How does iphoto order events?

How does iphoto arrange events for display purposes? It isn't alphabetically by title, it isn't chronologically by event creation date. I am baffled. If I know how they are ordered, I can move photos among events easier by renaming the events so they show up next to each other, then I can drag and drop photos in adjacent events without scrolling. Once I am finished, I can simply rename the events back to the original names. That would be the easiest way I have found to move photos around among events. I just can't figure out the riddle of how the events are ordered.

By default events are sorted by the date of the oldest photo in the event
Probably the easiest way to move photos is to flag the photos you want together and create an event from flagged photos
But generally it is best to just leave events in date/time order and use albums for detailed organization - and/or keywords and smart albums
LN

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Dear fellow Mac users,
how are you! Tonight, my parents had a lot of fun taking photos of them using Photo Booth... awww. those love birds haha.. and i made a music slideshows for them. (too bad i dont know how to burn it into a VCD for them to watch on TV). I dont have a DVD RW.
My question is
1. How does Iphoto organises the photos? It seems like there are many dublicate copy of the same photo.... i am kind of confused. (There is .. Original Folder and Modified Folder) and worried that it will eat up my disk space
2. Is it possible for me to burn a slide show VCD?
Thank you soooo much!
moses

StanB:
As PhillyPhan warned, you don't need to use the Finder to locate an image file for use outside iPhoto. You can either drag the thumbnail to the desktop to get a copy of it or use the File->Export->File Export menu route to export the file to the desktop. The second option allows you to resize it if desired. So there's no need to go rummaging around in the iPhoto Library folder to find a file.
Do you Twango?

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How does iPhoto sharing (in preferences) work? If you enable it, does it allow someone to view your photos while on a public wifi? I am using a macbook pro with 10.7.4

Only if you set it to do so and only if the person on the other end has iPhoto.

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Hi,
I am curious, how does iPhoto store data? I have three folders:
1. Data
2. Modified
3. Originals
All appear to have the same directory, but have vastly different content, ranging from 2.4 GB to just a few MB.
I would like to slim my hard drive, but not throw out something that is essential in iPhoto’s operation.
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Klaus

Klaus
Good thing you checked here first
It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss
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.
If you want to trim things down, then why not move the entire library to an external HD?
Regards
TD

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I recently imported a folder (including several sub-folders) of photos into iPhoto. It asked me if I wanted to import duplicates, and showed me a side-by-side of the two pictures in question. Since they we're clearly the same, I said no. After doing that for several photos, I finally said no for all duplicates, and the import rapidly completed.
But then I got to thinking. How does iPhoto actually recognize a duplicate? Is it solely by the external characteristics (name, date, size), or does it have a method to actually analyize the content of the two photos to see if one is actually a copy of the other? I really hope it is not just by name, as I have a number of photos that have the same name but complelely different topics.

Duplicate files are detected by comparing file name and the EXIF Capture Date.
There is one photo duplicate detection app that detects duplicate images by comparing the bit map or histogram of the image.
PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
OT

How does iPhoto compare to Picassa which I have used a long time?

How does iPhoto compare? And is it simple to bring all to iPhoto in the same organization?
Thanks!

Very vague question... in what way? You obviously know the strngths of Picasa. The feature list of iPhoto is on the Apple Site.
Best advice I can give is to make a library and import 100 pics and explore. See what you like - or don't. It'll help you to ask pointed questions that will get you better quality answers (that this one )
As to migration... there is no path from Picasa and it will depend on what Picasa can export.
Regards
TD

How does iphoto handle files exactly?

using the program spring cleaning, i found all images outside of my iphoto library and imported them into my library. my question now is, if i run the search again, finding all images not in my iphoto library, can i safely delete those images since they have been copied into iphoto or are they still needed as a reference for the program? how does iphoto work with files exactly? i know there's an "original" and a "data file", but where are each of these stored? when a photo is imported to the iphoto library, does it make a copy of the original and the data file or what?

