Import Photos - Show Preview - images don't show

In "Import Photos", I select "Show Preview",
Actual images are not visible.
Image numbers show on each place holder.
Using Windows XP, Photoshop Elements 5.0, Nikon D80.

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching Photos. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.

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Why don't imported photos show in Lightroom?

I imported a folder of approximately 170 pictures into lightroom using the same process I have been using for a month. the files are a combination of canon .cr2 files and the matching .jpg files that go with the .cr2s.
After the import completed lightroom showed zero photos in that folder. I immediately panicked and double checked that all the files really did exist in the folder via windows explorer.
However, if I go back and try re-importing the files the import function shows all the files as having been previously imported.
I have tried the "synchronize folder" process, and it first shows the files as '170' to import, but after the synch function complete it shows 0 files processed.
Any ideas why lightroom refuses to show this particular group of folders?
I suspect it is something either really simple or the library on my system is messed up due to corruption.
If the library is messed up how do I go about rebuilding it. These photos are critical to me as they are headshots of an actress.

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I was panicking because I spent an hour with my friend/client going through these 170 shots cropping, minor tweaking, and picking out the best for further work. I managed to reload the pictures, but thought I had lost all the post prep we had done.
You nailed the issue dead on and I've found the files with all the post prep catalog info.
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Importing photos - custom icon images

Whenever I import photos from a digital camera into iPhoto, the icons in finder are thumbnails of the actual photo. Is there any way to prevent this from happening, and have all the files have the default icon?

Yes. While in the a folder in the icon mode select the View->Show View Options menu option. Then uncheck the box "Show icon preview" and click the All Windows radio button. That will turn off viewing the icons in the Finder.
If you want it only for one or two folders then do it for those folders and do not select the All Windows option.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Import photos to FCP Images stretch out

While I import photos to FCP, it stretch the images, I have been change the images size to 720x480, and adjust setting to 16:9 or 4:3, the problem still there, look like wide screen images fitting into the full screen.
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Pai

Don't make your photos 720x480, because FCP will stretch them.
Make your photos another size, hopefully a larger size, and then FCP will see them as square pixels and so will then not make them fill the screen.

SNewly imported photos show up as !, not in Originals Folder

I just imported about 100 pictures from a recent trip, and they are all showing up as ! in my iphoto library. I can see them in the thumbnails, but as the mouse rolls over them, or if I click on them, they go blank. I tried looking for them in the Originals Folder, but they aren't there (I looked by file name after seeing their info, and they do in fact have file names.)
I tried to rebuild my photo library, I tried extracting the photos - I think I've tried just about everything that has been suggested in various forums. The one difference I see between what others have found and what has happened to me is that while the pictures exist in my iphoto library, they don't seem to have corresponding 'originals,' which is rather odd. I don't know where they can possibly exist in my computer or how they are in iphoto if they don't exist in the Originals Folder. In fact, I looked in the Import folder within iphoto and the folder I named for the import is in there but it is empty.
Unfortunately, the photos were deleted off of my camera after export, otherwise I would just export again.
Any suggestions would be most helpful.

This isn't Apple Support. This is a forum for Users to help other Users, if they can.
Your problem is simple. iPhoto can't find the files you imported because they aren't there.
Are you running a Managed or a Referenced Library?
A +Managed library+, is the default setting, and iPhoto copies files into the iPhoto Library when Importing
A +Referenced Library+ is when iPhoto is NOT copying the files into the iPhoto Library when importing because you made a change at iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced. In this scenario you are responsible for the File Management.
Regards
TD

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I recently switched from a PC to an iMac and dragged my photos from the "My Documents" folder on my external drive to the iPhoto program on my Mac. I opened iPhoto to look at my pix and noticed that some of them are a lot blurrier now than the last time I viewed them on my PC. This seems to be mostly with my older photos. Is there a reason for this, and is there some kind of setting I can use to get them back to normal (the way they looked on my PC)?
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Sunny

I recently switched from a PC to an iMac and dragged my photos from the "My Documents" folder on my external drive to the iPhoto program on my Mac. I opened iPhoto to look at my pix and noticed that some of them are a lot blurrier now than the last time I viewed them on my PC. This seems to be mostly with my older photos. Is there a reason for this, and is there some kind of setting I can use to get them back to normal (the way they looked on my PC)?
importing a photo to iPhoto makes no changes - it just copies the photo so what you have in iPhoto is exactly what you had on your PC
a couple of possibilities to look at
1 - for large (high resolution) photos iPhoto displays a quick, sometimes fuzzy image and then completes loading the full image and the image clears - are you giving it time to fully display?
2 - is you iPhoto display larger than your PC display - if you have low resolution photos displaying them on a larger screen will let you see the pixels - making them "fuzzy"
3 - is there any chance you imported lower resolution sions of your photos? What is the resolution of one of the "fuzzy" photos - look in the info window on the lower left - if it is not there, click on the blue "i"
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Yes.. I think so, so that other users can browse my albums. But should that mean they get to see the unintended, unedited shots off the SD card - most of which I deleted from my iPhoto?

