Hidden Photos Bug

I'm having a problem with hidden photos in iPhoto. I have some events where certain photos within the event are hidden, and some events in which every photo is hidden, effectively hiding the whole event. When I enable viewing of hidden photos, the photos within events with other photos show up, but not the hidden events, i.e., if I go into an event I can see the hidden photos within it but no more events show up on my events page, even though they should. If I then rehide the hidden photos and restart iPhoto, the hidden events show up on the Events page, but are empty (as all the photos inside them are hidden). However, under normal circumstances, the events themselves should not show up at all. If I enable hidden photos again, I am able to see the photos within the hidden events as I should, but there is no way to make the whole event disappear off the events page again. Basically, hidden events will not show up the first time I start iPhoto no matter how many times I toggle between showing and not showing hidden photos, and once iPhoto is restarted, the hidden events will not go away.

mystwillow:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder and then try again.
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.

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IPhoto - Hidden Photos - Events Thumbnail Display Bug

_*iPhoto - Hidden Photos - Events Thumbnail Display Bug*_
iPhoto 08 contains a bug affecting the display of images that the user has marked as "hidden." Specifically, when the user toggles the View-Hidden Photos menu option, the Library-Events thumbnail view does not refresh quickly or reliably to show or hide Events containing "hidden photos."
Sometimes all "hidden" photos remain visible when they should be hidden.
Sometimes all "hidden" photos remain INvisible when they should be visible.
This affects the Event thumbnail "key photo" if this photo was designated as hidden.
This also affects any hidden Event photos when the user "skims" over an Event thumbnail to preview its contents.
The issue is isolated to Events thumbnails. The problem does not exist:
a) while browsing thumbnails inside a specific Event.
b) while browsing photos in Library-Photos.
c) while browsing photos in an Album.
_*"Fixes" that do NOT work:*_
Software updates... I have the latest version of OSX 10.5.2 and the latest version of iPhoto 08, including all the recent security and graphics system updates as of 02/16/2008.
Maintenance... The issue is NOT resolved by rebuilding the database, rebuilding icons, or deleting the iPhoto preferences file. The issue can be reproduced in a separate user account after creating a new event in an otherwise empty iPhoto database.
After much tinkering around, the following is the closest I've come to a
_*TEMPORARY WORKAROUND:*_
To *NOT DISPLAY* hidden images, go to the View menu and make sure Hidden Photos *is not* checked. Restart iPhoto, and the hidden images should now be invisible.
To DISPLAY hidden images, go to the View menu and make sure Hidden Photos is checked. While the hidden images are now visible elsewhere, they may still be invisible in Events thumbnails, so restart iPhoto, and then wait about 10 seconds for the Events view to refresh with all the hidden thumbnail images now visible.
If after carefully reading this you feel you have a definitive solution, please post a reply with your suggestions. Otherwise, please post to confirm if you can reproduce the problem on your computer running iPhoto 08 on Leopard. If so, please also file an official bug report with Apple. The more people report this, the faster we'll get it fix.
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My Acrobat Pro 9 has also this bug. I am using XP SP2. I have reported this bug at Adobe web site many times. I wrote to the Adobe customer care. I wrote about this on many different forums and I was hopping an update with this bug fixed. I installed all updates till now bu the problem still exists. I do not know why Adobe is not caring about this stupid bug. It is really, really annoying. In my experience with Adobe Acrobat for about 10 years, Acrobat version 9 is the worst version I ever worked with. There are a lot of glitches and bugs in it, expecially with fonts, web version creation, password protection encryption etc etc.
If you find any fix please post back on this forum.
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Shaju

Hidden Photos Appear In Slideshow

Is this a bug or a feature? If you've hidden some photos in an Event and then make a slideshow of that Event, the hidden photos show up in the slideshow.
Why would you ever want hidden photos popping up in your slideshow?

On the face of it, your point certainly makes sense. But the point of the Quick Slideshow is to show you everything in the chosen Event (or Album) and everything includes hidden photos too. It’s quite possible that a person might forget that they have hidden photos in an Event, for instance, and this feature could help them find something thought lost.
So I can see where I might agree with you, and where I might not.
On the basis of that statement I’m now going to run for election. While I’m campaigning... let Apple know what you think
iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback
Regards
TD

Photos update causes hidden photos to appear in screensaver slideshow

The upgrade to Photos caused me a few issues relating to hidden photos. First, I started seeing photos I had hidden appear in the screensaver. Then I went to find the hidden photos to re-hide them, but they seemed to be already hidden. Then I couldn't show the Hidden Photos Album -- I had to hide a new photo in order to activate the "Show Hidden Album" option in the menu. Once I did that, I could see all of my previously hidden photos.
HIdden photos continue to appear in the screensaver, however. Can anyone find a new setting somewhere to ensure that hidden photos don't show, or is this a bug?

How do you know what the intention was, and how it "hardly seems to be the case here"?
So you're saying it was intended to show photos marked as "hidden" in albums, slideshows, and events? If so, what's the point of having specifying photos as hidden when they're clearly not being hidden very well at all?
This is not how it worked in iPhoto - hidden meant hidden from any photo display, unless you specified Show Hidden Photos in View. To intentionally change the behavior indicates the designers felt that this was a better way. I can't see how freely displaying hidden photos is an improvement, can you?
Already provided feedback.

Scrolling through photos, restarting iPhoto: "Hidden Photos" are unhidden!

