Imported photos have a different name.

When I export an album of photos to desktop and work on them in photoshop, change the names (using save as command) and import them back to iPhoto- iPhoto renames each photo with the original album name.
The reason I want to import them back to iPhoto is that I want to use them for iWeb on the Album page.
It would save a lot of time matching and renaming the photos in iPhoto if that didn't occur.

Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and PS without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected PS as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". That will let you either edit in iPhoto (double click on the thumbnail) or in PS (Control-click on the thumbnail and seledt "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu). This way you get the best of both worlds
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), 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. 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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Help with importing photos - IPhoto assigning file names that already exist

When I import photos from my canon powershot camera, IPhoto has begun assigning file names that are the same as filenames that already exist on photos imported previously. It appears it is deleting those older files (when I go look in my photo library, the older one with the same name is now gone).
I don't know how to name photos as they are imported as it seems to be done automatically and I'm afraid to import more photos and loose my old pics. Can't find anything on the internet when I search on this question - can anyone help?

Thanks so much for your quick reply, TD.
What happens when I plug in my camera is that Iphoto opens, asks me if I want to import photos (and if I want to delete originals), and I click okay or whatever and they are imported. I name the roll/folder, and I photo puts them in the library in that folder in that year.
It makes sense that the camera is numbering them. I think that the ones it is using the same numbers for (ie - IMG0080.jpg) are the numbers on older photos that were assigned by a different camera that we used to have.
So I guess the canon isn't searching on all photo names that have been used, just the ones that it has used in the past.
Unfortunately, when the new photo is named with the same name as an old one, that old one is literally deleted - at least as far as I can tell - and when I go look for it in my photo library, it is no longer there.
I might try to see if there are any help forums for the canon powershot and see what I might learn there.
THanks so much for your help!

Importing photos from 2 different cameras

I have been importing photos from my partner's and my own Sony Cybershot cameras for months now but only discovered by browsing iPhoto Library that I has created doubles from day one.
I have 2 DSC0250.JPG and 2 DSC0250.jpg for example.
I am a bit worried that one set will be crushed. Am I going to lose all those photos? Can I rename one set? How can I register an other camera on iPhoto to stop it from creating doubles all the time?
Many thanks in advance for your help
Steph

Where are you seeing these "doubles" - in the iPhoto window or using the finder?
you can not change the file names - never make any changes of any sort to the content or structure of the iPhoto library - it will corrupt it and you will lose data
iPhoto is fine with duplicate file names - it knows that cameras do that
you can set both cameras to different starting points so they are not the same until later
LN

Imports Photos from one user name to another

We have two user profiles on my IMac (myself and my wife). Each has a separate IPhoto. My wife has imported some of our photos into her IPhoto, while I have imported others into mine. How can I import/share the photos between the user names so that we can have ALL the photos in the same IPhoto folder?

For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane. And vice versa
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc.
First you'll need to merge the two Libraries. The only way to do this is with the paid ($20) version of
iPhoto Library Manager
Quit iPhoto in both accounts. Move the Library to the Users / Shared Folder
(You can also use an external HD set to ignore permissions, a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.)
In each account in turn: Double click on the Library to open it. (You may be asked to repair the Library Permissions.) From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Regards
TD

Imported photos have error

in Lightroom 1.4 running on Mac OS X v10.5 importing from Olympus E-510,
Out of 113 photos imported, 2 photos have an error in that the whole photo is imported but these 2 photos also have the quarter-size version of the photo in upper left corner. I have deleted these photos and re-imported them and they have the same error. The camera shows the pictures correctly. They are 3648x2736 JPGs.

These 2 erroneous imports were taken a few minutes apart - but they were not adjacent photos - they were taken about 9 shots apart. They have the same resolution. There are numerous other photos taken at the same time that import correctly. All the images are in the 5-7 Mb range - these photos are not the biggest or smallest.
Experiment: I deleted (from library and disk) the 2 erroneous photos. I re-imported them by putting the compact flash card in an external reader (so Olympus E-510 is uninvolved with the import). They came in with the same error. I would note that the preview of the imported images briefly showed correctly and then when the import completely finished - the error showed up.
When I view the JPGs with Preview, the images look fine.
I cannot figure out *anything* about these 2 files that is different from all the others. I will retain the photos if you want copies.

