IPhoto'08 Moving Photos Around Inside Events

When I open up an events window and want to rearrange my photos by dragging them, they snap back to their original positions. How do I keep this from happening?

Marc - welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
When I open up an events window and want to rearrange my photos by dragging them, they snap back to their original positions. How do I keep this from happening?
You can not except by changing the photo times (Photo menu ==> adjust time and date -- or -- Photo menu ==> batch change ==> time and date) - events are a very basic time based view of your library and have limited flexibility
In photo view if you turn off "show event titles" you can manually order photos but this is not a great way and with a large library can created significant loading speed problems
The best way is to use albums which are infinitely flexible in both content and order - select the photos you want to play with and use the File menu ==> "make new album from selection" entry - in the album you can move photos to your heart's content - to add to an album just drag photo to it
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Moving Photos around inside an "Event"

I am having trouble moving my photos. I would like to have a certain photo at the beginning, so it will show in the Event window, I would like to be able to put the photos in ANY order I like within the Event window . When I try to do it in "Photos" I lose what Event it belongs in .
In the Photos section, is the only way to organize the headings by the year??
Also it seems that iPhoto is slow. When I move the BlueBar to move thru the Photos In the Photo mode I have to wait for the photo headings to catch up with my Bar movement & start moving the bar again so that I know where I am......It seems to move fast enough when I am moving thru the Events in the same manner. I hope my explanation is not to confusing. Any help would be appreciated . Thank you, Warren

first this is posted in the iPhoto 06 forum but since you discuss events I assume that your question is about iPhoto '08 - If I'm right, it would be better to post it there - http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=227 - to avoid confusion and answers that do not apply to your situation
The SLOWness you are seeing is probably caused by viewing your library in photo view with no event titles - this causes a lot of extra processing as you open iPhoto and as you scroll through the photos - turning event titles on or going to event view probably will improve your scrolling speed a lot (as you have noticed)
I would like to have a certain photo at the beginning, so it will show in the Event window
This is easy - event view place your mouse over an event and move it sideways until the photo you want as the "event Photo" show up - let loose of the mouse and hit the space bar -- or open the event, select the photo and go to the events menu ==> Make key photo
I would like to be able to put the photos in ANY order I like within the Event window
You can not - events are displayed time based - you can make albums and put them in any order you want
You can manually sort the library in photo view with event titles turned off (but as you see that makes things slow)
But you can not "put the photos in ANY order I like within the Event window" -- that is the way iPhoto is designed and the way you have to use it
To request enhancements go to the iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
LN

How can you take a photo from one event and put it in another, without dragging to desktop and dragging back into iPhoto and moving it to the event folder I want it in.

As the title says I need help on how to take a photo from one event and put it in another, without dragging to desktop and dragging back into iPhoto and moving it to the event folder I want it in. Right now when I want to move a picture from one event to another I drag it to my desktop then delete it from iPhoto then I drag it back into iPhoto and put where I want it.An example would be taking a photo from the Christmas event and add it to a specific person event. Can I do that within the events section without all the dragging. Also is there anyway I can remove duplicates from iPhoto without going through each and every file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Apple doesn't make it easy to do what you want. However, here's how I do it.
Select the photo you want to move and create a new Event for it via the Event ➙ Create Event menu option.
In the Event mode select the new Event with the one picture and drag it onto the Event you want to move the photo to.

Moving photos around in an event

I was reading some other posts but want to make sure I've got it straight. I've been wanting to move some photos around in an event and now my understanding is that I CAN'T do that. I cannot move the photos around in the event but will have to create an album of that even and then move the photos around in the album. Is that correct?

the EVENTS are a 'list' or Library of any import into iMovie, listed in chronological order.
the PROJECTS now allow you to 'sort' and arrange any content from that Library - in total or just parts, in any order and as often as you like (=same lip again and again or in as many projects you like).
understanding this concept of iM comes to conclusion: you can not 'move' any content in Events.
you don't 'arrange' Events, you arrange Events or parts of it on Projects.
have you read the Tutorials of iM?

Moving Photos from One Event to Another

I don't entirely understand how to do this. When I want to move photos from one event to another, I usually just drag the photos from one event to another. This works fine when the two events are next to each other (within the same window). However, it he event is not in the same window (requiring a scroll up or down) then the drag and drop can't happen (i.e., having to drag photos from my last event to the first event). Any suggestions here?

If you're merging two Events you ca do this in Event View - just drag one Event to the Other and they will be merged.
If you're moving pics from an Event to another (but not a Full Merge):
Photos View, the go View -> Event Titles and option Click on the wee triangle to close all the Events.
Then open the Event you want to get the Files From. Select the Files.
Drag them to the bottom of the iPhoto Window - above the toolbar - and the Window will scroll. (There's a bit of a knack to doing this: there's a sweet spot just above the tool bar. Get the Cursor there and the window will scroll. With practise you can even control the rate and speed of scrolling)
Drop them on the target Event.
Regards
TD

IPhoto randomly deleting photos, leaving empty events behind.

