iPhoto Crash-Exception Type Bad Access?
I am using iPhoto 9.4.3 on my iMac 10.8.5. I know the library was "rebuilt" I think that is what it was called a few times in the last year; other than that, it has
worked. I just used it last week. Now it will not stay open longer than 3 seconds and comes up with exception type and codes saying:
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000c5357a30
VM Regions Near 0xc5357a30:
CG shared images 00000000c0001000-00000000c0009000 [ 32K] rw-/rw- SM=SHM
-->
CG shared images 00000000c5f37000-00000000c5f3f000 [ 32K] rw-/rw- SM=SHM
plus a whole lot more. I set it up to save to my external hard drive instead of my iMac, but I don't know where the pictures are actually "filed" under. The old iPhoto allowed you to open up the library and click on the year, month and day. Tedious, but at least you could see the pictures. It let me open up a new library. Out of my "ignorance" of knowing what to do, I tried transferring all the files, (database, albums, plist, etc) to the new library, but it crashed as well. I thought maybe it would work since the actual files are on the external hard drive and it seems that my iMac hard drive has a problem? I ran disk utility to verify, it showed nothing. Disk permissions were all safari and iTunes . I restarted, didn't change anything.
Does anyone have any ideas or think it is the app itself on the iMac? I think this is one I paid for the app online instead of having a physical disk back in 2012. So I am not sure if I can redo the "package" or not and if all my albums would transfer back in if I did do that.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)