IPhoto 8.1.2, 557 events, wanting to simplify

ON iphoto lost links I found out that I was running a referenced library.   And from the link provided by Terence, it sounds like I can still manage to not get too many duplicates in a managed library. I want to make sure I get these steps correctly.     Currently my Pictures folder is in a second partition; both partitions are cloned regularly.   I have iPhoto 8.1.2, Mac OS X 10.7.3 with the Flashback patch installed.     It is an iMac 5,1 with 2 GB of RAM.   Naturally taking iPhoto to merge the events into one is taking forever, and I may end up if necessary just force quit iPhoto, if I can get the relevant info on how to edit my xml file.
Intriguingly enough my Dock shows two iPhoto library entries when I click iPhoto. I've tried rebuilding my library to no avail.    I would like to simplify and only have Albums & Keywords as my method of attributing all my photos by date.    With 38000 photos and movies all in one library, you can imagine this is a daunting task.
Is there a way to make one event out of the 557 easily by editing the XML file with Textwrangler?   Or will that take me longer?
Can I just change to a managed library and will iPhoto clean up all the duplicates correctly? I've had the problem before where iPhoto deleted the actual photo, and not the thumbnail.   I want to avoid that happening.

I find the directions for a managed library sound like it will make copies when I import. Is that what it actually does?
Yes.
Does that mean I can safely delete the original from outside the Pictures folder when I do the import?
Yes.
If the package status of the Pictures folder gets corrupted, will the pictures within it get corrupted,
No. You can recover the files easily.
Though, of course, the protection against any corruption is a good back up, as you well know.
I'm having photos from one event falling into other events.
Events are organisation for those who can't really be bothered. They are automatic - based entirely on Date and Time the camera records the photos as taken. You can move photos between Events, you can Merge Events, you can Rename them and sort them in various ways except one: You cannot manually sort in an Event as Events are all automated. If you want to manually sort in an Event then you've outgrown Events as an organising tool. Now it's time to look at albums (Where you can manually sort) which are much more flexible than Events as an organising tool.
and just want a one to one way of looking at both my keyword and my albums so I can look and see where photos were taken, and when. Nothing more.
What's a "one-to-one" way?
Regards
TD

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After looking around on the discussions I guess you're right about it not being an option, but I can tell you that I routinely import photos from our camera spanning multiple days (weeks even) without iPhoto autosplitting them into separate events. The autosplitting just cropped up today, and whether the older behavior was due to a corrupted preferences file or some other glitch, I want it back. I appreciate your orgainizational advice, but I simply do not care to work that way - I much preferred the old iPhoto 'camera roll' analogy and hate when iPhoto second-guesses me about how to organize my photos. Is there a way to force iPhoto to stop autosplitting?
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Sounds like a damaged db file.
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords 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.
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There is no "automatic" back up on the Mac that you did not set up somehow.
Also where does the "backup" go to?
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Any time you reduce the file size, i.e. read qualtiy, or file dimension, i.e. read height and length in pixels, you will reduce space needed to store the photo on a hard drive or flash drive. But both will reducer the quality of the photos. The first, reduces the image quality by using more jpeg compression while saving the image file and the other throws away a good part of the data, i.e. pixels, thus reducing the size of a photos you can print in high resolution.
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What you plan to do with the reduced size photos on the flash drive.
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Hi everyone,
My question is related to the Photo stream functionality in iPhoto.
Is possible to prevent iPhoto from making an automatic event when I import a photo from Photo stream. It is really annoying because of the fact that I use "events" for keeping my important photo's together (as many of you do I asume). Ofcourse after importing I can just delete it from my event section but is there a way to prevent it?
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No. Photostream creates an Event for each month.
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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.
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keyword is snow
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Regards
TD

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Perhaps I misunderstood you. You want to have a hierarchy
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title contains Seattle
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keyword is snow
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Keyword is John
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add Rating is greater than 4 stars
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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.

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I have the current MacBook Air. I import all my pictures through the photostream. Iphoto creates an event for each month, eg June 2013 Photostream.
When I was looking through these I noticed some pictures had gone missing. I thought these had somehow got deleted but if I check under Faces they are still there and if I look at the last 12 months album they are still there as well. In the Last 12 Months album they are in the right place order wise.
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I can confirm that the pictures were definately in the monthly photosteam event and that they were not deleted from it by me. It has also happened in a couple of the months so it is not just one folder that is effected.

Let me try and explain it this way.
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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
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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?

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