Importing full database to different name

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1) create an blank database with new name eg dev and same talbepsaces
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fine.
But i think exp/imp binary don't support 9i to 10g import.
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Rajabaskar

Imported photos have distortions in black areas

I've imported several photos from my scanner as well as from online. When placing them in iMovie, I notice during playback the photos have distortions and marks in most areas that are black.
Is there a way to fix this problem?
Thanks for your help.

Mrocker wrote:
... I burned a copy onto dvd ...
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SDef ... Disks .... 'historic' format
and tons of (useless) inbeteween encoding ... (= results quality loss)
a) what are your Project settings? (resolution? 1080, 720, NTSC?)
b) try the following Export setting:
Share/Export using Quicktime/Quicktime (from drop-down)/Options/Compression: AppleIntermediate, keep other options untouched or auto ... .
=> the internal 'timeline' gets exported without trans-coding, results in super-large files (40GB/h) - doesn't matter.
Drag the resulting .mov into your DVD-Authoring app (which one you're using?)
What is the length of your movie mm:ss?
for online, we'll use other settings ........

Why can't i import photos from a different user account?

Why when i import photos to iphoto from my user account it works fine. If i try importing them from the other user account it the photo it shows the event folder in the events page but when you go into it there are no photos, and when you close the app it dissappears completely. I dont understand why it is doing this? The iphoto library is actually from the other user account so there shoudnlt be any sharing issues. The only thing is that i iorignially installed on the other user account but it all started when i updated it to iphoto11 and installed it on my account. that shouldnt make a difference though??
Also if it is not possible to be able to import from both accounts how can i change it so that the other account is able to import only and not from my account?

I have the same iphoto library selected for both user acounts
How?
and share my photos is checked on both accounts from preferences.
If they use the same Library, why are you sharing this way?

I was running Firefox on another computer that lost it's motherboard, was able to salvage the harddrive, but my mail files on the older hard drive have a different name, how can I pull or import those older files into firefox running on another computer?

I had been running other email clients for years and finally switched to Firefox. All the while importing my other email folders. So I had quite a large history of email. I had been backing up my system using Acronis for years. My desktop's motherboard crashed and was not worth repairing. I pulled my desktop hard drive and turned it in a standalone drive. I re-established my email on a laptop starting from scratch using Firefox. I would like to import (if possible) the emails history that is stored on the standalone drive (formerly my old hard drive). However, the names of the mail folders on the drives are different. For example: current computer the mail folder is named garlic.com. On the standalone drive (old hard drive) there are several folders and they are named, for instance; mail.garlic.com, mail.garlic-1.com , and so forth. it goes up through garlic-4.com.
How can I pull or import these older folders into my current email folder and see all my old email archives?

You are not going to be able to run your old system from the backup on this old computer as the hardware is incompatible.
You need to get a new computer or a refurbished one.

Imported Photos have disappeared in my Library

Imported a wedding collection about 3 days ago, worked on them and had them almost finished. Opened LR again today, did some work on other photos, and then went back to finish the wedding collection. Appears that the photos were never even in LR. Can't find the folder anywhere and LR will even let me try to import them again - which is a sign that they're nowhere in my library! Not sure what to do or how to fix it. There's also another folder that I had imported that's no longer in my LR library - and I had done some work on it as well!
I never backup my LR library - which is dumb, I'm aware. On 9/19 I updated it and saved it to my external. Yesterday I created a new catalog for something I was working on and couldn't get back to my other catalog, so I closed the program and reopened from the 9/19 backup. Would have that reset LR back to 9/19? If so, is there anyway to go back to where I was before I opened with that backup?
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We are adepts, but we are not wizards. We're going to need some more information in order to suggest anything.
Version of Aperture and of OS.
More thorough description of what you currently see, and how it differs from what you expect.
Report on any other strangenesses, in either Aperture or elsewhere.
What you were doing when the problem presented itself.
What you have done since then.
The results of that, and how those results differed from what you expected.
Location of your Library.
Location of any referenced Originals.