ryanfg
Unless you changed the default setting in the iPhoto preferences, then if a photo is in the iPhoto Window then it's in the iPhoto Library Folder.
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.
Regards
TD

My iPhoto orders events in a wrong order

I don't know due to which glitch, but my events with new pictures taken in 2011 started appearing at the top of iPhoto browser - where oldest photos reside. It's pretty weird, as all events should appear at the bottom of iPhoto browser, together with other, recent events. So my iPhoto looks like this - first there are some events from 2004, then events from 2011, then events from 2004 until 2011 in a nice order. Does anyone knows how some of 2011 events ended up grouped with 2004? Is there a way to get rid of this?
Thanks a lot for advice, Don

event menu ==> sort events - pick your choice of sort order
LN

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I have had a Mac for about 18 months. I have a Canon Digital Elph 410. Because I had only photos from this one camera I never have worried about naming. So all my photos are sequentially numbered IMG_0031, IMG_0032 etc. This last weekend, for a big trip, I purchased a Panasonic with a zoom lens. I also have on order a replacement for my Elph, a Canon SD630.
How will iPhoto distinguish between the similarly numbered photos from different cameras? The Panasonic may have a different numbering scheme, but the newer Elph is likely to come up with identical numbers as my old Elph. I know enough that when iPhoto asks me to replace I will say no. But how will I get the newer photos of the same serial number onto my iMac without erasing the old photos? Does iPhoto have a way---opaque to the user---of distinguishing between these two sets of photos based on the day they were shot?
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Importing shouldn't be a problem, iPhoto will figure it out and nothing will get deleted.
You can have multiple files with the same "title" in iPhoto. The title is what you see in iPhoto, not the actual filename of the file stored on the disk, though the two are usually identical upon import.
For iPhoto5, it works like this:
1) If two different photos with the same name and date are imported, the second gets a "_1" appended to its filename on the disk but the titles you see in iPhoto will still be identical to the original filename.
2) If two photos with the same name but different dates are imported, they are stored in different folders in the iPhoto database so no "_1" is appended and, again, the titles you see in iPhoto will be the same.
3) If the photos are identical, a dialog box will pop up to ask you what to do. You can apparently import the same photo more than once.
iPhoto6 has a different directory structure on the disk so (2) may not apply. In any case, there shoudn't be a problem.

Where and how does iPhoto keep photos?

