Adding photo to event

How do you import additional photos into an existing event in Iphoto 08 without having to merge them after? There must be an easier way.

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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 created 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. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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I'm creating a few albums (first time, I've always worked in the Events, but need a little more flexibility) and when I'm adding photos I can easily drag them to the album name on the left when looking at the thumbnails in the event, but after double clicking and viewing them zoomed to fill the frame I have to back out of it and then drag the thumbnail in.
Is there a way to do this from the zoomed in photo to save this step?

If you remove the flag it doesn't delete the photo, just removes it from the smart Flagged album.

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Up until last month, all photos that were brought into iPhoto via Photo Stream were being added to a (seemingly) automatically created monthly event of Photo Stream images. It seems to have stopped doing this and I was wondering if there was a way to reinitiate this.
I think what may have caused this to happen was that I renamed one of these monthly events (Apr 2012 Photo Stream) to something generic like "Spring" and added additional (non Photo Stream pictures) to it. Now, all new Photo Stream photos are dumped into this "Spring" event and I can't get iPhoto to create a new May 2012 Photo Stream event and dump all new photos imported into Photo Stream into it.
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As a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?
If it doesn't and you are able to download successfully into the new library then your existing library needs repairs: apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start
with Option #4 and then #1 as needed.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost and converted to albums. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
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Recently added photos/movies missing after closing iPhoto '09

I have iPhoto '09 (8.1.2 (424) running on an Intel iMac Core (1) Duo with Snow Leopard, all software updates current. Tonight I went to add several photos and movies to my iPhoto library (19,000+ photos). They imported fine. I moved some around with respect to events, fixed some dates, but did no photo edits. Then I closed iPhoto. When I opened it back up, all of the recently added photos were gone. The "Last Import" said "(0)". I found the photos/movies sitting in my iPhoto library in the file structure and could open them up and view them with Preview or Quicktime, respectively. But iPhoto didn't know they were there. I tried to drag and drop them into iPhoto again and it wouldn't let me, saying they are already in the library. I was able to reimport from the original location on my desktop and after closing and re-opening, same thing, no photos in iPhoto but another copy of them in the "iPhoto Library package > Originals > 2011 > ..."
This is repeatable. I can delete the folders I added then reimport and after closing and re-opening, nothing. I've rebuilt the library 2 times using command+option with all options selected except "rebuild from automatic backups." I can drag just one image into iPhoto from the bunch and it disappears to after a close+reopen. I have not yet tried to do a camera-based import. These are files on my desktop.
Lastly, I think this may be a red herring, but I just recovered from a HD crash last week. I got a new HD installed by professionals and did all the new installs to Snow Leopard and restore from my time machine backups myself. Everything looks/works like it did before the crash, except one of the user's (4 of us on this machine) desktop was missing their background pic and had to re-add it. All the other user's desktop pics were fine. This desktop pic was associated with the iphoto library I'm having the problem with. I just realized after talking with my wife that all the pictures she has added since the crash have had the same behaviour and are sitting in the iphoto library package but are not in the iPhoto library "viewer" when iPhoto is open.

The Library database is corrupted.
Best option: restore from back up. Otherwise:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

Iphoto not showing imported photos in events

I have been using iphoto for quite a while with very few problems. Recently I have added an iPhone and an apple TV into my apple ecosystem. I have recently noticed that my iphoto library is NOT showing photos imported from 3rd party sources such as my android phone, in the events section of the interface. The photos ARE present in the 'photos' section which leads me to believe that they are IN the library. But when i look at the events and select one say for 3/24 it will only display the photos taken from my wifes iphone and NOT the ones taken from my andriod and imported using the add to library function. I have attempted all four options in the command-option iphoto startup and have gotten no where.
Many of you might that that this is a non issue as the photos are present in the 'photo' section. but as i prefer to use the fullscreen mode in iphoto i do not have access to the 'photos' tab in full screen, only the 'events'.
could my appletv or iPhone or appletv be a contributing factor? Is there an option in events to only display iPhone imported photos?
Any help would be appricaited I am pulling my hair out here.

1 - Photos and events are simply two different views of the same photos - your iPhoto library - so any photo that is in one is always also in the other - you are just looking in the wrong place
2 - the most common issue is incorrect dates on photos so you look in the wrong location for the event - in the photos view right click on one of the photos that you are not seeing in an event and show event
3 - another possiblity is the sort order of the events - verify it under the view menu ==> sort events
4 - No - it is not your Apple TV nor is it your iPhone
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Apple TV - Photos - Including Events

After upgrade to iTunes 9 (running Snow Leopard after a clean install), I wanted to take advantage of the increased granularity of photo syncing w/ Apple TV via iTunes. So I have it set to Sync Photos from iPhoto, and the second option selected "Selected albums, events, and faces and automatically include _". I checked "all events" as I like to have the AppleTV show my Photos by event.
I also select all albums and all faces so that all the content is synced over.
My problem is that where it asks to sync "all events" or you can choose no events, last 20 events, etc. I have selected "all events" but every day or so, randomly (not every restart, not every sync, etc.) it switches back to "no events" which means I can no longer choose photos by events on my appleTV, even though the photos remain on the appleTV.
Anyone else see anything like this? Seems like a bug but curious if there is a way to "fix."
Thanks,

