IPhoto 08 - Override "events" sort?

So. First Google wants to tell me what I should do tomorrow, and now
Apple thinks it knows what photo organization I should use. Can the sorting
by "events" be completely turned off? Failing that, can it at least be supplemented by creating albums? I am an avid photographer, Photoshop
user, and iPhoto 06 user. Event-sorting would cause me not only huge
transitional problems, but also ONGOING problems in terms of my post-processing work flow and also how I store photos in multiple places. I would like to upgrade to iLife 08 but I am very concerned about this. Thank you.

You can sort events by a number of different way including manually.
At this time you can not (I believe) manually sort the photos within an event)
You can create albums - the same as with iPhoto 6 (and they move forward frrom iPhoto 6 to iPhoto 7 without modification).
Events are simply a more flexible "roll" - if rolls are working for you events will work the same - you might even like the flexibility and start using them but you might not.
The only thing you will see is that all rolls which have not been named (name is still roll nn) will come in as "unnamed event) -- sonmething I hope Apple addresses - seems to me that they should retain the old roll nn name
Larry Nebel

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I use 10.6.8 MacBook mid 2007 iphoto 11 (9.2.3),
Cannot sort iphoto in event, when almost finished it changes to numbers.
I have done it for three times.
It does not work.
Faces will not show up correctly either, but that is not so important.
Please help

Please explain
Cannot sort iphoto in event, when almost finished it changes to numbers.
How are you "sorting photos in events"?
Typically you use albums for organization - like sorting
LN

IPhoto 11 Event Date Question

I have a question about iPhoto 11 events. My camera was set to the wrong date for part of an event. I went in and did a batch change of the time and date of the affected photos. However, the date range beneath the title of the event still has the old erroneous date, and the event gets sorted by this date range. Is there a way to go in and change that date range under the title of the event? I go to the event and click on info, and the event shows the correct date range for the pics, but it is not changing the date range under the title. Thanks for any help in advance.

Thank you - I had the same problem and found your helpful answer. However, this is actually a work around to a bug in iPhoto - it's not how the Apple Support pages say it works and common sense says that if you change all the dates in an event it should sort to the right place without being re-created. Can you help me with one more thing - how do I bring this to Apple's attention so that they fix it in a future release?
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By default events are sorted by the date of the oldest photo in the event
Probably the easiest way to move photos is to flag the photos you want together and create an event from flagged photos
But generally it is best to just leave events in date/time order and use albums for detailed organization - and/or keywords and smart albums
LN

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Sorting can be done by: Date, Rating, Label, Version Name, Keyword, File size, Pixel Size, Manual, and in Ascending or Descending order. You will see a small label at the top of the Browser which in your case is possibly says Version Name. Click on the R/H side of the label box to show all options. Allan

Birds eye view of photos - like iPhoto's 'Events' view

I switched from iPhoto to Lightroom. I love Lightroom. That said, I really miss iPhoto's 'Events' view. I'd love to see a feature in Lightroom that matched it's ability to quickly survey all of your photos.
'Events' view shows one image for each event (e.g. day or shoot; you can choose which image this is). When you mouse over an event photo it acts like a little flipbook - moving your cursor from left to right flips through all the images in the event in order. When you grab the scroll bar the date will show while your scrolling to make it easy to know when to stop.
I'm not suggesting that Lightroom copy this exactly (though that wouldn't be bad) but that there be some sort of way of looking at my whole collection of photographs at once without having to see every photo.
The closest thing in Lightroom is accomplished by treating stacks like iPhoto events. Doing this I can open the Photos folder to show my entire library and choose to collapse all stacks. Mind you, that's only a workaround. I'd love to see a new way of viewing the Library.

Encephalopathic wrote:
Torgil wrote:
Cloning the JPanel seems the wrong approach to me. If I were you I would separate the model (the data you represent in your UI) from the view (the UI components you use to display the data). So, if you want to duplicate your JPanel (view) you would just create a new one from your existing data model. With that approach, your problem becomes more or less trivial.
Google for MVC, to get you started on different ways of structuring your UI application.Good advice, better stated than in my feeble attempts in these cross-posts:
[http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5290511]
[http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5290029]
I disagree completely! Had I read those threads I wouldn't have bothered replying to this one. I think you explained it very clearly.

IPhoto does NOT sort 'By title'. Please advise

In the left pane Library-Photo view is selected.
In the menu "View->Sort Photos->By Title" is selected.
However, iPhoto sorts photos by date, not by title.
Any advise?
I use 10.8 OS and 9.3.2 iPhoto.

@Old Toad,
I am already sorting Events by Title unter 'Events' section. I wanted to have events as it as a list, not as thumbnails.
That is why I was trying to sort them in 'Photos' section, where they are shown as Text.
I have many events. And I wanted to structure them well, if i were to switch to iPhoto. As I see now, iPhoto does not have many useful library management features. So I am going to stick to Lightroom and Bridge (though I don't need so much editing power).
@Terence Devlin,
I checked Aperture on my friend's computer (it *****, that apple is not giving trial versions).
It does not offer exactly what I was looking for.
But the Projects (aka 'Events' in iPhoto) can be sorted and put in folders (in the left panel). And it is displayed as a list (not thumbnails). This can't be done with iPhoto.
Morover, the Aperture has a much better search by keywords selection than iPhoto.
To pay 80 USD to try using Aperture. I really don't know. If there were a trial available....
I better stick to what I know works - Lightroom and Bridge.

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2010-04-01 Event 1
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etc
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actually there was, but let me try again
on iPhoto the events are sorted nicely according to folder names, but after synchronization to the iPhone the events on the iPhone are sorted more like last added event. How to achieve on the iPhone the same sorting as in iPhoto?
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IPhoto '08: Events, (Smart) Albums, Web Gallery & Slideshows ???

I recently upgraded to iPhoto '08 and I am confused.
I must admit I used iPhoto before to look at my pictures but I never bothered with any albums or slideshows or whatever, but now with more and more pictures I need to organize.
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Events= Every time you import photos from your camera or via drag & drop a new Event is created. This is the basic (automatic) way that iPhoto organizes your photos. Events are date based and can be split or merged based on your preferences. For example, you go to a birthday party and take a few photos, a few days later you go to a picnic and take a few photos. When you import the images, iPhoto will split the pictures into two distinct events. (Check The iPhoto Preferences/Events for some options).
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Smart Albums= These are Albums you create that have specific rules, they automatically get updated every time a photo meets the specific set of rules. Smart Albums (SA) can have one or more rules. ex. You have 2 different cameras and you automatically want to see the photos captured by each camera. You create 2 Smart Albums that contain the Rule = Camera Model > is > Nikon D40 (or whatever). Next time you import photos from that camera, the SA will show these photos automatically. (Note: These are links, but if you delete an image, unless you delete it permanently it will re-appear in the SA, as long as it still has the required value of the SA. You can sort by Keyword, Ratings etc using Smart Albums, and you can have multiple sort rules, like Keyword = Birthday and Rating is 5 stars.
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On iPhone IOS6 i have events and photos which are not in my iPhoto 11 event library.

On iPhone IOS6 i have events and photos which are not in my iPhoto 11 event library.
I have noticed that on the itunes photo sync some more events and even several event per day are created but these photos are not in my iPhoto standard pictures (more events on iPhone tha.
Some of these pictures i have trashed them but they still appear in sync on iTunes.
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To target the Mail portion of that forum, click the "Refine this List" under the word "Discussions" in that forum to get this view:
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