Hi everyone. I'm curious as to what others think about the reliability of iPhoto 6. Personally, I have had nothing but trouble with it ever since I got my mac from Apple. Right from the beginning it was corrupting my photos and frequently crashing (by corrupting I mean the photo got replaced with a black box, and the photo wasn't able to be recovered, no matter what I tried -- and I tried pretty much everything the guys on the Apple Discussions could suggest).
I then got Leopard and installed it with the Archive and Install option (so, nothing changed for iPhoto). A few months after getting Leopard, iPhoto suddenly corrupted about 20% of my photos, but luckily I had a backup.
After that huge corruption, someone at the Discussions suggested using a program called iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild my library. It worked well, and basically built a new iPhoto library with all my existing photos, keywords, ratings, albums, etc. Most importantly, iPhoto was reliable for once.
It's been a few months since I did the rebuild and iPhoto is starting to crash a lot again. It often crashes after about 15 minutes of organizing my library, it crashes when I try emptying the iPhoto trash, and sometimes it won't quit unless I force quit it. Also, it often crashes when editing a large photo, or doing anything else that is CPU-intensive (it seems to just give up if I tell it to do anything the least bit strenuous). Thankfully, no photos have been corrupted since the rebuild.
Basically, iPhoto 6 is by far the most unreliable program I have ever used -- and I often use beta and alpha programs! I don't see any reason for it to be unreliable: I have a medium-sized library of 7000 photos, all of which are rated and have keywords. I also have about 200 albums, but I'd expect iPhoto to be able to handle this kind of library.
So, I'm wondering: how many other people have as much trouble with iPhoto as I do?
-Eric
I then got Leopard and installed it with the Archive and Install option (so, nothing changed for iPhoto). A few months after getting Leopard, iPhoto suddenly corrupted about 20% of my photos, but luckily I had a backup.
After that huge corruption, someone at the Discussions suggested using a program called iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild my library. It worked well, and basically built a new iPhoto library with all my existing photos, keywords, ratings, albums, etc. Most importantly, iPhoto was reliable for once.
It's been a few months since I did the rebuild and iPhoto is starting to crash a lot again. It often crashes after about 15 minutes of organizing my library, it crashes when I try emptying the iPhoto trash, and sometimes it won't quit unless I force quit it. Also, it often crashes when editing a large photo, or doing anything else that is CPU-intensive (it seems to just give up if I tell it to do anything the least bit strenuous). Thankfully, no photos have been corrupted since the rebuild.
Basically, iPhoto 6 is by far the most unreliable program I have ever used -- and I often use beta and alpha programs! I don't see any reason for it to be unreliable: I have a medium-sized library of 7000 photos, all of which are rated and have keywords. I also have about 200 albums, but I'd expect iPhoto to be able to handle this kind of library.
So, I'm wondering: how many other people have as much trouble with iPhoto as I do?
-Eric
I mean, after Faces and Places, who knows? 
