IPhoto 11 Folders/Albums vs. Events
I recently upgraded to iphoto 11. In older versions of iphoto, I would organize my all photos by event. Then, if I wanted to work on particular projects (like creating a folder of pic's I wanted to print), I would create folders within iphoto. When I would work in the folders, I could delete pictures/add pictures/edit pictures and then original photo in the event wouldn't be touched.
Now, if I delete or duplicate the picture in the folder, the same thing will happen in the "event". I am trying to sort though my "wedding event" and wanted to create a folder where I could narrow down the ones I wanted to print.
I just want to be able to move pictures somewhere and be able to play with them, without affecting the original photo. I tried to duplicate the photos but then I ended up with all the duplicates in the original event.
I hope this makes sense to somebody and that there is an easy answer. Basically, it seemed that folders and events were not linked in prior versions and now they are.
Yes. DOn't use Events for this. Events are Time and Date based. YOu want to work thematically. Albums have a lot more flexibility - Smart Albums and Keywords even more.
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums exensively. I title the pics broadly.
I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 25k library in a couple of seconds.
So, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
New Smart Album
Keyword is John
Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
Want only the best pics?
add Rating is greater than 4 stars
The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
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How can I archive photos in iPhoto to a hard drive and retain the Album folders and the Events?
How can I archive photos in iPhoto to a hard drive and retain the Album folders and the Events? I tried to Export the Albums but just transferred the files individually.
If you want to maintain the iPhoto organisation then back up the iPhoto Library.
If you want to export to the Finder, well you need to create a folder for the contents of an Album and expot to that.
If you have an older version of iPhoto: Apps like iPhoto2Disk or PhotoShare will help you export to a Folder tree matching your Events. This feature is built in to iPhoto 11.
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue. -
I have a new iMac and I'm a new mac user....I have an iphone5..and ipad2.
I have created folders on the imac in iphoto.
I am synching the ipad and iphone with mac using itunes...selecting all photos, 3,500+ and although all the pictures may be sharing on all devices, the folders aren't.
I have created several folders and copied pictures into those folders and they look fine while in iphoto....but I can't get the to synch into ipad and iphone using itunes.Folders in iPhoto do not contain photos. Albums and Events do. Folders can contain albums, but not photos on their own.
So, do you mean Albums? -
Look at your iphoto 'page'.
On the left is a margin running vertically down the page and within that margin are shown your files/folders - e.g 'events', 'last 12 months', 'anniversary' etc etc.
Now visualize the 'page' but WITHOUT the margin and the entries in it. It just disappeared while I was editing photos.
I've tried all the 'File', 'Edit', 'View', 'Share' 'Window' & 'Help' options, but no success.
There is no apparent way of calling up onto the screen any photos, folders etc. because I can't get the margin and its contents back onto the iphoto page.
I've tried restoring the page from my backup, where it is all perfect, but that didn't work.
Help please!Move your cursor to the extreme left hand side of the iPhoto Window until it turns into a '+' and then click and drag right.
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Question: Inadvertently a visiting toddler gained access to my computer during a visit. He's obviously fiddled with something as I can no longer use my arrow keys to navigate through my albums or events on iPhoto. Only one pic shows up in the album view - I can't see any thumbnails. To see the other pics I have to use the scroll bar on the right hand side of the window. Please help!
Depeding on your version of iPhoto: On the left (iPhoto 11) or right (earlier versions) of the lower frame of the iPhoto Window you'll see a slider. Drag it left.
Regards
TD -
I hv lost my icon for iphoto on my Imac Mac OSX10.5.8. I still hv my pics but can no longer creat albums and events. If I upgrade to the latest Mountain Lion, will my pics go into the new iphoto?
From where did you lose the iPhoto icon? From the Dock? If so, then it's still in your Applications folder. Find it there then drag the icon back into the Dock. If it's no longer in Applications perhaps you've moved or renamed it. Use Spotlight to search for "iphoto."
