Did you also download files from flickr or somewhere else?  Are the photos on your computer on the local drive or are they partitioned or on a network?  I believe there is a known issue.  I was having the same problem and searched the forum for flickr photo bug or something like that and got the workaround.

If you haven’t already I’d report the bug to blurb.

The only other thing I can think of is to try putting the pictures in a different folder and see if it likes that folder better.  Good luck!

I have not experienced specifically that problem. But I have, (out of laziness) simply dragged  individual photo files directly from my Windows picture files, without going through "from my computer" step. Try it, see if it works . It did for me.

Hello all,

I had a similiar problem on Windows and traced it to the version of Java installed on the machine. BookSmart 1.9.2 uses a slightly newer version and if you machine has an older version in the ‘PATH’, attempts to get at My computer throw an ‘exception’ which in turn kills your BookSmart session.

You can either:
1. Uninstall your current Java version (through the Add/Remove programs thingy) – not recommended as it isn’t a guarantee.
2. Upgrade your java by downloading the ‘latest’ from java.sun.com – probably the easiest
3. Add the java bin directory shipped with BookSmart to the front of your existing PATH variable
4. Write a batch script to add the BookSmart java to the session running BookSmart.

I’m a geek – I did #4 and can assure you that it resolves the ‘where did BookSmart go?’ problem.