Hi All,

I've just switched back to macs with an intel Mac Mini and I want to import my 15,000 photos into iphoto. I have copied all these from my external HDD to a folder in the 'Pictures' section on the Mac hard drive.

Previously my images were all managed using Picasa.

In iphoto I select 'import to library' and without fail after processing about 200 photos, iphoto crashes every time. This happens if I tell iphoto not to copy into the library as well.

Should I be able to do all 15k photos in one go or do I have to sit here and import one folder at a time?

Any other experiences migrating a large photo collection from Picasa into iphoto?

Part of the crash report below...


Date/Time: 2007-05-20 21:10:33.703 +1000
OS Version: 10.4.9 (Build 8P2137)
Report Version: 4

Command: iPhoto
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Parent: WindowServer [59]

Version: 6.0.6 (6.0.6)
Build Version: 4
Project Name: iPhotoProject
Source Version: 3220000

PID: 539
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x97ecf362 Sound3STAddSampleReferencesS64 + 60
1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cced2a CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1048
2 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x97ecb646 Sound3ComponentDispatch + 210
3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cce7f8 CallComponentDispatch + 34
4 com.apple.QuickTime 0x943b4805 MediaSTAddSampleReferencesS64 + 86
5 com.apple.QuickTime 0x943b476d AddMediaSampleReferences64_priv + 94
6 com.apple.QuickTime 0x943b4702 AddMediaSampleReferences64 + 50
7 ...i.christoph.ff_avi_importer 0x15931ee6 import_avi + 524
8 ...i.christoph.ff_avi_importer 0x159317a4 FFAvi_MovieImportDataRef + 738
9 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cced2a CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1048
10 ...i.christoph.ff_avi_importer 0x15931a2a FFAvi_MovieImportComponentDispatch + 127
11 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cce7f8 CallComponentDispatch + 34
12 com.apple.QuickTime 0x9438de58 MovieImportDataRef + 91
13 ...i.christoph.ff_avi_importer 0x159314a8 FFAvi_MovieImportFile + 138
14 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cced2a CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1048
15 ...i.christoph.ff_avi_importer 0x15931a2a FFAvi_MovieImportComponentDispatch + 127
16 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cce7f8 CallComponentDispatch + 34
17 com.apple.QuickTime 0x943b46c8 MovieImportFile + 85
18 com.apple.QuickTime 0x943b44f0 newMovieFromFileFromComponent + 472
19 com.apple.QuickTime 0x94302e7e getNewMovieFromFileUsingImporters + 1040
20 com.apple.QuickTime 0x9430280d NewMovieFromFilePriv + 1396
21 com.apple.QuickTime 0x943f27cb NewMovieFromFile_priv + 52
22 com.apple.QuickTime 0x943f2788 NewMovieFromFile + 61
23 com.apple.iPhoto 0x001be6d7 0x1000 + 1824471
24 com.apple.Foundation 0x927fe3fd __NSFireMainThreadPerform + 352
25 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9085f389 __CFRunLoopPerformPerform + 82
26 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9082bf92 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1213
27 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9082bace CFRunLoopRunInMode + 61
28 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92dd78d8 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 285
29 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92dd6fe2 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 385
30 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92dd6e39 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 81
31 com.apple.AppKit 0x9325d465 _DPSNextEvent + 572
32 com.apple.AppKit 0x9325d056 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 137
33 com.apple.AppKit 0x93256ddb -[NSApplication run] + 512
34 com.apple.AppKit 0x9324ad2f NSApplicationMain + 573
35 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0000ae06 0x1000 + 40454
36 com.apple.iPhoto 0x0000ad21 0x1000 + 40225

iphoto has just started crashing for me on import..
i tried SD card through a reader and through straight USB connection to my camera.
i've never had any problems before today.

i don't think anything has changed except the last security update.
anyone else having problems?

i had problems importing a while back and since 10.4.9 it has been fine(only imported twice though)

i could import the images plus avi using image capture, but when i tried to then import the folder into iphoto it just died..
i deleted the avi and it seems to be working now..

i think iphoto sometimes may have trouble with importing movies..
though it seems kinda random, as i have imported movies before..

iPhoto has some major issues importing movies - it either crashes, or sits there for an hour saying importing, and then just finishes, with no movie. I don't even bother, I just grab them from the USB stick.....

was this a canon camera? it seems the codec canon uses seems to crash intel macs iphoto and quicktime. To get around this I would use image capture to save the avi's to disc then delete them off the camera before importing the photos into iphoto.

I found a post though that showed me what quicktime library file to remove, from memory it has the word intel and some numbers in it and I removed the file. No problems playing the files since then.

yes, it was a canon s3is..
it's wierd because i have imported movie files before with not problem.. apart from one time when it took ages importing a particularly big file..

Problem solved.

I went and deleted all the files from the Library/Quicktime folder (there was a few in here as I was trying different codecs to get various files to work properly). I went back to iPhoto, had another go at the import and there was no problems at all. I have imported thouasands of photos since, all good.

The cameras used were a Canon Ixus 40 & 400.

I then added the following components back,

AC3MovieImport
DivX Decoder
DivX Encoder
XviD_Codec v0.5.1

And can play all the files I need so far.

So it looks like iphoto gets confused when importing .avi movie files from the digital camera if you have multiple avi import codec installed.

cool, i'll try that if i still have problems..