iPhoto is damaged

[rezatayebi]

When I got iLife 11, the only app I installed was iPhoto and spent a lot of time arranging my 30GB photo library.
Last night I installed iMovie. Now iPhoto is not opening and says "You can`t open the application iPhoto because it may be damaged or incomplete"
Right now I`m backing up the iPhoto library folder. How can I repair iphoto? Or perhaps uninstall/install it again?

 

[biksbiks]

I have a similar error with my new Mac, could you please tell me how did you get this sorted(if you did)? Thanks!

 

[rezatayebi]

Sorry for the late reply. Well, probably too late.
1. There`s an iPhoto Library file in /Users/~/Pictures . Copy it to another location.
2. Use iLife disk to reinstall iPhoto.
3. Put the iPhoto Library file back in the Pictures folder and click on it.
That`s it.

 

[fyrwrx]

iphoto incomplete or damaged in Lion

Hi,
I installed Lion on my own macbookpro a week ago with no issues. Today I installed Lion on a friends macbookpro. After installation I also installed iLife 11 and got the error message from iPhoto that it was either incomplete or damaged. iLife 11 was already installed on my Snow Leopard before Lion, so I'm thinking this has something to do with it? Please tell me if reinstalling Lion will solve this problem and if not, what I should do. Thanks.

 

[milomak]

there is something seriously wrong here. when i installed Lion over SL, iphoto worked. Now I have this error when I installed Lion straight from the update image.

 

[milomak]

I had seen similar posts related to SL and Leopard before. First time I saw one relating to Lion

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3391140?start=0&tstart=0

worked for me