Help !!! I Regret Snow Leopard !!!!

I have a whole bunch of home movies in my iPhoto album that used to open up and play when I double-clicked them. They don't open up anymore. WHY? HELP!!!!!

When I drag them out to my desktop, they WILL open up with Quicktime player, but when I put them back in iPhoto, they won't open. Any suggestions? This Snow Leopard has given me nothing but problems since I installed it.......

Thanks

 

Thats the sole reason you regret getting SL? I never even use iphoto for videos.

 

I never even knew iphoto could play videos...

 

Same lol.

VLC FTW.

 

oh.. i just thought of something...

did you do a Tiger to Snow Leopard upgrade.. or just have a really old version of iphoto? i doubt it plays videos on its own and the older version might not know how to use Quicktime X correctly.

 

I just checked and all my videos (old and new) open in a new Quicktime window when I double click on them.

 

The OP neglected to tell us what version of iPhoto s/he has.

RE: The videos thing - well, if you import content from cameras which take their videos in MPG / MOV format, it all ends up in iPhoto. It's a source of minor annoyance in fact that this happens on my Leica point & shoot.

SL has broken a surprising number of things for what is after all a service pack on steroids - but no noticeable problems with the iApps (there would be a lot of finger-pointing of course if this weren't the case) for me as long as it's all up to date.

 

I always import things with Image Capture.app ... then take care of it myself as to what goes where.

 

How do I check which version of iPhoto I have? I bought my computer new in 2008. With Snow Leopard, the logo for Quicktime looks different now. Also, to answer what one of the other posters asked, I upgraded from regular Leopard to SL.

Thanks to all who have tried to help so far.....

 

For any app, click on the app name in the title bar (top left of your screen), then select "about (insert your program name here)". This will bring up a small window with all the info. But as you got your laptop in 2008 its quite possible that you don't have iLife 09, so this maybe your main problem. Vid's still work/open up fine for me in iPhoto so I guess it might be the reason.
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ps just in case you have missed some updates, run software update from the apple menu (top left again).

 

This happens to me(IDK what happened in Mac OS X 10.6... I never really bothered playing videos in iPhoto) but instead opens the videos in Quicktime 7. If you're annoyed at the videos opening in Quicktime X rather than Quicktime 7, then all you have to do is insert the Snow Leopard CD and then you'll be presented with a window and there'll be a folder labeled, 'Optional Installs' under 'Mac OS X Install CD' in Finder.
When you [double]click that there's an Optional Installs package. Just open that up and then you'll eventually be asked what you want to install. Just check Quicktime and then you have Quicktime 7 and Quicktime X.
Sorry if you wanted them to play WITH IN iPhoto- I honestly have no idea about that.
EMZ=]

 

I did a clean install of Snow Leopard and then added iLife '08 manually from my Leopard DVD, and I have encountered the same problem (I have JPEG movies shot from my Canon ELPH).

I think this is an iPhoto '08 problem. Apple deprecated some of the old quicktime APIs in Snow Leopard, and my guess is that perhaps iPhoto '08 was never updated to integrate with the new QuickTime X. Apple might release an update for iPhoto '08 to fix the problem, but my guess is that they will ignore it so more people will migrate to iLife '09. BTW, I don't have QuickTime 7 installed in SL.

 

I can't wait to get SL. I'm giving them a few minutes to do an update or two, then I'll pick it up