Help transferring Picasa to iPhoto
I have only recently moved to a Mac (hurrah) but when transferring my photos from Picasa to iPhoto, they all came across ok but without any comments/titles I had on them ... just a long set of digits.
Can I get the comments back ??
RokNok,
Congrats on your new iMac. I don't think you will be able to, probably an issue when the transfer occured. However I'd suggest calling AppleCare, you have 90 days of free telephone support and they may have a solution.
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Picasa to iPhoto - help needed with folders/importing
I am converting over from Picasa on windows to iPhoto on a new iMac I recently bought. And I have to say, the conversion has not been as smooth as I thought it would be. Any help will be appreciated highly
1. In Picasa, I was able to see my underlying folder structure. At the same time I was able to arrange pictures from multiple folders into albums which became the metadata container.
Question: Is there a way to easily see the folder structure of the underlying file system rather than have the iPhoto library which seems to show simply in terms of years.
2. From other posts on the discussion board it seems like I can simply drag the folder from Finder to the source section of iPhoto to somewhat mimic what I described in #1 above. If that is the only option, I have the next question, and that is -
Question: If I drag and drop a folder from Finder to the source section of iPhoto why does iPhoto not bring everything in as "Originals". I see that some of my pictures go into the corresponding "Modified" folder. It seems like there is an internal "modification" that is done at the time of import which I am unable to check on/off.
Question: Also, in the same method, I see that the picture got duplicated on the file system - once appearing in the original folder which I dragged from the Finder, and the second time showing up under Originals or Modified folders within the iPhoto library folder under Pictures.
How do I elimiate this duplication? Can I eliminate it and keep the "file system folder structure" available?
Thanks in advance!TD,
Thanks for the excellent explanation of the application and how it differs from what I have been used to doing. Without going into too much details, I would like to say that Picasa may be a file organizer, but it does allow me a concept of "albums" which is virtual and when I choose to put the same picture in multiple albums, it does not make a new copy each time.
But I am not here to compare Picasa with iPhoto, only here to see how to do things in iPhoto the same or better way.
Rolls, on the other hand) in the iPhoto Window (View
-> Film Rolls) correspond exactly with the Roll
Folders in the Originals Folder in the iPhoto Library
Folder. You can move photos between Rolls, you can
rename rolls, edit them, create them, as long as you
do it via the iPhoto Window. Check out the Info Pane
(wee 'i', lower left) the name and date fields are
editable. Edit a Roll Name using the Info Pane, the
Roll Folder in iPhoto Library Folder/Originals will
also have the new name.
So, rolls are in fact "real" and not virtual concepts right? I would actually be moving the files from one roll to another underneath when I move a picture in iPhoto from one roll to another. Is that the correct understanding I have?
And, then FYI: A Note about the iPhoto Library
Folder:
In this folder there are various files, which are the
Library itself and some ancillary files. Then you
have three folders
Originals are the photos as they were
downloaded from your camera or scanner.
(ii) Modified contains edited pics, shots that
you have cropped, rotated or changed in any way.
This allows the Photos -> Revert to Original command
- very useful if you don't like the changes you've
made.
(iii) Data holds the thumbnails the the app
needs to show you the photos in the iPhoto Window.
Very cool. That makes sense, and I did read about this folder structure in some other posts which is very helpful to get started.
If I drag and drop a folder from Finder to the
source section of iPhoto why does iPhoto not bring
everything in as "Originals". I see that some of my
pictures go into the corresponding "Modified" folder.
It seems like there is an internal "modification"
that is done at the time of import which I am unable
to check on/off.
Your camera has an Auto Rotate feature, right? What
happens there is that your camera doesn't rotate the
pics, it simply puts a flag on them "Display Me This
Way". Part of the core philosophy of iPhoto is to
leave your original file untouched, so it creates a
modified version, showing the rotation. How to stop
it? Turn off auto-rotate or rotate the pics before
they come into iPhoto.
Excellent point. I will change that setting on the camera. Of course for all the pictures I have downloaded already, I suppose there is no way to change the rotation settings, right?
