iPhoto Keeps Crashing

imac davidimac david
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hi all,



I've recently upgraded to iPhoto 4, (under 10.2.8) and now I have nothing but problems. After every edit/undo iPhoto crashes. Then there are random crashes while I browse the library. There doesn't seem to be a link between the photos that cause it.



I've repaired disk permissions and turned sharing off.



Any ideas?



Cheers.



Pavid



PS where in iPhoto do I point to the library used on the HD?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 4
    jambojambo Posts: 3,036member
    Quit iPhoto, trash the following file, then relaunch iPhoto:



    Macintosh HD > Users > [Username] > Library > Preferences > com.apple.iPhoto.plist
  • Reply 2 of 4
    dmband0026dmband0026 Posts: 2,345member
    You might also want to try trashing your caches. Delete everything in Home/library/caches. EVERYTHING in there should be thrown away and deleted.
  • Reply 3 of 4
    imac davidimac david Posts: 286member
    OK, seems to have done the trick, thanks.



    Just waht are these plist files, and how comes I can delete them safely?



    Cheers,



    David
  • Reply 4 of 4
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    .plist stands for Property List. It's an XML file that describes preferences under MacOS X. Preference files are organized like Java packages:



    com.apple.iPhoto.plist:

    com: A commercial application

    apple: The company that made it

    iPhoto: The name of the application

    plist: It's a preferences file



    Basically nothing in there is critical for the operation of your application, but you may need to reset some of your preferences afterwards. If you're a l33t hacker d00d, you can actually inspect the .plist file and frequently edit out just the corrupted part(s), leaving most of the preferences intact, but it's safer to just toss it completely.
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