Finding old iPhoto book templates

Is there a secret location for old templates (storybook) for creating books in iPhoto?

If you have an image editor that supports layers or Pages you can create your own custom page themes and layouts as described here: iP11 - Creating a Custom Page, with the Theme's Background for an iPhoto Book
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Find old iphoto book

Can someone tell me if there is a way to see old orders of iphoto books in my account. I have created more than one and cannot see which ones were actually ordered.

For
the most up-to-date status of your order, log into online Order Status with your Apple ID and password.
http://store.apple.com/us/help/print_products#orderstatus
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Upgraded hard drive, can't find old iPhoto books

I upgraded the hardrive in my old iMac and my OS was upgraded at the same time. I'd produced 3 books in iPhoto and they no longer appear, even though all the data was transfered from the old HD. I assume that the new version of iPhoto has lost the Books, although all the photos are there.
My question is - can I retrieve these old books in any way?

I too have "lost books" in moving from one computer to another in a different location. Thanks to this post I've "found" them in the database but my question is how to restore them so that they are visible in iPhoto and therefore available for reprints?
This makes no sense - books do not exist except in the database and the only way to see them is using the database access program - iPhoto - so if you can see them you are seeing them in iPhoto - you can not see them "in the database" any other way
LN

Bring far better iPhoto book-templates back!

Please migrate the iPhoto Book templates to Photos.
Photos is better in a lot of aspects but for us none of the offered book templates gets close to "Old World Travel" or "Asian Travel" etc.
They had a far better variety of pages by default, being able to take more photos at the time and needed far less editing.
The poor Photo books just show e.g. 80 pages of always the same boring page layout. Then the message "can only import 80 photos". In iPhoto I added 220 photos and got a nice varying layout. Boom.
If this (rather easy-to-do thing) is not happening, I guess you lost us as customers!

There are other online book providers that may have a more flexible layout that would suit your needs. Here are some of them:
Sites for Ordering Bound Books
Ofoto
Shutterfly
SharedInk
ImageStation
PhotoWorks
Viovo
Blurb
Blurb has an application that you can download and build the book locally before uploading.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) 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 or later), 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 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. 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.
Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

Old Iphoto book was changed when I opened it. How to revert back?

I have 2 previous Iphoto books that I made and now I have Iphoto11. When I clicked to open one of the books, Iphoto11 totally changed the book and made it into a new version. How do I get the old version back the way I had it?

You can't. Evidently the themes that you had used in the previous version of iPhoto are not available in iPhoto 11. The only way you can get that particular theme back is if you have a backup copy of the older library and can install and run the previous verson of iPhoto. However, depending on the version of iPhoto, you may not be able to order a copy.
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IPhoto book templates...

Are there other book templates that can be used in iPhoto? Looking for more variety than what is offered in iPhoto! Thanks.

If you have an image editor that supports layers or Pages you can create your own custom page themes and layouts as described here: iP11 - Creating a Custom Page, with the Theme's Background for an iPhoto Book
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Looking for iPhoto book template for Aperture

I created a photobook in iPhoto and now need to add a few things that iPhoto wont permit ie images in places that are not on the templates. Therefore, I am trying Aperture since it allows me to modify templates. So, I now need to recreate a template in Aperture that is the same as the one I used in iPhoto. To speed everything up, I am looking to see if I can install the templates from iPhoto. If so, that would save me lots of work. Actually, if I could only import the photobook from iPhoto, that would be even better!
So, does anyone know where I can get the templates/themes that are in iPhoto and how do I install them in Aperture?

That is not a possibility - but you can do a page layout in Aperture (or any other program) and print it to PDF using the send PDF to iPhoto option to send an option of it to iPhoto and then add it to the iPhoto book as a full page photo
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I have an old iPhoto book that I want to publish again after 5 years, will I have to change the format or can I leave it as it is?

Hi
I am trying to re publish an iPhoto book after 5 years since it was last published.
Will it still print in the same way as it was laid out or do I have to re edited it before buying more books?
I have looked at the latest options and they are quite different from before, so a bit worried.
I dont want to but three books (which some one else is paying for) and find out that they are wrong?
Anybody have similar experience or any ideas?

