IPhoto 08 woes!! – RANT -

Can someone please explain to me the thinking behind the reorganization of the iPhoto library in iPhoto 7?
I thought that my previous version (iPhoto 5) had a logical, hierarchical system for storing images so that it was a relatively simple task to locate an image in Finder by simply going to ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/2007/10/08 (if I wanted to find an image taken on the 8th October 2007).
I’ve just installed iLife ’08 because I upgraded my OS from Tiger to Leopard and thought that I should upgrade iPhoto, too
In iPhoto 5 I could delete photos from the iPhoto Library in the Finder (which enabled me to delete EVERYTHING) – because simply hitting Delete in iPhoto DID NOT remove the images from the Pictures folder and, for example, if you have your Screen Saver set to scroll through your Pictures folder all those photos you thought had been consigned to the Trash by hitting Delete in iPhoto are, miraculously, still in your Pictures folder! When I want to Delete I REALLY want to get rid of every vestige of the image from my system – not just from the iPhoto library!
Back to my current problem – iPhoto 7 chooses to make all the contents of the iPhoto Library hidden unless one Control clicks and chooses ‘Show Package Contents’ - then what is revealed is an absolute mare’s nest! The previous year/month/day system seems to have been severely compromised. iPhoto 7, in its infinite wisdom has allocated a couple of hundred scanned images (all of which were imported into iPhoto 5 with the correct information as to the date that the images were taken) to the year 1970!! Who knows why?? they were all taken at different dates but NONE of the dates was 1970 – has all my information been lost forever?
Secondly, a quick check of several images reveals that the year/month/date system is buried under the ‘Originals’ folder HOWEVER when you go to e.g. 20030419 to find images taken on the 19th April 2003, the correct images display BUT the ‘Created’ information shows 26 03 2005! I simply CANNOT believe that iPhoto has decided to put some arbitrary date on these images instead of the actual date the image was captured.
Can someone tell me how I can ‘revert’ to my iPhoto 5 app. because I really cannot see that the ‘benefits’ of iPhoto 7 are of any benefit to me?
Tricia

Patricia
Can someone please explain to me the thinking behind the reorganization of the iPhoto library in iPhoto 7?
I can.
I thought that my previous version (iPhoto 5) had a logical, hierarchical system for storing images so that it was a relatively simple task to locate an image in Finder by simply going to ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/2007/10/08 (if I wanted to find an image taken on the 8th October 2007).
Yes, but what were you rooting around in the iPhoto Library Folder? Doing this risks corrupting your library and is much slower that using the application the way the developers intended.
In iPhoto 5 I could delete photos from the iPhoto Library in the Finder (which enabled me to delete EVERYTHING) – because simply hitting Delete in iPhoto DID NOT remove the images from the Pictures folder
The correct way to remove Pics from iPhoto and the HD is to ut them in your iPhoto trash and then empty the iPhoto trash. That does it. If it didn't on your old machine that's most likely a symptom of minor disk trouble.
You know that the Screen Saver caches images, right? And that you may have seen images in the ScreenSaver cache - again not updated because of the same minor disk trouble.
ack to my current problem – iPhoto 7 chooses to make all the contents of the iPhoto Library hidden unless one Control clicks and chooses ‘Show Package Contents’ - then what is revealed is an absolute mare’s nest!
Well, you know, iPhoto develops along, and had you upgraded to v6 you'd have seen that this system was introduced then. And the pkg file comes in with v7, but with the same library structure as v6.
But here's one thing that has not changed an iota since v1:
*It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss*
You know it really does not matter a whit what folder iPhoto puts the pics in, what matters is where they are in the iPhoto Window. Very simply, there are no user serviceable parts in the iPhoto Library Folder. Period. Making changes in there corrupts your library.
Secondly. when you examine photos in the you're accessing them via the FINDER. The finder simply produces the Date the FILE was created. However, iPhoto uses the EXIF data to get its' date, so again, where the file in the iPhoto Library is matters not.
So, deep breath, get out of the iPhoto Library Folder and leave it be. You do ALL your work in the iPhoto Window. And if you want to access a file:
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.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser. Or, if you want to access the files with iPhoto not running, then create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use THIS
Also, for 10.5 users: If you use the extended Open or Attach dialogue (with Column View) you can scroll to the bottom of the Shortcuts and find the Media browser there. Select any pic you want from there.
You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically.
See? No need to ever go into that folder.
If you want to revert to v5, the first question to consider: have you kept a copy of the v5 library?
By all means take a deep breath and count to 10, then post again.
Apart from the very many improvements through v6 and v7, I would think that the ability to edit losslessly is a major step ahead of v5.
Regards
TD

