This is common sense, but it does bear mentioning. Ensure that all of these options are enabled and then click the Rebuild button:. Depending on the number of pictures in your iPhoto library, this can be a long process. On mine, it took about five minutes.
Upon relaunching iPhoto after the rebuild, it took four seconds to launch. Note that I rebooted my MacBook Pro between each restart of these tests to ensure there was nothing lingering in memory that would speed up load times. These tips won't result in huge speed gains for users with a light number of photos, and even for my library with almost pictures, the real-world speed gains were light four seconds vs seven seconds to launch with the rebuild; a three second difference isn't much, although it does make it almost twice as fast.
For users with very large iPhoto libraries, the speed gains will be noticeable. Other than rebuilding the database, which likely doesn't need to be done very often, the other tips are very straightforward and anyone can take advantage of them without worrying about damaging the iPhoto library.
Nov 11, , am EST. Nov 10, , pm EST. Edit Story. Consumer Tech. Reviews and guidance for Apple gear, audio systems and consumer tech. Follow me on Twitter. Check out my website. Once I did a full restore, my iPhoto library was un-readable as well.
Like you, everything else was fine, but iPhoto library wouldn't load. Photos, thumbnails, tags, events, albums, etc. Jul 26, AM. Jul 26, AM in response to tbillini In response to tbillini. I've got exactly the same problem after switching to a new hard drive on which I installed Lion using the Time Machine backup the old hard drive had bad sectors.
This reminds me of the unsuccessfull Rebuild Library process, I hope it'll end up better this this time. Jul 26, AM in response to isabeksu In response to isabeksu. It seems to me that each failure corrupts something in the library so that I have to restore it again in order to do another attempt.
Unfortunately I am now having iPhoto crash when trying to restore the library from the back-up. I'm not sure if that is related to having reinstalled Photo or not If that fails I will copy my library back and try to rebuild it with iPhoto Library Manager. If that fails It has occurred to me that I have never done an option-command open of iPhoto against a "pristene" corrupted library from the backup.
I've only tried that after iPhoto already told me that it needed to rebuild the library on its own and I let it try then had to do a force-quit when it hung. If none of that works I will be visiting the Genius Bar cause although I know I can re-import all the files into a fresh library, I can't lose all my events I'll never remember what they all were , folders, and faces.
I think another good option would be to use an App removal software like Appcleaner or Trashme, I actually sed the former and it worked. Step 1 and 3 might not be necessary, especially if you haven't messed up a little the library deleting some files in it in order to have iPhoto try to rebuild them.
Jul 26, PM. Jul 26, PM in response to isabeksu In response to isabeksu. Well I have to say, I know Old Toad has helped tons of people in these forums, but I really didn't think it was a patience issue. So, i took an old GB drive out of my old G4 tower, wiped it, and have repurposed it as a photos-only drive. I know i can just move the iPhoto Library to that drive and then point iPhoto at it, but i'd also like to rebuild it so that all of the originals are moved into the iPhoto library, basically returning it to a normal state with the "copy photos to library Another way to put it that I think makes sense is this: I want to perform a function that does the same thing as iTunes' "Consolidate Library" command.
This command in iTunes takes all of your dispersed music files and puts them in the correct place in the iTunes Music Library folder. That's what I want to happen with iPhoto - take the files that aren't in the iPhoto Library folder and move them into their correct location in there. Is there a way to use the Rebuild Library function to do this? Has anyone experienced this before? Thanks Max. Lost your password? Powered by the Parse. Press Shift-Option while starting up iPhoto to invoke it, and you will get a rather scary message about possible loss of data if there is any unreadable data.
Clicking OK will allow you to select a new location for your library make sure you have enough space. I used this and found a number of interesting things that happened: There were a number of orphan JPG thumbnails in the "thumb" folders that were cleaned up deleted in the new duplicate library. Albums were maintained but "rolls" were completely renumbered starting from one.
Some rolls that apparently had no date information were put at the end of the library with the current date. This did not result in lost data but did mess up the roughly chronological flow of my library. The resulting library is 2 MB smaller than before mostly due to cleaned up thumbs and smaller.
It takes a very long time, is non-destructive to the current library and requires space on the disk for a complete second copy. By editing the iPhoto preferences file, I could revert back to my old library whew! The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
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