Go into the damaged iPhoto Library and find the Originals folder. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library' Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto.
You will lose your preference data (albums, books, keywords, edits) but your original photos will be preserved.Īpple Support Discussions user "Terence Devlin" describes how to create and populate a new iPhoto Library: "In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder' If I try to run iPhoto Library Manager, once I get by the selection screen it again tells me I need to upgrade and I get the same "unreadable" error so that doesn't seem to work."Unfortunately, when an iPhoto Library database file is damaged (the library6.iphoto file in this case), and iPhoto Library Manager cannot resolve the issue, the only recourse is rebuilding the iPhoto Library manually. And AlbumData.xml is pointing to an existing location. If I use Terminal to examine the contents of the iPhoto seems everything is there (jpgs, ) and I can copy a jpg out of there and open it individually.
So I click Continue and then I immediately get a an error message saying the library is damaged and unreadable. When I try to open it in iPhoto 08, it says I need to upgrade the library. Now I want to see some photos from one of those older, backed up libraries. Prior to upgrading to iPhoto 08 (from iPhoto 06), I had several iPhoto libraries.some backed up to external drives.
The most common reason is a corrupt iPhoto Library database file which often results in the failure to upgrade.Īpple Support Discussions user "odinman703" writes: "We have been using iPhoto 08 for quite some time. While this does not occur often, it is a possibility. As users upgrade their software, in this case Apple's iLife (specifically iPhoto), they may find that some of their older databases are not able to be upgraded.