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Hi Lawrence,
If deleting the Pref files doesn't work:
Preference file
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Open library
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iPhoto Album Extractor
If you decide to create a new library and import from the old:
How many images do you have in your library?
Do you mind losing albums, keywords, comments?
If not...
close iPhoto
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-the Originals folder has all your originals photos unedited. the Modified folder has all images that you have edited, rotated, cropped, etc.
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I know this might sound confusing but it really isn't.
Get back if any of this sounds like something you might want to do.

Continual Mac woes (no question, just a rant)

It's Tuesday, and I am having terrible problems with my Mac. But then, why should Tuesday be different from any other day of the week.
Here is a typical day for me. The computer appears to be working OK. I need to watch a DVD for my work. I turn on DVD player, and put one in. The machine can't read the disc. It clicks and whirls, but the icon does not show up on the desktop. Meanwhile, so distressed is the machine that it freaks out. What was up until now was a fluidly operating machine suddenly reverts back to its old ways (i.e., its ways of two days ago). The hold ups and spinning pinwheels begin to eat of hours of my work day. (Remember the old days when computers made life easier?) The machine becomes sticky, gummy. Oh, I can move the curser and it seems to work for a second but then gets stuck in the dock, which explodes in icons and then freezes for five minutes. Yes. Five minutes.
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In the old macs, there used to be a pin hole you could stick a needle into ... can't find one on my flatpanel iMac.
I bought my Apple flat panel iMac in August of 2002. Yes, I know that that is a long time to have a computer, but I am not rich nor attached to a corporation that can splurge on computers. The first weekend I had the machine, I had three kernal panics.
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I called AppleCare while I had it about once a week (the total between August 2002 and the time it ran out was about 155 calls). Naturally, some of these calls are motivated by user error. On the other hand, many of the issues I have called about were unprecedented as far as the Tech person was concerned, such as the blinking mouse, the red stop sign, and the DVD Player woes.
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I have been having so many problems with my Mac that I once wrote a letter to the company asking when do I qualify for a new replacement machine. I never received an answer, but I felt better for about a day. Then I turned on my Mac again.

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IPhoto/external hard drive woes

I use a WD external drive to store my iPhoto library. iPhoto has lost the link to the library (I assume through a non-ejected disconnect), but also doesn't prompt me to find the library when I open iPhoto. I can get it to prompt find library by renaming the library it creates, but when I select the correct iPhoto library from my external drive, I can't click ok! It's positively nonsensical... I can create new libraries, I can select other folders, just not the correct one. Do I need to create a new library and just reimport everything?? How much data would I lose that way? Completely bizarre.

I can get it to prompt find library by renaming the library it creates, but ... I can't click ok!
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Greetings everyone,
Just got a new Aluminum iMac, running 10.5 and iPhoto 08, and I am trying to share a 5GB iPhoto library among several users.
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However, all other users are unable to access this library. I quit iPhoto, logged in as "User 2", and launched iPhoto with option key down to select a library on startup. iPhoto can see the directory, but the library is grayed out. Also, if I Get Info on this library while logged in as "User 2", it says *the file size is Zero K* (Get Info says file size = 5GB when logged in as User 1). Same thing happens for all other users on this box.
*Anyone have any idea how to get other users to be able to access this library* and/or why this library is showing up as Zero K for all users except the first one?
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sno-man

sno-man:
If you manually reset the ownership and permissions of the library located in the Shared folder any new file or file that gets edited by a second user will have that 2nd Users ownership and preferences. It's a difficult situation.
The best way to share a working/editing library between multiple users on the same or multiple Macs is to put the library on an external FW hard disk whose ownership is set to be ignored .
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Also I recommend you follow the tip at the end of my signature as being on a disk image there could be an interruption while a user was using the library and writing to the library's database file. If that happens that file will be damaged and you'll lose all of your organizational effort, i.e. keywords, books, albums, slideshows. The tip describes how to recover easily from such an event.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto 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 08 libraries 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.