If you have upgraded iPhoto in that time (you do not say) then you may have problems or may not -
Before ordering your book preview it using this method - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040 - and save the resulting PDF for reference - the delivered book will match it.
LN

Major help needed! Saving iPhoto book as a working file

I am a student teacher and I am teaching a lesson on Friday that uses iPhoto book. My cooperating teacher has asked me to create an iPhoto book template for the students to use to make the activity easier for them. I have created the template book but realized I have no idea how to save it as a working file that can be transferred from one computer to the students' laptops.
I know there are some tutorials from a user named Old Toad for this; however, I am not typically a mac user, so I found those directions sort of confusing. I need very clear and explicit directions on how to do this if I can. Thanks so much.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
The Photobooks are templates.
The only way to move a book to another computer is to move the Library that contains it. This is because the book is an entry in the database and there is no ay to share it.
Regards
TD

I have an old Mac book pro which had hundreds of photos in iphoto. recently bought a new mac book air. now my iphoto library on the old mac book is gone!!!!

I have an old Mac book pro which had hundreds of photos in iphoto. recently bought a new mac book air. now my iphoto library on the old mac book is gone!!!!

now my iphoto library on the old mac book is gone!!!!
How did you search for the iPhoto Library?
What do you mean by "is gone"? Is the iPhoto Library missing from the Pictures folder? Or does iPhoto launch and show and empty library, and you assume, that the library is missing?
Which version of iPhoto is installed on your old Mac?
Search with Find Any File for iPhoto Libraries - download Find Any File here: The trial is free:
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.htmlhttp://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php
You can search everywhere with FindAnyFile, where Spotlight will not search.
I learned this from Old Toad , see his post here:
Re: My iPhoto Library disappeared...how do I get it back?
Download and run Find Any File to search for a file with "ThumbJPGSegment" in the file name. These are files common to all versions of iPhoto libraries.
FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't like invisible folders, system folders and packages. If there's a library hiding somewhere on your hard drive FAF will find it.

I have alot of loose photos at home (old) and I would love to make a bunch of iphoto books and make the pages like whole page collages? How do I get my photos into iphoto in order to do this? Can I make a DVD at the drugstore and add them to iphoto?

I have alot of loose photos at home (old) and I would love to make a bunch of iphoto books and make the pages like whole page collages? How do I get my photos into iphoto in order to do this? Can I make a DVD at the drugstore and add them to iphoto?

You can make the collages easily if you have iWork. Just open a letter sized page in landscape mode and drag the photos onto the page, rotate and postiion as necessary. Then do a Print ➙ PDF ➙ Save PDF to iPhoto to get a 200 dpi jpeg version of the Pages page into iPhoto. From there you can add it to your book and use a blank page with the option to have an image as the backbround.
If you have a 3rd party image editor that supports layers you can create the collage with it.
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Hi Everyone. I have an old Mac Book. I have saved a ton of emails in my inbox 'On My Mac'. There are so many it is slowing down my computer. Where do I find the folder with all the emails so I can cut and paste them to an external hard drive?Pls.help.

Hi Everyone. I have an old Mac Book with software updated to 10.6.8. I have saved a ton of emails in my inbox 'On My Mac'. There are so many it is slowing down my computer. Where do I find the folder with all the emails so I can cut and paste them to an external hard drive? Pls.help. Tks.

Depending on which email client software you use
the files should be in 'your home folder' library, esp.
if you use Mail application.... ~/Library/Mail
Since you don't specify what mail application,
that would most be associated with the file.
I notice there are some items to the right of your post
where it says "more like this' so that may be worth a
look to see if similar issues were answered. Also, the
Help viewer in your system is a searchable database.
Seems that google also brings up fair information, too.
Do you have a complete bootable clone of your entire
Mac system on an externally enclosed hard disk drive?
Good luck & happy computing!

