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Published on Friday, October 03, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
After I gutted my iBook G4 laptop to replace its ailing hard drive, I thought my Macintosh troubles were over.
No such luck. In recent weeks, the easy-to-use iPhoto application lost its mind, literally speaking. All of us at home (even my 5-year-old) use iPhoto to pull images out of our digital cameras, then archive and organize those pictures.
Besides providing a camera interface, iPhoto creates a kind of database for your images, allowing you to search for them by date, make photo albums and do some basic photo editing.
One day after starting iPhoto, our 3,000-plus photos appeared to have vanished.
I knew they were there. I could see the photo-stuffed folders, but iPhoto would just hang with the message "loading photos ..." forever.
Whenever I have Macintosh problems, the first place I turn is New York Times tech columnist David Pogue's excellent "Missing Manual" series of books ( http://missingmanuals.com/)
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