Upgrading to Mountain Lion will not affect your iPhoto Library unless you erase the hard drive first. Be sure you backup before any system upgrade.
Upgrade Paths to Snow Leopard, Lion, and/or Mountain Lion
You can upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Mountain Lion can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $19.99. To access the App Store you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later installed.
Upgrading to Snow Leopard
You must purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
After you install Snow Leopard you will have to download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 and give you access to the App Store. Access to the App Store enables you to download Mountain Lion if your computer meets the requirements.
Snow Leopard General Requirements
1. Mac computer with an Intel processor
2. 1GB of memory
3. 5GB of available disk space
4. DVD drive for installation
5. Some features require a compatible Internet service provider;
fees may apply.
6. Some features require Apple’s MobileMe service; fees and
terms apply.
Upgrading to Lion
If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Mountain Lion, it may still meet the requirements to install Lion.
You can purchase Lion by contacting Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service - this includes international calling numbers. The cost is $19.99 (as it was before) plus tax. It's a download. You will get an email containing a redemption code that you then use at the Mac App Store to download Lion. Save a copy of that installer to your Downloads folder because the installer deletes itself at the end of the installation.
Lion System Requirements
1. Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7,
or Xeon processor
2. 2GB of memory
3. OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
4. 7GB of available space
5. Some features require an Apple ID; terms apply.
Upgrading to Mountain Lion
To upgrade to Mountain Lion you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Purchase and download Mountain Lion from the App Store. Sign in using your Apple ID. Mountain Lion is $19.99 plus tax. The file is quite large, over 4 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.
OS X Mountain Lion - System Requirements
Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
7. Xserve (Early 2009)
Are my applications compatible?
See App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps.
Am I eligible for the free upgrade?
See Apple - Free OS X Mountain Lion upgrade Program.
For a complete How-To introduction from Apple see Upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion. -
ITunes doesn't "see" iPhoto and can't sync photos, albums or events.
When I connect my iPod Video 30Gb, iTunes launches like a champ.
Clicking on the Photo tab within the iPod setting screen displays a dimmed reference to iPhoto.
Enabling this option fails to display any of the 300+ events nor any photos.
In fact, the screen says at the bottom "Coping photos from iPhoto requires iPhoto 4.0.3 or later.
I have:
iPhoto 7.0.2 (341) (part of iLife '08)
iTunes 7.4.2 (4)
Mac 10.4.10
I've already rebuilt the albumdata.xml file inside the iPhoto package. No luck.
I have iPhoto Library Manager (great tool, btw) and have:
checked permissions - all are read & write even though the iPhoto Library is on a permissions free drive.
created a new Library - no change
It is as if iTunes thinks I have an old copy of iPhoto. Before I reinstall iPhoto and/or iTunes .... thoughts?I was having a similar problem after updating to iLife '08 and Leopard. No matter what I did in iPhoto (creating new albums or deleting old ones), iTunes always showed my old iPhoto album list and all were empty. I finally deleted albumdata.xml and restarted iPhoto and iTunes and violå, iTunes suddenly showed the correct (current) iPhoto album list.
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IPhoto albums and events and thousands of photos not showing on iOS devices
I have 10,000 photos in iPhoto, and several albums.
I have noticed that for the last few weeks on my iPhone 6 plus the only albums that show are
Photos.... Years 2004, 2005 and 2014
Shared (nothing)
Albums All Photos (only 163 photos) Videos and Deleted
There is no photo stream or anything else. All there is is listed above.
Does anyone have any ideas?Under the iCloud photo library beta (in settings > iCloud) it says that the following will happen if have it turned on
'automatically upload and store you entire library in iCloud to access photos and videos from all your devices...'
So why does it not do what it says it will do....?
iCloud Photo Library (Beta) is currently only available for your mobile devices with iOS 8. "store you entire library in iCloud " is referring to the "Photos" library on iPhone or iPad, not to the iPhoto Library on a Mac. On your Mac you can only access this library from the iCloud web interface.
Or will they be in the cloud in the spring.
