Delete or replace "original" photos in iPhoto '08?

Once I've completed all edits that I want to do on a particular picture in iPhoto '08, is there a way to replace the original photo so that I am not storing two versions on the hard drive? (Mostly to save space.) I don't care to ever revert back to the original once I'm satisfied.
Thanks!

Export the photos, delete them in iphoto, empty the iPhoto trash and import the photos you exported
There is no other way to do it safely
LN

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I tried to share my events and photos from iPhoto in Flickr by copying the events and then clicking share button in iPhoto and choosing Flickr. After some events appeared in Flickr in new albums, I realized I had lost some of the events and photos in iPhoto. If I open iPhoto I see my events some with cover photos and some just a black box with original title but empty. When I click the ones with cover photo, many have only a few photos (originally they had many more) and worse when I click the thumbnails a black box appears with a gray triangle and an exclamation mark in the middle. I have followed the rebuilding option from iPhoto First Aid but got no where. The library shows that I have the original number of photos I had (over 38,000) and also the same number of events and album titles BUT the original photos are mostly missing, only a few thousand are showing in the original size! Most of thumbnails seem to be there though many are also missing. I just cannot locate the originals. In the Masters file in iPhoto Library I don't see many original photos either. It just seems all my photos are deleted! The subfolders in Masters are 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 (I suppose for the 4 years I have used this Mac). The sub-subfolders under each year are named with numbers, like under 2011 there is only one called 11, under 2012 there is 05 and 07 sub-sub folders, under 2013, 04 and 08, and there are more under 2014 from 02 to 08. When I click any of these sub-sub folders I get additional folders with numbers but no order. If I click these folders I get a long number folder which is generally empty except for some where I can see original photos. I even tried to see if I could find a backup of iPhoto Library through Time Machine (I use CCC to backup my Mac) but the Library files I found were all from the time AFTER I had tried to share my photos in Flickr. So I did not find additional originals. It seems Flickr has just literally deleted most of my originals by taking them away from my hard disk!! Unfortunately they don't show up in Flickr either!
What has happened to my original photos? Are they lost or deleted for ever? I tried to use recovery software to see on my hard disk whether there were any of my original photos but didn't see them. Can someone help/advise what to do? I use an I Mac with OSX 10.9.4?and iPhoto 9.5.1. Thank you.

Thank you Terence. Let me explain better. I wanted to have a copy of my photos in Flickr. So I tested with selecting one event in iPhoto and using the Share button to copy the photos it contained in an Album in Flickr. That worked ok. Then I selected all my events and clicked Share in iPhoto to copy them to Flickr. That is where things got probably messed up. As there were many original photos, this took a long time over few days and I tried to stop it. Whatever went wrong there isn't clear to me. When I went back to iPhoto next I saw the situation described above. Most original disappeared. Unfortunately, the back up I found in my external disk is from the same time I seem to have lost the files. I have copied into iPhoto Lib but it has the same problem with most originals missing. The funny thing is that when I noticed my photos were missing, I checked the size iPhoto Lib and it was about 25GB. Then I went and checked the 7 backups of Pictures in Time Machine and noticed two were around 100GB from Two weeks earlier just about the time I did the Flickr transfer. So I selected one of those and opened iPhoto using that bigger file. But it was still too short of the original 38,000 photos only a few thousands.

How to replace original photos with modified ones?

Hi from Paris France ,
is there a way to get rid of original photos and replace them by the modified ones (ie "modified" are becoming "original")?
Thx

it is bad philosophy anyway...
Actually iPhoto is following the digital asset management best practice philosophy of always keeping a digital negative untouched and intact. iPhoto is an entry level DAM application for the general public. To do what you want you might look into the more advanced DAM applications that will let you do what you want. You can learn about them at The DAM Forum for professional photographers.
I use Media Expression which I think is one of the best as my primary DAM and iPhoto for special projects. But alas it doesn't not have Faces and Places. It does read geo-tagged image files but you'll have to assign "Location" identity to them by editing the IPTC metadata fields with EM.
One method to avoid having the portrait photos modified by iPhoto it to upload the photos to a folder on the Desktop before importing. There you can losslessly rotate those files that need it. It also gives you an opportunity to rename the files to something more informative that IMG_001.jpg.
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IPhoto can not find the original photo, does iPhoto copy the photo or just make a thumbnail?