Iphoto 11 upgrade woes

upgraded to iphoto 11 and my photos lost their connections. I've read all about backing up the photos but i'm using iphoto from an external drive to keep my hard disk free. Does that count as a back up or will rebuilding it from there cause me to lose my photos? I have about 4 different iphoto accounts I was usuing on the external drive as I merged data from multiple computers a few years back. Prior to the upgrade I didn't have any photos on the iphoto on my computer. Everything is on the version on my hard drive. How do I fix this?

So, you're saying if I copy them onto another drive, then rebuild them, these broken links will be fixed?
No. A back up is a copy of whatever you got. If you have a damaged library making a copy will get you a second damaged library, it won't miraculously fix it. The point of backing up now is that you can at least get back to this point should your efforts to fix the library make things worse.
As for the core issue:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
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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

Iphoto woes

When I try to open some photos, I get a black screen with an exclamation mark. I can not export or email these photos. They seem to be corrupted. Is there a way to get them back?

This post is pretty old, so the menus won't be the same anymore, but in a nuthshell, your linkage between photo thumbnails and source files has been broken.
You'll need to rebuild your iPhoto Library.
I should be somewhere in teh main iPhoto menu.
I had the same thing happening to me when I moved my pictures folder around and renamed some folders it was under.
BTW:
if you create a new library, you can switch between them.
HOld the OPTION key while starting up iPhoto and it will ask you which library you want to open

DVD-R DL woes.. more of a RANT!

Hey Guys, just have to let off some steam!!!
scenario:
i have a DVD-9 project that needs to get QC'ed and approved by a client.
back in the day, we would just split the project in 2, basically making 2 DVD-5 for approvals.
of course the client has no clue, nor does he care about this, since he wants to see the WHOLE project together and definitely rejected the idea of compressing the project to a DVD-5 just for naviagtion and playback.
so he requested a DVD-R DL disc, to which i informed him there might be some compaibilty issues with players and i cannot guarantee playback.
he said whatever, just give me a disc, so i gave him one.
here's the kicker, he says it won't play back correctly!
he says: "the disc will not play the last 2 segments correctly! when i try to access them, the player pauses, searches for a while and then eventually plays back."
WHAT A SURPRISE!!!
technically, i came to the conclusion that the 2 video segments he is referring to just happen to land on the layer 1, since they are the last 2 VTS's. everything else plays fine. since i created a PTP and not a OTP playback, i am confident this is the issue.
of course, in software emulation AND a computer drive, the discs plays back as expected!
i try to explain to him the situation and starts giving me grief since his project is going to replication via DLT and i assured him that the discs are fine!
GRRRRRR!!!!!!! in this case ignorance is NOT BLISS!!
anyway, have a great day everyone!
Mikey M.

Hey Trai,
i totally agree with you!
however, i guess my little internal burner has burnt it's last DVD+R DL disc since i keep getting an error in toast:
Sense Key Illegal Request
Sense Code 0x26
Invalid Field in Parameter List
doing some extensive searching on my particualr error came up with a general consensus agreeing that indeed it was the burner.
i wouldn't doubt that since i burn at least 50 discs a month and have had this baby for almost a year (PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D).
that's why i didn't offer a DVD+R DL since i have had more usccess with this media (i only use verbatim).
anyway, thanks for the insight
Mikey M.

How do I get videos from iPhone to iPhoto?

I upgraded to 5.1 and iCloud, photostream etc, but am finding it much more complicated than the previous way I sync'd my iPhone.
I used to plug in my phone, press Sync, all my photos would zoom from my Camera Roll to iPhoto, including any videos I had taken on my iPhone, then it would ask me if I wanted to delete the contents of my Camera Roll. Apart from the fact that I would have liked to 'protect' a few photos before deleting them all, this worked well.
I don't go on my MacBook every day, so I quite often build up quite a few photos on my iPhone.
Now, only my photos sync, they don't do it quickly when I press sync, but slowly and in bits n bobs. The videos don't sync and I am not asked if I want to delete photos after they have been synced.
Can anyone help?