Early next year a Photos.app for MacOS Yosemite will be released. Photos on the Mac will be able to access iCloud Photo Library (no longer Beta), and Apple announced, that you will be able to migrate your iPhoto Library to "Photos".
To see your iCloud Photo Library (Beta) use the Photos.app on the iCloud webpage.
https://www.icloud.com
or, if you want to upload to iCloud Photo Library (Beta) from your Mac, use
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If photos are inmore than one album or event are they taking up twice as much disk space?
Is there a way to eliminate duplicates without doing it one by one?A photo exists in only one event. However, it can be in multiple albums, slideshows, books, etc. without taking up any additional disk space.
If you truly have duplicates in iPhoto, not as viewed via the Finder you can use one of these applications to identify and remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
iPhoto Library Manager - $29.95
Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free
Duplicate Annihilator - $7.95 - only app able to detect duplicate thumbnail files or faces files when an iPhoto 8 or earlier library has been imported into another.
PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
DeCloner - $19.95 - can find dupicates in iPhoto Libraries or in folders on the HD.
Some users have reported that PhotoSweeper did the best in finding all of the dups in their library: i photo has duplicated many photos, how...: Apple Support Communities.
If you have an iPhone and have it set to keep the normal photo when shooting HDR photos the two image files that are created will be duplicates in a manner of speaking (same image) but the only diplicate finder app that detected the iPhone HDR and normal photos as being duplicates was PhotoSweeper. None of the other apps detected those two files as being duplicates as they look for file name as well as other attributes and the two files from the iPhone have diffferent file names.
iPLM, however, is the best all around iPhoto utility as it can do so much more than just find duplicates. IMO it's a must have tool if using iPhoto.
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Managing photos in iPhoto library vs. albums
I just realized that my method of importing photos from my iphone to iPhoto does not work the way I thought. I've been dragging photos into an album ("Temp to Review") from there I move them into specific folders and "delete" the ones I don't want to keep. Oh so I thought. I've just figured out that deleting from an album does not remove them from the library. This goes a long way to explain my storage problem. I now have 10K photos in my library; this is years of stuff including drek I never meant to keep. Is there anyway to identify photos in my library that are NOT associated with an album? This would enable me to scan my library to really delete the ones I never filed.
Yes. Create a smart album with the following criteria:
That will show all photos that are not in albums. Don't try deleting groups of photos much larger than 100 at a time as iPhoto is know to crash when doing so for many users.
This may be preaching to the choir but here are the keb combinations for deleting photos from various items in iPhoto:
Deleting Photos from an iPhoto Library
1 - from an Event or the Photos mode: select the photo(s) and use the Delete key to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the iPhoto Trash bin as follows:
2 - from an album, smart album, book, slideshow, card, etc.: select the photo(s) and use the key combination of Command+Option+Delete to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the trash bin as above.
NOTE: deleting a photo from an album, slideshow, book, etc., with only the Delete key only deletes that photo from that item. Deleting a photo from an Event deletes ALL occurences of that photo in the library.
Happy Holidays -
The pane where albums and events show up (on the left) is missing for me. When I add new photos, I can see the events, but I can't see any others. The library is intact--I just can't see the folders or events. Puzzling.
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. May be a damage library database file. Rebuild the library as follows: delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder. Select the first three options. If that doesn't resurrect the library post back and well try a couple of other fixes. Also check the tip at the end of my signature. It can help recover from similar damaged database file problems.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) 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 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger 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. -
Events vs Albums / Can you turn Albums into Events?
Argh, which to use?
I re-installed Leopard and when rebuilding my iphoto library I imported a library with albums and the backup of iphoto 8 that had events. Is there a way to make my albums into events easily?Shawn
You can't nest albums, but you can put them in folders, and you can nest folders...
1. File -> New Folder. Call it 2007, then drag your January 07 album to it, repeat as necessary.
2. That sort of organisation is a bit redundant though. You can create Smart Albums based on date, and using the Calendar tool you can find any pic from a particular day, month or year.
