opening individual photos-breaking up in

DICKSTER

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just lately when i open a photo in iphoto it breaks up into pieces on the screen in iphoto so i click outside the photo again to restore to thumbnail size and click again to reopen and it's fine for editing etc. parts of the pic are there and parts are black the first attempt at opening. can't quite figure it out. have trashed iphoto prefs. used disk warrior etc. anyone have this occur to them and how they fixed it?
dickster----------------------------------
 
What version of Mac OS X and iPhoto are you using? Does this happen for any pic you try to open in the iPhoto Library? Is it possible to take a screen shot of this issue? If you press Shift + Command + 4 a cross-hair will appear and you can drag over the area you want to capture and then just release the mouse to have the screenshot appear as a file on your Desktop called Picture 1.png for example. Then you can attach it to your reply here.
 
i am using os 10.5.3 and iphoto 7.1.3. attached is png. of what happens./Users/dickself/Desktop/Picture 1.pngPicture 1.png
e-mail at work is richard .l.self@lmco.com
thanks for any help!
dickster-----------------------
 
Tracey-- i trashed the finder and iphoto prefs-did restart and no go- it seems that only a few differant photos break apart-- i'm thinking they may be corrupted? your thoughts?
this may be just a freak thing i hope!
dickster-----------------------------------------
 
These photos that are not loading properly, where are they stored? In the iPhoto Library Folder in Pictures? If you Ctrl/Right-Click the image in the Library window and select "Show File" and then when the Finder window opens to reveal it, double-click on the original, which should open in Preview. Let me know if it still appears as it did in your screenshot.
 
I had this sort of thing happen to some photos I took with a Sony camera. I tracked it down (I think) to a incompatible Memory Stick in the camera. I borrowed a large capacity MS and some photos split. I could recover some photos by dragging them from the camera to the desktop without opening iPhoto and then opening iPhoto and dragging them into the window. Most photos were fine, about 1 in 10 corrupted.

I assume that it was the Memory Stick as Sony show it as incompatible with my camera on a list I have since found. And, all has been 100% OK in the six months since I went back to the original 128Mb Stick.
 
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