Skip to Content
iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition
book

iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition

by David Pogue, Derrick Story
March 2005
Beginner
400 pages
11h 49m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition

Appendix A. Troubleshooting

iPhoto isn’t just a Mac OS X program—it’s a Cocoa Mac OS X program, meaning that it was written exclusively for Mac OS X. As a result, it should, in theory, be one of the most rock-solid programs under the sun.

Still, iPhoto does have its vulnerabilities. Many of these shortcomings stem from the fact that iPhoto works under the supervision of a lot of cooks, since it must interact with plug-ins, connect to printers, talk to Web servers, and cope with an array of file corruptions.

If trouble strikes, keep hands and feet inside the tram at all times—and consult the following collection of problems, solutions, questions, and answers.

Importing and Opening

Getting photos into iPhoto is supposed to be one of the most effortless parts of the process. Remember, Steve Jobs promised that iPhoto would forever banish the “chain of pain” from digital photography. And yet…

My thumbnails appear as blank, gray rectangles.

Update your copy of iPhoto to 5.0.1 or later. Then rebuild your iPhoto library.

To do that, quit iPhoto. Then, while pressing the ⌘ and Option keys, reopen it. iPhoto will promptly rebuild your library, cleaning out unneeded cobwebs of data and ensuring that all relationships (between thumbnails and full-size images, for example) are healthy and strong.

iPhoto doesn’t recognize my camera.

iPhoto generally “sees” any recent camera model, even if it’s not listed on Apple’s Device Compatibility page (http://www.apple.com/iphoto/compatibility). If you don’t see ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition

iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition

David Pogue, Derrick Story
iPhoto: The Missing Manual

iPhoto: The Missing Manual

David Pogue, Lesa Snider
iPhoto '11: The Missing Manual

iPhoto '11: The Missing Manual

David Pogue, Lesa Snider
iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual

iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual

David Pogue, Derrick Story

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596100345Catalog PageErrata