[X4U] iPhoto index broken

[Milton van der Veen]

Hi Jim,

No one seems to have a solution so here's one I've used. I don't 
remember which build of iPhoto it was but it worked. I fixed it this 
way: Close out iPhoto. Find the empty "iPhoto Library" file inside your 
"Pictures" folder. Delete it or move it out of the folder. Find the 
"iPhoto Library" file that you want to use. (It'll have "rolls" and 
year folders and AlbumData.xml and so on.). Make an alias for that 
folder and put it in the "Pictures" folder where you took out the empty 
one. Restart iPhoto.

Hope this works.

Milton

On Aug 8, 2004, at 8:40 PM, Jim Freeman wrote:

> I've just reformatted my harddrive. I backed up my iPhoto libraries 
> and copied them back to my fresh installation. I've reinstalled iPhoto 
> 4. But now iPhoto opens with with an empty library.
>
> Has anyone found a solution for this? I use iPhoto Librarian so I've 
> got two iPhoto libraries. I"m not sure if that is part of the problem. 
> I had this once before when I tried to move an iPhoto library. The 
> solution was to reimport all the photos, but I lost my albums, 
> keywords and the ability to revert to originals. I think I used a 
> program called iPhoto extractor, or something. This time I stand to 
> lose all the star ratings I've assigned.
>
> I'd rather fix my libraries. Any ideas?