Events, people, places , albums, tags

Can someone help me understand what happens on a file level with these tools
i understand that "tags" write a text to the actual file in windows.
how do the other elements work?

i understand that "tags" write a text to the actual file in windows.
This is not correct. Nothing is written to your photo files when you assign a tag (or any other item you mentioned).
All of the items you describe exist inside the PSE Organizer (which is a database). The information is contained inside this database. This enables you to record information about each photo, and then later to search for a photo, so if you have given a photo the tag "kids" and also the tag "beach", then later you can do a search for photos that have both tags to find this photo.
As a result of the database nature of PSE, you need to do all of your photo management inside of PSE (and not in Windows), because PSE contains information about where the file is located, and the name of the file. It does not contain the file. Thus, if you move the file, or rename it, PSE no longer can find it. (If you move or rename the file in PSE, then PSE will be able to find it).
You can, OPTIONALLY, write some of the metadata to the photo files if you so desire. Album information will never be written to the photo file. Select the desired files and then use File->Write Tags. Even if you do this, PSE uses its database for searching purposes, not the information written to the files.

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I have just started to trial PSE 13 and found out that when importing photos that have been tag into PSE 13 you cannot move any the tags into People, Places & Events. Have I missed something or has Adobe stuff this up big time. I used to be able to drag and drop in PSE 11 so why can I not do this here? I import a lot off photos that have tags on them already and I wish to put them where I want the tags.

Hi,
This behavior is the same since PSE12. This is because, now we have different categories explicitly defined for People, Places and Events. Drag drop of tags from any of these main already defined categories <Keywords, People, Places and Events>to another is not possible now.
Now, if you want to try this workflow of yours, you can try creating People, Places and events sub categories within Keywords tag category and then you can drag drop your imported tags the way you want to organize them.
Please let me know if I failed to understand your problem.
Thanks,
Anwesha

Organizer 11: Tags-Keywords --OR-- People-Places-Events?

Hello.
I well understand the (new) features of Organizer 11.
1/ I must start working on 20.000 pictures and would like to know if it is better to ONLY use Tags/Keywords with Categories (eg. People>Family>Wife) to "classify" my pictures --OR-- to use People+Places+Events --together with-- Tags/Keywords.
2/ Any ideas where I could find lists of usual tags/keywords?
Have a nice day. Eric

1) I don't understand the distinction between your two choices, but in general the answer would be "do whatever works the best in your situation"
2) There are lists of tags available on the internet, some for free and some for a small fee, but again, what works best in your situation may be a list you yourself create.
As a side issue, you can always add or change or modify your keyword list at any point in the future if you decide you need something different than what you have already created. I have done that myself, when I started taking pictures, I didn't have a lot of railroad pictures, so I really only had one tag for it "Railroad". But as the years went by, I took a lot of railroad pictures, and I had to add more detail under "Railroad".

I just upgraded from Adobe Album 3.2 to Elements 11. My events and places are listed as keywords, b

I just upgraded from Adobe Album 3.2 to Elements 11. My events and places are listed as keywords, but not properly listed under the events an places category. Only people are correct . How do I fix?

For details, please refer to 'convert catalog of previous version' section of blog: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/elementsorganizer/using/WSae2ea3b149d0c3591ae939f103860b3d59-7 f59_WIN.html
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PS Elements Event and place tags

I upgraded from 7 to 11 and don't understand what happened to my event and place tags. Do I have to do all of that work again? Don't they just transfer as my people tags did?

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Have you read this Apple document regarding sharing a library with multiple users: iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users?
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Does anyone know if the People and other tags are stored by PSE7 in the image file? Since there are well defined "Keyword" data fields in both the IPTC and XMP metadata standards, I would think PSE would store them in the image file in addition to whatever it puts in the Catalog. However, none of my other programs that read image metadata (PhotoME, PIE, iExif) are finding anything. Other programs such as Windows Photo Gallery put the keywords in the image file.
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Hi, I have recently purchased an iPhone 4 (iOS 4.1) and for some reason, events and places are not showing up on it. I restored the backup from my previous 3GS, where they were appearing as normal.
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Contact itunes support.
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All songs of one genre have half filled stars - but they have NO album tag at all

This picture says it all:
http://youscreen.de/mordax/half_filled_stars-no_album.jpg
All my songs of the genre "Techno Radio" which all have the Interpret "Radio Mitschnitt" have half filled stars if they did not receive a rating yet.
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I checked the tags with the program "mp3 tag" which shows all kinds of tags you can imagine and are not shown by music players: according to "mp3 tag" the songs only have the visible mp3 tags which you can see in the image above.
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The hollow stars are autoratings generated because the tracks are related to tracks that have been rated. If you rate an album as 3 stars all unrated tracks get a 3 star autorated track rating. If you rate one track from an album as 2 stars, and another as 4, leave the rest undated, the album gets autorated to 3 stars (the average of all manually rated tracks.
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Album tag for rss feed?

Hi there, I'm quite new to RSS feeds and was wondering if anyone could tell me the itunes tag to change what appears in the "album" field when a podcast is downloaded. Or if anyone knew of a complete list of all tags that are available -- I've already checked the Apple spec page.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Sorry, I've been away for a long time and it seems all my "newly added material" to posts has been reset.
If you're doing a podcast, true, iTMS overwrites the Album tag with the name of the podcast album, and the Genre tag with "podcast."
The other tags remain the same.
I don't like it either, since we do different series within our podcast, and would like to give each series an "Album" name. I can understand why Apple does it the way they do, though, it reflects where the episode comes from.
You may wish to send feedback to Apple about it here:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/podcast/

After upgrade to Lion, iPhoto will not save events nor save albums after created.

After upgrade to Lion, iPhoto will not save events nor save albums after created. Once iPhoto is shut down and re-launched, albums and events created no longer exist. How can this be fixed?
Also, when attempting to create cards, iPhoto freezes.
Message was edited by: askgabe

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. .
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TD

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I do have some events in an album with only the key photo showing but can't get all the events to display this way in the album. Any suggestions?

Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder.
(On 10.7: Hold the option (or alt) key while clicking on the Go menu in Finder to access the User Library)
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What's the plist file?
For new users: Every application on your Mac has an accompanying plist file. It records certain User choices. For instance, in your favourite Word Processor it remembers your choice of Default Font, on your Web Browser is remembers things like your choice of Home Page. It even recalls what windows you had open last if your app allows you to pick up from where you left off last. The iPhoto plist file remembers things like the location of the Library, your choice of background colour, whether you are running a Referenced or Managed Library, what preferences you have for autosplitting events and so on. Trashing the plist file forces the app to generate a new one on the next launch, and this restores things to the Factory Defaults. Hence, if you've changed any of these things you'll need to reset them. If you haven't, then no bother. Trashing the plist file is Mac troubleshooting 101.

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Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me? ....
If I have (for argument's sake) three songs saved on my iPod from artist X, of which one has an album tag specified and the others don't, only that one song shows up if I browse by artist. When I select the artist name, instead of going to the album list where All would be specified, it jumps straight to the album name and only shows that one song. If I browse by song name they're all there.
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I'll try to clarify, apologies.
I have two songs from Thin Lizzy. "Whiskey in the Jar" and "Sarah". "Whiskey in the Jar" has an album specified in its ID3 tag while "Sarah" does not. If I browse to Music > Artists > Thin Lizzy, only "Whiskey in the Jar" shows up. If I browse to Music > Songs, then I can see "Sarah", but only that way.

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