Actually you can upgrade to iPhoto 9 on OS 10.6.8 - that's what I did (it's 
labeled iPhoto '11, version 9.2.1). But buying a brand new iMac sounds like a 
lot more fun. Enjoy!
Jim

On Dec 22, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote:

> I thought that might be my problem so I removed 105.85 GB from my Pictures 
> Foder. This leaves 58.17 GB which includes five iPhoto Libraries and an iPod 
> Photo Cache (4.7MG). In the five libraries there are only 39,425 photos so I 
> don't see how this can be a problem. Still have problems off and on with this 
> reduced  group of photos.
> 
> Since I have 10.6.8 on my iMac I can't upgrade to iPhoto 9.?. And the first 
> thing I'm doing after Christmas is buying a new iMac. That has been in my 
> plans for most ofthe year. It will be my Christmas gift for the year 2040.
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 22, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Jim Bennett wrote:
> 
>> I seem to recall that iPhoto is supposed to be able to handle up to 250,000 
>> photo files (including videos). I have about 16,000 photos in my largest 
>> iPhoto library (including 1500 homemade videos), and have not had any real 
>> problems so far. I wonder if the people having iPhoto issues are dealing 
>> with much larger libraries?
>> Jim
>> 
>> On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:32 PM, John Robinson wrote:
>> 
>>> My daughter has had the same problem with her thousands of photo's as well. 
>>>  Finally took a call to Apple support and a 90 min. conversation with Apple 
>>> taking control of her machine before they could get it worked out.
>>> 
>>> I have been trying to get her to change to Aperture, offers so much more 
>>> and is robust enough to handle any number of photo's she wants to throw at 
>>> it while it seems that folks with large numbers in iPhoto seem to have 
>>> problems.
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:44 AM, William Micou wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Anne,
>>>> I have had that same problem, eventually found a solution, but about a 
>>>> year later, it started 'losing' photos again.
>>>> I'm trying to re-discover what I did before, but haven't devoted enough 
>>>> time to find it. There are some discussions in the Apple forums.
>>>> If I remember correctly, my problem was a directory that needed to be sent 
>>>> to the trash, and then iPhoto rebuilt the directory.
>>>> I'll try to find out more by this week-end and share it with you.
>>>> Bill
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 18, 2012, at 05:28 PM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I've just spent a few hours transferring 14,795 photos from my PhotoSafe 
>>>>> (an external HD that will accept SD cards). I can see the photos in 
>>>>> iPhoto but I can't do anything with them. Maybe only the thumbnails 
>>>>> transferred? I get the following message "The volume for "xxx.JPG cannot 
>>>>> be found." While it gives me three options (Cancel, Find Photo..., OK) it 
>>>>> will do none. In fact I have to Force Quit iPhoto to do anything.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just tried with an SD card to transfer the photos using a card reader 
>>>>> and get the same results; however I was able to transfer them to my HD 
>>>>> but in a separate folder. Not in iPhoto. Each of these photos is about 
>>>>> 1.5 MB in size and will open in Photoshop but I cannot get them into 
>>>>> iPhoto.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've had this problem before and can't remember how I got around it. I 
>>>>> think iPhoto eventually decided to work.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any suggestions? How can I tell if the original photos were transferred 
>>>>> off the PhotoSafe or if all I have is thumbnails.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm running iPhoto 7.1.5 on an iMac running Mac OS X 10.6.8.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anne Cartwright
>>>>> 
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