[WelMac] Helpdesk

[Jo 'Mangee' Booth]

On 19/12/2005, at 20:40 , Martin McKendrick wrote:

> Hello,
> I have an eMac on OS X 10.2.8, still.
> My daughter has a new digital camera, a Panasonic.
> She has successfully loaded many photos into iPhoto, about 900, to  
> date.
> Last weekend she unplugged her camera while it was still downloading
> photos into my iPhoto library.
> Now, when I try to start iPhoto, it just quits.
> OK, so I should check that I have the latest version of the iPhoto
> software, so I find and install update 4.0.3, and try to start iPhoto.
> iPhoto says that it needs to update the  iPhoto library.
> I say go ahead and update the library.
> iPhoto goes through a sequence of loading photos and displays a  
> list of
> source libraries including a Photo library(922), Last Roll(0), Last
> Month(0), Baby(92), etc.
> Also displays thumbnails for first roll loaded in September 2003.
> However, it still shows a "Progress" screen claiming that it is
> "Updating Photo Library", with "Time remaining:About 11  
> minutes". . . .
> for the last half hour, and won't  allow me past to access the photos.
>    Any suggestions ?
> Martin.
>

The first time it can take a while, especially on a slower machine,  
as it creates thumbnails and indexes the pictures.  Leave it for a  
while, and see what happens.
I had to re-index my Library of 31,000 pictures, and it took a fair  
age, even on a iMac G5.

-Jo
WelMac VP


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