Common iPhoto Problems and How to Solve Them

iPhoto has many functions including importing, editing and publishing your photos. Sometimes iPhoto users face some problems using it. But the best thing is most of the problems fix with the latest update.

List of Common iPhoto problems:

1. iPhoto Won't Import Photos
2. iPhoto Keeps Crashing
3. iPhoto become very slow
4. iPhoto does not Recognize camera connected to the computer
5. iPhoto backup fails

Let's see how we can fix some common problems of iPhoto:

1. iPhoto Won't Import Photos:

If you get an error while trying to import photos into iPhoto, then you can try some standard solutions to fix it. First disconnect the camera and plud it back again or reboot your computer. If this is not work, then check your hard disk functionality on your computer that it is working properly. If this does not work, then locate photos and you are trying to import in the picture folder located in the home folder, then right-click on the iPhoto Library and select the 'Show Package Contents' option and move them to a destination folder on your computer.

2. iPhoto Keeps Crashing:

You are experiencing a problem of crashing iPhoto library, it occurs due to correpted library, larger and complex database or corruption in any features. You need to reinstall the entire program to solve this issue. But reinstalling the program will need to reimport all the images. You can also solve this problem by deleting the list file which stores personal settings as location information and bring back the application to the factory settings. You can locate this plist file in Preferences of your Mac's user library. Locate the com.apple.iPhoto.list files and delete it. Now rebuild your library. Press the "Apple" and the options keys when you restart iPhoto and then select to rebuild the library database from the automatic backup.

Quick Tip to Keep your Photos Safe
Making backups of your photos & videos is a chore you probably skip, but it really doesn't have to be hard. Here's an effortless way to backup photos - PicBackMan. PicBackMan is the easiest and simplest way to keep your photos safely backed up in one or more online accounts. Simply download PicBackMan (it's free!), register your account, connect to your online store and tell PicBackMan where your photos are - PicBackMan does the rest, automatically. It bulk uploads all photos and keeps looking for new ones and uploads those too. You don't have to ever touch it