Hi-
My Iphoto application has hung up (spinning cursor) after attempting to
delete a photo. Sadly, I just upload about 300 pictures from my camera
(with delete from camera option checked) without leaving iPhoto. I tried
killing the process with AppleKey + . ; also tried several combinations with
escape but nothing worked.

2 Questions:
1. is there another way to kill the process???
2. How often does Iphoto write to disk? I am fearful that if I "force quit"
the IPhoto app, all/some of my photo updates wouldn't have been written to
disk. Since I've deleted them from my camera, I would lose everything.

I am running Iphoto 2.0 under OS 10.2.6.

Help!

Jean

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:40:17 -0700, Jean Rowe wrote
(in message <BB973321.7C%jeanrowe@mac.com>):

> Hi-
> My Iphoto application has hung up (spinning cursor) after attempting to
> delete a photo. Sadly, I just upload about 300 pictures from my camera
> (with delete from camera option checked) without leaving iPhoto. I tried
> killing the process with AppleKey + . ; also tried several combinations with
> escape but nothing worked.
>
> 2 Questions:
> 1. is there another way to kill the process???
> 2. How often does Iphoto write to disk? I am fearful that if I "force quit"
> the IPhoto app, all/some of my photo updates wouldn't have been written to
> disk. Since I've deleted them from my camera, I would lose everything.
>
> I am running Iphoto 2.0 under OS 10.2.6.
>
> Help!
>
> Jean
>

AFAIK, the only other way to stop things is a force quit, and this could well
cause a loss of images. Unfortunately, iPhoto has a history of being buggy in
these types of areas, which is why I always manually copy the image files off
of the camera and then import them into iPhoto. Much more work, but much less
chance of losing images.

Steve

Steve-
Thanks for the response -- I lucked out! While Iphoto was spinning away, I
went into finder and found the files representing my pictures -- so felt
safe "forcing Iphoto to quit". Turned out everything was aok after I went
back in.

Think I might take your approach in the future though....

Jean

On 9/24/03 12:38 PM, in article
0001HW.BB9740D700904BFDF0284600@netnews.comcast.ne t, "Steve"
<nobodyNOSPAM@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:40:17 -0700, Jean Rowe wrote
> (in message <BB973321.7C%jeanrowe@mac.com>):
>
>> Hi-
>> My Iphoto application has hung up (spinning cursor) after attempting to
>> delete a photo. Sadly, I just upload about 300 pictures from my camera
>> (with delete from camera option checked) without leaving iPhoto. I tried
>> killing the process with AppleKey + . ; also tried several combinations with
>> escape but nothing worked.
>>
>> 2 Questions:
>> 1. is there another way to kill the process???
>> 2. How often does Iphoto write to disk? I am fearful that if I "force quit"
>> the IPhoto app, all/some of my photo updates wouldn't have been written to
>> disk. Since I've deleted them from my camera, I would lose everything.
>>
>> I am running Iphoto 2.0 under OS 10.2.6.
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> Jean
>>
>
> AFAIK, the only other way to stop things is a force quit, and this could well
> cause a loss of images. Unfortunately, iPhoto has a history of being buggy in
> these types of areas, which is why I always manually copy the image files off
> of the camera and then import them into iPhoto. Much more work, but much less
> chance of losing images.
>
> Steve
>