Also, in the same method, I see that the picture
got duplicated on the file system - once appearing in
the original folder which I dragged from the Finder,
and the second time showing up under Originals or
Modified folders within the iPhoto library folder
under Pictures.
How do I elimiate this duplication? Can I eliminate
it and keep the "file system folder structure"
available?
Trash your Original file structure. Let iPhoto do the
file management. Freaky, right? Well don't do it
right away, leave it until you feel confident in
iPhoto, until you feel that you can trust the
application.
The other alternative is to not copy the files into
the iPhoto Library Folder (You can change this at
iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced). The down side is
that iPhoto will still create the modified and data
folders, when you delete from iPhoto you'll need to
track down the individual pic yourself to delete it
from the HD and things like migrating the library to
an external HD or a new machine can be trickier.
Ok, now that I understand the application a little better, I see that the original files and folder structure is not useful at all.
But unfortunately, I would like to keep the folder structure on my external hard drive so that if I log into windows on bootcamp, I could use Picasa to access the same set of pictures. I currently have an automator action (backup folder/sync folder) which takes all the contents of Pictures folder and replicates it to the external drive. Then when I log in from Picasa, I have set the option to only scan the external drive.
If I trash the original structure and simply sync the iPhoto Library folder, and then access it through Picasa, will there be any problems if Picasa drops some of its "database type" files (I know for sure it drops a Picasa.ini)?
If I do not move any files from one folder to another, is it ok to let Picasa access the iPhoto Library folder?
Most people who want to keep their own structure do
so because they're afraid they won't be able to find
the picture files: There are three ways (at least) to
get files from the iPhoto Window.
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.
Thanks very much again for the detailed explanation. I really appreciate it.
And, as I said above, Rolls have a direct
correspondence with the iPhoto Library Folder.
And I suppose if rolls are "real" then the virtual equivalents would be things like smart folders?
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I am having trouble on transferring photos from iPhoto to my Seagate External Hard Drive
Im new to Mac and I was doing fine with my new laptop but somewhere along the way I have reach to a point where I cant continue my work. I am having trouble on transferring photos from iPhotos to my Seagate External Hard Drive, even when the hard drive is compatable with my MacBook Air. Some how I have trouble trying to drag my photos to my drive and it is not letting me to do so. Pls. help me in my sistuation or derect me to a website that will answer my questions. I am getting really upset and frustrated; so I'm out of ideas.
even when the hard drive is compatable with my MacBook Air.
What is the file system on that drive? Is it formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled)?
And what is your iPhoto version? iPhoto 9.5.1?
Some how I have trouble trying to drag my photos to my drive and it is not letting me to do so
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The best way to import photos from Picasa to iPhoto
Hi,
Many of my friends share their pictures online using picasa. Sometimes, I'd like to copy these pictures to keep a backup offline. As a software, I use iPhoto; not picasa. What is the best way to import pictures from picasa to iPhoto?
I first tried to subscribe to the RSS feed using iPhoto and then copy the pictures from there to my library, but then the dates of the pictures are set wrong: instead of indicating when the picture was shot, it indicates some other date (I guess it indicates the date when the picture was uploaded to picasa).
Then I decided to install the software picasa.app. From the webalbum of my friends, I could download the pictures directly to picasa.app. Then I exported them to the desktop, and from there imported them to iPhoto. The dates where set correctly, but I lost all the titles and comments of the pictures.
Do you have any method to download the pictures while keeping both the dates and the titles correctly?
Thanx!There is a direct option in Organizer which lets you import from iPhoto. This is under Import dropdown menu in left panel.
If you are importing from iPhoto'09, your Tags, Albums Events, captions, star rating would also get imported apart from your media. This works differently for iPhoto'011 where you can get only the media to the Organizer,
Just a couple of things to know:
1. If in iPhoto preferences, you have chosen to create copies of your photos in iPhoto library and your library hence refers to the media store inside the library package, then on importing from iPhoto, Organizer would create copies of all those media under your pictures folder. That means, it would not corrupt your iPhoto package or modify it in any way.
2. However, if in iPhoto, you are organizing by using references to original location on your Hard drive i.e. you are not creating copies of media in iPhoto library then on importing from iPhoto to Organizer, the Organizer would also use the same references and would not create copies of the media.
