iPhoto 5 (#3): Grayed-out thumbnails; Switching Book Themes causes unexpected quit; more

Grayed-out thumbnails MacFixIt reader Jack Florence reports an issue where, since upgrading to iPhoto 5, thumbnails are grayed out and photos are inaccessible. The issue has been confirmed by a number of readers, though we haven't been able to define an exact set of circumstances.

Jack writes:

"After a long 'Updating library' phase and endless 'loading photos' phase, a library with grayed out thumbnails is displayed. Double clicking reveals a blank white page. I have 1600 photos but saw reports of just a few hundred, to thousands in a library. Trashing the preference file, rebuilding the library, don't seem to help. The actual photo files are OK as they can be open in preview.

Switching Book Themes causes unexpected quit Another MacFixIt readers reports repeatable crashes from iPhoto 5 when attempting to switch book themes:

"This happened to me several times this weekend: I was building a 'book' within iPhoto, and in the middle of composing the book, I switched themes to see what it would look like in a different theme. The first click after switching a theme (say, for example, clicking and dragging a photo onto a page in the book) would cause iPhoto to quit immediately... Along with the usual ?submit a report to Apple? dialog (which I did each time it happened). Interestingly, this was a fresh iPhoto install with no existing library. I imported some photos into this fresh install to try out the new features."

Different adjustment options for G3s and G4/G5s MacFixIt reader Barry Weber notes that there is a reduced array of image settings available to G3 systems with iPhoto 5, while G4 and G5 systems have a the full range of settings:

"I installed iLife on a few of my computers.

"On the ibook G3-500 and the iMac-500 and the iMac-400 G3 models, the Adjustments panel only included the brightness and contrast.

"On the G4 Powerbook and both G4 desktops, the Adjustments panel included the new features such as Exposure/Tint/WhiteBalance and so on.

"It really threw me when I discovered it on the G3 at first. I thought there was some problem with the install. Then when it was consisted on all the G3 computers that the program strips itself down I'm assuming to what the graphics and processing ability of the computer is."

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