Problems with iPhoto 6

--On January 17, 2006 7:33:14 AM -0800 Nick Haycock
<nehaycockhaycock-associates.co.uk> wrote:

> We are hitting major problems with iphoto 6.0. We upgraded to 6.0 and
> found that approx 1250 images of a 9400 image library have been
> damaged. The thumbnail of the images is visible (up to 240 by 180
> pixel) but the linkage to the original has been broken.

I'm having similar problems although my library isn't nearly as large, I
also seem to have lost all the rotations on my photos from iPhoto 5. I'm
currently trying a complete rebuild (hold down command and option while
opening iPhoto) of my library under iPhoto 6 and see if that fixes it.

iPhoto 6 feels the flakiest of the apps (I haven't spent much time in iWeb
though) but all of them have issues for me (except iTunes). I'm expecting
bug fix updates will start being release, hopefully soon.

To be totally fair, I was having some crashing problems under iPhoto 5 too,
mainly trying to push photos to my iPod Video, so I may have a corrupt
library.

I used iPhoto Library Manager recently and my older (and smaller) libraries auto-updated perfectly. Only my biggest one had the problem of missing thumbnails. I took a look at the orinigal (from my surely made backup) and it seems that there were really missing some Thumbs-Folders, although these thumbs were displayed in iPhoto'05. I'm just trying to rebuild my thumbnails. (as already written: press control (alt) + command (apple) and click the iPhoto.app) In the appearing window I checked everything but the last.

I can give an update (I hate that word) when I'm done.

C'ya, Chris

At 11:29 AM -0800 2006/01/20, Lori Rauchwerger wrote:
>Now it says :
>>"Unable to upgrade this photo libray because the current user does
>>not have acces. If Possible, repair permissions for the iPhoto
>>Library folder and try again."
>>
>>The path of the item that failed is "/Users/lori/Pictures/iPhoto
>>Library/2002/07/19/DSC00007.JPG"
>
>I did do the repair disk permissions before and after upgrade as I do
>frequently.

        Repair Permissions only fixes files that were installed by
Apple or another Installer package.

        The fix is probably to do the following in a Terminal window:

sudo chown -R lori ~/Pictures
sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/Pictures

        At a guess, you either don't own, or do own but don't have
write access to, the image in question. The first command above will
take ownership of everything in your Pictures folder. The second
command will set read/write access for yourself.

        The first time you use sudo, it will require you to enter
your own password (just like you have to authenticate for certain
actions in the Finder or System Preferences).


                                                Chris Pepper
--
Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/>
Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>

Okay, I don't know Who to address this to,
the new iLife 06 install went well, so I thought till I tried to open
my iPhoto and it said it needed to be upgraged, fine, okay upgrade,
Now it says :
> "Unable to upgrade this photo libray because the current user does
> not have acces. If Possible, repair permissions for the iPhoto
> Library folder and try again."
>
> The path of the item that failed is "/Users/lori/Pictures/iPhoto
> Library/2002/07/19/DSC00007.JPG"

I AM the administrator of this computer. Oddly enough the other user,
my husband who only uses the computer (accesses his side through
password) a little and has a tiny iphoto library- only around 400
photos compared to mine of over 9,000- his iPhoto Library upgraded to
'06..... No Problem!

When I opened the newly installed iWeb I could access the iphoto 05
library thru the "media" and could use a photo from the above
mentioned "path of the item that failed............."
Those were the first photos imported from my Sony CamCorder, never a
problem before.......

I did do the repair disk permissions before and after upgrade as I do
frequently.

ANYONE But ME have this Problem?
Any ideas for HELP?
I am professional portrait artist and need access to my library
(which I did do back-up of on LaCie external HD and Many DVDs prior
to installing iLife 06)

HELP!

I've had exactly the same problem on both of my computers. I visited the Apple store and was told to update permissions. This didn't work for me either. Anyone have a fix? Rich

Found the problem, it was a embedded image - 2 actually - of frames that came on a SONY Memory Card that came with my CamCorder I purchased in 2002.

I went into the Pictures Folder - found the iPhoto Library, then went to the path of the one that it kept telling me to "repair permissions" for and found after clicking the triangular "get info" button that each frame.jpeg was locked. So after clicking unlock on both, iPhoto 6 installed.

I found this Really odd since all previous versions of iPhoto had that those same images in them - apparently locked. I don't know why Sony put them on the Memory Card; I guess to create an effect, I never bothered with them.

If repairing permissions doesn't work, you can also go directly to the
'get info' window of the iphoto library folder, confirm and/or set
permissions there, and click the 'apply to all enclosed items' button.
This is the direct way to fix or change permissions to any folders or
files.

I had a problem with thumbnails disappearing it iPhoto. I tried the command option trick on loading iPhoto, to rebuild thumbnails to no avail. So I decided to import my iPhoto Library into Aperture, on another machine (G5) in the hopes that it would recover it. Which it did. However Aperture kept crashing It would load, start processing images and then hours later crash. After days of fighting with it, I gave up.

So I opened iPhoto on the G5, and loaded my original iPhoto library (it is on an external drive). To my pleasant surprise, the thumbnails were in iPhoto on the G5 with no rebuilding necessary.

So I took the external drive back to my powerbook, thinking all would be well. It wasn't! The thumbnails were still gone. On a hunch I closed iPhoto, then searched for a pref file for iPhoto and deleted it. "com.apple.iPhoto.plist" Then relaunched iPhoto. VOILA, the thumbnails were back, no rebuilding necessary.



[Yup, a corrupted preferences file can cause all sorts of problems... It's one of the things I recommend in "iPhoto 6: Visual QuickStart Guide" and more generally, one of the things Joe recommends in "Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac." -Adam]



I hope this helps someone else.

I had the same problem. I found that some of my picture files had the 'locked' box filled in when I looked at them through 'get info'. It took awhile, but after all my files had 'locked' cleared up, I was able to repair the permissions of the files and then upgrade.