IPhoto 6 and Spotlight - the ANSWER

Hi,
I had some problems with iPhoto 6 and Spotlight indexing. After reading tons of posts and not finding answers that worked, I ended up learning about Spotlight myself.
The solution is as simple as it is embarrassing (for Apple). They simply forgot to add to iPhoto the information to connect the Spotlight importer to the spotlight file of the photo library.
The solution is here:
http://blog.grischameyer.de/2008/09/iphoto-6-and-spotlight-fixed/
Cheers

Sorry to hear that. I updated my blog and added a complete version of Info.plist that you can download.
Try again, if you like.
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I have alot of loose photos at home (old) and I would love to make a bunch of iphoto books and make the pages like whole page collages? How do I get my photos into iphoto in order to do this? Can I make a DVD at the drugstore and add them to iphoto?

I have alot of loose photos at home (old) and I would love to make a bunch of iphoto books and make the pages like whole page collages? How do I get my photos into iphoto in order to do this? Can I make a DVD at the drugstore and add them to iphoto?

You can make the collages easily if you have iWork. Just open a letter sized page in landscape mode and drag the photos onto the page, rotate and postiion as necessary. Then do a Print ➙ PDF ➙ Save PDF to iPhoto to get a 200 dpi jpeg version of the Pages page into iPhoto. From there you can add it to your book and use a blank page with the option to have an image as the backbround.
If you have a 3rd party image editor that supports layers you can create the collage with it.
OT

Can someone plz confirm me that how i can change or update the security questions related to my apple id? as i have been never put them since i create my apple id but now due to some security reasons its asking me again and again the answers. i am unable

can someone plz confirm me that how i can change or update the security questions related to my apple id? as i have been never put them since i create my apple id but now due to some security reasons its asking me again and again the answers. i am unable to go through the process. thanks.

Some Solutions for Resetting Forgotten Security Questions: Apple Support Communities

HT5312 I forget answer to my qustion with rescue email adrees please help me and send the answer to my main mail. Thank you very much

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We are fellow users here on these forums, you're not talking to iTunes Support.
If you don't have access to your rescue email account, or you don't have one on your iTunes account, then you will need to contact iTunes Support / Apple to get the questions reset.
Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
When they've been reset you can then use the steps half-way down this page to add/change a rescue email address for potential future use : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312

I have a problem in the liquefaction of confidentiality and answers when asked to reset the answers but remembered email added halted from by Microsoft Corporation, Is it possible to cancel the account and send the answers added on my email and thank you

Dear,s
I have a problem in the liquefaction of confidentiality and answers when asked to reset the answers but remembered email added halted from by Microsoft Corporation, Is it possible to cancel the account and send the answers added on my email:
<Email Edited by Host>
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You are not addressing Apple here. And your post is a bit confusing. See Klaus's answer in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5228474?tstart=0

I have a calculation in a5 and need the answer rounding up to the next whole number

I have a calculation in cell a5 and need the answer rounding up to the next whole number

Hi,
I am using numbers
A1 x A2 = A3 A4 is A3 divided by 2.88. Indeed to round up the answer in A4 to the next whole number
Eg 4.5 x 3.7 = 16.6 sq meters as an area , divided by 2.88 ( area of 1 board) = 5.78 boards so I need to buy 6 and quote for 6
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HT4798 I can't seem to remember my apple password and also the answer to my security question seems to be incorrect. Apple don't seem to have the correct email down either so I have no way of resetting my password, what do I do??

I can't seem to remember my apple password and also the answer to my security question seems to be incorrect. Apple don't seem to have the correct email down either so I have no way of resetting my password, what do I do??

Foziakhan,
If you are referring to your Apple ID password, call Apple (1-800-MY-APPLE) and ask to speak to the Account Security Team. They will be able to assist you with resetting your security questions and also the password.
Hope this helps. Good Luck!

HT1918 What about the verification questions? the ones like "way was your first job?" or "your favorite teacher?" I just got a new iPod and forgot the answers to those questions, and need to change them..

What about the verification questions? the ones like "way was your first job?" or "your favorite teacher?" I just got a new iPod and forgot the answers to those questions, and need to change them.. not sure how, but I need to do that in order to download new stuff on my new ipod

Funds cannot be transferred from one Apple ID account to another.
Try here > Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions
If that doesn't help, contact Apple for assistance with your security questions > Contacting Apple for support and service

TS2845 ok i answered these security questions from itunes and forgot the answers how do i reset them or get them

Ok I answered the questions on itunes security and forgot the answers how do I reset them or get the answers to purchase songs

It's used as a security measure so being able to reset is probably unlikely.
Contact iTunes and see what they suggest

IPhoto Comments and Spotlight

I am trying to find my photos using spotlight by searching for the comments I have made, but they do not appear in spotlight. I have tried re-indexing my iPhoto files, but that did not seem to do any good. Any ideas? Thanks.