Hope that helps!
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Importing Faces Data from Picasa to iPhoto or Aperture
I own both iPhoto and Aperture, but I have a ton of photos that I have performed face recognition on within Picasa. I want to move photos over to my Mac, but for some reason iPhoto will not recognize the face data. I made sure to store the face tags within the picasa photos and not a seperate folder, but I am guessing that iPhoto doesn't support those tags. Is there a third party software or script to leverage the face data I have already labeled in Picasa within iPhoto or Aperture? While naming faces isn't hard, alot of time was invested to labeling faces in my pictures.
Here's what I did to automatically export all face tags as keywords. I used this great free tool called AVPicFaceXMPTagger to insert all the face tags as keywords into the IPTC and XMP headers of the image files. After running the tool in Windows I imported the photos to iPhoto. Now I can search for photos that contains one or more people easily.
Please mind that:
It took ~2 hours to go over my entire library of photos that contains ~20,000 images with 9,925 detected faces of 130 people.
This is not a perfect solution. Using keywords you can make OR search, not AND search. For example, searching for "Tim and Chris" will retrieve all photos of Tim, Chris as well as Tim and Chris.
The keywords do not completly replace the functionalities of face recognition tags, e.g. keywords do not show up under "Faces", the recognition engine needs tags to suggest new detections, etc.
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i was importing photos to picasa from iphoto, and it shut down when doing so. when i restarted i photo, all of my photos were gone. where are they?? please help??
Make a temporary, duplicate copy of the library and try the three fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your Home/Library/Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache files that are located in your Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
3 - reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding the the Option key. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
Fix #2
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library.
Select the options identified in the screenshot.
Fix #3
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
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
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
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 but not books, calendars or slideshows. 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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Lightroom will not import my photos. It did up to a week ago. I have changed cards and cameras (both worked two weeks ago). I can import the photos to Picasa and iPhoto. I get the following error message:
Some import operations were not performed.
The following files were not imported because they could not be read [followed by a list of the files I wanted to import]
Thumbnails show up. LR just will not import them.
Any idea what is going wrong?If the Import button is not clickable, that means that Lightroom thinks you have no new photos to import (one possible reason is that they are duplicates)
So, you need to figure out why Lightroom thinks that. The way I would do this is to search your Library module for at least one of the photos, by file name. To do this, you would follow all 4 of these steps in sequence:
Click on All Photographs in the Catalog Panel on the left of the Library Module
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Hi I just got a new MacBook Pro I need help transferring Bootcamp (Windows XP) from my old Macbook Pro to my new Macbook Pro Mac OS X 10.7.4 2.6 Ghz Intel Core 17. How do I make bootable clone of Bootcamp?
you can't just move XP even if you took the hard drive and have Windows boot and function.
Apparently there are Windows tools to sanitize the OS and strip all the motherboard drivers and services.
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My iphoto9 has not been able to open for over 10 days!! I can't load my Christmas pics, etc. I know the pics are still there because I can access them through a round about way. Can anyone help me to OPEN iPHOTO!?
To re-install iPhoto
1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)
2a: On 10.5: Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name.
2b: On 10.6: Those receipts may be found as follows: In the Finder use the Go menu and select Go To Folder. In the resulting window type
/var/db/receipts/
2c: on 10.7 they're at
/private/var/db/receipts
A Finder Window will open at that location and you can remove the iPhoto pkg files.
3. Re-install.
If you purchased an iLife Disk, then iPhoto is on it.
If iPhoto was installed on your Mac when you go it then it’s on the System Restore disks that came with your Mac. Insert the first one and opt to ‘Install Bundled Applications Only.
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Please can u help transferal of ALL my photos from sony xperiaz1 to macbook pro. I've tried several times but lots r still missing altho' still on mob. In hope - thanks!
I have tried all the above and nothing seems to work. Any other suggestions?
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HELP! I had iPhoto on my mac, for some reason it was not responding or damaged. down loaded a new version but can't find my photos. any ideas please. I thought once on the mac always on the mac.
Sorry but we need details to help
What version of the OS do you have? What has changed since iPhtoo worked?