I am in the process of scanning and editing about 1000 old Kodakchrome slides taken over the past 40+ years.
My scans go into Photoshop Elements for tarting up and then are stored in various folders with appropriate names. After that I import them into iPhoto 5 in order to assemble them into albums, slides shows or whatever.
Questions: 1. Does iPhoto actually import and keep a copy of each image file? 2. Can I safely delete the folders I have used for the original and processed scans? 3. If I back-up the iPhotolibraries to an external hard drive, I am safe - I won't lose my pictures?
I am sure that these basic questions have been answered by various Mac gurus a zillion times before but I found it pretty daunting to read through the 20+ pages shown in discussions. One has to admit the contents of the iPhoto folders and files is all pretty mysterious!
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Hi David,
A little more info for you...
--First thing to know and remember is this...Do not drag any images, folder of images into the iPhoto Library in the Finder. Images have to be imported into iPhoto within the application. Do not scan images and save them into the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder. Save them to another location such as the Pictures folder or even the desktop. You can then import them into iPhoto.
--You have a folder of images on your hard drive and want to import them into iPhoto. Drag the folder of images into an open iPhoto Library window and the folder of photos will be copied into the library, resulting in a new roll with the name of the folder. You now have two copies of those photos, the ones in iPhoto's database and the ones on your desktop. You can keep the ones on your desktop that you just imported as backup or you can delete that folder.
-- you scan a picture/pictures and save it in a folder. You cannot scan directly into iPhoto or the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder.
You want all your photos in iPhoto so you import them into iPhoto.
Now you have two copies of that picture/pictures, so you can delete the originals that were in the scanned folder and keep the one/ones that were imported into iPhoto.
-- You download pictures from your camera into iPhoto.
There is now one copy of each of the pictures.
You want to change something about a picture you imported, such as
cropping it or changing the size, or changing the orientation.
Once you do that to a picture, you now have two copies of the picture
in iPhoto, the original and the edited one. The edited one will be in the library organize view. The original is packed away in an Original folder in your iPhoto Library folder under the date of the roll. You can always revert to the original by control clicking on the photo and choose "revert to orginal" You will not have this choice if you used iPhoto Diet to get rid of the Originals.
(a quick note on cropping within iPhoto...when you are in edit mode, you automatically will be in the crop mode with cross hairs to highlight the crop area. To finish cropping you must click the crop button and then go back to library view and your cropped picture will be there.
3.You want to use Photoshop or another graphic program to edit a picture in your iPhoto library.
You can open up prefs for iPhoto and choose "when double clicking on
photo ..do" choose "other" and select Photoshop. Now you can edit all
pictures in your iPhoto library in PhotoShop by double clicking. If you save the photo with the same name and as a flattened file it will be saved right into iPhoto and you will see the changes. If you don't want to save it into iPhoto then do a "save as" and save to the desktop. You will then have the original photo still in iPhoto and your new edited photo on the desktop.
Or, with iPhoto open, you can drag a picture from the library window
to your desktop (you see a + sign on the pic you are dragging). You now
have two of the same picture, one in the iPhoto library and one on your desktop. You can open up the one on your desktop in any graphic program and work on it. The one in iPhoto stays the same. You can also share/export the picture/pictures to your desktop or folder to work on them or do batch processing, etc. You will still have the originals in your iPhoto Library.
Or, you can open up the ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/folders and option drag any
picture out of the folder to your desktop. Notice that you will see a plus sign while dragging the photo. This is copying the file to your desktop
I would advise anyone not to do this as they might forget to use the option key and drag the photo out. Next time you open iPhoto the photo will be missing.
Two Apple kbs for you to read
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Hello All,
My iPhoto library is fixated on one date and always shows the same date at the top of the Recent group. I have imported many photos since that date but it continues to show the single date - containing a single photo.
Where or How is iPhoto making this decision/calculation? It's kinda funny...but annoying too.
Thx

Sorry it was too complicated for you
By looking at "recent" activity
The activities you have recently engaged in
So the top item is the most recent event viewed and changes when you view different events
The item at the top of the list - the one you ask about - is the event you most recently viewed - each time yu view a new event it changes to the then most recently viewd event
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Sorry for so basic a question, but I thought I understood how this was working (in iOS 7 and this version of iPhoto 9.6) But now, in Yosemite, and iOS 8, I am not sure what is occurring.
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I use iPhoto for all my images, and need to get my head around how it stores images, particularly when edited. If I rotate a photo, for example from horizontal to landscape, then I think it stores the old version, and the new version. I can use the menu to 'Revert to Original' - which shows the unrotated image.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The best way to do what you want for future photos is to upload the photos from the camera to a folder on the desktop, rotate the file there before importing into iPhoto. There are 3rd party applications that can losslessly rotate image files. Also do not turn on the Auto-Rotate feature of your camera if it has one.
For those that are already in the library the only way to do what you want is to replace the original file with a copy of the edited file inside the library package and then do a revert to original on that file.
To facilitate replacing the original files with a copy of the edited (modified) files put all of the files you want to replace into one Event. That will put them all in one folder within the Originals folder and Modified folder. Then copy the contents of the Modified subfolder into the corresponding Originals subfolder.
You run a big risk of damaging the library if an error is made during the process. It's really not recommended. In other words *proceed at your own risk and make a backup of the library before proceeding*.
The reason the finder reports a larger library is that it is reporting the original, thumbnail and modified files as well as the database, cache and data files.
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.
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