If you have not yet upgraded to iPhoto 5 please read this before you do or risk losing your photos.
http://www.xvsxp.com/articles/050123-iphoto5.php > My very unpleasant experience upgrading to iPhoto 5 > This article is a warning to potential iLife '05 upgraders and an admonishment > to Apple. > > If you are upgrading to iLife '05, REBUILD YOUR IPHOTO LIBRARY FIRST! > (Prior to installing iLife 05, hold down command-option-shift and launch > iPhoto 4. It will ask if you want to rebuild your library. Say yes.) > > If you do not, and if your iPhoto library is corrupted (you may not even know > that your library is corrupted) your iPhoto library will fail to upgrade it > correctly. Whole collections of photos may disappear. That is exactly what > happened to me. Apple makes no warning of this in their documentation, I > suspect because they never tested an iPhoto upgrade of a corrupted database. > Shame on them. Shame Apple! Rod Blitvich on 27/2/05 9:11 AM, Rod Blitvich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Folks > Further to my posts yesterday: > > I recently installed iLife05. > Since then I have had big problems with iPhoto. > Now when I launch iPhoto the Main Window with the film rolls in it always > opens back at my first rolls (july 2000). > When I try to scroll down to the latest film rolls, I get the spinnning > beachball cursor. This continues for 20 or 30 seconds. Sometimes during this > process when I click on the iPhoto icon in the Dock I get the "Application > Not Responding" message. > > I have tried to follow the thread of recent posts on this and another list > regarding similar problems. I have rebuilt the database. > I have upgraded to iPhoto 5.0.1 > I have 5,000 photos. The Help section says iPhoto should handle up to 25,000 > photos. > > G4 PowerBook > 1 GB RAM > OS 10.3.6 > > It seems iPhoto 5 has some faults. > > Does it seem I should delete my iPhoto Library and copy my backup copy (done > in iphoto4) from an external drive? > > Thanks for your support. > Rod -- (o o) *=======================ooO-(_)-Ooo=========================* | Rod BLITVICH LT Coordinator Balcatta Senior High School | | Chair STAWA Electronic Communications Committee | | Amy and Sam's Dad | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stawa.asn.au | *===========================================================* | | | Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. | | | *=======================ooO=====Ooo=========================*
