Spinning Wait Cursor I connected my Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5 to the newly booted Mac, started iPhoto, and got the spinning rainbow ball. Killed iPhoto and tried it again. Three times. Force Quit Applications → iPhoto (not responding) 😟
Then I restarted iPhoto while pressing the alt and command key and told it to “repair” the library database. It did that, finished, and gave me the spinning rainbow ball. I am reminded of Comments on 2011-07-12 Mac OS X Problmems. This sucks.
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I restarted iPhoto while pressing the alt and command key and told it to “examine and repair” the permissions. It did that, finished, and gave me the spinning rainbow ball. Truly, what a thing to come home to after a long weekend. Thanks, Apple.
Tried fixing ownership and permissions myself:
chown -R alex:alex /Volumes/Extern/Pictures/Alex\ iPhoto\ Library chmod -R ugo+rw /Volumes/Extern/Pictures/Alex\ iPhoto\ Library
That didn’t help.
Removed `~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPhoto.plist` and `~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto` and logged out and back in. That helped! I had to start iPhoto while pressing the alt key to pick my photo library, and got to click around. Encouraged, I connected the USB cable and switched on my camera. And I got the spinning rainbow ball again.
What the hell? Switching off the camera and restarting iPhoto gets me the spinning rainbow ball. Apparently the *Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5 can destroy iPhoto*. 🙁
Ok, just deleting the cache and restarting iPhoto without logout and login:
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto
That didn’t help.
Try removing both without logout and login:
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPhoto.plist
That still doesn’t do it. I will try removing both and logout and login again.
That helped. I identified some faces, quit iPhoto, restarted it. No more problems. Except for one: How will I get new images from the camera into iPhoto?
I file copied them all to my desktop and removed most of the files on the camera:
rm -rf /Volumes/CYBER-SHOT/* rm -rf /Volumes/CYBER-SHOT/.Trashes/
(This left a few things on the memory card.)
Now switching the camera on. Interesting: iPhoto no longer starts. The camera has no pictures on it and thus no longer registers as a camera? Let’s give it a try... Taking a picture or two... Connecting it again... iPhoto starts... and asks if I want to import the pictures!
Apparently I broke the cycle.
So, what was different? What did I delete? I can think of only one thing: I rarely record *video* with the camera, but today there was a video file on it. Perhaps that caused iPhoto to die?
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A friend of mine has a similar problem, and of yet I haven’t figured out what went wrong – so I might try some of your suggestions.
As a workaround, we used Image Capture (”Digitale Bilder”) to import the images – which usually works and allows the pictures to be imported into iPhoto as well (and does it flawlessly).
– xeophin 2011-10-15 08:19 UTC
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Hmpf. My wife returned from Namibia, I plug in the camera, iPhoto crashes again. I remove the two videos in the MP_ROOT/101ANV01 directory and restart iPhoto. Still crashes.
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPhoto.plist
Now logout and login again. iPhoto starts. But you need to say yes to the map and you need to Alt-start iPhoto to pick your library file (since I don’t use the default location).
That worked.
Stupid camera. Stupid iPhoto.
– Alex Schroeder 2011-11-06 07:33 UTC