Issues with importing photos in an image sequence!

Hi all,
Just at work and we're doing a rather large Time Lapse photography project which I and another colleague are editing within Adobe Premiere. After gathering a large selection of images we decided it was time to have a go at doing a first edit. Opened Premiere and made a new project etc. and have made a couple of practice runs with different pictures but I opened the pictures (File/Import) and then tried to import all of the pictures but I can't tick "Image Sequence", which is greyed out. Does anyone know why? I assumed it was due to the fact that it was importing them off an external drive but I put them on the MacBook just to make sure but it still wouldn't import them. I then tried to import less pictures at a time still to no avail.
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might be the filename convention stuff... like if you have filenames that have a lot of weird characters and no easily discernable " number" sequence it might not be recognizing them as a potential sequence. I'm on a pc and use a program called " renamer "... which I got for free I think.. off internet.. and it works great for renaming stuff in a folder...
what I do is put a group of files in a specific folder ( like maybe a temp directory I make just for the purpose of renaming files ).. and use renamer on that stuff...
It's a little tricky so experiment with one file so you know it is working the way you expect... ( adding rules and using wildcards and so on ). If you post a sample of one of your filenames in the sequence someone may be able to tell you definitively what is up ...
good luck
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Startup disc full

Step 1
The first step in dealing with a startup failure is to secure the data. If you want to preserve the contents of the startup drive, and you don't already have at least one current backup, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data that has changed since the last backup, you can skip this step.
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b. If Step 1a fails because of disk errors, and no other Mac is available, then you may be able to salvage some of your files by copying them in the Finder. If you already have an external drive with OS X installed, start up from it. Otherwise, if you have Internet access, follow the instructions on this page to prepare the external drive and install OS X on it. You'll use the Recovery installer, rather than downloading it from the App Store.
c. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, start the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
d. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.
Step 2
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Aperture Preview Images Before Import

Hi,
I have a doubt as to wheter I missinterpreted or a function is in fact not enabled in Aperture altought it is mentioned in the description of Aperture features.
In this webpage https://www.apple.com/aperture/features/#import on the "Preview Images Before Import" area one can read "Double-click any image in the Import window to view it at a larger size. You can also play video and audio clips before importing them.". Thou when I try to preview (or Quick Look) an image or video in the Import window from my iPod touch by double-clicking nothing happens ?!? Did I missinterpret? Is this behaviour not valid for iOS (iPod's or iPhone's) devices for some reason?
Please help me understand as previewing a video is extremelly valuable for me to know what to name the file before importing.
Thank you.
André

I must say this seems to me like a slightly false (or at the least missleading) advertisement.
I understand that iOS can pose a different protocol, but then one should not use a sentence like "Double-click any image in the Import window ".
You may want to send this feedback to the developer team using the feedback form:
Apple - Aperture - Feedback
The documentation could frofit from some corrections-

I inserted my camera's disk into my Mac laptop running 10.8 and no "import photos" appeared. There was no camera icon just airstream.s

I inserted a disk from my camera into my Mac book pro and No "import photos"message appeared. There was no camera icon either. I have eited and turned the computer off to remove the disk and then tried again to no avil. I have not been able to eject the disk at all as is suggested. i have to turn the machine off to eject. Help!
What should I do to be able to import photos? Have I done something to make the camera icon disapper? It worked fine yesterday. Cannot stop airstream.

Just open iPhoto (double click oon iPhoto in your applications) and you should be set. It should show you all available devices that it can import photos from.

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The preview images Aperture 3 (trial) creates from raw files (in my case NEFs) are different from the JPEGs exported using the same JPEG settings.
I get the impression that the preview images don’t use all the adjustments applied to the raw files. They don’t have the moire reduction applied. The preview images of high ISO images have color noise, the exported images don’t have that color noise (the moire and noise settings of raw fine tuning are applied to the exported files but not to the image previews).
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3.) sync your iphone again...
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