IPhoto '08 and finder conspire to hide my photos from me!
OK, prior post iPhoto not exporting pics - I could live with it but now I find that the Finder no longer allows me to have access to my own photos on the hard disk. No matter how I try to find where my pics are Finder just executes iPhoto rather than let me at least get some pics out of iPhoto to do some editing in Photoshop! It seems that the Finder 'recognizes' that a pic - even one I've 'found' using Spotlight is under the 'control' of iPhoto and won't let me get to it any other way than iPhoto -which isn't allowing me to export it so now I can't do my work and I don't have a work around. This seems more like a Microsoft ploy than Apple. Why cut me off from having access to my own photos? How do I get back to the previous version where I at least could access the photos outside of iPhoto? Once a photo is in iPhoto I'm now totally dependent upon iPhoto's working (which it isn't) to have access to something I own on my own hard disk?
This is just crazy.
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.
The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves. If you're willing to risk database corruption, you can restore the older functionality simply by right clicking on the iPhoto Library and choosing 'Show Package Contents'. Then simply make an alias to the folders you require and put that alias on the desktop or where ever you want it. Be aware though, that this is a hack and not supported by Apple.
Regards
TD
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