InDesign "edit with" iPhoto now jumps to Preview

I placed about 200 photos from iPhoto into InDesign (CS5.5). To modify an image, I clicked on the Edit icon under Links and it opened the image in iPhoto as I wanted. Now all of a sudden the "edit with" pencil icon link goes to Preview. iPhoto isn't even an option on the Links palette menu in InDesign. Under Other (edit with) I can choose the iPhoto aplication for one photo but not for all, but then it imports the image into iPhoto rather than locating the file in iPhoto. This started happening after I changed some titles in iPhoto. I tried relinking some of the images but InDesign still jumps to Preview when clicking on the pencil icon in the Links palette. If I find the image myself in iPhoto and edit it there, I do get the yellow sign in InDesign and can update the link. Thanks for any light you can shed. It would save me a lot of time.

Good point. Indeed, I was only changing titles, not file names. InDesign's Place command creates a link to the image, it does not import the it. So I was using the wrong term there too. That takes us back to the original question, and I will ask it on an Adobe forum. But if anyone here knows anything else, please speak up. Thanks.

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Fix #1
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3 - reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.
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Fix #2
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Select the options identified in the screenshot and the option to rebuild the small thumbnails.
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If you don't encounter the problem in the other user account then it's something in your account that's the culprit. Post back with the results.
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Hi, OldToad!
Thanks for Your information and contribution!
I tried what You wrote again with iPhoto 08, and want to show my results. According to those experiments, there does seem to be a difference between the comment and title iPhoto writes to a JPEG-file and the comment that I called "EXIF-comment" (I got the name and discrimination from the discription of the jhead-tool that has been named earlier in this thread). Well, here is my example:
1. I exported a JPEG file from iPhoto using the option "include keyword and title" checked; this file can be found on the photoblog system I am using under the following URL: http://marckgraph.de/pix/fr-uuml-hling/img-1101; the title is taken from the filename (I didn't change it...), but below it, there should be written the EXIF-comment, as is said on the homepage of this blog system that can be found at: http://daubau.it/picoplog/ - obviously, there is nothing. Still, if You click on my photoblog on "large size, You get the original JPEG file from the server (the blog makes a smaller JPEG to display, which strips some metadata from the file) - if You save this "original" image to the desktop and get the file-information (apple-i), You can see that the comment is in fact written into the file metadata - but not displayed in the blog.
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Okay - anyway, thanks again! And have a nice day!
Regards,
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P.S.: Maybe an addition: I have heard from the guy writing the "Tierprogramm" (which is a graphical user interface for the EXIFtool named before) told me that he uses the EXIF-comment field to store the photographer information (for copyright purposes). Maybe that's what it is originally intended to be (thus: a copyright comment, not a description of image topics)...
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Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
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2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
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Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

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