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About Jeff Greenberg
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I can comfortably answer most basic/advanced questions regarding Macintosh hardware and software - nowadays only OSX (I gave up OS 9 seven years ago). My particular specialties are in Video editing/DVD authoring. I am a certified trainer in the "pro apps" (Final Cut, DVDSP, Soundtrack, Motion). I have been using Macs since 1985. Please do not ask me about OS9.

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I'm an Apple Cert. Trainer for FCP, DVD SP, since the inception of this program. I've was
certified as an Apple Cert. Technician back in 1989.

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BA film- Penn State. Certifications from Apple, Avid for training.

 
   

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Topic: Macintosh OS



Expert: Jeff Greenberg
Date: 5/25/2008
Subject: Iphoto

Question
Gday Jeff,
Mate i have a problem re iphoto app.
Everytime i try to open it it quits unexpectedly while trying to load the
photos. How can i fix this as i need to get into iphoto for work.
I am running Mac OSX 10.3.9 Panther
Thanks mate
Regards roscoe

Answer
Roscoe,

Hope you're well.

It sounds like the iphoto database might be corrupted (or possibly the preferences.)

From your user folder/Library/Preferences move com.apple.iPhoto.plist to the desktop (this will cause iphoto to build a new preference list, but we'll keep the original just in case.)

Second, hold down Shift + option on startup of iphoto, which will cause it to rebuild the iphoto database.

Here's an article about that: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947

Let me know if those two don't work,

Best,

Jeff

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