Glitches in iPhoto 6 upgrade

[Raven]

I originally posted here to get advice how to delete original photos in my Pictures/iPhoto Library folder.
Just to make room on my HD "OSX" partition. I was using iPhoto v4 on OS10.3.9.
So I upgraded to iPhoto 6 yesterday.
Now when I click on photo thumbnails to open the original, some open and enlarge as a separate JPEG file. And some do nothing.
Those I have to track down the thumbnail number and find the original in the iPhoto Library folder which is several folder layers down by year, month, date. It's a pain!

I found an article how to rebuild the iPhoto Library. Would that solve the problem?
But here is the 2nd glitch... To do a rebuild I need enough free space on my HD equal to the size of the current iPhoto LIbrary.
I have 3 partitions... my OSX partition has 3 gb free out of 20 gb partition. My iPhoto Library folder is 6 gb in size! (That's why I originally wanted to dump excess photos.)

What are my options...
How can I get all my thumbnails to open as full JPEG files?
How do I rebuild my iPhoto Library if that needs to be done?
Seems like Catch22!!!

I hope someone out there has some good advice. Thanks.

Dual G4/1.25 GHz. 160 gb HD. OS10.3.9. iPhoto 6.06

[krissel]

Here's what comes to mind at first.

Do you have Carbon Copy Cloner or the paid version of SuperDuper?  Since your boot partition is 20G I assume at least one of the other partitions out of the 160 is rather large. Yes?

You could clone your partition to the larger one, boot to it,  run the iPhoto rebuild, then clone it back. That would also defrag your partition at the same time.

Be sure you make a copy of the photo library before you do anything:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?pa...0/en/hlp15.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300808#export

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947

[Raven]

Thank you Krissel.
Is the Cloner process fairly simple for a slightly above average Mac user like myself? :-)
Any danger of screwing something up? Or could you walk me through it once I have it ready?

[krissel]

It isn't difficult if you are doing a complete clone. It only gets a little more technical if you want to only backup certain folders and not others, then you have to create a special script or check off items. I use SuperDuper and have the paid version but you may want to use Carbon Copy Cloner since that does not require you to erase the destination drive before you clone, only the paid version of SuperDuper allows you to clone without erasing.

Suggest you go to the site and read over the info and come back with questions before you take the plunge.

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

http://www.bombich.com/software/docs/CCCHelp/index.html