IWeb 1.12 bug: folder-photos have original file names!?!?

Hi, I've been using iWeb for a while now, but came across a strange bug which creates a problem for me. I had about 180 jpg photos on my mac which originally had particular file names. I manually changed the file names in the finder (for each of these - say, from a file name that might have been something like 1a.jpg to one that might be 1-Wayne.jpg, then drag-drop imported them into iPhoto, reordered them in iPhoto, then exported to iWeb (onto two pages since it will only take 99 photos on any one page), then exported from iWeb to a folder that I plan to upload to a server.
I noticed while trolling through the newly-created folder with the images, that while some of the file names are the new ones, quite a few of them retain the old file names! How the heck did that happen? Since in the published website (i.e. via a browser) all the new names show, it is not a problem for the website per se. But I am also making an image-map file which links to these photos, and since I have so many photos, it is very confusing since some of the files that iWeb created use the new file names, whereas others use the old names. I would rather recycle the iWeb-created images rather than to upload entirely new ones (e.g. with the new names).
Anyone know what's going on here? Solutions or workarounds?
Baffled and flustered,
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Welcome to Apple Discussions,
You are doing nothing wrong.
I have noticed the same behavior change between iPhoto '08 and iPhoto '09.
When you make a change to the name of the Event that name change takes place within the database that governs the iPhoto Library of pictures, not in the "physical" structure of the iPhoto Library (as you pointed out).
Any changes you need to make should be made through the iPhoto interface (iPhoto is an image organizer after all. Thats what it's made for.), not by going inside the iPhoto Library package (Which is where you see those folder names. Making any changes within the package can damage the library. )
That said if you think that the naming structure is a feature you would like to see in future versions of iPhoto you can let Apple know. iPhoto > Provide iPhoto Feedback.
Hope that helps.

Import photos from a different Lightroom catalog

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hi. when i try this import, i cannot do the following step:
"Specify the photos to import:
Under Catalog Contents, make sure the folders containing the photos to import are selected.
To select or deselect individual photos, click Show Preview, and click the box in the upper-left corner of any preview image. You can also choose Check All or Uncheck All."
there is a dash mark / hyphen marking several of the boxes that represent the various folders - like so.
if i click on them? nothing happens. if i click on the empty boxes? nothing happens. i don't seem to have a way to select any of these.
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Files have a different name on OS 9 and XP

I copied files on my G4 with OS 9 to a USB stick with FAT32.
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It sounds like you have apps on your phone purchased with a different Apple ID. If you don't know the password for the Apple ID being displayed for a particular app then you need to delete it and purchase it with your Apple ID

