iLife ’09: Music and Photos may not be accessible from your Media Browser

Symptoms

If you installed the iLife Support 9.0.3 update, and subsequently used Migration Assistant to transfer your files to a new Mac, you may be unable to see your iPhoto images or iTunes music in the Media Browser of your iLife ’09 applications.* Also related to this issue, your screen saver preference pane in System Preferences may become unresponsive.

* If this issue occurs in only one of your iLife ’09 applications, this article does not apply and troubleshooting should be performed for that application, not the entire suite. See the following articles for more information:

How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists 
iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library

Products Affected

iLife ’09

Resolution

Follow these steps to resolve this issue:

1. Quit all your iLife applications.
2. Download the iLife Support 9.0.3 update.
3. Install the iLife Support 9.0.3 update by opening the file you just downloaded.

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