Elements 12 Folders and Albums

I have successfully imported all my photos and moved them into albums. I am left with a bunch of folders. Is there any way to delete these folders without deleting the photos, or as an alternative to combining all the folders into one?

Beware!
You don't MOVE photos into albums. You just create a list (a kind of playlist) of the files you have chosen. The files stay in the folders they are in.
The folder organization is different from the logical organization of the catalog. You can put photos from different folders in the same album of a catalog, you can have the same image in different albums. If you delete a file from an album, it won't be deleted on your disk. If you delete a photo file in a folder, you'll get a 'disconnected' warning in the catalog and the album.

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I've just upgraded Aperture and seem to have lost all the folders and albums. How can I retrieve them?

When I opened Aperture a dialogue box appeared suggesting I upgrade. The upgrade was done, and now all the folders and albums previously in Aperture have disappeared. How can I retrieve them?

. The upgrade was done, and now all the folders and albums previously in Aperture have disappeared. How can I retrieve them?
When you opened your new Version of Aperture you probably created a new, empty Aperture Library.
Do you remember where your original Aperture Library is located? Usually it resides in your "Pictures" folder, and is named something.aplibrary. If you do not remember where it is, search with Spotlight for ".aplibrary".
Quit Aperture, if it is running, then select your old Aperture Library and double click it to open it. This will launch Aperture on your correct library, and you should see all your projects and albums again.
Regards
Léonie

How do I move folders and albums in iPhoto on my MacBook Pro to my ipad?

How do I move folders and albums in iPhoto on my MacBook Pro to a new iPad Air?

To sync photos, connect your iPad to your Mac and select it on the left-hand sidebar of your Mac's iTunes (you can enable the sidebar via option-command-S on a Mac), and on the right-hand side there should be a series of tabs, one of which should be Photos - if you select that tab you can then select which photo albums/folders to sync to the iPad. There is a bit more info on this page.
You will need to sync all the photos that you want on the iPad together in one go as only the most recent photo sync remains on the iPad - synced photos can't be deleted directly on the iPad, instead they are deleted by not including them in the next photo sync.

Exporting a library with its folders and albums

I scanned over 1700 slides into my aperture library. AFter spending a considerable amount of time putting them into folders and albums, I would like to export the project so my husband can put it into his aperture library. I exported the whole project onto my desktop so I could put it in dropbox to enable him to put it into his computer. However, when I exported the library, It came across as just one big library of photos, with no structure. I don't care to reorganize the photos into folders and albums again, as it would be very time consuming. Is there any way to export the library and keep its structure?
Thanks in advance
Nancy

Nancy,
what is your Aperture version, and how did you export?
In the current Aperture version 3.4.5 all projects and albums should be preserved, when you export a library with "File > Export > Projects/Albums/Items as new library"
For example, I selected two albums in the library Inspector simultaniously, made sure, that I only selected the albums in the panel, but not single images within the albums, and then used the command "File > Export > Albums as new library".
The exported library had the two albums, as well as all projects and folders necessary to fill he albums.
Did you perhaps only select one big project of scanned images? Then try again by selecting the albums you want to export. My two albums exported like this: You see, the exported library has quite a few folders with projects inside, as well as my two albums:
Regards
Léonie

How to burn folders and albums to dvd

how can I burn some folders and the albums it contains into a dvd?¿
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Where will these folders/images be used?
If for another iPhoto user or for back up purposes then select the Albums and go Share -> Burn
If for use on a WIndows Machine or for someone who doesn't use iPhoto, then export the Albums to folders on the desktop and burn those with the Finder.
Regards
TD

Backup / export all folders and albums iphoto 08

I haven't been able to figure this out. I want to export photo events/albums to another folder for backup. However, any backup I do it does not backup the assigned folder or album it had in iphoto. Instead it exports all my pictures unorganized in one giant folder.
How can export with all the organized album events I've already created in iphoto?

either:
1 - drag the iPhoto library to your backup drive (or use something like SUper DUper - http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html to clone it) - this backs up your iPhoto library and all elements in it - events, albums, keepsakes, etc with their ratings, keywords, places, faces etc
2 - select all of the photo in an event (or an album) and export them to a folder - repeat for each event or album you want to backup the photos from - this backs up only the selected photos and the exported items
LN

