@jabirulo
so i took your advice and installed on the local RAM disk. still getting a freeze on launch. here is what is in the amiphoto drawer, both on hard disk and the RAM disk:
5.Tools:Graphics/AmiPhoto> list
album Dir ----rwed Today 11:08:28
AmiPhoto 548217 ----rwed 06-Dec-07 11:37:42
AmiPhoto.info 23665 ----rw-d Today 11:07:34
AmiPhoto.pdf 1422904 ----rw-d 24-Dec-06 11:26:22
AmiPhoto.pdf.info 13558 ----rw-d 14-Mar-14 14:42:34
AmiPhotoPrefs 149156 ----rwed 02-Dec-07 13:09:02
catalogs Dir ----rwed 09-Mar-14 10:53:12
cfg Dir ----rwed Today 11:09:01
examples Dir ----rwed 09-Mar-14 10:53:12
gfx Dir ----rwed 09-Mar-14 10:53:13
plugin Dir ----rwed 09-Mar-14 10:53:14
progs Dir ----rwed 09-Mar-14 10:53:15
sfx Dir ----rwed 09-Mar-14 10:53:15
thumbs Dir ----rwed Today 11:08:28
5 files - 2106K bytes - 9 directories - 1078 blocks used
and here is the version information on the binary:
5.RAM Disk:AmiPhoto_v1> version AmiPhoto full
AmiPhoto Version 1.6.0
(Dec 6 2007 [10:22:11]) - Copyright © 2005-2007 by Alinea Computer
5.RAM Disk:AmiPhoto_v1> md5sum AmiPhoto
f0ed5491100090adcb07657b1e70f38c AmiPhoto
dunno if this helps, but AFAIK the installation is fine. i got the archive directly from simon neumann at alinea because the serial numbers he kept giving me wouldn't be accepted as valid on his support site.
-- eliyahu