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1. Aimee 4 October 2006 at 08:34

   THANK YOU!!!!!
2. Anil Raghavan 8 October 2006 at 14:11

   Thanks a lot. I’ve been having iPhoto troubles as well. And I’ve been trying to find the darned Rebuild Thumbnail options. Why does Apple hide things like this? Anyway, thanks a lot.
3. Randy 24 October 2006 at 21:45

   This is fantastic. I have been prompted a couple of times to requild the thumbnails. It’s something I need to do but the times it has ‘decided’ to do it have been totally inconvenient and inappropriate.

   Thanks to this suggestion I can take control of my time! Thanks!
4. Matt 13 December 2006 at 13:41

   Thanks so much. Several blind alleys looking for how to do this. I do like my Mac, and most of the software, but why they hide stuff like this I’ll never understand.
5. Trainwrecka 18 December 2006 at 04:24

   This site rocks! I was searching google on how to rebuild my iPhoto cache and viola! here is Silver Mac. i have now linked you on my blog.
6. Carolyn Layton 16 January 2007 at 12:06

   What is the advantage of rebuilding iPhoto cache?
   I have about 10 folders in iPhoto and about 4000 pictures
7. blair 24 January 2007 at 18:50

   thank you! the web needs more people like you. cheers!
8. nate 3 February 2007 at 02:35

   OPTION-COMMAND clicking on iPhoto did NOT work for me. iPhoto 6.0.5. But SHIFT-OPTION-COMMAND clicking did.

   Thanks for pointing us in the right direction though.
9. Ben 9 February 2007 at 19:30

   Thank you so much! Why they don’t document this I’ll never know. Cheer mate!
10. Goobimama 24 February 2007 at 02:35

    Thanks so much! This has saved so much of my time….
11. Anne 26 February 2007 at 21:29

    Thank you so, so, so much!
12. MJ 11 April 2007 at 01:16

    THANK YOU!!!
13. Kinsey 13 May 2007 at 03:26

    I was working in iPhoto 6.0.6 and it prompted me “Caution would you like to rebuild your thumbnail cache?” so i click ok, it took about a minute, and when it was through … all my thumbs in my iphoto library are gone!!!! PLEASE HELP!!! When I double click on them, you can see them in the edit screen, but not in the library to scroll through them! How do I get them back?? It wouldn’t let me undo my action either! PLEASE HELP ME
14. Mike 13 May 2007 at 09:37

    Try selecting “Rebuild all of the photos’ thumbnails” and see if it works that way.
15. Mauricio 24 June 2007 at 10:54

    Is there a cache for iphoto in the library originally installed by the program because I opened my caches folder and i can`t find any iphoto related file. The same happens with application support, there is iWeb but not Iphoto. I tried to zap iPhoto and reinstalled again but neither of those files appear in my library

    Thanks for feedback
16. Digital 28 June 2007 at 15:43

    Thank you!!!
17. Fee 29 June 2007 at 05:50

    Thank you so much for this. I’m hopefully that my iPhoto library might actually work now!
18. Steve 4 July 2007 at 23:28

    I don’t like iPhoto. I love my apple iMac and eveerything else about it, but my 9000 photos are in a mess!! When I look on disc I have them in ‘data’, I haave two sets of originals and two sets of modified. I have some in the trash folder of iPhoto, but when I empty trash, they disappear from the library. I have loads of unknown ‘rolls’ on disc from when I first started using it and didn’t know to rename the roll. To start again will take me the best part of a week!
    Is there an easy way to just reinstall iPhoto and start afresh cos I reckon I’m gonna have to before it gets any worse!
19. Ui Goldsberry 29 July 2007 at 08:20

    Wonderful site. I have a thumbnail question. Whenever I make any changes to my original photos in iPhoto, I lose the thumbnail in my iPhoto library in my photos file. So, when I want to make a CD, or copy my photos onto a storage disc, the photos that I’ve changed, show up with a JPG document thumbnail. Is there any way I can assign a photo thumbnail to my changed pictures? It would make it much easier to locate the ones I want.

    Thank you so much for this service. It is really incredible.
20. zach 19 October 2007 at 12:25

    you are a rock star. so glad i spent only 15 minutes trying to figure it out unsuccessfully. APPLE – get a shortcut in the file menu for this!!!
21. Lisa Stefanoff 24 December 2007 at 10:42

    When I followed the prompt to upgrade my thumbnails nothing happened even though I was warned that it would ‘take a while’. Then the next time I opened iPhoto (6.0.6) all my thumbnails were gone. I’ve tried the COMMAND + OPTION, found the rebuild box, ticked all the rebuild boxes, but still nothing is being rebuilt. Anyone have any advice? Thanks, LS
22. Joko Anwar 16 January 2008 at 14:07

    Thank you!!!!
23. sophie 21 January 2008 at 13:00

    I just want to know exactly what it means to rebuild my thumbnail cache. Don’t want to do any mistakes and delete all my pictures
24. Nicole 30 January 2008 at 05:37

    Thank you SO much for this info. Why one can’t just type in “rebuild thumbnail cache” into the help files and get the same answer is BEYOND me.
25. Joevdburg 20 February 2008 at 16:12

    OK, I need to chime in as well. This was a VERY helpful find. Much appreciated.

