I photo not responding

Hello there folks,

I am new to this forum so hopefully I'm posting in the right place. I have a pretty major issue with my i photo and being a photographer this is proving to be pretty frustrating.

For the past week or so whenever i have tried to open i photo it opens but then straight away I get the spinning wheel and have to force quit (not responding comes up straight away when this never normally happens) a box appears asking if i want to report the problem to apple which I have confirmed every time it has popped up.

I just tried to upgrade to i life 11 thinking that this maybe the problem as I haven't had an update for iphoto in a while but it will not let me download as apparently I already have it which I don't think i do.

Any advice on what the problem could be would be greatly appreciated I'm not sure what version of i photo I have as it won't stay open long enough for me to check ugh ugh my my mac is 10.6.8

thanking ya'll in advance
Charlene

Have you tried running a repair disk permissions?

Hi Senior member thanks for your reply just tried disc repair and still no joy ;(

He didn't say "Disk Repair", he said "Repair Permissions". Two entirely different things. Here's how to repair permissions with Snow Leopard:

Boot your Mac with the Snow Leopard DVD. Accept the language as English and then click on the top menu "Utilities". (do not proceed to reinstalling OS X) From there, click on Disk Utilities. Highlight your hard drive on the left side and then click on the "Repair Permissions" button on the right side. After it finishes, reboot the computer normally. (remove the DVD)