Making best use of projects, folders, and albums

I do think I understand the difference between how these function. For example, an image can be in only one project, but can be in multiple albums while in that project. Not sure if the same is true of folders. My question is how do experienced users utilized these three things to create an efficient filing system? I have one other caveat—I want to be able to sync photos manually to my iPad without have an extra layer to navigate. For example, when I created a project called iPad Photos and then had albums in the project, even though I checked only the albums for syncing, they still showed up on the iPad as nested within the Project.
I hope this makes sense—if need be, ignore the iPad issue and please help me create a filing system that will be efficient and effective over the long haul.
Many thanks—I know this seems simple but I am sure it would be easy to create a system that works well with 100 images but is a disaster with 1,000 images when it comes to putting those images to various kinds of use: slideshows, photo books, simple prints, etc.
Ben

Ben,
have you looked at Kirby Krieger's user tip?
The Well-Trod Path: a Beginner's Guide to how Aperture's major parts inter-relate
For example, an image can be in only one project, but can be in multiple albums while in that project.
Pojects are the basic longterm storage structure - an image needs to be stored somewhere, and only once. That is, why an image and all its different versions are contained in one project. I have basically one project for each occasion - I create a new project, each time I download new images to Aperture, and related projects are grouped by folders. A typical folder with images taken during a holiday trip would have a project for each day of taking pictures at different stations of the journey.
Albums are your own shortterm retrival structure. You group you images differently for different purposes, depending on how you want to use them. The same image can have different uses at the same time, so it can be used in different albums. For example, a photo showing an orchid in Peru would go ino three albums: an album of Peru images, an album of flowers, and album of my latest trip to Peru. I also group my albums by folders - a folder of travel albums, a folder with thematic albums (flowers, lighthouses, vulcanos, wildlife,etc.), a folder with family albums, a folder with albums used for teaching, for research, for testing.
Many of my albums are smart albums. Rather than adding photos manually to albums, I tag them with keywords, places, faces, and ratings, and they will be added to the corresponding albums automatically. My keywords have different flavors - there are keywords for categories (flowers, animals,landscape, buildings), for different uses (screensaver, web, books, iPad), for the technical quality (the camera or scanner, the kind of processing of raytraycing). So my album for my screensaver of lighthouse pictures would be based on the keywords _Screensaver, building:lighthouse, *****.
Albums I sync to my iPad are also smart albums, and are not grouped with the projects but in a separate folder and also smart albums. I only sync the albums with 5* images for specific topics to the iPad. wildlife pictures, flower pictures, birds, some family meetings, travel albums.
Regards
Léonie

Searching folders and albums

I have my Photo's library organised by folders for the years and then albums within those folders. If I have an event with multiple moments, for example a holiday where i visited 3 cities, i will create a sub folder within the years folder and then make 2/3 albums in the sub folder.
Basically I want to use the search bar to search my albums or folders but it's not doing that. For example if i type 'Davids birthday' i want it to simply find the album davids birthday in the 2008 folder. I don't want to have to go into the folder, select all the photos, then add 'davids birthday' as a keyword. This doesn't make sense, there is no logical reason why search can't look at album/folder names is there?

Searching for a file name will only display the Moment it's in. For example when searching for SS1-01.jpg in the folder shown in this screenshot
results in 3 hits in the search results window;
Each gives this result of 2 files with the same file name in the library:
Tell Apple what missing features you'd like added or missing features restored in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

I have iphoto 5.0.4 My computer crashed while trying to quit iphoto and when I rebooted my albums and organized folders had all disapeared. All my photos are still there but how do I retrieve my folders and albums? I tried rebuilding the database

My computer crashed while quiting iphoto. When I rebooted my albums and folders had disappeared. How do I get them back? I tried rebuilding the database to no avail. I am using iphoto 5...
Thank you community!

Most simple solution: restore from your back up.
Other than that, try 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

Many of my Organizer folders and albums are not accessible in My Pictures

While most of the photos I have in Organizer also appear in "My Pictures", several do not and are not able to be located for use with any conversion program which browses the libraries in that area. I have no idea why some automatically go to a "MY Pictures" library and others are not able to be found even when entering detailed file info. Would appreciate any help from someone more familiar. I am using Elements 11 and Windows 7.

You may need to reset the iCloud documents & data service, as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5824.

