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atomicx - Jul 12, 2005 - 10:00 am

dear help-team,

i have a power mac g4 quicksilver whit mac os x 10.3.9 running. i use iphoto 5.0.1 and i have a huge photo-library... about 30 000 photos. during a photo-import (jpg-photos from my digi-cam from the desktop via drag and drop to iphoto) the application crahed. now the app wont start again. it always crashes during loading the photo library. have you any idea what i can do to bring i photo back to life??

thank you for your help!

mario

philippe99 - Jul 12, 2005 - 11:17 am

Mario,
Here is a helpfull link for repairing iPhoto library:
http://homepage.mac.com/butlers/iPho...or/rebuild.htm

It is a very well done step-bys-tep procedure

Hope this helps you
Feel free to post back if any other question
Phil

atomicx - Jul 13, 2005 - 2:26 am

hi phil!

this is exactly what i was looking for! thank you very much.

mario

atomicx - Jul 17, 2005 - 4:32 am

dear phil,

when i try do rebuild the iphoto library - iphoto crashes.
i tried to fix the volume and the rights but everthing is ok.

i did the update to 5.0.3 - iphoto wont launch. do you have any other idea what i can do? (by the way, sorry for my bad english - im from germany)

mario

philippe99 - Jul 17, 2005 - 4:46 am

Could you have a look to these helps.
http://homepage.mac.com/loridilo/Personal21.html
http://homepage.mac.com/loridilo/Personal22.html
Regards
Phil

philippe99 - Jul 17, 2005 - 6:37 am

Mario
(1) do you have messages in the Console (Applications/Utilities) ?
(2) In your ~/Library/Preferences, could you move to the desktop the "com.apple.iPhoto.plist. Then relaunch iPhoto. If this not solve, replace back the old plist

I'm still looking for answer.
Lime a friend (I just emailed him this moring, but no return yet), I face the same problem with iPhoto 2. With less than 200 photos in my album, I decide to backup the iphoto libray, trash all the iPhoto's library and re-import my photo.

I hope I can find an answer as soon as possible
Regards
Philippe

philippe99 - Jul 17, 2005 - 7:26 am

Mario, do you have iPhoto export plug-ins ?
http://matt.simerson.net/news/?p=80

Regards
Phil

atomicx - Jul 18, 2005 - 2:22 am

dear phil,

thank you phil. i'll try your solutions...

iphoto extractor is good, but i wont reimport all of my photos because it would take months to order my huge library new (with keywords/folders/ ect...).

thank you for your personal engagement!!

i let you know if i have any success or not....

cu mario

atomicx - Jul 19, 2005 - 1:00 am

(1) this are messages they appear when i try to launch iphoto:

*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=1768185856) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[458]: error: Can't allocate region


(2) no solve when i move or delete the pref


later i take a look too your links you sent me... cu mario

philippe99 - Jul 19, 2005 - 3:27 am

A malloc is a problem of allocating memory
(1) either a bug in the application
(2) either a problem in ram boards. Do you add extra ram ?
Phil

atomicx - Jul 19, 2005 - 4:01 am

i did add extra ram a long time ago when i bought the g4. i dont think that thats the problem because i have just problems with iphoto and with no other application.

if i rename the iphoto library and create a new library iphoto is working. i can import pictures and everything is fine and so on...

i had similar problems with iphoto in the past. the library gets bigger and bigger and the problems with i photo are getting bigger too. especially when i import photos the app crashes down. i try again. the app crashes down again. i do a restart and try again and iphoto is crashing - i try it the day after and it runs... then the next imports are fine. do you know what i mean?

the last import had crashed iphoto again. i tried approx. 3 times and since this import iphoto is "out of order". i had exactly the same problem with i photo 4. i cant get iphoto 4 back to life since i've installed iphoto5 after that everything was ok.... its really, i dont know.... bloddy...

i hope you understand my special-english :-)

mario

philippe99 - Jul 19, 2005 - 4:25 am

Mario, if you daily handle so many images, I think you should have a look/try to other program, like (for instance) iViewMediapro
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/index.php

I'm a lucky because my boss offers me the license for the pro release.
I cannot imagine going back to iPhoto..which is now relegated to handle the family's dog image ;-)

And yes, I never used iMovie, iDvd,...

The only Isomething I daily use is iTunes

Regards
Phil

atomicx - Jul 19, 2005 - 9:32 am

dear phil,

thank you for your advise. i ll take a look to iview - i did the trial-download. im looking forward to see what it can do...

iphoto as a family-dog-photo-app is ok as long as it was a free software.....

cu mario