Fixing iPhoto '08 Inability to Rename an Event
August 27 2007
I upgraded to iLife ‘08 the other day, and encountered a problem of being unable to rename any events in iPhoto. I tracked down a support discussion on the Apple support website, which has a fix.
Essentially, it’s down to a problem with missing fonts. To fix it, you simply have to rebuild your font cache by running the following commands:
sudo chown root:admin /Library/Fonts/*
sudo chmod 644 /Library/Fonts/*
sudo rm /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/*/fonts.db
sudo reboot
Interestingly, I encountered another font related issue when upgrading iWork. Keynote seemed to have lost a whole bunch of fonts, which I simply re-installed (they were still in my ~/Library/Fonts directory). I suspect rebuilding the font cache would have fixed this issue too.