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.

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    How do you know what the intention was, and how it "hardly seems to be the case here"?
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  • 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?
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    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.
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  • 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!
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    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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  • Hidden photos

    Hi!
    I think there's a big lack in the program: if an event contains hidden photos, it means that the user doesn't want people to see them at a first sight to the mac! What happens instead??? Someone launches iPhoto and probably the "Events" folder is loaded. Then, just by rolling over the key-photos of the events, it's possible to see ALL the photos contained there, even the hidden ones!!!
    Take this example: suppose I have an event with just one photo inside, and suppose I don't want people to see it easy. Well, in the "Events" view, that photo will ALWAYS be there from it is the only possible key-photo and there's no way to obscure it! That's absolutely unacceptable.
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  • Hidden Photos Bug

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    mystwillow:
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    I can't see any picture in my Trash, despite of that the Trash contains, probably, 63 hidden photos.
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    My ATV3 doesn't show all my photos in slideshow. It seems to repeat the same, say 50, over and over, even though I have about 400 in the folder on my windows7 PC.
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    Did you read the answer?
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  • Photos in slideshow "smear"

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  • IPhoto - Hidden Photos - Events Thumbnail Display Bug

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    Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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    Regards
    TD

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