I am using I Photo 9.2.3 with OS 10.6.8 When I upgraded to current I photo some of my Iphoto books i put together disappeared. Cant find them anywhere, including in the time machine...I photo cant open older files...How can a find th book entitled "Mom"

I am using I Photo 9.2.3 with OS 10.6.8 When I upgraded to current I photo some of my Iphoto books i put together disappeared. Cant find them anywhere, including in the time machine...I photo cant open older files...How can a find the book entitled "Mom" ? Does Apple keep ordered books on file?

Apple keeps books for a short time (used to be 40 days. I've not seen a recent time frame)
What version did you have?
Books do nor exist except in the iPhoto database so you can not "find" a book vista TM. You restore a previous library (be sure NOT to overwrite your current library) and switch to it
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Imported pics from old iphoto now am having trouble finding them on my HD..

hi there,
so here is my situation. I previously was using iphoto (from '05) and had several thousand photos, but last month one day when i opened iPhoto 95% of the photos were gone from iPhoto (my computer kept shutting off, power supply problem), but I could still find all of my photos on my HD under my username/pictures.
in any case, i just got a new mac with iphoto '09 and my local tech friend managed to get all of my old photos onto my new computer by creating a new folder (yadda yadda yadda) and all of these photos now show up in the new iphoto, but i am having a few problems, so here goes...
1. I like to view most of my photos in the 'photos' area of iphoto (as opposed to events, faces and so on) but it seems like with the older photos many show up in both an 'originals' folder and in a dated folder. i'm guessing this has something to do with photos that were edited or something of the sort. ideally, i'd just like to see one of everything. is this possible? also, of the 10K+ things moved onto the new iphoto were a number of movies uploaded from my camera. all of these show up in 'originals' wereas in the dated folders the show up as jpeg stills. why is this?
2. my biggest/most annoying problem has to do with newly uploaded pictures. actually uploading them is fine (they all go into 'untitled events' folders as opposed to the 'originals' or dated folders like all the others) it's just that i'm having trouble accessing them on my HD once they're on iphoto. in short, i email a lot of photos using hotmail. when uploading i'll typically go to macintosh hd / jeremiahpOLD(everything from old computer) / pictures / iphoto libary 2 (created to put all old photos) and they're all right there by date. but all my new photos that i'm uploading, which i thought would show up in the same place separated by date, aren't showing up. if i search for them on my HD the location shows up as 'jeremiahpOLD / modified / 2010 / date. so, i guess my big question is, how do i get newly uploaded photos to show up in the 'pictures' folder as opposed to the 'modified' folder (where i can't access them unless searching for a particular on my HD or thru iphoto)?
sorry, for the rambling. i'm just trying to figure this all out at once...it's very different from my old iphoto!
thanks in advance,
Jeremiah

iPhoto changed the way we access photos with iPhoto 7 (08) when the library folder became a package. Using the methods Larry linked you to will provide you with access to your photos for use outside of iPhoto. Another version of Terence Devlin's treatise with screenshots is shown below. The following is from one of Terence Devlin’s posts on file access for use outside of iPhoto. It’s the definitive treatise on the subject.
Since iPhoto 7 (iLife 08) the old iPhoto Library Folder is now a Package File. This is simply a folder that looks like a file in the Finder. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves.
Accessing the iPhoto Library Folder directly has never been supported in any version of iPhoto.
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
For Users of 10.5 and later
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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For users of 10.4 and later ...
Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running:
For users of 10.6 and later:
You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu. Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
For Users of 10.4 and later:
Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
1. Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. Show File: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
All of the above are a: faster and b: Safer than rooting around in the old Library Folder.
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HT3412 I recently moved all my photos from iphoto to Aperture. I had several iphoto books and cards in my project file. When everything was moved to Aperture I can't find any of the books or card projects. Are they gone or can they be restored?

I recently moved all my photos from iphoto to Aperture. I had several iphoto books and cards in my project file. When everything was moved to Aperture I can't find any of the books or card projects. Are they gone or can they be restored?

1 - without specifics I have no idea how to help
2 - the question was "are you trying to use them in iPhoto? " - it sounds like you are - to do so you will have to export them from Aperature and import into iPhoto
3 - for information on how to use them in Aperature then you need to ask about how to use Aperature in the Aperature forum as it does not involve iPhoto
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