Update : I see a lot of "me too's" on this thread - and most of you are complaining about having to re-sync photos. Here is a trick, as I never had to resync my entire photo collection - create a smart album that contains ALL of your pictures in iPhoto. Then, you have it set to sync "Selected albums, events, and aces, and automatically include _ events" (where the _ events keeps reverting to "no" but should be "all" or something other than no_). Now, select at LEAST the album that has all of your photos, and then each time it drops the events selection back to "no" the photos themselves will stay on your tv. You will lose the events (i.e. if you browse Photos on tv it will only show you that one smart album, or let you see "all photos", but they will still be there), but can then fix the bug by re-selecting "all" events and then re-sync, and it won't have to recopy every photo.
By the way I do this as I have rated most of my photos and therefore have smart albums for *, **, *, **, *** and "unrated" photos (no, not the dirty kind) so as long as those albums are selected it encompasses my entire iPhoto library.
Hopefully this saves you some syncing time. Definitely still a bug but not quite as bad if you don't have to wait for it to re-sync.
And another by the way, I have stopped automatically syncing my tv anyway b/c I didn't like it to start syncing everytime I added a video/tv show/etc. before I could edit the metadata - b/c half of my "syncs" crash the tvs - DEFINITELY waiting for an update to this handy device.

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Unfortunately, photo stream on a PC is iffy at best. Many people have problems getting it to work properly, including myself. A work around would be to use an app like PhotoSync on your PC, which can send photos wirelessly to the camera roll on any of your iOS devices on the same wifi network. Once in the camera roll, you iOS device will be added to your photo stream.

Double clicking on a photo or event does not work

I have to click quickly 3-6 times a photo or event to successfully open it.
I rebuilt the database and I also deleted the iPhoto preferences file without success.
I have no problem with the double click in my other app.
The problem is the same with the trackpad or mouse.
I use iPhoto 9.6 and OSX 10.10.1 on a MacBook Pro.
Thanks

Check your trackpad settings and possibly slow down the click speed (or speed it up). Another user had the same problem and solved it thru the click speed settings.

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Thanks!

I had a problem a couple of months ago when iPhotos suddenly rearranged the order of my Events (Why won't iPhoto let me arrange my photos?) . I was told "Use albums not events - events are not a good way to organize - albums and folder are designed for organisation and are very flexible".
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Found a workaround:
Just change each attribute 1 item at a time.
Create the calendar entry for one day only with no other settings.
Go back in and edit it so that its every two weeks, then leave and confirm this worked.
Open calendar back up and add in the end date.
That's the only way I could get it to accept those settings, one attribute at a time.
Misc. bug I suppose. I miss the "It just works" days. Living in silicon valley, the QA engineering buds I have at apple go on rants about the undisclosed/undiscovered but known bugs in ios every time we're having drinks. From what I hear, internally IOS8/8.1 weren't ready for prime time push just yet.

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My hard drive crashed recently and we took it to apple to get repaired. The apple employees said that they would have to replace the hard drive but they didn't have the equipment to get the data off my hard drive. So I took it to a computer store who had the right equipment after a month and a half of waiting they finally got all the data off my hard drive and put it on an external hard drive (Seagate Expansion Portable Drive). I then took it back to apple who replaced the hard drive. Now I'm in the process of reinstalling everything. I have never done a Time Machine back up or backed my laptop up to . Which I now will do very often once I've reinstalled everything. I have reinstalled all of my desktop images and folders as well as my iTunes library with no issues. However when i went to reinstall my iPhoto library it came up blank. I then Rebuilt the library several times and this was the result.
It shows that the photos and events are there but there are no thumbnails and if you click on an image or video nothing comes up.
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iPhoto cannot find the thumbnails or the original pictures.
Go to your iPhoto Library in the Pictures Folder.
Right-click on it and from the resulting menu, choose 'Show Package Contents'.
This will bring you inside the iPhoto Library package. There you should see a Folder called Masters. Within that, there should be folder containing your actual photos.
Are they there?

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If they are in last import then they should be there - check the date on one of the photos in last import and look for that date in your library - last import, photos and events are simply different ways of viewing the same photos - if they are there in one view they are there in all views - somewhere
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Hi,
I'm a new Mac user, just becoming acquainted to Mavericks. I've imported all of my photos into iPhoto, have found some photos I wanted to share with some friends. So, I selected the Photos, then clicked the "Share" icon, then "iCloud". I created a new stream, and shared it with my friends. The stream appeared on my iPhone & iPad, and my firends have accepted my invite. But the photos have not been added to the stream.
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