I imported all my pics..again..and cant find photos to add as attatchments

Question

so as stated i imported all my pics onto my HD, so my 1600 something is now 3200 and at 2 gig of pics i'd like to get rid of all these doubles without loosing the first generation of pics..also as above, i installed ilife08 onto my macbook and now i am unable to just go to my iphotot to attatch any pics after my upgrade..i can do it but have to go and copy pics to my desktop and then refigure out what i did last time to attatch to the email...kind of frustrating so any help is much appreciated

Answer 1

caine75
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Two separate issues:
i imported all my pics onto my HD, so my 1600 something is now 3200
Were these in an earlier version of iPhoto? The correct way to to this is to copy the IPHOTO LIBRARY FOLDER from the Pictures Folder on the Old machine and put it in the same location on the new one. Then start iPhoto. It will do the rest. There is no IMPORTING involved. What you've done by importing is bring the Pics plus their thumbnails into iPhoto as new pics. So, if you still have that old library intact, trash the new one and start over. If you haven't then check out Duplicate Annihilator
Second issue:
What do you use for email?
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.
To upload to MySpace or any 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. If you're using Gmail you can use THIS
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. Or, if you want to access the files with iPhoto not running, then create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use* THIS
*Also, for 10.5 users: If you use the extended Open or Attach dialogue (with Column View) you can scroll to the bottom of the Shortcuts and find the Media browser there. Select any pic you want from there.*
Regards
TD