iPhoto '11 crashes on rebuilding thumbnails

John Varela

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This began when iTunes crashed while syncing with an iPod. The crash occurs every time while compressing and transferring photos from iPhoto to the iPod. When I changed setting to omit photos from the iPod sync, the crash stopped.

Since the problem appears to be in iPhoto, I rebuilt the Library. All of the repair and rebuild options work, including "Rebuild the photos' small thumbnails", but iPhoto crashes on "Rebuild all the photos' thumbnails".

Any suggestion for what to do about this?

In another thread on this forum there is a suggestion from an older version of iPhoto that editing in Photoshop CS might be the source of the problem; I have been using Photoshop Elements for years without problems until, possibly, now.

This latest version of iPhoto does not interface as cleanly with Photoshop Elements as earlier versions did. When using the external editor, the earlier versions would save the Photoshopped photo in the Modified folder. The current version of iPhoto creates a new photo entry with, I think, a new Original. Anyway, there's no point in having two entries of the same photo, one Photoshopped and one not, so I have been deleting the extra. Could that activity be messing up the thumbnail data base?
 
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