Importing iPhoto `11 Library Lost Folders & Nested Albums

Been using iPhoto since its' inception. Currently at iPhoto `11. Had created many Albums and Smart Albums based on Keywords and had most of them organized into Folders in iPhoto.
Just bought Aperture 3 and, following the video tutorial provided by Apple, imported my 9,000+ iPhoto Library into it. However, only albums that resided at the top level in the sidebar of iPhoto made it into Aperture. All Folders and any Albums and Smart Albums that resided inside those Folders were not imported into Aperture.
I have verified that all photos contained within the missing Folders and Albums have made it into Aperture, just not the Folder and Album hierarchies I had created over the years.
Do I need to delete the Aperture Library and re-import the iPhoto Library again using other settings?

Thanks for the reply Terrence. I'm still a bit confused by some contradictory behavior of Aperture.
The Aperture Manual states (p.112):
+"The organization of your iPhoto images and albums is maintained as projects in the Projects panel."+
Well, not actually. Only EVENTS seem to be maintained as Projects when imported from iPhoto. My iPhoto library contains 1189 Events. Aperture now has 1185 Projects after the iPhoto import. But Projects does not contain any of the album organization that had been created in iPhoto.
The Aperture Manual further states (p.112):
"+You cannot import slideshows, books, and Smart Albums from your iPhoto Library."+
Well, actually, Aperture DID import 5 of my Smart Albums. But these were only the Smart Albums at the top level of iPhoto's sidebar. All other Smart Albums nested inside folders in iPhotos sidebar were not brought over.
So I'm confused.

Organizing Photos in Folders or Albums

Hello
I have hundreds of high res photos from a film project, and I'd like to organize them for easy viewing.
As I understand the way iPhoto works, it is basically taking/referring to actual images from their original source. (like an external drive).
I'd like to know the best way to bring all of these photos into iPhoto;
Do I need to import ALL of then into the Main iPhoto Library, or can I import them into separate folders or albums? I was led to believe that in order to put them into separate folders, they all need to appear in the Main Library first? Is that right?
And what type of sub group do I need? Separate Folders? Or Separate Albums?
What is the basic difference between them?
Thank you
Mike

Mike
it is basically taking/referring to actual images from their original source. (like an external drive).
No, actually by default it's quite the opposite. It prefers to copy the files into the iPhoto Library Folder and manage them. You can change this setting, but I do not recommend it. Very strongly. However, you can run an entire library from an external, so if you're worried about space, that's not a problem.
Do I need to import ALL of then into the Main iPhoto Library,
iPhoto uses exactly the same metaphor as iTunes: All pics are in the Library, albums are subsets of the library. Albums (like iTunes playlists) are virtual. A pic can be in 1, 10 or 100 albums with no disk space wasted through duplicate files.
So, import the pic, they go in the library. Then create albums (File -> New Album) and drag the pics to the albums in whatever way you prefer. You can also tag the pics and create Smart Albums in a variety of ways.
If your files are already sorted into folders, then drag a folder to the Source (or left-hand) pane and iPhoto will import and create an Album of the same name as the folder.
File -> New Folder will allow you to create Folders. Folders can contain nested folders and albums, but not loose pics. A pic must be in an album to go into a folder.
Regards
TD

Importing Folders and SubFolders, Maintaining Structure

Hello,
I'm a former PC user with thousands of photos. I like iPhoto and have used it for doing some minor editing and printing. The interface is very easy to use, except when it comes to organization. The events feature is a nice idea, but I don't always organize my photos that way. I have copied all of my photos from my PC to my Mac hard drive (in the Pictures) area of the Finder. In that view, they've maintained my organizational structure which is very important for me to be able to navigate quickly and work with photos. Previously (on the PC) I was using ACDSee which also utilized this same folder/subfolder/subfolder hierarchy. It made it very easy so my photo organizer/viewer mirrored what was stored on my HD. iPhoto is not as transparent in this regard and so I'm leery to import my thousands of photos. Specifically, my HD folder organization looks something like this:
Finder
_Pictures
_House folder
___Minnesota house folder
______Before Remodeling folder
______Furniture folder
______Landscaping folder
______Remodeling in progress folder
_________Photo 1
_________Photo 2
_________Photo 3
___Lake house folder
___Childhood house folder
___Grandparents house folder
_Travel folder
___Europe 2001 folder
___Europe 2002 folder
___Europe 2003 folder
___Barcelona folder
______Granada folder
______Madrid folder
_________Photo 1
_________Photo 2
_________Photo 3
______Paris folder
and so on...
This may seem like an old school way to organize photos in light of the magic of iPhotos and events, but it makes a lot of sense to me since not all of my photos are ordered by event, but rather "category" and "sub-category".
How can I import my current photos into iPhoto and maintain this organization? I'm guessing there's a way to do it manually, but for the hundreds of folders/subfolders and thousands of pictures I have, I really don't have the time to do it manually.
Thanks for any and all advice.
PS - I took a screen capture of my folder view in Finder, but don't know how to attach it to this post. Anyway, the structure above pretty much describes it.
Cheers,
-jobber

