iPhoto problems

[themagpie]

Suddenly my entire iPhoto Library disappeared.  Since I have a copy of it on my hd, I tried to import the pictures again but got a message to the effect that the pictures couldn't be opened because they were unreadable (the photos open in preview and are jpegs).  Rich took a couple of test pictures to see if iPhoto could import them from the camera.  iPhoto COULD NOT -- same message.  I thought that the program had been corrupted, deleted all of it and reinstalled it from iDisk.  SAME PROBLEM!

The only thing different with my computer is that I installed Photoshop 4 (ordered the X upgrade yesterday) and set the iPhoto preferences to open a picture in photoshop if I click it twice.  I have not tried to use photoshop on any pictures in the iPhoto library, however.

I have searched the Apple knowledge base and "The Misssing Manual" to no avail.  The Apple knowledge base said that it usually has to do with too full a hd (I  have 39 G left on mine) or a corrupted file.  I tried to download the pictures individually (they can't all be corrupt) but that wouldn't work either.  Moreover, the pictures on the camera couldn't be corrupt and they couldn't be opened either,

I thought there might be a hardware problem with my iMac but the hardware program found nothing wrong.  I used DW  with unremarkable results also.

By the way, iPhoto recognizes the Nikon 4300 as its name appears in the bottom  of the window.  It also read the pictures yesterday.

Help!

Thanks.

Margie

[themagpie]

By the way, the title should be iPhoto problems, not photoshop problems.  Sorry.

--edit--fixed title-jep

[themagpie]

Since I have an Applecare contract, I called Apple today and a helpful tech solved my  problem  It was An ownership permissions problem.  I went to the iPhoto folder in the pictures folder (home) and  went to "get info."  This showed that I  did not haver ownership  of iPhoto .  I corrected that and my pictures reappeared.  I was also able to import pictures from my camera once again.

I don't know what changed the permissions as they were ok earlier in the day.  But I guess that's  OSX.  At any rate, I'm glad to have iPhoto working again.

Margie

[beacher]

Margie, I've seen it mentioned before, but it's worth restating, that it's a good idea, after installing anything, to run "repair permissions". . .Can't hurt anything, and can prevent inability to access things!  Glad you got your photos back.

[themagpie]

Beacher, Thank you for that good advice.  Yesterday I installed new software.  Today I used Disk first aid to repair permissions and many of them needed repair.

Margie