Yes, it's a shock to me too but Apple actually makes buggy software sometimes. iphoto 2009 was great until I started to delete photos.
I've been using iphoto 2009 to manage all of my photos for the past year. I amassed a staggering 6500 photos so I figured some triaging in order. So a few weeks ago, I started deleting photos and moving others to archive folders. To my dismay, iphoto would not close so I had to force quit and then when I restarted the application, the photos were back in my albums. Long story short, I ended up having to hand export each photo I wanted to save, which ended up by 896 in all and then right clicking and deleting the actual library itself which was 90 gigabytes. From scouring the apple forums I figured out that a few of my photos must have been corrupted either from improper shut-down or too many deleted photos in the queue.UPDATE: Here is the apple forum thread discussing this issue. It is happening to a lot of others as well, so I know I am not crazy.
Either way I moved on to Picasa 3 and Lightroom 3 beta and I haven't looked back. Hopefully the same thing doesn't happen again.
In google we trust.
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