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dennis - Nov 22, 2006 - 6:27 am

Hi, My iphoto programe has always run without problem, but now it will import from my digital camera's ok (fuji & Nikon) but ask it to delete the originals and the program goes into spinning ball mode and I have to crash the computer with the power button in order to restart!

I am running an Intel Macmini core solo with 1 gig of ram on 10.4.8. any ideas what could be wrong please.

LovesMacs - Nov 22, 2006 - 10:35 am

Hello Trevor,

Ah, the spinning beach ball... we could all do without those.

My first inclination is to ask you how much hard drive space is available on your computer? In order to troubleshoot this matter properly could you please respond with which Mac you are using? Which Mac OS? How much RAM? To easily see exactly how much hard drive space you have available, open the Finder window (available from your Dock). At the bottom of that window will tell you how much space is available on your hard drive. Now as for which Mac OS and RAM, click the Apple logo top left of your Desktop, then click, "About This Mac". A pane will appear and tell you which version of the Mac OS you are running and how much RAM (memory) your Mac has installed. This information will help me to help you.

Thanks for choosing Macosx.com

Regards,
Carolyn :-)

dennis - Nov 23, 2006 - 4:48 am

Hi Carolyn,
The answer to the above is as follows:-
1/. Intel MacMini core solo running 10.4.8
2/. 1 Gig of ram (Apple fit at new)
3/. 33 gigs Hard drive space left.
4/. Latest Firmware installed

For info I also regularly update the maintenance and disk permissions etc. and disk verification says all clear!
Also forgot to mention that no only does the Mac freeze but it corrupts the memory card in my Fuji V10 so that all the pictures are lost and I have to re format the card to make it work again? (only if I select Delete originals)

regards Trevor

LovesMacs - Nov 23, 2006 - 8:54 am

Hi Trevor,

You are certainly good at responding with all the info...thanks...

Now, my next thought is drivers since your memory card is involved. Go to the Fuji site, do a Search for the drivers/software for the model of your camera for Mac OS 10.4.x. Download new drivers and install. See if that helps. I had this happen with an Olympic D550 dig camera once... reinstalled my drivers and that seem to do the trick. I hope it works for you. And if you have the Fuji CD that came with your camera, I advise you get the drivers from their site instead. It could be your Fuji install disk. It's always good to have the more recent drivers/software versions anyway.

Try this also: Locate this file: com.apple.iphoto.plist MacintoshHD>Users>Library>Preferences. Open your Preferences folder and locate that file... drag it to the Trash, empty the Trash. Reboot your Mac.

You certainly have more then enough drive space and RAM so we can rule those possibilities out.


Hang in there....
Carolyn :-)

dennis - Nov 25, 2006 - 12:15 am

Hi Carolyn, Have been to the Fuji web site but there are no updates available for the V10 model other than their own OSX picture viewer which I dont want to use.

Have deleted the iphoto.plist and done a resart but iphot just did the same thing ie download the picture fine but try and ask it to delete and the whole system crashes and needs a power button crash/restart. This is the same for the Nikon coolpix digital as well.

Just a thought but I dont recall this problem before I did the 10.4.8 upgrade could that be something to do with it?
Everything else on the Mac seems to be running well and very quickly including only about a 12 second startup time to the users accounts, weird!

I can if necessary live with it and delete via the cameras but does all seem very odd.

Regards Trevor

LovesMacs - Nov 25, 2006 - 9:21 am

HI Trevor,

Have you tried reintsalling iLife?

Carolyn :-)

dennis - Nov 26, 2006 - 9:55 pm

Hi Carolyn, I dont actually own ilife, as my iphotos program came as a standalone program on an earlier imac and has been upgraded as necessary.

Clearly purchasing ilife is an option presumably if I did I would have to completly uninstal everything and loose all my film folders etc which I am not keen to do. I think I will have to avoid the delete button and delete manually on the cameras.

Thanks again for your help.
Regards Trevor.