iPhoto and recovered photos

[desmond]

Hi all,

I am trying to import a bunch of photos into iPhoto and it keeps crashing. My guess is it is to do with the video formats, it doesn't support them. I've had a look at the crash log and it doesn't make too much sense to me, but I can see a few mentions about Quicktime there.

When it does crash however, it chucks all the photos that it had imported before it crashed into a "recovered photos" folder. How do I import these into my albums?

Cheers

 

[Eraserhead]

Just import those photos again into iPhoto .

 

[desmond]

Thanks for your reply, it seems complex to go through and try to figure out the difference between what I have in iPHoto and what didn't get in. Even though it says recovered, I can still view them fine, so why doesn't it add them to the album?

Basically, I am trying to import about 1000 photos. When it gets to about the 900th, it crashes and then when I re-open it has put all the other 899 photos into the recovered folder, even though they came in fine.

I've tried this a few times and the same problem keeps coming up. Would love to know why it keeps crashing, why doesn't it just skip any formats it doesn't support? Otherwise, how can I add the recovered photos into the album without importing again.

Thanks

 

[Eraserhead]

Thanks for your reply, it seems complex to go through and try to figure out the difference between what I have in iPHoto and what didn't get in.

If you have imported anything into iPhoto before just delete the ones already in iPhoto from the library.

 

[desmond]

Thanks Eraserhead. I have got to this point several times already, which is why I'm trying to find a different solution. Each time I try to import them, I get errors on one and lose everything to the "recovered photos" section.

Is there no way to move the recovered photos into the album? It seems a pointless feature if they have to stay in that folder forever.

Cheers

 

[Eraserhead]

Import the files that are causing the problem 10 by 10 until you work out which file is causing the problem and then don't import that one.

 

[LastZion]

I am having the exact same problem. My wife was able, about 2 minutes before me, to import them on her macbook but I can't on my MBP.

We are both running iPhoto 6.06 (322).
Photos imported fine on her macbook
On my MBP they crash everytime and that is using both of our 1gig sticks. Then when I try and import again I get the message that some files did not finish importing, would I like to import them now, I do that and iPhoto crashes again.

So it doesn't, to me at least, look like it is the files on the mem card, rather something wrong with my iphoto.

Any ideas?

 

[LastZion]

sorted

So I deleted the folders in my Import photo, then I deleted the codecs in the quicktime folder other than the apple one and the flip4mac and low and behold the photos finally imported well.