And now every time I plug my USB to my iphone in, it comes up for about a minute in iPhoto, then disappears and I can't see it in Devices at all.
I am sorry that I can't understand this, but I thought the point of Apple was that it was based on an intuitive system. It used to be, because (as you can tell!) I am not techy, and yet it all worked perfectly and I have been yelling about it from the rooftops since 2003.
But since upgrading to 10.7 and 5.1, iCloud and all the rest of it, everything has just gone to xxx. I am spending half my life fiddling around, trying to understand how the wretched system works and I am so fed up.
My Word/Excel etc don't work any more, my iPhoto has gone to **** and I can't make my iPhone sync with my computer any more. I don't really understand the benefits of photostream and I am so hacked off with the whole thing that I feel like opting out altogether and writing on a wax tablet.
I would be embarrassed, but I know that I am not alone. There are loads of people saying the same thing. You techies might think it is pathetic, but computers are meant to be for everyone, busy mums included.
Sorry, rant over. Going to bed.

Several issues on my Classic. Contacts, BB Link and Battery Monitor. Help + rant

Hello everyone,
Initially I wanted to make this post specific to my most recent problem (BB Link) but maybe I can get some help with all of my problems in one post.
1. Contacts display and Caller ID - my biggest problem.
I used gmail to sync my contacts when I switched from iPhone to Android and now on BlackBerry. I had no problems with the iPhone and the Nexus 5, but Contacts on BlackBerry is bad. Very bad. I thought that switching to BlackBerry I'd have 0 problems with calling people because it's a "serious" business phone, and business people really need the call function to work 100%. I have only 250 contacts and they are fully synced (2weeks now). I don't have duplicates.
I suspect that the culprit is "smart dialing". The "feature" I can't turn off. Maybe someone can set up smart dialing better than I can.
- I live in Romania so our Country Code is +40 .
- The rest of the number is xxx xxx xxx. (9 characters)
- so, a Romanian number is +40 xxx xxx xxx when dialing from abroad.
When dialing normally (national calls), we have to add the 0 from the country code in front of the phone number. That makes our phone numbers 0xxx xxx xxx. Due to this format, I've set the "National Number Length" to 10. (Same problem with 9). And we don't have an area code.
Just now I received a call from someone and it showed his caller ID. On the next call (same person), it didn't show the caller ID. In the Call Log, I could only see the number. I pressed info and it showed the name. Then I pressed back and the name was associated with the number again in the Call Log. (10 minutes after writing this i check my call log and I notice that there are some numbers that called but are missing right now from the log. its the 2nd time this happened. they will probably show up in the next few hours).
I also cleaned all my numbers and they all have the same format now. It is CLEARLY a blackberry problem. I had NO problems with caller IDs on iPhone or Android even though the format wasnt consistent through all contacts.
And why can't I just copy the numbers locally? I tried selecting all contacts and "Copy" to local but I just can't. Apparently because they are linked contacts. It shouldn't be this hard.
Also, why do I see linkedin contacts when I chose '"hide" in its menu?
2. BlackBerry Link - (and why isn't it integrated with blend anyway?).
- couldn't back-up over wi-fi. iPhone and android backup over wifi on their servers. I think i connected both of those devices fewer than 10 times total to my computer. Everything was done over wifi. Now i have to connect my blackberry weekly so it can backup? I don't mind that BB doesn't make a full backup on their server, but it should be at least possible to do so over wifi on my network. (or maybe I don't know how to do it?)
- photos. Instead of building its own library, or making it possible to sync directly with folders in my computer, BlackBerry Link uses the iPhoto Library (on my Mac) - which I DONT USE. So I set Iphoto properly, but Link doesnt detect the new updates to the library, I still can't find my specific folder in BlackBerry Link.
3. Battery. The battery monitor is completely useless. Once, after a full charge it showed me that I had 70% battery for 4 hours until it dropped under 70%. It is almost funny what I see in the battery monitor on a daily basis.
The battery life is ok, but I rely mostly on luck. Sometimes it would drop 10% in 10 minutes and then hold a 40% charge for several hours. I don't really know how much battery I have but it generally holds for 1 day so I'm not that worried.
The rant:
I wanted to have a BB for a long time. My gf had a 9900 and even though the camera stopped working randomly, it was very reliable. I used the Q10 shortly after it launched and I noticed at that time that I need more apps than BB World can offer flipboard, banking and just a few others, so I didn't make the switch then. Now with the classic, which has android runtime and the toolbelt (which i really liked on the 9900) I thought it's time to make the switch. But I find it surprisingly annoying exactly where I expected to see its strenght - reliability.
I don't mind the blackberry link part so much, or that android apps work a bit laggy. I expected that. But I DO expect to see who is calling me and to have a reliable battery monitor.
Other issues:
- it doesn't completely lock the buttons when in holster. why do I have to be careful how I position my phone in my pocket so I don't accidentally turn it off? Also the holster rubs against the volume down button when inserted (original BB holster).
- weird noises when I change the volume during a song or youtube video
- due to a bug in a webpage or in the browser, it used 600 mb in about 10 minutes while running as an active frame.
Apparently I blew off some steam. I really want to like this device. Hope future updates will make it better.
Edit: After a reboot the call log returned to normal....

