[DM-MUG] iPhoto warning (long)

[Chris Van Cleve]

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I upgraded to 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 without incident. Same for 10.3.5 and the 
latest security update.

Always, ALWAYS repair permissions on your OS drive before installing 
ANY updates. This is a proven preventive.

Chris

On Aug 10, 2004, at 2:29 AM, Matt W wrote:

> Be aware (or beware) of iPhoto 4.03!
>
> As usual, before doing any 10.3.5 or iPhoto updates MAKE A BACKUP AND 
> TEST IT FOR RESTORE, which I did. Sorry to yell, but I'm testing 
> iPhoto 4.03 for a second time to see if it will read/import all of my 
> photos.
>
> The story so far: I updated 4.01 to 4.02 when it arrived in Software 
> Update. I then moved a backup DVD of my photo library to another Mac. 
> When I tried to import into 4.02, it failed spectacularly. The import 
> took 3 hours (and never really finished). It duplicated *most* of my 
> photos (as in 2 copies in the display window), required a force-quit, 
> and generally behaved inappropriately.
>
> To fix, I repaired permissions, ran fsck in single-user mode, deleted 
> the whole iPhoto Library folder (resident inside the Pictures folder 
> of my user account) and manually copied the iPhoto Library folder from 
> the DVD to the Pictures folder. THIS TIME it worked much better, but 
> then I notice 4.03 is released. Something is amiss. I also noted that 
> 4.03 required me to update my iPhoto Library and that it wouldn't work 
> with older versions.
>
> Well, I used my backup because iPhoto 4.03 lost the ability to read 
> some images that Preview opens up fine. I cannot even add these images 
> via Import or drag to the iPhoto window. These images are in the 
> proper place inside the Pictures folder in the same hierarchy as they 
> previously were. iPhoto 4.03 just gives me an error when I try to add 
> them again. If these missing photos hadn't been at the very beginning 
> of my library, I might have missed them. Yes, they still exist in the 
> folder, but iPhoto doesn't see them. Out of 3000+ I'm not sure how 
> many I'm missing.
>
> I'm back to 4.01 (custom install of iLife 2004 and manual update to 
> 4.01 which JUST happened to be in a cache file on my hard drive) and 
> will be testing 4.03 further until I can get it working more reliably.
>
> Hope I'm the only one, but since 4.02 was pulled, I wonder... Macfixit 
> (www.macfixit.com) has a few reports of strange behavior with 4.03. I 
> wish Apple would stop using us as beta testers (argh!)
>
> Matthew
> TechnicalMac
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