Regards
TD -
HI léonie,
I've a similar problem and hope I've made a clear description of it.
System information:
MacBook Pro 17inch - late 2007
Version OS: 10.10 (14A389)
iPhoto: 9.6 (910.29)
# Events: 129
# Photo’s: 13.604
Other (maybe useful) information:
- When the issue starts, this was under the Mavericks OS. I’m using Yosemite now.
- I make from each (backed-up) library a catalogue (Event-name + photo ID)
- My Event-name is always built up in the same way: <Year> - <Country-name>; <Place> - <short description>
- No links to external discs active / no shares with iCloud
- the same back-up is written to 2 external discs separately
- some private photo’s created in Albums are shared on Facebook
Background:
Because I’m doing long-term projects as a photographer I have Events in my active photo-library which are dating back to 2011. During this year I upgraded from iPhoto8 to iPhoto11, it looked like that everything went okay after I used the converting software for the library. But then I started to use “Faces” (and for my feeling,) it was then when the trouble starts.
Symptoms:
- photo’s were thrown out of the Events and being mixed up with others or they were put in an unnamed event
- photo’s which should not be in the active Library appeared back
- after converting a backed up Library and activating the (as I call it) “Face option”, the earlier described symptoms occur.
- but it happens not consequently because for instance “Event Y” in Backed-up library 1 on HardDiskA doesn’t have the same amount of pictures in the same “Event” but then on HardDiskB
- searching on Finder-level, I run into Events dating back before 2011 which should not in my active library anymore (after backing-up an active level, I throw all the Events in the Trash, subsequently empty the Trash).
- also on Finder-level, the corresponding folder with the Event consists of different photo’s than in the iPhoto Event. (I’ve checked this by using 2 Events; made a detailed inventory - photo ID + shooting date / time; compared it on iPhoto-level / Finder-level)
Consequences:
- All my backed up Libraries and my current Library are a mess
Question:
- can you (or somebody else) provide me a splendid idea to correct this in a fast way? or should I (how I will find the time for this?!?!?!) correct all these libraries manually, photo by photo - according to my own created catalogues?
Thank you in advance,
Frank
<Branched to new discussion by Host>Symptoms:
- photo’s were thrown out of the Events and being mixed up with others or they were put in an unnamed event
- photo’s which should not be in the active Library appeared back
That may be caused by "Recovered items" due to the bug I mentioned above or by and external editor saving files into your library. Are you using an external editor with your library?
- after converting a backed up Library and activating the (as I call it) “Face option”, the earlier described symptoms occur.
This may be a coincidence.
- but it happens not consequently because for instance “Event Y” in Backed-up library 1 on HardDiskA doesn’t have the same amount of pictures in the same “Event” but then on HardDiskB
Have you checked, if there are photos in the "Hidden" album?
- searching on Finder-level, I run into Events dating back before 2011 which should not in my active library anymore (after backing-up an active level, I throw all the Events in the Trash, subsequently empty the Trash).
Again, there may be several reasons that emptying the Trash does not work. Either the bug I mentioned, or permission problems. If your Home folder has a permissions problem or the hard drive with your iPhoto Library, iPhoto may not be able to move the trashed items from your iPhoto Trash to the system Trash on your Desktop. Then the trashed events may stay hidden in the Library.
Try to delete a few of the items that have reappeared now. Can they now be moved to the Trash on your Desktop, when you empty the Trash?
- also on Finder-level, the corresponding folder with the Event consists of different photo’s than in the iPhoto Event. (I’ve checked this by using 2 Events; made a detailed inventory - photo ID + shooting date / time; compared it on iPhoto-level / Finder-level)
Don't rely on the folder structure you are seeing for the original image files in the Finder. This is not meant to be human readable. The way the images are stored in your iPhoto Library has changed considerably between iPhoto versions and is not a feature of the user interface. It can change any time. Right now, iPhoto will store events in folders according to the data of the import session. That may not necessarily be the date you took the photo, but the date of he last iPhoto Library upgrade.
