iPhoto wont open

I am running Mac OS X Version 10.7.5 on MacBook Pro.
All updates are up to date.
217.21 GB available space.

When I click on iPhoto it just hops up and down, but never opens.

I tried deleting the com.apple.iphoto.plist file, restarted, but the same thing keeps happening. All photos are backed up. What should I do next?

Hi and welcome to the forums.

Try Repairing Disk Permissions via Disk Utility and report back.

I ran the repairing disk permissions. It repaired a whole bunch of things. I restarted. iPhoto still does the same thing.

thanks for helping btw

A couple of things I would try.

Drag the iPhoto icon from the dock onto the desktop and let it disappear. Go into Applications, find the iPhoto icon and drag it into the dock. Retry.

Not worked?

Hold down the Command and Option (Alt) keys on the keyboard whilst opening iPhoto from Applications and a dialogue box will appear with some rebuild options. You sound like that you'll need to repair the library permissions so choose that option.

There is some more detailed info here iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library

Interesting... I cannot drag the iPhoto icon off of the dashboard. Any other icon, yes, but not that one.

I tried holding down command and option while trying to open iPhoto, but it just bounced for a while and then stopped bouncing, just like always.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

Go Apple>Force Quit..is iPhoto listed?

No, iPhoto isn't listed in the force quit.

jesswe333 said:

No, iPhoto isn't listed in the force quit.

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Ok..do you still have the iLife disk with iPhoto on it ? I would try deleting iPhoto and reinstalling it.

Follow the last method listed here iLife: Troubleshooting Basics

My macbook didn't come with a disk. It was already installed. So I went into the app store to see if i deleted it if I could re-install and I noticed that there was an update for the app in there... I had previously only looked for updates to my computer. So I did the update and it still didn't work. then I tried holding down option and command again and voila! it asked to rebuild and then it worked

thanks for all your help!

Great news, glad you've sorted it.