Chapter 11. Troubleshooting

The world of iPhoto is no more a perfect place than the real world. No one, iPhoto’s developers least of all, wants problems, but bugs are a fact of life, and you may have a problem with iPhoto at some point.

The Trouble with Bugs

Many iPhoto problems that I’ve seen people report seem to be specific to their photos, a particular iPhoto Library, their Mac, or the phase of the moon, and I have been unable to reproduce them. I still include here the potential problem and any solutions I’ve heard of or can think of, but this uncertainty makes it impossible for me to say when or if Apple has fixed the incorrect behavior. As such, some of the problems and solutions listed in this chapter may no longer apply to iPhoto ’09; there’s ...

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