Hi. My iPhoto will randomly delete photos from entire events, leaving behind only an empty event. What is happening? Are the photos still on my computer somewhere? How do I make is stop?
I have read it could be a corrupt library? Is that possible? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Super! Thanks for the guidline for providing better detail.
I'm running iPhoto '11 (version 9.4.2)
-on OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.4
- There doesn't seem to be a trend to what photos are deleted and when. It has started within the past 5-6 months. All I observe is when I open my iPhoto, on occasion there will be an empty event. It never deletes partial events and it never deletes the event itself (that I have noticed) There are absolutley no other problems with iPhoto itself. It speaks to my iPhone and iPad just fine, iCloud syncs the Photo Stream well. I am fairly certain that the only photos deleted came from my iPhone. (I have an iPhone 5)
In addition to deleting photos, it seems that iPhoto is misplacing events. For example, I have an event with only 3 photos in it taken on 12 April. It has been moved to the top of the list of events for no apparent reason.
- I can't say how long this has been going on. Maybe 5-6 months tops. I did move to Indonesia from America in that time. I can't imagine that would do anything. Before I left, I replaced my hard drive (upgraded to 1TB from 500GB). I restored off of the old hard drive with no problem. I also got more memory installed so I'm running with 8GB instead of 4GB. I have not installed anything or made any other noticeable changes since the problem began. Although replacing a hard drive is no small thing...
- I have tried to reveal the photos in Finder to see if the original files are still in the source library. They are not. The organization now skips a number where my photos ought to be. Other than that I'm not sure how to fix it. I don't really have a backup from which I can restore.
- There is nothing unusual about the setup, it's a standard Mac OS and I only use iPhoto with my iPhone and iPad.
I hope that helps give some information?

Moving photos within an event

How do I move the photos within an event so that they are in the order that I desire?

that is not a feature of iPhoto - events are basically time/date based
Use albums for custom order of photos
LN

Moving Photos Around

I'm having trouble moving photos from my computer to my iPhone and deleting photos from my iPhone Photos album. I've done it before, but don't remember how. I've tried using iTunes, but that wasn't the answer. What am I forgetting to do here?

iTunes does not store photos, but you use iTunes to transfer photos from your computer to your iPhone via the iTunes sync process.
if you use iPhoto on your Mac for photo storage, create an iPhoto album or multiple albums, and place the photos you want in the album or albums.
Under the Photos tab for your iPhone sync preferences, select iPhoto for sync photos from.
Choose selected albums and then select the iPhoto albums available in the window below that you want transferred to your iPhone followed by a sync.
To add additional photos to your iPhone, transfer the photos to an iPhoto album that is currently being transferred to your iPhone, or create a new iPhoto album and select the new album under the Photos tab for your iPhone sync preferences followed by a sync.
To remove an entire album from your iPhone, deselect the album under the Photos tab for your iPhone sync preferences followed by a sync. To remove select photos from an existing album that is transferred to your iPhone, remove the photos from the photo album in iPhoto followed by a sync.

Moving Photo's between events

Ok i'm beat
How do you move individual photo's between events
The open event in separate window has gone in 11 so that option is no more
I know there is an option to copy & paste but it is working at all it allows to copy but the past option is greyed out I have also tried CMD + C CMD + V still nothing
Any Help Please
Thanks Guys

This worked for me (or at least something like this :-p).
Select the two events between which you would like to exchange photos. Double click one of the selected events. (You should see a "zoom" of only the two selected events.) Select the photo you want to move; drag it to the other event. (Hmm... Looks like you might need to drag the photo to the title of the "new" event.)
Harry

HT5129 using apeture and moving photos selected or event to apeture from iphoto

how do I move an event to apeture from iphoto? They will not stay open together for me to drag? or slideshow or a photo, anything that may help?

If you're using iPhoto 11 and Aperture 3 there's no need to move anything. Just open the Library with your preferred app.

Iphoto 8 moving photos into trash bin!! Help!!

When I try to import photos from my digital camera to iphoto the pics get put into the trash bin and it will not let me put them back. Its not the iphoto trash bin, its the desktop trash bin. I can see them in there and when I right click on them and try to open them with iphoto it gives me an error saying "The following files could not be imported. (The file is in the iphoto library)" Then it gives me a list of all the pics it wouldn't move. There is no option to restor photos to library. Most of these pictures have been in my iphoto before and the new ones went in there for a minute but right after I imported them they just moved over to the trash bin!! HELP!!!!!!
Thanks

Sounds like a damage library. Try the following: make a temporary, duplicate copy of the library and try the three fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your Home/Library/Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache files that are located in your Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
3 - reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding the the Option key. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
Fix #2
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library.
Select the options identified in the screenshot.
Fix #3
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
OT

Moving photos around within imovie project

I am creating a slide show using imovie and when I imported the folder from iphoto, it rearranged all the photos. Is there an easy way to move them around within the project? I'm using imovie'11 for the first time.
thx

You can drag them in the iMovie project to wherever you want them.
Also, if you drag in from an iPhoto event, it seems to import in chronological order or something. However, if you create an iPhoto album, you can arrange the order in the album. When you import the album into iMovie through the iMovie Photo Browser, it will retain the order of the iPhoto Album.
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Iphoto keeps moving photos to the Trash

I installed the latest version of Iphoto 11...When I initially installed it a large portion of my photos were moved to the trash...I have moved them back multiple times but everytime I shut Iphoto down it puts them back in the trash...Very frustrating...
Any help would be appreciated

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

Moving photos in event.

Hi there its my first question and probably not a good ONE but anyway I have been trying to move photos around inside an event to organise them a bit but they just keep jumping back to were they were , I looked in help but couldn't find anything on it.

OK thank you , so if I wont to organise photos for a slide show I am best creating an album and organising the photos in the order I wont them in there ? I know you can drag and drop photos in the IDVD but my laptop is only small and I cant see pictures well enough.

Iphoto 11 v 9.4.2 keeps quitting on OS X 10.8.2; while editing or moving photos; any help please!

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