First thing I would do is to switch the following off:
Contacts > Settings
Automatically Merge Contacts = Off
Unmerge Existing Contacts = On
Just to clarify, do you have all the contacts phone numbers in the format
+40 xxx xxx xxx ?
This would be ideal.
Blackberry Engineering in Switzerland - Dexion Services AG

How do I find my original photo files in Iphoto?

Well...Thanks Apple for censoring and deleting my previous discussion which DID contain useful and constructive information for many people who are trying to track down their photos in Iphoto. I didn't realize how strongly censored this forum is. I guess I shouldn't rant about it, or this will also get deleted.
Once again, if anyone is trying to find their original picture files, open a Finder window > Places / your user name / Pictures / Iphoto Library ( Left click and select "Show Package Contents" / Originals.
Also: as an Apple Forum user tip: Don't be too critical of the Apple products or your post will be deleted.
Thanks again LarryHN and Terence D for the help.

Don't use iPhoto.
iPhoto is a Photo Manager. It's designed to work like, say the AddressBook on your computer. Think of it this way:
Add all your addresses to the Addressbook. Edit them, group and organise them as you will.
If you need to access an address then simply use the tools built-in to every app in your Mac to do so - like the email or mail merge features and so on.
*some where on the HD is all that information, but you wouldn't try and find that file, would you? You'd access the data via the Address Book application or the various hooks written into the Applications that integrate with it.
Now, repeat swapping out the word 'address' for the word 'Photos'
Add all your Photos to the iPhoto. Edit them, group and organise them as you will.
If you need to access an Photo then simply use the tools built-in to every app in your Mac to do so - like the Media browser. These are detailed here:
For help accessing your photos in iPhoto see this user tip:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4491
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.
What you are trying to teach the kids is a file based system. iPhoto is a data based system. If you don't want to teach the kids how to use a data based system then don't use iPhoto.

