[OSX-Users] Re: iPhoto problem

[Hugh Glaser]

Don't forget ~/Library/Application Support/iPhoto
There may be a plugin or something screwing stuff.

On 8 Feb 2012, at 10:40, Hugh C Davis wrote:

> Just rebuilding my Mac Book Pro from scratch (to hopefully overcome awful slowdown from Lion)
I look forward to you reporting success to encourage me to do it.
> 
> I copied my iPhoto and iPhoto Library from the old machine and it said the Library was damaged.
> 
> So I removed the library and ran iPhoto as new. It created a new library. Then I quit. Then I restarted it and it said the new library was damaged.
> 
> I removed all the stuff in /Library/Application Support and repeated the above exercise. 
> I copied versions of iPhoto from other machines and repeated the above exercise.
> 
> It always says the library is damaged.
> 
> I ran a program to rebuild the library – it thought the library was fine – but said iPhoto itself was unresponsive when I tried to use it.  Unfortunately I do not have an iLife 11 install disk. My copy came ready installed on a machine.
> 
> Any bright ideas?
Run Windows 7 on it?
Sorry.
> 
> /h.
> 
> 

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