Consequences:
- All my backed up Libraries and my current Library are a mess
Question:
- can you (or somebody else) provide me a splendid idea to correct this in a fast way? or should I (how I will find the time for this?!?!?!) correct all these libraries manually, photo by photo - according to my own created catalogues?
In what way is the backup a mess? You backed up the libraries before you upgraded to Yosemite, didn't you? Have you opened the backed up libraries and they were also upgraded? -
In iPhoto, can I file individual events from one year into one main event without muddling them up?
Perhaps I misunderstood you. You want to have a hierarchy
Folder: 2000
->Contains Event for January, February, etc
Folder 2001
-> Contains Event for January, February etc
That sort of thing? Well with Events, no you can't. Yes you can do that with Albums, but not Events.
That said, it's a pretty limited way of organising your photos - in fact you might as well just use folders in the Finder. You can find the photos from any year, month, day with the Calendar tool. Simply click on the Search icon on the bottom, then on the the wee drop down and select the calendar tool.
Want the photos from a particular range - say, June 11 1999 to September 30 2001? Then a Smart Album will do that.
But the problem is that it's often hard to remember the year/month something happened. Did we go to Disney in 1997 or 98? There are other more useful ways that make your snaps more searchable.
Here's a canned answer that I offer that suggests some of the richer organising possibilities of iPhoto. It might spark something.
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively. I title the pics broadly.
I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 50k library in a couple of seconds.
So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
File -> New Smart Album
set it to 'All"
title contains Seattle
keyword is mountain
keyword is snow
rating is 5 stars
Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
New Smart Album
Keyword is John
Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
Want only the best pics?
add Rating is greater than 4 stars
The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me. -
My MacBook's hardrive failed. My only backup for iPhoto is on my iPhone. I bought a new MacBook Pro and I'd like to restore all the Photo Albums and Events from my iPhone. Is there a 3rd party app that is capable of this?
I downloaded iMacsoft to transfer music, books, etc. But it will only transfer photos in my iPhone's Camera Roll.Are these photos on your iPhone? Can you actually see them? If so, then iCloud should see them as well. All else fails, plug in the iPhone via a USB cable into the new Mac and iPhoto will launch showing you what photos you can import in.
Again, the old photos in question MUST be on the iPhone (i.e. you at one time sync'd your entire photo library to your iPhone, which to my knowledge also makes it available to the iCloud backup if you have enough room).
No, it is not easy to get synced photos back to the Mac. An iCloud backup does not include the synced photos nor the Photo Stream photos. See:
iCloud: Backup and restore overview
One way to save the synced photos back to the Mac is to save them to the Camera Roll. This requires extra space on the device and much tapping, because it is not easy to save all photos at once to the Camera Roll. It would be easier with iPhoto iOS. Here you can share the the synced photos to iTunes and then save them using iTunes photo sharing on your Mac. In iPhoto you can select ranges of photos to share - much less tapping required. See: http://help.apple.com/iphoto/iphone/2.0/#blnk7d8f763e
Use your photos in any app by saving them to the Camera Roll.
Import photos directly into iPhoto or Aperture on your computer.
Save photos to your computer using iTunes.
Save photos to your computer using iTunes
Connect your iOS device to your computer.
Tap a photo, album, event, web journal, or slideshow and tap > iTunes.
Tap Selected, or change the photos you want to save (if you are saving a slideshow skip to step 4):
Select different photos: Tap Choose Photos, tap one or more photos, and tap Next.
Select a range of photos: Tap Choose Photos, tap Range, tap the first and last photos in the range, and tap Next.
Select all the photos in an album or event: Tap All.
In iTunes, click the button for your device and click Apps at the top of the window.
Below File Sharing, select iPhoto (in Apps).
Select the Shared Photos folder under iPhoto Documents.
Click Save To and select the location on your computer where you want to save the items.
To view your photos, go to the Finder and look in the location you selected above.
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