IPhoto '09 seems to be incompatible with Mountain Lion

Hi
I am a long-standing major fan of Apple computers. This is because they allow me to work easily with images. I am an art historian and museum curator. My professional life is entirely about images ... or rather about images attached to data.
For years I have been accumulating and categorising images using iPhoto. It has been the most wonderful tool. A clear, simple interface. The capacity to attach searchable free-text metadata. Wow, that simple feature makes this the most powerful application of any I have ever used.
The problems started for me when iPhoto '11 first came out. This removed the capacity to compare photos side by side in full screen mode, a brilliant, simple and obviously powerful feature. As a consequence I did not upgrade, but stuck with iPhoto '09 (8.1.2).
Now I discover that there seems to be a bug which means iPhoto '09 is not compatible with Mountain Lion. Whenever you go into Preferences the computer seizes up and has to be hard-booted. An Apple genius was unable to fix this for me. I've reinstalled the entire operating system to try and fix the problem, but it remains. I gathered from a discussion thread that it was simply an incompatibility with Mountain Lion.
As a consequence I have purchased iPhoto '11 (9.4.1) and Aperture, which I was advised by the Apple Genius would be much better than iPhoto. I have converted my several iPhoto libraries. But I just cannot get anything resembling the clean functionality of iPhoto '09. Everywhere I am cluttered up with gadgetry which I cannot remove. It just is no longer possible to view photos with their basic metadata in a clear and simple way.
The only way I can see forward is to downgrade to Lion, reinstall iPhoto '09, and live the rest of my life without ever upgrading to Mountain Lion.
Forgive the long rant. I am sure people will be irritated and say I should not be using an application designed for holiday snaps for professional purposes. But that is not how I see it. iPhoto is part of the fundamental suite of utilities which makes an Apple computer what it is. That means it ought not to be designed with a single purpose in mind. We are creative people. We use our machines as it suits us to use them. Apple became what it is because it understood that.
If anyone can point me in the direction of a image organiser which allows me to store photos with associated searchable free-text metadata, add dates of my own choosing to the images and to do this in a way which integrates with other applications as well as iPhoto, I'd be so very grateful.
Otherwise I think it's going to have to be the downgrade.
Or could this even be the moment come to abandon Apple? I'm due for a new machine. For the first time in 25 years and six Apple computers I'm going to be considering the competition. Any helpful suggestions would be very gratefully received.
Thanks.

Yes, that's it! You're brilliant. Thank you so, so much.
Just in case anyone else reads this having had the same problem, the answer is (as Terence says) to delete anything which might cause the computer to try to link to a MobileMe account. My iPhoto libraries had old MobileMe photo galleries which I hadn't bothered about in years. It seems these caused the iPhoto Preference pane to attempt to access MobileMe whenever I opened it. This of course it could not do because the service is defunct and so the computer simply beachballed. In order to remove the MobileMe galleries I found I could only do it if I first disconnected my wireless network. All MobileMe references are gone now (I hope) and everything seems to be working well.
Hugely grateful.
(Sorry clicked the wrong message for 'Answered my question')

Iphoto 09, the slider for the thumbnail doesn't show full size image

The slider in the lower left that when to the left shows small thumbnails and when to the right, to the "head icon", shows the image enlarged to fill the window, is broken in iPhoto 09. When you slide all the way to the right or click the head icon, the biggest the images magnify to is thumbnails sized to four across and three high thumbnails (displaying 12 big thumbnails rather than one screen filling image). The only way to examine the image now in 09 is to go into edit mode, which still has the row of thumbnails across the top instead of a single large image.
This is really annoying and stupid and makes the program much less useful. Why would they change the program to make it impossible to see the images at full screen unless in edit mode? Any way to put it back to the 08 behavior?

It does seem a bit silly to retain the icon that implies a full sized viewing though.
iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback
If a change is an improvement, I'm all for it. If it is an arbitrary and unnecessary change, it can just be irritating. Like changing the reload button in Safari from the upper left to a variable position somewhere in the upper middle part of the window, a change that improved nothing and probably was a bad idea; changing a constantly located icon to one that roams around depending on the window width.
Absolutely. Not sure what that has to do with iPhoto, though.
I can cope with changes that make things more efficient or improve quality.
Good to know.
I don't quite understand the defense of mindless changes that merely require the user to dig around and waste time figuring out what happened to seemingly missing standard features.
But who’s defending anything?
I don't think that the sheep who copes by blithely accepting being herded onto the slaughterhouse truck is necessarily exercising any signs of higher intelligence.
True. But what do you make of the one who goes ranting off about things based on incorrect information?
This change in the software is inconvenient and makes the program worse.
By way of explanation and not at all to defend: It’s a subtle thing, I know. But it does add a level of coherence to the OS. Quicklook in the Finder, for instance, does a similar thing with the same keystroke. Itunes starts playing a track on the same keystroke. So, I’m not sure where the failed analysis is.
Regards
TD

Open With iPhoto

Sometimes iPhoto is a simple to use program that does all I need --- but it can't organize like Bridge can, so I would like to use Bridge and then an "Open With iPhoto" command. I can add iPhoto to the applications in Preferences|File Type Associations, and Bridge then starts the iPhoto app after I double click an image -- but then I receive a message that "the file cannot be imported. It is in the iPhoto library." (Of course it is.)
Now, before ranting that this forum is for professionals and it's an Apple problem -- let me suggest that Apple made sure iPhoto had the ability to open an image for editing in Photoshop.
So, can somebody help me figure out how to make these two very good programs work together?

