IPhoto 09: Does Editing Still Create Copies?

I know it's not released yet but does anyone have any inside information about whether iPhoto 09 will do non-destructive editing without creating full copies of the original image?
Most of my 12,000 photos are 10 megapixels so the way iPhoto creates copies when I crop, rotate or change settings results in a massive amount of wasted disk space.
Lightroom, Picasa and Aperture all work in a non-destructive way so I'm hoping iPhoto 09 will follow suit.

This is the way that iPhoto has always worked and there’s nothing in the information we have to date to indicate otherwise.
The advantage to using this way of working is that it runs well on lower end machines. The DB system places greater hardware demands.
You can, of course, run iPhoto from an external HD with no effort whatever, and they are inexpensive for even enormous disks.
If that doesn’t work for you then the very obvious thing is... use another application.
Regards
TD

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Does Editing Still Create Copies?

or is it like aperture now?

autoy:
What an edit is made there is a new file created and added to the Modified folder that contains the edits. The original file is still in its original location. To check this out, Control-click on an edited photos and select: 1 - original file (and see where it's located) and 2 - select File (and see where that is located).
Do you Twango?
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 written 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. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

I I have accidentally lost the "book" in iPhoto. Can I still get copies from the book without having to resend the actual photos. Other photobook companies keep your book on file?

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Have just found the book and files on the external hard drive.
All good.
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My biggest bugbear with iPhoto is that when I rotate one of my imported photos (I have over 7000) it creates a duplicate of the 'original'. When I imported my photos there were hundreds of them which needed rotating, so this 'feature' has taken up several GB of disk space -- all unnecessarily. This, to me, is crazy because rotation can be done simply by changing the EXIF data within the photo.
Can anyone tell me whether this problem ('feature') has changed in iPhoto '08? If it hasn't, can anyone explain the logic behind not rotating using the EXIF data?
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That's not true for my library. When I rotate a file a new,modified file is created in the Modified folder.. Also when an auto-rotated photo is imported a modified file is created.
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Aperture - Importing iphoto events - original & edited copies

Sorry if this has been asked before!
I'm going through each event in iphoto tossing out the bad photos and editing the good ones. Once I've finished with each event I'm trying to move them into Aperture one by one and then deleting the event from iphoto.
I'm doing this by going to File - Import - Show iphoto browser and importing the event as a new project. Problem is that every time I look at my new project I have two copies, the iphoto original and iphoto edited.
Obviously I only want one copy of each photo (the edited version). I therefore have several questions...
1) If I delete the iphoto original version what are the consequences?
2) I wish the library to use a 'managed' system rather than a referenced system. Will this still happen if I move the events one by one (it doesn't give me as many options as if I were to move the entire library, which I'm not ready to do yet)
3) The only way I've found to stop two copies importing is by copying the events from iphoto to the desktop and then importing them to Aperture - does this cause degradation of the photo?
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Janna,
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The way you are importing now forces you to decide if you rather want the edited version or the original master, and if you decide that you want both, then you will need twice as much storage space.
1) If I delete the iphoto original version what are the consequences?
You will never be able to revert to the original if you find that you made a mistake when editing your images; or when better algorithms/ raw processing become available. If you only want to keep one of the images I'd strongly suggest to keep the original and not the edited version.
2) I wish the library to use a 'managed' system rather than a referenced system. Will this still happen if I move the events one by one (it doesn't give me as many options as if I were to move the entire library, which I'm not ready to do yet)
No proble, even if you import initially als managed master files, you can always relocate the managed images to a folder of your choosing afterwards and thus turn your library into a referenced library.
3) The only way I've found to stop two copies importing is by copying the events from iphoto to the desktop and then importing them to Aperture - does this cause degradation of the photo?
That will depend on your export settings. If you export the original you will not loose any quality on export, but exporting the edited versions will depend on the quality setting for the versions.
If you import your whole iPhoto library at once, Aperture will mirror the structure of your iPhoto Library; iPhoto events will be mapped to projects, and you will keep your albums, books, etc.
All your work you are doing now to prepare for your transit you could do as easily in Aperture and the problems you asked about could be avoided.
Good Luck and welcome to Aperture!
Regards
Léonie

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