problem with iphoto and older pictures
While upgrading iphoto to 1.2 via ilife, a large number of photos were placed into an album called recovered photos. There are greater than 5000 photos in my library at present. I din't really think too much of it. I later went to the photos that were in the recovered album to see if they were still in the library. They were...or at least I though they were. The thumb was there is what I am trying to say. When opening one of the "recovered photos from either the library or the recovered album, the photo begins to open(actually see a flash of the picture) but the picture does not end up opening(just a blank screen with the highlight field surrounding it. I tend to believe the photos are still there but can not be read for some reason( the file size still indicates that it is more than a thumb). Can anybody help me to fix this? Thanks for any help.
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Originally posted by terry123
While upgrading iphoto to 1.2 via ilife, a large number of photos were placed into an album called ...
That sounds like you've got some miraculous database issues,
perhaps that happend while updating.
At very first i'd drag the "com.apple.iPhoto.plist" (~library/pref.)
into the trash bin. If that doesn't fix your problem than there
is the option to re-import your entire pics.
Take it on your own risk, but this is what worked
when i had a similar problem.
--> First, find the folder where the pictures actually stored,
they are somewhere inside the iphoto library. That means digging
--> Than copy this particular folder to somewhere else.
--> Start iPhoto, put everything into the trash bin, that
can not be displayed properly.
--> Import your pics from the folder you just copied.
I know that this is not that sleek anyway, but it worked at least for me.