Iphoto 6.0.5 no longer opens/offers Photoshop and ha wrong pictures in libr

Question

Been usind iphoto from the start but now am stumped...since recent update...any photo's I upload via card reader will not open my external editor...now PE 3...but I also noticed that it no longer allows me to choose which external editor I want to use either UGH!!!!!
I always have kept a seperate folder of all my pix outside of iphoto but now when I access my pictures folder the folders have different pictures than the ones in the folder when I open iphoto???????
WHAT IS APPLE DOING?
Anyone got any ideas??
eric

Answer 1

If your new computer doesn't have any photos added to its iPhoto Library, simply copy the iPhoto Library folder over to Pictures.
You can name it anything and put it anywhere, but then you have to point iPhoto to it (the first time, then it remembers) by launching with Option held down. You get the option to Choose Library and then you navigate to the iPhoto Library folder of your choice.
If your current library folder is going to be the entire iPhoto Library folder for your new computer as well, then you can just make it the only iPhoto Library folder in your Pictures folder (on the new machine)
How you actually get it there - you can use Migration assistant, but I prefer non-automated ways to do it and I'd simply use an Ethernet connection (slow unless you have gigabit ethernet) or a Firewire cable.
The simplest way via firewire cable:
- Boot the old machine in Target mode (shut down, start up with T key held down - you'll see a firewire symbol on your old machine, indicating it's merely a Firewire hard drive, functionally.
- Connect its firewire port to your new machine's firewire port via 6-pin to 6-pin firewire cable, and it will mount as a Firewire hard drive (you can connect it before you boot up)
- Go into the drive, to your iPhoto Library in /Users/(your name)/Pictures/ and drag the folder into wherever you want it in your new machine's hard drive. Don't go inside and drag pieces of the iPhoto Library. Do the whole folder.
- Wait for it to finish, then eject the "Firewire HD" from your new machine
- Press the Power key on your old machine, it will shut down. Disconnect the firewire cable and then your old machine can power up like a Mac again.
- If you chose to move your empty iPhoto Library out and put the one with photos in its place, iPhoto will find it. If you chose to call this something else and/or place it somewhere else, launch iPhoto with the option key held down, and use the Choose button. Navigate to this renamed/relocated iPhoto Library and click Open or Choose. You're done.