Apple iPhoto - 8.1.1

iPhoto is quitting unexpectedly when I open it. Using 8.1 on 10.6 (but also happened while running 10.5.8). Presume it has something to do with the library. I tried opening another library and pulling pictures from the old one but I can't do that... the old library I'm having problems with isn't available to import photos from it. (using the file/import to library...) I've tried holding down shift ctl cmd and rebuilding thumb pictures, etc. no luck. Any ideas? Appreciate the help.

The following comments are not mine alone. Go to Apple discussions and look up comments on IPhoto 8.03.

IPhoto 8.0 and updates is a huge memory hog. My Activity monitor registered in excess of 130 mb.

This new version is very slow. Since I only have 512 mb of memory most of the editing features are very slow or don't work at all. I have tried everything, except more memory, and even that might not work. I have explored Apple discussions, called Apple Tech and nothing solves it. I also only have 3,000 picts.

Though the face recognition is great, it is not worth it with this slow hog. Save your money and stay with 7.0 and or use Adobe Elements. (only uses 2.5mb of memory) Once you order the software and use it, Apple will not take it back.

iPhoto is a capable application for managing your home digital photo library. This version introduces face recognition and geotagging, which integrate it more tightly with iWeb, the website builder for me.com.

iPhoto's objective is simple: manage your digital photo's. iPhoto can import photo's from any digital camera, perhaps with the exception of the digital SLRs introduced today. It has simple photo editing tools, quite capable for the average user. Photo's can be sorted into "events" (or folders), and iPhoto is smart enough to split what seems to be different events when importing photos.

On the output side iPhoto has several nifty tools for producing printed product. There are templates for photo albums, scrapbooks, calendars, etc all of which work very well. It certainly beats trying to do something similar in Word or Powerpoint. Where available, iPhoto can also upload your photos to have a professionally printed album made for you. iPhoto also has shortcuts for sening pictures by email.

Geotagging (adding location information to a photo) works well but really needs iWeb to shine as a function, like travel maps. Face recognition ditto. Actual recognition accuracy is very poor, quite embarrassing really, although correcting mistakes is easy without lifting fingers from the keyboard. On the upside, iPhoto loads much faster (feels like 3x) than previous versions.

Is iPhoto for you? Not if you're a professional photographer with ten of thousands of images - iPhoto's features are too limiting. But it's great for the average home user, and the price (part of the iLife package) is unbeatable. That said, it is quite a tepid update from the previous version, and given that this app gets updates every year, you may want to skip this one.

iLife comes free with every new Mac. If you have "an older" Mac (pre 2008) you may well want to consider upgrading.

I have recently purchased a MacBook running OS X 10.5.5. I have tried to download the Iphoto on my computer but keep getting this message: An eligible iPhoto application was not found in the location /Applications. Does anyone know how to install Iphoto, without receiving this message?

Thanks for any suggestions!

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