Spotlight is notoriously bad at finding items inside the iPhoto database file. I suggest you use iPhoto, which is great at that. In the lower right corner is a search area. Type your comment there and iPhoto will pull up all the photos with that comment, plus everything with the same word(s) in its title or roll name. Or create a Smart Album with the condition "Comments includes" and type the word(s) you are trying to find.
Were you trying to access them from the Finder for use outside of iPhoto? If so, you should know that it is strongly advised that you do not tamper with the items in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder, because damage to your database can result. Select the photos you need from within iPhoto, then you can Export them to a desktop folder for use outside of the application. (Ex: to upload to a website, attach to email, or copy to disc for a photo developer.) When finished you can delete the exports, as your files remain safe in the Library folder.

I went into the original files in the iphoto library and organised the photos there, now when I try to look at the photos in iphoto the tiles are there but when I try to enlarge or put into a slide show a big grey explanation mark occurs?

I tried to organise my iphoto originals to it would be easier to back them up onto my hard drive, so I renamed them and grouped them in the orinigal file. Now when I go onto iphoto to view the photos in a slide show a big exclamation mark comes up and if I click on the photo to see the original file it can't find it. Any ideas?

You won't be able to run the rebuild function and restore your library becaue you renamed and regrouped your original photos from the Finder. I doubt if you can change the names back to their original names and put them back in the folders they were in originally so your only option is get your backup library and replace the one you damaged.
If you don't have a backup copy of the library from just before the problem that contains all of your photos you will need to start over from scratch as follows:
Start over from scratch with new library
Start over with a new library and import the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from your original library as follows:
1. Move the existing library folder to the desktop.
2. Open the library package like this.
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3. Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
4. Drag the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from the iPhoto Library on the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
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This will create a new library with the same Events as the original library but will not keep the metadata, albums, books slideshows and other projects.
In the future stay out of the iPhoto Library package and only access the photos using iPhoto.
OT

IPhoto crashed and deleted the newest events?

Hi,
yesterday iPhoto quit unexpectedly and when I reopened it, several events were suddenly empty. I have no idea where the photos and videos are now... Some of them were still in 'Photos' and some still in 'last 12 months' but most of them are gone. I lost all the photos I had imported that day and some of the day before. I hadn't been able to quit iPhoto for a few days. It kept telling me that it was still importing all though no device was connected and that it cannot quit until import is finished. Also every time I activate iPhoto while it is open but in the background, it automatically switches to 'last import'. It has been doing that for a while, probably a couple of months.
I really want those photos back. Please tell me if there is something I can do to recover them. Thank You!
I am using iPhoto 9.4.3

Start with:
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 early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
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.
Re images that are in "Photos" or "Last 12 Months"
If the Photos are under 'Last Import' or 'Last N Months' then they are in the Library somewhere, just not where you are expecting them to be. We know this as both Last Import and 'Last N Months' are not places, just listings of elements in the the Library.
The two most common reasons that they can't be found is either an incorrect date on the camera or the Sorting (View Menu -> Sort Photos - or Sort Events, as appropriate) has changed.
Quick route to find them: Right-click on one of the images in Last Import and select 'Show Event'. This will bring you to the image in the Library.
And as for the switching to 'Last Import':
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for a Folder called 'Auto Import' Remove anything in it.
Make no other changes. Start iPhoto. Does that help?
Regards
TD

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Thanks for your replay,
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I have the last up date of os x 10.9 already...
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any way, this new version is ok..
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2638?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

HT5312 Even after calling apple and providing the answers to the security questions they are unable to fix problem.

It's mindboggling that one must have two email accounts (original and rescue) just in case we don't have a record of the passwords or we use the right ones and Apple program is having a problem.
Our son set up his account and answered a simple security question of "Where did your parents meet?" It isn't a multiple answer question and Apple will no longer accept the correct answer. He had the answer to the other two questions and again, the Apple program has erred and has now locked him out.
A call to Apple was completely unsuccessful with correcting the situation.
We, 1) know the answers to the questions, 2) we have all the proof of purchases that for some reason Apple cannot link to our account which to me is just unbelievable, and 3) the original email used for the whole itune set up has never changed, is still valid and again not proof of who we are. This all leads me to believe that they can fix the problem but that they choose not too.
We can log into the account but can't get past the security questions even with the correct answers.
How can their purchase orders not be linked to the funds (and associated email) they are accessing to pay for the purchase?
Why is it that matching the payment account to the email is not a valid proof of who we are?
None of this makes any sense at all.

We are fellow users here on these forums.
Who did you call ? If you don't have a rescue email address on your account then you should be able to get them reset by contacting iTunes Support / Apple in your country : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699

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