Hi,
I'm scanning and putting all of my (paper) photos into my computer and then into iPhoto, tagging them, and doing all the time consuming things necessary to build a good library.
I've tried to open a few of the events and look at the photos I put in but I get an error that iPhoto can not find the original photo. When I put a photo into iPhoto does the program only make a thumbnail copy with a link to the original, or does it actually copy the photo into the library? I'm thinking the former. Because I have a Time Machine backup, a hard copy, and (presumably) a copy in iPhoto, I have been deleting the photos AFTER putting them into iPhoto. Do I need to keep the photos I put in iPhoto on my computer? Will I need to go into TM and restore them? Will I loose the information like Faces, Places, Keywords, if I do?
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I'm working with 9.1.2

I have exactly the same problem except my photo is named "L1000093.jpg" and it's been there for a year now, but suddenly, when I wanted to view it in it's album, ("Favorite" which has been there for a year too), it says "The photo P1010311.jpg cannot be found"!!! What the heck is going on? So I canceled, went back to the album, clicked on L1000093, clicked "show event", went over to Event, clicked "reveal in finder" and there it is, iPhoto Library/Master/blah blah blah... L1000093.jpg!
Where the hack did that P1010311.jpg came from? Sure I have that photo, but it's in a completely different event and a different album! What's is iPhoto 11 / Lion / iTunes 10.5.3(3) up to?
So I threw L1000093jpg into the trash, went into Lightroom, find the original, re-export it, load it again into iPhoto, added it again to the album (favorite), and guess what? I just did all those and the same "The bloody photo cannot be found" message popped up and when I go to finder, there it is.
This is a bug. It's been a bug since 2006 as far as I can remember. And Apple had never done a complete fix. It's an if thing!
And the most frustrating part: Althought they call this an Apple forum and you have to sign in to participate, I have never seen one Apple software guy here saying "this is what to do", just us victims helping each other and many non-Apple folks guessing to the best of their ability to comfort us.
Oh, toys are toys. I sometimes wonder if Steve had fought so hard yet the cancer in Apple actually won!

Retroactively replacing "original" photos?

I have a camera whose RAW files aren't supported by iPhoto, but I hope that they will be soon. (See http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10331751 )
I'm trying to figure out what to do in the meantime, since I don't want really want to be stuck with only JPGs from the time between now an when Apple gets around to adding RAW support... but I can't easily wait to edit and use my photos until iPhoto can read the RAW version.
I'd love to
- simultaneously shoot RAWs and JPGs (i.e. store both versions of each picture, which most Nikons let you do),
- import the JPGs now into iPhoto
- make edits to (most of) the pictures
- then, once RAW support is added, overwrite iPhoto's "original" JPGs with the NEFs, while maintaining the "current" version with the edits.
- For the pictures that need further tweaking which won't work as well on JPG (e.g., significant WB adjustment or highlight recovery), I can reprocess RAW and start over, and for the rest I can stick with what I've got.
Is there any way to do this... or is this just wishful thinking?
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Mike

Mike
I don't think you can do this.
- simultaneously shoot RAWs and JPGs (i.e. store both versions of each picture, which most Nikons let you do),
That's easy as you know.
- import the JPGs now into iPhoto
Easy too
- make edits to (most of) the pictures
Straightforward enough
- then, once RAW support is added, overwrite iPhoto's "original" JPGs with the NEFs, while maintaining the "current" version with the edits.
And this is where it falls apart. You'll be replacing Pic1.jpeg with a different file called Pic1.NEF. iPhoto won't recognise it as related in anyway to the modified version. So where you try to
- ...reprocess RAW and start over...
iPhoto won't know of its existence. It'll just complain that it cannot find the original.
FWIW: I shoot Nikon too, and while my D40 is supported I actually process the RAWs in Capture NX2, export as jpeg and import the jpegs to iPhoto. I store the RAWs separately. I do this because NX2 does the best job on the NEFs that I have seen. And I've tried Aperture, Lightroom, iPhoto, Capture One and a couple of others.
Regards
TD

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Where does mac store all my original photos since iphoto seems to have deleted them no i did not do a back up :-(

I once had over 1000 photos which included the birth of my grandkids etc - now i have one
I have done every thing, rebuild by holding down cntrl - dwnload iphoto manager but i still ony have 1 photo the one that i put in last week
i have looked in the library i have looked in the iphoto masters file and there is only 1 photo
i photo keeps freezing up so its pretty much usless
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If you find multiple "User" 's , then try to mount one of those and see if your iPhoto library is there. It will have the same path as mentioned about..
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Do I need to keep the originals?
This just seems a little odd to me if it duplicated all my files. I am now using 40 gigs of space instead of 20.
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2. You cannot move or rename the files on your system or iPhoto will lose track of them on systems prior to 10.5 and iPhoto 08. Even with the later versions issues can still arise if you move the referenced files to new volumes or between volumes.
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