iPhoto 9.4.3 frequent crashes
Could use some help from the community. Recently experiencing frequent crashes of iPhoto 11 9.4.3. Understand this is happening to others as well. Not experiencing crashes of other applications at this time, nor of iPhoto at any point in the past. Can at times be intermittent, and iPhoto may take up to a minute to open. Appears to be working normally today. Insight on this would be much appreciated.
Thank You!
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Background:
23,000 photos many of them annotated including keywords.
Garden plant record hypermedia database.
Built and used since eMac G4 1.25 in 2004.
Frequent use of search and edit info.
Reported as 51GB by iPhoto, 78GB by finder, 75GB after rebuild (see below).
Crash report involves javascript but not apparently googlemaps.
Same crash report details every time, give or take, 20 occurrences.
Crash report does not appear to be stored on disk.
Logged in at administrator privilege.
Extensive background CPU usage by iPhoto noted in activity Monitor.
System memory typically 4GB free or more.
Intel Core i5 2.8 GHz
8GB 1333 MHz DDR3
1TB internal drive about 45% used
OS X 10.8.5 (12F2560)
iPhoto 9.4.3
iTunes 11.4 (9/13/14, see below)
Possibly related:
Onset of problem began with inability to cut and paste from iPhoto to OS X mail.
iPhoto did not crash at that time, not initially.
Photos from multiple devices going back to 2004.
Overlap of photo metadata … jpg filename prefix … cannot be ruled out. Two iPhones.
Recently accepted iOS 9.0 and then 9.1 on iPhone used for latest photos.
Found that iTunes 11 does not support iOS 9 so phone is not recently synced at this time.
iPhoto launches and recognizes iPhone, and downloads photos but differently.
iTunes 11.4 does not launch when downloading photos. A change.
Not synced ... a change … corresponds in time with onset of iPhoto crashes.
Not known whether recent iOS photos encode geolocation in metadata or not.
Not known whether recent iOS photos are tagged for sharing on iCloud or not.
Troubleshooting steps:
Closed all applications and restarted.
iPhoto repair permissions appeared to complete normally.
iPhoto repair database failed on one attempt, and then appeared to complete normally. Crashed immediately.
iPhoto Library Manager executed normally and produced a rebuilt library that opened. iPhoto crashed immediately.
googlemap and googlesearch files noted elsewhere appear to be absent on this mac.
OS 10 disk utility repair permissions appears to execute but does not overwrite incorrect permissions for hundreds of OS X files.
Disk utility. Verify disk all green, ok.
Turned off mcafee virus check.
iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
