iPhoto and file permissions

holmBrew

Official Volunteer
I just want to pass along a quit tip (you may have figured this out already). I just had some picture developed and one roll was put on CD so it made it easy to get them into iPhoto but for some reason when i tried to edit them in iPhoto the app would crash. I discovered that it was a permissions issue.

So if this happens to you just go to the images in your iPhoto Library and change them to -rw-r--r-- with chmod 644 *.jpg (or whatever the extention happens to be)

iPhoto needs to be able to write to the file, but if you (the user) doesn't have write perms them iPhoto gets confused and chokes. You would think that during the import process that iPhoto would establish the correct perms.

-Jason
 
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