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A.5. General QuestionsFinally, here's a handful of generalalthough perfectly terrifyingtroubles. A.5.1.A.5.1.1 iPhoto's wigging out.If the program "unexpectedly quits," well, that's life. It happens. This is Mac OS X, though, so you can generally open the program right back up again and pick up where you left off. If the flakiness is becoming really severe, try logging out (choose Log Out) and logging back in again. And if the problem persists, see the data-purging steps on the next page. A.5.1.2 Man, this program's slow!Installing more memory is by far the best solution to this problem. iPhoto loves RAM like Paris Hilton loves attention. For an immediate (and less expensive) fix, keep your Photo Library a reasonable size and collapse your film rolls (page 104). A.5.1.3 I don't see my other Mac's shared photos over the network.Chapter 9 covers network photo sharing in detail. If you're having trouble making it work, here's your checklist:
A.5.1.4 I can't change the name of an album/book/slideshow icon.Double-click its name, and then type in the new label. A.5.1.5 When I try to choose a soundtrack for a slide show, my iTunes music collection doesn't show up!First, try opening iTunes before opening iPhoto. That way, iPhoto will be sure to"see" the open iTunes library. If that doesn't solve the problem, you might have to recreate one of your iTunes preference files, like this: First, quit all iLife programs. Open your Home Music iTunes folder. Drag the file called iTunes Music Library.xml file to your desktop. Now open iTunes and create a new playlist by choosing File New Playlist. (Doing so triggers iTunes to build a new .xml file, which is what you want.) Quit iTunes. When you return to iPhoto, your iTunes library should show up just fine. A.5.1.6 I can't delete a photo!You may be trying to delete a photo right out of a smart album. That's a no-no. There's only one workaround: Find the same photo in the Photo Library, the Last Roll icon, or the Last Months iconand delete it from there. A.5.1.7 All my pictures are gone! (or) My thumbnails are all gray rectangles! (or) I'm having some other crisis!The missing-pictures syndrome and the gray-rectangle thumbnails are only two of several weirdisms that may strike with all the infrequencyand painof lightning. Maybe iPhoto is trying to import phantom photos. Maybe it's stuck at the "Loading photos" screen forever. Maybe the photos just don't look right. There's a long list, in fact, of rare but mystifying glitches that can arise. What your copy of iPhoto needs is a big thwack upside the head, also known as a major data purge. You may not need to perform all of the following steps. But if you follow them all, at least you'll know you did everything possible to make things right. Fortunately, setting things aright is fairly easy if you know what to do. Follow these steps in order; after each one, check to see if the problem is gone.
If you undertook this mission because your photos seemed to be missing from iPhoto, and all of these steps still didn't restore them, all is not lost. Unless you somehow opened your Home Pictures folder and, while sleepwalking, manually threw away your iPhoto Library folder, your pictures are still there. The tool you need is called iPhoto Extractor, and you can download it from www.missingmanuals.com. Its sole purpose is to rescue your "missing" photos from a discombobulated iPhoto Library, so it's probably exactly the tool you need right now. |
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