    JV
26. Alex 1 March 2008 at 17:35

    So did anyone figure out if this rebuilding of the thumbnail cache is actually worth it? I have about 2000 photos and a lot of them are RAW… should I do it? I definitely don’t want to lose my thumbnails… but I also don’t want the program to shut down on me or anything crazy… so basically:: does anyone have any advice for me?
27. Amanda 14 April 2008 at 00:47

    Thank you so much!
28. Gast 20 May 2008 at 11:29

    THANKS A LOT MAN!!! OVER THE YEARS I’VE TAKEN MORE THAN 6000 PICS AND I JUST COULDN’T GET THE DAMNED THUMBNAILS WORKING AFTER I ACCIDENTALLY ERASED THEM. YOU’RE A GENIOUS!!!!
29. Jnbyoung 22 July 2008 at 07:00

    Thank you! I said no to rebuilding cache a couple times – then realized maybe it would help my slow scrolling. Searched help in IPhoto for a way to force it (no answer found!) and your response came up first in Google.
30. Richard 28 July 2008 at 22:46

    Thanks!
31. Richard 28 July 2008 at 22:47

    Thanks for that, wouldn’t have guessed that…
32. Carl 17 September 2008 at 16:18

    Flipping great – thanks fro0m me too – I even rang apple help and they coudn’t tell me how to do it!!! Well done!
33. Mayank 7 October 2008 at 11:44

    Thanks….I have been trying to figure this out for quite some time…..btw for iPhoto 6 shift-command-option works….but I had to rebuild the entire photo cache instead of the small thumbnails…..and the operation is really memory consuming…..
34. Mariano 5 December 2008 at 04:41

    Thanks for posting this!!! I have the same problem with iPhoto 7.5 and worked GREAT! =D
35. Jean 4 January 2009 at 08:23

    Thank you, your info was invaluable. I’ve been waiting for 3 weeks for iphoto to ask me to rebuild, so your quick tip was excellent.
36. Huy T Phan 13 February 2010 at 18:12

    I used to wait for iPhoto to prompt before I could rebuild. I never thought I could activate it myself.
    Thanks for the info. I really appreciate it.
37. Kent Richards 15 March 2010 at 16:39

    Good stuff. Thanks!
38. Professor Twahn 9 November 2010 at 09:27

    works for iphoto 11 as well.
39. asciimo 13 January 2011 at 19:56

    If none of the usual cmd+apple key tricks or the rebuild help you, it may be that you moved your iphoto library using the wrong tool (like me).

    I lost all Thumbnails and rebuilding did nothing, after some fruitless search, I found that the thumbnails are actually stored in the Data.noindex folder in the application package. The Album.xml will address a /Data/ folder for the thumbnails. I had only a FILE called “Data”. Comparing with the original library, I found that Data was supposed to be a softlink pointing to Data.noindex.

    So: If rebuilding and repairing won’t work for you, check if you have the link set correctly. If not, you open a Terminal and cd to the library bundle folder:

    > cd /Volumes/nasfolder/iphonelibrary/

    now make sure it is not a link:

    Correct entry:

    $ ls -l Data
    lrwxrwxrwx@ 1 asciimo staff 12 13 Jan 10:42 Data -> Data.noindex

    Broken entry:
    -rw-rw-rw- 1 asciimo staff 14 29 Dez 01:26 Data

    To fix it, remove the broken entry (iPhoto must be closed!!!)
    $ rm Data

    Now recreate the link
    $ ln -s Data.noindex Data

    check with the ls -l command above if the file is now correct.

    Restart iPhoto, now your Thumbnails will be back.
40. ف wildchild ۞ 1 February 2011 at 17:58

    Thanks asciimo.. It really work!!
41. rascalina 5 March 2011 at 00:27

    Thank you this worked for me last night. Took forever but it worked. I have iPhoto 11 also.
42. kaan 21 October 2011 at 20:10

    hey guys. both way didnt work for my iphoto.
    i fixed it from different way.

    1.turn iphoto off.
    2.press option button and run iphoto again.
    3.give a different name and create new library.
    4.try import your photos again. u ll see thumbnails.

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