[Ti] iPhoto not loading

[Dr Trevor J. Hutley]

On 2 Nov 2005, at 22:58, heindebruijne wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Can someone help me: I cleaned my HD with ONYX and now iPhoto  
> cannot load my photo library!
> I did a disk utility repair and even in single user mode did: /sbin/ 
> fsck -y -f and rebooted afterwards,
> all without success.
> Someone have a idea?

I cannot specifically help you, just report that on four occasions in  
the last months, iPhoto has refused to load my iPhoto album contents.
I can see no pattern to this issue.

Each time, I tried all the standards repair routines.

In each case, I have had to remove iPhoto, re-install it, and then  
import all the pictures again.

Each time, I lost all the folders in which I had organised the  
(thousands of) photos.

I am NOT impressed by this 'instability' of iPhoto.

I cannot imagine how many hours of my time have been wasted by this.

I could not determine where the 'corruption' was occurring.  If I  
remember correctly, it was "somewhere else' as the backup did not help.

I am currently looking at iView Media as an alternative to iPhoto.

One thing I did discover, in my many hours, was that if you launch  
iPhoto whilst holding down the ALT key, you get to choose the iPhoto  
library.


Overall, I would say that this iPhoto behaviour is probably the most  
disappointing issue I can recall with a Mac.

regards,  Trevor