Rebuild the iPhoto library, maybe? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2638
(for iPhoto 6+)

Try iPhoto Library Manager from  http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ ?

> As so many hours over several weekends were spent making up the first book I
> want to try and get into it rather than starting again

It's always quicker the second time you do these things..

Cheers

--stuart

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Malcolm Harris
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear SMUGs,
>
> Hope it is OK if I share the following problem my daughter is having with
> photobooks on her (Intel) i-Mac:
>
>
> I have approximately 3000 photos from a particular holiday that I wanted to
> make into two separate large photobooks.  I selected the event that these
> photos are in and completed a 96 page book using the first half of them.  No
> problems completing the book or going in and out of it over several weekends
> to do it.  I then started on the second volume from the other half of the
> photos and could always continue to access the first album and compare so
> the style was similar and not too many similar photos.  Just as I was
> finishing the second volume (80 - 90 pages as well) I started having
> problems with accessing the first.  When I click on the icon I just get a
> 'loading book' message, but it never actually loads.  The information panel
> tells me the title of the book, the date range of the photos included, the
> number of items selected from and the size (18.3GB).  Sometimes when I try
> to load I get as far as the bar at the top showing the photos it has been
> selected from, but if I scroll through these it shows the photos that I have
> selected for the second book.  When I click on the second book it comes up
> within a couple of seconds, but the information panel gives me different
> information - the title of the book, the theme, type, size, the items, how
> many photos are unplaced and how many pages it contains.  I had tried
> searching discussion forums for similar problems and the only suggested
> problem/solution related to the amount of hard drive free space - mine is
> over 130 GB so I don't think this is the problem.
> As so many hours over several weekends were spent making up the first book I
> want to try and get into it rather than starting again - any suggestions
> about what the problem might be or whether there is any other way of
> recovering the file or accessing it from outside of iphoto?  Unfortunately
> no backup - partly because I couldn't manage to save it outside of iphoto
> just in case and partly because time machine was only set-up externally
> after the problem started (now done of course!).
>
> As always, all contributions gratefully received.
>
> Malcolm
> >
>

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