[titans34]

I can't seem to do anything with my pictures that are in iPhoto 08. I try to drag them or copy them into iWeb and it says "The media can't be used because you don't have access privileges, or because it has no content or is corrupt" I also can not do any editing of photos or export them to the desktop or anything. Basically, I can only look at them. I recently upgraded to 08, and am not operating on the Leopard system (yet), not sure if this has anything to do with my difficulties. Any suggestions?

[wgood]

What happens when zoom into a photo in iPhoto? If you see a question mark instead of the image, that means the link between iPhoto database and photo has been broken. That could prevent iWeb from getting the images. If the errors continually mention permissions, try Repair Permissions in Disk Utility. This won't speed up your computer or anything, but it will repair some of the broken permissions.

[titans34]

When I double click on the pictures in iPhoto I get an exclamation point. When I try to copy/paste or drag/drop to the desktop for example, it just gives me the "no" sign. I tried Repairing the Permissions, but that also didn't do anything for me. Any other suggestions? Thanks for the input up to this point.

[Heyoka_Happiness]

The exclamation point usually means the original photo is not on you Hard drive. It has somehow been deleted or moved outside of your iphoto library.

Where do did you store you files before you upgraded to 08?

[titans34]

They were stored on my hard drive in the iPhoto file prior to upgrade. I tried holding down the option and apple key while double clicking on iPhoto to Repair etc. files in iPhoto and it had originally recovered some of my photos, but not all of them. Perhaps I was just mistaken that they were already saved in my file. The good news is that it is not a lot of photos, however it just bothers me what happened to them and I want to prevent it from happening again if was indeed an error on my part. (which, is quite possible) :)

[Skybolt]

Did you do anything to / with your photos in the library in finder (rather than in the iPhoto app itself)? If you renamed, moved, edited, etc. any of your photos in the finder, it will cause the problem you are seeing. Stay out of the finder!

You can try this: docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947 to see if that will help. If the simple instructions at the top don't help, try the manual rebuild discussed further down. It worked for me when I had done something stupid to my photos. Warning, though, where it says you may end up with duplicates -- it is not kidding. I had sometimes as many as 4 of each of my photos! However, I was glad to have them, so deleting all the dupes did not bother me (be sure to look at photo sizes if that happens to you -- delete the smallest ones).

Good luck!

[Heyoka_Happiness]

That happened to me a couple years ago. Luckily the photo's I store in iphoto aren't that many and I don't mind losing them.

But if thats your main photo library you should have some kind of back or back plan.

The most common cause of this is User Activity in the iPhoto Library Folder in the Finder.

Have you altered, moved or renamed anything in the iPhoto Library Folder?

I would create another library just in case the one you are using is corrupted and prevent any future data lose.

[minischneides]

titans34 said:

I can't seem to do anything with my pictures that are in iPhoto 08. I try to drag them or copy them into iWeb and it says "The media can't be used because you don't have access privileges, or because it has no content or is corrupt" I also can not do any editing of photos or export them to the desktop or anything. Basically, I can only look at them. I recently upgraded to 08, and am not operating on the Leopard system (yet), not sure if this has anything to do with my difficulties. Any suggestions?

To see if the picture are actually in your iPhoto library folder you can go to

Home -> Pictures -> Right Click -> Show Package Contents -> Originals

This will show you all of the pictures that can be found in the iPhoto section on your hard drive, and if they are all there you will know that somehow iPhoto made a mistake in locating the files, and it is not that the photos are gone.

[titans34]

Thanks for all of the assistance, and for bearing with me as this is all new to me. I has noticed in the left hand pane of my iPhotos--> recent--> that it showed a date of Jan.1, 2002 and when I clicked on it, the pictures within iPhoto that I was trying to access showed up. So, from there I went and searched "computer" for that date and 3 files showed up. along the bottom of that window it the following path:
home-->Pictures (folder)-->iPhoto Library (icon)-->data folder-->2002 (folder)-->Jan 1, 2002 (folder)

...and I can go into that folder and drag them onto the desktop. So, perhaps now my question is what should I do to get them back into action and whatnot into my iPhoto? Or is that even what I should do with them? In having read a variety of things and to "stay out of the finder" is that just with the iPhoto program or...??

Thank you again for the help for a relatively new mac-user.

[Heyoka_Happiness]

Put everything back where you got it from.

Option 1

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums back.

Option 2

To create and populate a new library:

Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.

In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'

Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop

Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.

Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.

When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.

In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.

[titans34]

I have found and fixed the problem. I ended up locating my files, in some random place - copied them to the desktop and then moved them back into iPhoto. They are there and hopefully will stay there :) Thank you for all of the assistance.