I should mention, you can right click on an image through finder, select 'Get info' scroll down till you see 'Open With:' here you can default iPhoto, then click 'change all' and continue... you can also just use iPhoto in select images by not clicking on 'Change all', the change will only apply to that image
This way you get iPhoto on the list as 'defualt' but still have all the others available as before...
Rick
iMac G5 iSight 20" - 30G iPOD in Slimming Black - Mac OS X (10.4.7) - HP Pav 15" WS and Toshiba Sat 17" WS LP's - Canon 20D & A620

Why iTunes? Why not iPhoto, or the Movies Folder?

I hope this does not come across as just ranting. I think I have a couple of intelligent questions here, and am genuinely confused.
I'm far from new to the Mac. But admittedly have stalled as Apple moved toward mobility and sharing. I do not have any iOS devices; stopped upgrading at Snow Leopard; was sad to see my .Mac become .me, and now evaporate into a cloud. I am not really doing much with iCloud, other than the bare minimal to keep my many years old .Mac email address. I do, however, have and use a Mac Pro, two MacBook Pros, and some older Powerbooks and iPods.
And now, I have an Apple TV. I just got a new ATV (Amazon listing said "newest" so is that gen 2 or 3?).
Weather 2nd or 3rd gen ATV, I am having a difficult time using it to play so much of the content I have on several different internal and external hard drives.
I falsely assumed that video I created or edited using QTPro or iMovie would have an easy and logical route to the Apple TV.
Wouldn't it make sense to stream from iPhoto, which has video uploaded from digital cameras, or anything in the User Movies folder?
Any video I have on non-boot drives, internal or external, has no simple way to be played on the ATV.
For years, working with video, It did not make any sense for me to use iTunes. Hence, the greater percentage of my stuff is not mp4 or m4v, though I try to use H264 now as much as possible. Still, I have much in avi; divx, wmv, mkv, etc. For that reason, I have 2 Sony Pplaystations (PS3) for streaming to HD TVs. But those do not like Apple proprietary video. Which is why I broke down and bought the ATV.
I am accustomed to having to convert things and have several good video conversions applications, as well as QTPro.
But the video file type is not my main issue right now. I knew the ATV would not play all those other file types.
What I did not know, and am struggling with now, is the fact that everything has to come from iTunes, which resides on my boot drive, which only has a fraction of the movies and tv shows I want to stream to the ATV.
So...Do I have to create multiple iTunes Libraries and store one on each of the non-boot drives?
If so, how do I use the ATV to select the Library I want to use?
I do have Home Sharing turned on. As I mentioned, I do not use or have any iOS devices, only multiple laptops and desktops and older iPods.
So Airplay, as I understand it, is not part of my scenario?
Nor is syncing, since this is a ATV 2 or 3, right?
I did figured out one clumsy method of getting video from other than iTunes, but it's limited. It's this:
In iTunes, I go to Advanced > Choose Photos to Share. Then in the Photo Sharing Preferences box that comes up, next to Share Photos From: I select a folder on one of the non-boot drives, and check the Include videos box. It works, so far. But as best I can figure, I can only make one selection (folder) at a time.
Help, advise, comments will be much appreciated. Thanks

The requirements for AppleTV were clear to me that iTunes is required to play videos. Also the video formats were listed in the requirments.
You have to have iTunes running to stream the videos to your appleTV, but the iTunes library does not have to be on an internal drive. My iTunes library is on a 2TB external drive. I know others have multiple external drives making up their iTunes library but I do not know how they accomplished that.

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