Add Flagged Photos To Selected Event / Select By Date

So I am having to bite the bullet and re-import all of my referenced pics to try and consolidate them eventually into my managed library. I start with my first folder, import it, select the 103 photos in the Event with a view of then going to the existing Event, Adding Flagged Photos to it and then deleting out the older non-linked ones. Except I cannot seem to get the Add Flagged Photos function to activate in any circumstances, it is simply greyed out and nothing I do seems to want to activate it.
Is this a bug or an odd change in functionality from 09?
While we are at it, another function I used a lot in 09 was searching a photo by date from the search box in the bottom bar. I would select date, hold down the Alt button to select all pics on that day i.e. 13/12 and iPhoto would display them. It doesn't now, I follow this exact same flow and it will display all pictures that are December pics instead of the single day specific ones.

When I search by date it shows the day specific day clicked - if I "alt" click it deletes the year and shows all photo on the date in any year
A good general step for strange issues is to renew the iPhoto preference file - quit iPhoto and go to "your user name" ==> library ==> preferences ==> com.apple.iPhoto.plist and trash it - launch iPhoto which creates a fresh new default preference file and reset any personal preferences you have changed and if you have moved the iPhoto library repoint to it. This may help
This does not affect your photos or any database information (keywords, faces, places, ratings, etc) in any way - they are stored in the iPhoto library - the iPhoto preference file simply controls how iPhoto works - which is why renewing it is a good first step.
LN

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    Apparently, we inadvertently moved all of our flagged photos to one event using the "Add Flagged Photos to Selected Event" Command. The problem is, I want all of these flagged photos back in their original events.
    Is there a way to do this without manually re-sorting the photos? I currently have ca. 10,000 photos in 270 events, and I am not looking forward to a manual re-sort.
    Thanks in advance for your help.

    The easiest way ti to use your backup of the iPhoto library - that is why you make them - in case of software, hardware or human error
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    LN

  • "Add flagged photos" only works sometimes.  Is there a fix?

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    I thought it might be an photo ownership issue since my wife and I share the iPhoto library (it is in the Shared User folder) so I set the security on the photos to "Read and Write" from both my account and her account.
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    I thought about rebuilding the library, but am a little nervous about that since there are numerous warnings about backing up before doing that.
    What? You mean you don't back up?
    Sounds as though it might be dangerous
    Not dangerous at all... if you have a back up.
    Regards
    TD

  • Flagged photos disappear from events

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    The same just happened to me. This is how I solved it:
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  • Apple TV (1st gen) photos in an Event not in date order

    I have synced selected Events from iPhoto to my Apple TV 1st gen with iTunes 11.0.1
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  • How do I move selected photos from one event to another in iPhoto

    Using iPhoto 9.5.1, how to I move selected items from one event into another event. I do not wish to merge both events. Thanks.

    select the photos and flag them - then select the target event and use the add flagged photos to selected event command
    LN

  • Invert Selection of photos in an Event?

    If I select a group of photos in an Event (either by click, keyword, or rating), is there any way to "Invert Selection", causing the selected photos->deselected, and the unselected photos->selected? This would really help me move unwanted photos to the trash, keeping only the good ones. Thanks in advance.

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  • How do I move Flagged Photos Event back to original event?

    I made the mistake of thinking that I was making an event from flagged photos within an event.  Instead, it created a Flagged Photos event of photos from ALL my events.  I've read the instructions on how to put them back, but I can't get the events close to each other to drag from one to the other.  Is there another way?  Or can someone explain how to move the Flagged Photos close to the original Event?  I have over 400 that I want back in their original places.
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    If you didn't make a back up then you don't have one. And you should. Immeadiately.
    If you want move photos to a specific Event, flag them, select the target Event and go EVents menu -> Add Flagged Photos to Selected Events
    Regards
    TD

  • Need help to copy a photo between two events.

    I would appreciate it if someone could tell me how to copy a photo I want shown in two events. I have tried to duplicate the photo and drag it as well as cut and paste the duplicate, and in both instances, both photos move. Does iPhoto not allow the same photo in two events? When I click on the photo, the copy button is not highlighted as an option. Help?

    Duplicate the photo, flag one of them and go to the destination event and use the events menu ==> add flagged photo to selected event
    However this is not the best way to use iPhoto - events are a very basic inflexible organizing method - having photos in albums which uses no extra space is a much better way or organizing photos
    LN

  • Using iPhoto, I want to move photo from one event to another I export it to desktop and then reimport.  Titles and other info vanish; only the original jpg number comes thru.  How do I avoid this?

    Using iPhoto, I want to move photo from one event to another I export it to desktop and then reimport.  Titles and other info vanish; only the original jpg number comes thru.  How do I avoid this?

    Don't do that - flag the photo and go to the target event and use the add flagged photo to selected event command to move it intact within iPhoto
    LN

  • Flagged photos do not reliably move to selected events

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  • How do I restore all my flagged photos to their original events?

    Not sure how this could have happened, but a month or two ago, I went to view 'All Events' and there appeared one huge mega-event which contained all my flagged photos from all events from Feb 2010 (my initial use of iPhoto) until October 2011, containing over 900 photos.
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    Evidently you accidentally selected this menu option under the Events menu:
    I don't know of any way to undo that.
    Also considering going back to a backup prior to this happening and restoring only the affected Events, if this is possible.
    No you'll have to restore the entire library from Time Machine.  But here's something you might want to try:
    1 - restore the library(B) from just before this happened.
    2 - use the  paid version of  iPhoto Library Manager to import your current library (A)  into your restored library (B) with the option to not import duplicates.  That should get you pretty close back to where you want to be.  Of course be sure there's a current backup of your current library (A) before starting the merge. 

  • Create New Event Flagged Photos

    I flag a bunch of photos. Then select the menu item "Create New Event from flagged photos". And nothing happens. Is it not supose to ask me for an event name and then put the flagged photos into that event? Thanks

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    TD

  • How do I create a slide show within iPhoto using the flagged photos?

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    Regards
    TD

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