What exactly is the problem - you say "it was not responding" - You downloaded a new version (what version)" -you can't find yoru photos" none of which is helpful
look in your applications folder - is there an Iphoto application there? If so get info and report the version
Look in the picures folder - is there an iPhoto library there? If so exactly (including exact error messages) happens if you double click on it?
what else can you tell us that might help us assist you?
LN -
Help: could not open iphoto: message "you can't open the application iphoto because it may be damaged or incomplete".
Greetings,
It sounds like the iPhoto application is damaged and needs to be reinstalled.
Follow this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3249
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Picasa and iPhoto best practices
I have read many a post on the difficulties between these two programs and I understand it is like comparing apples to oranges.
However, having said all that, what about some advice for the stubborn ones among us. Here are my questions:
1. How do I set up iPhoto 11 to work with Picasa?
2. What tool can i use to monitor folders for changes like what Picasa does?
3. How can i delete a photo in iPhoto and know it is gone for good (such as an ex wife).
4. How do I create an online disaster recovery plan so that if I lose my data, I do not lose my photos?
5. How can I avoid duplicates?
6. How can I ensure that If I download a photo from email or online that it gets into iPhoto and Picasa simultaneously?
7. How can I use my existing folder structure from within iPhoto?
8. What other tips and tricks am I missing?
Thank you to all the experts in advance...2. Where or what would I search for to find the google hack (if i wanted)
You don't search. It's built in to Picasa.
3. Yes, I want the existing file structure to be recreated in iPhoto. If I go the iPhoto route, I want to recreate what I have already done in finder that has taken me months.
If you want to duplicate your Folder Tree in iPhoto:
Start at the bottom of the hierarchy and drag a folder of images to the Album Heading in iPhoto. The pics will be imported and an Album of the same name created.
You can then create the Enclosing Folders in the iPhoto Window (File -> New Folder) and drag the Album to it. Folders can contain other Folders (Nested Folders) and Albums.
However, is your folder system date based? Then this form of organisation is a bit pointless in iPhoto when Smart Albums or the Calendar tool (Click on the wee magnifying glass in the Search Box) mean you can find the photos taken on any day, month or year at a click. With Smart Albums it's easy to find photos from specific range - say, June 3 to August 25, 2009 etc.
If your folder system is theme based - Xmas pics, Birthday pics etc, then you'll find Keywords are much more flexible, and can be used in conjunction with other criteria for making Smart Albums and searches.
4. If I have copy files unchecked in preferences, and I delete iPhoto trash, will that delete it from finder?
No. iPhoto will not delete any file outside its own Library.
5. Because I had the copy files unchecked, is it best to start again with that preference checked and do an import if I go the iPhoto route?
Yes. Up to iPhoto 09 you could use an App called AliasHerder, to convert to the Managed Library but that hasn't been updated for iPhoto 11 yet.
Some other comment son iPhoto v Picasa:
1. iPhoto is integrated throughout the OS and is available in every Open... or Attach... dialogue in the OS.
2. iPhoto is colour managed.
3. iPhoto can integrate with a wide range of online sharing sites.
4. iPhoto has Keepsakes: books, calendar and so on
Finally, and this may or may not be important to you, but when you install Picasa you accept an End User licence that allows Google to update the application when it wants to, with no further recourse to you. Should there be a problem with an update, as can happen to any software developer from time to time, you have no way of refusing that update.
Regards
TD -
MY IPHOTO HAS LOCKED ITSELF HELP!!, MY IPHOTO HAS LOCKED ITSELF HELP!!
MY IPHOTO HAS LOCKED ITSELF HELP!!, MY IPHOTO HAS LOCKED ITSELF HELP!!
how do i unlock it please!!With the amount of information you've provided it's impossible to offer a potential solution. We can't see your computer so we need to know the details of your problem and setup, i.e.:
what version of iPhoto are you using?
what system version are you running?
what do you see when iPhoto tries to launch?
what fixes have you tried?
where is your library located?
did you apply any updates or upgrades just prior to the problem occurring?
are you running a "managed" or "referenced" library?
what type of Mac?
how much free space on your boot drive?
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