Hi,
As you may know, iPhoto has this great feature where you can mouse over an Event to scroll through the photos in it. iPhoto also has another great feature - the possibility to hide photos!
However, here's when they both went wrong: I had a few Hidden Photos in an event, yet when I moused over it - they showed up! Just makes them not so hidden...
Also, when I last closed iPhoto, Hidden Photos were checked to show. As I opened iPhoto up again - they were still unhidden. It would be nice if they automatically hid themselves upon closing. Is there an Apple Script available for this?
In the same scenario, I hid the photos manually. And as I opened up a photo in an event up full screen, and browsed through the event using the arrow keys - a hidden photo appeared! This, as I understand - is a bug. Where would I report this?
I hope you can help!
Thank you for your time,
Rudi

rudi_e:
First delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder. Then rebuild the library as follows: launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the first three options.
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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.
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Hidden photos in slideshow

I was working on the slideshow feature earlier today to show some friends some photos, and I noticed that photos I had selected as hidden were still showing up inside my slideshow.
Any idea when this bug will be fixed?

I experienced the same issue yesterday when I started a slideshow from an event and all of my hidden photos were displayed in the slideshow.
The way I have found to avoid this potentially embarrassing situation is to create an album from the photos in the event, then start the slideshow from the newly created album. The hidden photos will not be displayed! Alternatively you can create a slideshow from selected photos: Select the photos you want in the slideshow then File=>New Album=>Slideshow.

What happens to Hidden Photos from Elements

If upgrading from PSE9 to LR3.3, what will happen to all the photos that are hidden? Does LR support hidden photos?

Actually, I just went through this exercise with PSE10 and LR5 (converting my PSE10 catalog). Your hidden photos from PSE will import into LR5 but they will show up flagged as REJECTED. So just be aware that they are in your LR5 catalog but they are flagged as being rejected. This is important to know so you don't accidentally delete all your hidden photos because they were flagged as rejected. I wish LR had the Hidden Photo attribute, it's just a nice way to keep your images in one catalog, but not be bogged down with photos that you rarely need access to. In some ways, I like the PSE Catalog Organizer better than the LR5 Organizer. There are some PSE features that don't exist in LR for whatever reason.
The other thing to be aware of is that NONE of my offline photos from PSE imported into LR during the catalog conversion, so if you have any of those in your PSE catalog (photos that you have archived to removeable media like CD, DVD, or USB thumb drives) they need to be imported separtely into LR. It seems like Adobe (as usual) didn't really think through this process all the way. My experience with Adobe software is that it's really cool when it works which is most of the time, but start to do anything out of the 80/20 rule and things start to get a little dicey. I would never say that it's rock-solid. Their approach seems to be that if you want to get all the bug fixes, you have to pay to upgrade to the next version (and inherit a whole new set of bugs). .

How do i see hidden photos on MacBook Pro

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You can play it in a web browser but you must have a Facebook account and play it via that app.

How can I see and delete hidden photos in Trash?

I can't see any picture in my Trash, despite of that the Trash contains, probably, 63 hidden photos.
How can I delete them? See the picture. Thank you for answer, Peter.SK.

iPhoto menu -> Empty Trash ?
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TD

How do you restore hidden photos in iPhoto

i accidentally hid some photos and now I want to restore them. any help?

Did you read the answer?
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Can I select and manipulated hidden photos as a group?

I've been through an album and have hidden some photos as they don't add much to the slide show I'm creating. At this point I would like to do some stuff with the album as it is (without the hidden photos), so I would like to delete all the hidden photos from the album. Is there any way to do this? Similarly, could I export all the hidden photos so as to archive them somewhere, or export the album without the hidden photos? Really I want a way to treat 'hidden' as a status - is any of this possible?

Living Fossil
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TD

Photos: why do hidden photos remain visible in all photos and in last import?

just updated iPhoto to new Photos app. and migrated my library, noticed that my hidden photos are no longer as hidden as they where in iPhoto..

I'm afraid that hidden photos do not work the same way that they did in iPhoto."All photos" is intended to include hidden photos. Hidden photos are only hidden from moments and collections.

How do I get "hidden photos" back into album permanently. How di they get "hidden"?

How do I get "hidden photos" back into album permanently? How did they get "hidden"?

View -> Hidden Photos.

Hidden Photo Album

I did the most recent OS upgrade and part of that is a new version of iPhoto, now Photos... My first impression is rather negative, but the problem I'm having now is that the "Hidden Photos" option is no longer present in the "View" menu. I have hundreds of hidden photos. If I click on "Photos" the hidden photos do not appear, however if I click on "Albums," there they all are. There is an "Show Hidden Photo Album" option but I've so far been unable to figure out how to create one of these "hidden photo albums." Next thing you know my nephews'll be seein' Abiela's ***...

The "Hiding" is different in Photos from iPhoto.
If you hide a photo, it will be invisible in the Photos view - in Moments, Years, Collections, but it will be visible in any album. So there is no need for a View option "Show Hidden Photos". All hidden photos are shown together in the Hidden Photos album, that you can add to the sidebar.
There is an "Show Hidden Photo Album" option but I've so far been unable to figure out how to create one of these "hidden photo albums."
You cannot create albums based on "hidden". There is only the one smart album, that will show all hidden photos.

Hidden Photos and Web Galleries

Looks like if you have an event with contains some hidden photos and you publish the event to a web gallery, the hidden photos also get published.
Is there any say to prevent these from being published?
Thanks.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. No, the web gallery will include all photos in the album or gallery. You can change how you create the web gallery. Open the event, select the photos, not the album icon, and create the event from just the selected photos. That should exclude the hidden photos.
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.
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