I've just started having an irritating problem with iPhoto and hope 
somebody here can suggest a solution.

Using OS X (10.3.9) and iPhoto 5.0.2

Just successfully imported 6 photos from my camera and placed them in an 
album. Happened to notice, to my horror, that the ca. 150 photos that 
I'd imported a few days ago had disappeared! Checked in the Finder and 
found that all the photos were present & correct. Quit & restarted 
iPhoto and the 6 photos I'd just imported also didn't appear. According 
to iPhoto I have 7221 photos using 5 GB of space.

Anybody else had this happen to them? And know how to fix this?

TIA for any suggestions.

Bernie.

Bernard Wichert <news@manchester.demon.nl> wrote:

> I've just started having an irritating problem with iPhoto and hope 
> somebody here can suggest a solution.
> 
> Using OS X (10.3.9) and iPhoto 5.0.2
> 
> Just successfully imported 6 photos from my camera and placed them in an
> album. Happened to notice, to my horror, that the ca. 150 photos that
> I'd imported a few days ago had disappeared! Checked in the Finder and
> found that all the photos were present & correct. Quit & restarted 
> iPhoto and the 6 photos I'd just imported also didn't appear. According
> to iPhoto I have 7221 photos using 5 GB of space.
> 
> Anybody else had this happen to them? And know how to fix this?

I have exactly the same problem, be it under Tiger and iPhoto 5.0.2; I
blamed Tiger (incorrectly). Using another app to verify, I could open
all photographs without a problem. The thumbs are there in iPhoto, just
not the bigger pictures.
I've reinstalled iPhoto from the iLife CD to no avail. Tried to use a
new library and import the images from the old library, nothing. Then
converted all images from the old library and recompressed them (using
Photoshop) and imported them: nothing was imported; strangely enough
only 999 photos were reported to be attempted for import, even though
over 2800 were in the folder.
So far: no good.
<http://www.macintouch.com/iphoto11.html> shows that this is not the
only problem with iPhoto; version not sure.

ard
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In article <1gwdypb.1yadchd1wom9l6N%ardpuntjonkeratxs4allpuntnl@b.c>,
 ardpuntjonkeratxs4allpuntnl@b.c (ard) wrote:

> Bernard Wichert <news@manchester.demon.nl> wrote:
> 
> > I've just started having an irritating problem with iPhoto and hope 
> > somebody here can suggest a solution.
> > 
> > Using OS X (10.3.9) and iPhoto 5.0.2
> > 
> > Just successfully imported 6 photos from my camera and placed them in an
> > album. Happened to notice, to my horror, that the ca. 150 photos that
> > I'd imported a few days ago had disappeared! Checked in the Finder and
> > found that all the photos were present & correct. Quit & restarted 
> > iPhoto and the 6 photos I'd just imported also didn't appear. According
> > to iPhoto I have 7221 photos using 5 GB of space.
> > 
> > Anybody else had this happen to them? And know how to fix this?
> 
> I have exactly the same problem, be it under Tiger and iPhoto 5.0.2; I
> blamed Tiger (incorrectly). Using another app to verify, I could open
> all photographs without a problem. The thumbs are there in iPhoto, just
> not the bigger pictures.
> I've reinstalled iPhoto from the iLife CD to no avail. Tried to use a
> new library and import the images from the old library, nothing. Then
> converted all images from the old library and recompressed them (using
> Photoshop) and imported them: nothing was imported; strangely enough
> only 999 photos were reported to be attempted for import, even though
> over 2800 were in the folder.
> So far: no good.
> <http://www.macintouch.com/iphoto11.html> shows that this is not the
> only problem with iPhoto; version not sure.
> 
> ard

We just spent quite a bit of phone time with  Apple support on this 
exact problem, with iPhoto 2.  (Actually, the time was spent getting 
through the phone system to the correct tech person)  He ran me through 
several procedures and concluded that we have "a broken iPhoto".    
Result is Apple is sending us a dvd with iLife 5.  Installing iPhoto 5 
is supposed to solve the problem; he said it will go find the photos and 
put them into the new iPhoto program.  Hope he is right; am not happy to 
hear that you both had this problem with iPhoto 5!.  If it works, I will 
consider the $49 for 5 days of tech support to be a bargain.

Rosemary
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