Iphoto 9.6.1 update unavailable with this apple id

As usual the rebuild messed up roll metadata. The good news is that the rebuild didn't turn up any bad images and the rebuilt library tracked the original pretty well. I did a complete rebuild of my iPhoto Library.I've asked the author of IPLM for advice and I'll update this posting with what I learn. I would never claim Apple releases well tested products.ДЄlas, a Google search and a Sherlock search of the knowledge base didn't turn up anything useful. I think iPhoto 6 is a decent product, but it follows a long line of disastrous releases.

This Library may date back to iPhoto 2 and was certainly exposed to the many iPhoto 4 bugs. These are older images, exposed to nasty bugs in many prior versions of iPhoto. After reverting the option is (correctly) grayed out in iPhoto and unavailable. If I edit an image, then 'revert to original', the reversion works properly. This is the inverse of the known problem where a modified photo exists but the Original has been lost, moved, or deleted. I should note I've never used 'iPhoto Diet' or anything like that and I've never messed with my originals within iPhoto.

(This is good, in earlier versions of iPhoto this action would sometimes DELETE the original.) Selecting 'revert to original' does nothing. By itself that's a cosmetic issue, but I think this is causing problems with several secondary products, especially with iPhoto Library Manager but possibly also PictureSync. They don't exist, but iPhoto thinks they exist, so it shows me the 'revert to original' option when it shouldn't. In other words, this Library is infested by phantom 'modified' images. However, iPhoto ' thinks' they have modified versions. They really have no 'modified' equivalents. In my case an attempt to merge iPhoto Libraries using iPhoto Library Manager uncovered hundreds of images that are flaky in my the iPhoto Library database. If an image is edited, iPhoto shows a 'revert to original' option. The originals live in one folder hierarchy, modified images in another. IPhoto is supposed to keep an original image untouched. Update 10/26/07: iLife 2008 (iPhoto 7.1) has fixed this bug.

Iphoto 9.6.1 update unavailable with this apple id