Import into iPhoto 9 originals and modified

Terrance,
When I manage to get my large library moved will the resulting library in iPhoto 9 have both originals and the ones that I have modified along with individually dated pictures. These are not the dates that I imported them but the dates I have given them to correspond to the approximate dates that they were taken?
I think I asked this before but have lost the thread.
Thanks again for your help.
Barbara Westmoreland

connect the two systems together (network, FireWire target mode, etc) and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity from the old system to the pictures folder of the new system - launch iPhoto and it will convert the library as needed - be very careful not to accidentally open the old library open the old system with the new iPhoto - the conversion can not be undone
+_*Your moved and converted library will be identical in every respect to the original library*_+
LN

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dmoffat323 wrote:
Let me summarize more clearly…
Oh, I understand you, dmoffat323.
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dmoffat323 wrote:
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If you still want to use iPhoto, Curt Y has the right advice for you, i.e. to check out the Apple discussion boards, specifically the iPhoto forum.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iphoto
You are not addressing Adobe here. We are all users just like you, and we are not here to defend Adobe or to apologize for them.
What I am also telling you is that Curt Y is a Windows user and yours truly an avid Mac User of three decades' standing who nevertheless detests iPhoto. Personally neither one of us gives a darn that iPhoto and Photoshop don't play nice with each other. We're just trying to give you the best advice we can.
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hi djiti,
DXO up to date,
Lion up to date,
iPhoto up to date (? I want to hear you say yes),
I am at a loss.
Some apps do not read the same info in the same place in the exif: iPhoto reads the "Creation Date" from "modification date" created in another app, for example; I use "A Better Attributes" app, to change the Exif in that case. But I have never seen that the Exif is "corrupted" by a photo app.
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The ones that (on the originals) I entered descriptive things into Photoshop's XMP file info's document title line -- well that is what is shown as the name of the file rather than its real numerical name. Example: on a photo saved as 92
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Regards
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Where (the name of the folder) do I find the pictures I see displayed on the Iphoto library, including any name changes, keywords added, and so on?

See my response to your other post.

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If I understand you correctly, when you enter a date in the Adjust Date and Time window, the picture does not update with the date you enter. If that is the case then something is wrong with iPhoto or your perhaps your library.
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