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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
