Apple pulls iPhoto 4.0.2 Update: no explanation given; reader reports of problems quitting

(Originally posted Wednesday afternoon, 8/4/2004.)

Earlier this week Apple released the iPhoto 4.0.2 Update, which purported to "address minor issues with Smart Albums and European books, and provide notification when new versions of iPhoto are available."

As of earlier today (Wednesday), the iPhoto 4.0.2 Update is no longer available on Apple's servers -- the latest version is 4.0.1. Apple has provided no explanation as to why the update was pulled, nor would users even know that it was previously available, as all references to the update have been removed.

Problems reported We've received a few reports from MacFixIt readers that after installing the iPhoto 4.0.2 Update, iPhoto takes an inordinate amount of time to quit, or refuses to quit at all. For example, Keshav Pathak writes:

"I have been using iPhoto extensively for several months and was running version 4.0.1, which ran flawlessly. I have around 2000 photos catalogued. I downloaded the 4.0.2 updater through Version Tracker and installed it [on a 15" G4 PowerBook 1.25Ghz with 768MB Ram and Mac OS X 10.3.4] Now while iPhoto launches just fine, when I try to quit the application, I get the spinning beach ball and the 7 times that I have timed it, iPhoto took an average of 14 seconds to quit. There hasn't been a single instance when it quit [normally]."

Download links still work Several readers have pointed out that if you have the URL to the 4.0.2 Update file, you can still download the update, even though it's no longer mentioned anywhere on Apple's website. However, we advise against installing the update, for reasons that should be obvious after reading this story.

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