Apple’s iPhoto software lets you easily organize and edit pictures on your Mac, but the program can sometimes get a little erratic over time, especially with large photo libraries. If you find the program displaying your photo thumbnails as gray rectangles, acting sluggish or generally misbehaving, take a look at iPhoto’s built-in maintenance tools. Using these, you can rebuild the program’s database, thumbnails and file permissions — and also recover unused space from the iPhoto database.
Before you start, though, back up iPhoto’s contents, either with a standard system backup or by burning the library to discs to make sure you have copies of your photos tucked away. Use the Mac’s Software Update feature (found under the Apple menu) to make sure iPhoto has all the latest patches and updates.
Then, start up iPhoto while holding down the Command and Option keys until a box appears onscreen asking if you’d like to rebuild the iPhoto library and perform other maintenance tasks. Check off the tasks you want to use and click Rebuild. It may take a while, but iPhoto should be much better behaved.
Apple has more detailed instructions at support.apple.com/kb/HT2638.
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