jobber:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The short answer is no. Each folder of image files will be imported as one event (if you have the Events preferences set as shown here). However, you can create virtual folders within iPhoto to put other folders and albums inside them. Folders can hold other folders, albums, slideshows, etc., but not photos themselves. Albums can just photos. Here's what it might look like.
The only application that can do what you want is something like iView MediaPro which is not Expression Media from Microsoft. iVMP is considered to be the best DAM (Digital Asset Management) application at the current time by many professional photographers.
iPhoto is designed to manage photos by date. You set the time span for each event, 1 day, 1 week, 4 hrs or 8 hrs, and iPhoto will arrange the imports into appropriately grouped events (except for photos being imported from the Finder as mentioned earlier).
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. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Organizing for stock library. Projects, folders or albums?

This may have been talked about to death, but I cannot find a thread that fits my question.
I have a growing library of images in Aperture. I am also a stock photographer by living. My library in Aperture is somewhat haphazard and I'm trying to organize it so that I can have it make sense. I do not sell my photos as stock myself (I submit to several agencies) so I'm not sure that I need to file my images so that I can get to them if a client needs a shot. That's what the agencies are for.
My work flow is something like this:
1 - shoot pix
2 - import and edit (read: delete) images in Aperture
3 - prepare and submit images to agencies
4 - next....
I do find myself taking pix of many of the same subjects, so I do want to organize them in Aperture.
My main question is, what is the best, or most efficient, way to organize major subjects in the library, with Projects, Folders, or Albums?
For instance, I shoot a production with models. That could be a project titled " August 14 production." When the submission is done, i could archive the entire project to save space. But, suppose I want to keep some around to submit to a different agency. Is a project the best way to store this?
Also, I find myself shooting a lot of NYC landmarks. Should each landmark be in its own project, or have it be an album in a project called NYC, or should it be a project in a folder called NYC?
I'm really not sure what the most efficient filing method is for my business.
Any discussion and/or advice is GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Antonio

gustavus:
n attempting to relocate a folder it did not end up where intended and I cannot find it.
I hope you are referring to doing the relocation from within iPhoto and not in the Finder and the library package. Any moving, renaming of files and/or folder inside the iPhoto Library Package while in the Finder is tantamount to the cardinal sin of iPhoto, Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder. That will mess up your library to where you may have to start over with a new library.
Can you describe where these folders and albums were located when you were moving them?
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 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.

Aperture folders and projects

After importing my photos from Aperture to Photos, my file and project structure is missing. How do I recover this? can I recover this? Thanks.

All metadata is Image-specific. The Image "owns" its metadata; wherever the Image is, its metadata is there with it.
There is no default template or auto-organization feature in Aperture. How you organize your Image collection (using Projects, Folders, and Albums) is entirely up to you.
Re-organizing can be fairly efficiently done. Create two new top-level Folders, named something like "Old Organization" and "NEW ORGANIZATION!". After designing the Library structure that best meets your needs, slowly and methodically move Images and containers from the containers in the "Old" Folder to the newly-created containers in the "NEW" Folder. When you are done, you should have no Images left in the "Old" Folder. Delete it.
Above, Frank refers to "Split View". I'm fairly certain he actually means one of the views showing multiple Browsers. I suggest doing this. Note, however, that you cannot drag from Browser to Browser (at least in 3.4.5). Your "drop target" must be an item on the Library Inspector. And don't forget List View, which is also usually helpful when creating a Library structure.
Of course, you should never use any computer file without having a backup.
Additionally, I suggest running "Repair Database" before you start, and after you finish.
For a concise overview of the parts of Aperture and how they relate, have a look here.
I have additional comments regarding Library structure here.
HTH,
--Kirby.

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