Why has my iPhoto blacked out the thumbnails please??

[Effortless]

Hi,

I have a weird problem. This morning when I opened up iPhoto to burn some photos to CD, all my thumbnails blacked out. When I scroll through them, I get a rolling block that shows the images, but as soon as I stop scrolling, the images black out again.

Any idea what the problem might be please?

My set up is this:

Apple MacBook Pro 15" 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo, 2Gb Ram, 320Gb WD hard drive
Mac OS X v10.4.11
iPhoto 6, v6.0.6
12,701 photos, taking up 51.3 Gb in the iPhoto library

and this is a screen shot:

Any ideas? Run out of memory? Virus? Too many pictures for iPhoto to cope with?

Thanks for any help or advice,
Effortless.

 

[sreedy]

I had a slightly similar issue to this and I rebuild the thumbnail library which sorted it out.

See Apple Support Docs here