Export schema and import with different name

Hi ,
I need your assistance guys,
I need to export a schema from a database and then import it with different name to another database. How can I do that?
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Did you try FROMUSER and TOUSER option ?
E:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\install>sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat May 2 20:01:09 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 167772160 bytes
Fixed Size                  1247900 bytes
Variable Size              71304548 bytes
Database Buffers           92274688 bytes
Redo Buffers                2945024 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL> create user fromuser identified by fromuser;
User created.
SQL> grant resource, create table, create session to fromuser;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> create user touser identified by touser;
User created.
SQL> grant resource, create table, create session to touser;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> conn fromuser/fromuser
Connected.
SQL> create table export_table(a char);
Table created.
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
E:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\install>exp fromuser/fromuser file=e:\a.dmp
Export: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat May 2 20:03:06 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
Export done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
. exporting pre-schema procedural objects and actions
. exporting foreign function library names for user FROMUSER
. exporting PUBLIC type synonyms
. exporting private type synonyms
. exporting object type definitions for user FROMUSER
About to export FROMUSER's objects ...
. exporting database links
. exporting sequence numbers
. exporting cluster definitions
. about to export FROMUSER's tables via Conventional Path ...
. . exporting table                   EXPORT_TABLE          0 rows exported
. exporting synonyms
. exporting views
. exporting stored procedures
. exporting operators
. exporting referential integrity constraints
. exporting triggers
. exporting indextypes
. exporting bitmap, functional and extensible indexes
. exporting posttables actions
. exporting materialized views
. exporting snapshot logs
. exporting job queues
. exporting refresh groups and children
. exporting dimensions
. exporting post-schema procedural objects and actions
. exporting statistics
Export terminated successfully without warnings.
E:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\install>imp help=y
Import: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat May 2 20:03:47 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
You can let Import prompt you for parameters by entering the IMP
command followed by your username/password:
     Example: IMP SCOTT/TIGER
Or, you can control how Import runs by entering the IMP command followed
by various arguments. To specify parameters, you use keywords:
     Format: IMP KEYWORD=value or KEYWORD=(value1,value2,...,valueN)
     Example: IMP SCOTT/TIGER IGNORE=Y TABLES=(EMP,DEPT) FULL=N
               or TABLES=(T1:P1,T1:P2), if T1 is partitioned table
USERID must be the first parameter on the command line.
Keyword Description (Default)       Keyword      Description (Default)
USERID   username/password           FULL         import entire file (N)
BUFFER   size of data buffer         FROMUSER     list of owner usernames
FILE     input files (EXPDAT.DMP)    TOUSER       list of usernames
SHOW     just list file contents (N) TABLES       list of table names
IGNORE   ignore create errors (N)    RECORDLENGTH length of IO record
GRANTS   import grants (Y)           INCTYPE      incremental import type
INDEXES import indexes (Y)          COMMIT       commit array insert (N)
ROWS     import data rows (Y)        PARFILE      parameter filename
LOG      log file of screen output   CONSTRAINTS import constraints (Y)
DESTROY                overwrite tablespace data file (N)
INDEXFILE              write table/index info to specified file
SKIP_UNUSABLE_INDEXES skip maintenance of unusable indexes (N)
FEEDBACK               display progress every x rows(0)
TOID_NOVALIDATE        skip validation of specified type ids
FILESIZE               maximum size of each dump file
STATISTICS             import precomputed statistics (always)
RESUMABLE              suspend when a space related error is encountered(N)
RESUMABLE_NAME         text string used to identify resumable statement
RESUMABLE_TIMEOUT      wait time for RESUMABLE
COMPILE                compile procedures, packages, and functions (Y)
STREAMS_CONFIGURATION import streams general metadata (Y)
STREAMS_INSTANTIATION import streams instantiation metadata (N)
The following keywords only apply to transportable tablespaces
TRANSPORT_TABLESPACE import transportable tablespace metadata (N)
TABLESPACES tablespaces to be transported into database
DATAFILES datafiles to be transported into database
TTS_OWNERS users that own data in the transportable tablespace set
Import terminated successfully without warnings.
E:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\install>imp system/oracle fromuser=fromuser touser=touser file=e:\a.d
Import: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat May 2 20:04:20 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
Export file created by EXPORT:V10.02.01 via conventional path
Warning: the objects were exported by FROMUSER, not by you
import done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
. importing FROMUSER's objects into TOUSER
. . importing table                 "EXPORT_TABLE"          0 rows imported
Import terminated successfully without warnings.
E:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\install>sqlplus touser/touser
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat May 2 20:04:36 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> desc export_table
Name                                      Null?    Type
A                                                  CHAR(1)
SQL>HTH
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I have adobe 3:2 starter and all photos have been deleted but still have thumbnails, can i restore photos

please can some one help me to restore my photos from my thumbnails due to my son deleting my photo file where i used to keep them

Boy, I wish Adobe had a special OOPS! folder for all of us who accidentally deleted photos. I lost 5 photos. I deleted them from Adobe after I moved them to their own special folder in My Documents, but they're not there. I've been trying to recover them for the past few days using data recovery programs like iUndelete and iRescue, but no luck.
Is Photo Well the same thing as thumbnails? I've read where some people who have lost their photos still are able to view them as thumbnails, but if it's the same thing as Photo Well, mine don't show up there, either. I can't remember if I chose "delete from hard disk" but I must have, because I've searched my computer and can't find them.
QUESTION: By any chance are deleted photos assigned a different name than the original photos? Maybe I've been searching for the wrong files all along???? Ugh, I'm about to give up, but does anyone know anywhere else I can look? I've already emptied my Recycle Bin. Thanks for any help anyone can give.
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