iPhoto won't "Stop Importing"

Thanks for the suggestions! Ok, we're onto something. Repairing permissions & deleting com.apple.iphoto.plist didn't work, but I moved over to my alternate (clean) account that I already have in place to test such things as this, and the video file I chose (the same as the one I originally imported) imported without issue.

So what would you suggest I do now?

BTW, the reason why I haven't upgraded to 6.0.5 or OS 10.4.8 is because I am of the belief that if something isn't broken, I don't fix it. Everything I use my Mac for works well (except now for this iPhoto issue), so I didn't see any point in upgrading. I'm guessing that since my import worked under my second user account that this problem I'm having really isn't a compatibility issue between the OS/QT/iPhoto, yes?

Here you go:

(EDIT:)

2007-01-12 15:51:39.414 iPhoto[2069] * NSThread: ignoring exception ' * -[NSPathStore2 getCharacters:range:]: index (21) beyond bounds (8)' that raised during delayed perform of target 0x949aa40 and selector '_finishImport:'


This is what it said before, over and over, probably hundreds of times:

Jan 12 14:52:39 DavidHG4 /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto: CGContextDrawImage: invalid context


All Greek to me!

Yes, I have a few. APE 2.0.2 (which doesn't seem to have any means of disabling it in the Panes), WindowShade X 4.1.1, SizzlingKeys 1.7.1, and Zooom 1.4.1. Disabled then re-booted.

Import same video file into iPhoto with the same results as before.

2007-01-12 16:06:19.883 iPhoto[279] * NSThread: ignoring exception ' * -[NSPathStore2 getCharacters:range:]: index (21) beyond bounds (8)' that raised during delayed perform of target 0x8a60b10 and selector '_finishImport:'

Weirdnesses like this drive me crazy! I appreciate your sticking with me!

Thanks, TD. I excluded iPhoto, and for fun also disabled Little Snitch but to no avail. Any other options you can think of? Am I looking at the upgrade try at this point?

Ok. I'll go .04 and see what happens, then .05 if needed. If still nothing, maybe I'll just do the combo OS upgrade straight to 10.4.8. I'll try to do it this evening, but I'll want to back up my files first, so a little bit of time might pass before I update again.

Thanks!

Thanks for replying, Smtr. I may end up doing the upgrade afterall!

Alright, here's the scoop. I upgraded to iPhoto 604 then to 605. (I remembered I didn't do those updates before because Apple said they only deal with photobooks and such which I never use.) Didn't solve the problem. So I updated to 10.4.8. Still no good. Tried iPhoto database rebuilds with both the built-in method & the iPhoto Library Manager program. The built-in method crashed (twice) and the 3rd party app froze on "Roll 20". There's no rebuilding this database, apparently.

Doing a little more research on the net & on this forum, I realized that what must be happening is that I have a corrupt database. I don't remember Force Quitting or crashing while iPhoto was open, but it must have happened as these seem to be the main causes for database problems.

NOTE: Always keep back ups of your iPhoto Library!! For me, this is the only thing that's going to bail me out out this problem. Here are some important threads to read:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1824255&#1824255
and
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947
and
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2991599&#2991599

It seems it would be a good idea to do frequent, separated backups of the database & its associated files so you can pull in the last known uncorrupted database when necessary.

I copied onto my HD a backup that spans the beginning of iPhoto use through March 2006. Importing worked as expected on that library. That means I have to re-import my other files and suffer through the re-doing of my metadata. However, I'll keep my old library intact long enough to refer to it so the re-labelling of my new imports won't be quite as painful.