Iphoto and Facebook tagging (or retagging)

I've tagged about 1200 photos as Charlotte Rose but her Facebook name is Charlotte Smith. Is there anything I can do on my end to link them up when i post them on Facebook?

How do i edit photos and such without them going to facebook???
You do not
That is how the iPhoto/FaceBook works - if you do not want your face book albums linked to iPhoto, then export the photos and upload them to FaceBook directly via the web upload
One of the major features of the iPhoto/FaceBook interface is two way syncing of albums
LN

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Remember: we cannot see your machine. There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on 8 different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary depending on the version of iPhoto and the version of the OS. So to get help you need to give as much information as you can. Basic things like :
- What version of iPhoto.
- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. As full a description of the problem as you can. For instance: 'iPhoto won't export' is best explained by describing how you are trying to export, and so on.
- History: Is this going on long? Has anything been installed or deleted?
- Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
- Anything unusual about your set up? Or how you use iPhoto?
Anything else you can think of that might help someone understand the problem you have.

How to unsync iphoto and facebook

I have successfully unsynced my iphoto and facebook, which allows me to delete photos/edit photos from iphoto without affecting my facebook pictures and albums. Here's how it's done.
Go to iphoto.
Click on "iphoto" in top left of your screen (in the tool bar)
Click on "preferences"
Click on "accounts"
Highlight your facebook account and hit the minus sign below.
Check the box that appears, and away you go.
Your facebook will now be disabled from your iphoto and your f/b pics will be safe.
I would advise not re-syncing, as I don't know what will happen if you do. Now that I've come this far, I'm not going to bother finding out!
I safely emptied my iphoto trash, which held 4600 deleted pictures in it. Many of these pics were posted on my facebook. Once emptied, my facebook pictures were still safely showing on f/b. (when you empty your iphoto trash, you must then go to the trash can on your dock as the photos have been moved to a folder there. Delete that folder to permanently delete your trashed pics).

Larry, you have posted on every thread regarding people wanting iPhoto and Facebook to stop synchronizing changes and you actually sound like a Microsoft Windows fanatic as you explain why the hundreds of people that all want to do the same thing -- disable future changes to a Facebook album from 5 days/months/years ago -- just need to understand that the product works exactly as the manual describes and go away. Specifically, they should never have used the capability in the first place (i.e. they should travel back in time and alter their decision to use iPhoto's Facebook upload capability).
This is not at all in the spirit of how most Apple products work. Their products are generally quite intuitive. In this case, all users of Facebook have experienced album uploads as a one-time event (perhaps with a few additional tweaks immediately after the initial upload). Therefore, this idea of life-long synchronization is completely counterintuitive. Further, iPhoto allows the capability to configure a preference for manually syncing changes (and adds a sync button next to the album), yet continues to automatically sync certain types of changes even when said button is not pressed.
I don't think you've yet added any value to the discussion by implying that the typical and expected user experience is invalid -- especially when one cannot retroactively change a past decision to use iPhoto to upload photos to Facebook.
A simple "Disable future synchronization of this album with Facebook" checkbox makes a lot of sense. Yes, I submitted a feature request.

Issues tagging faces in iphoto and Facebook

Hi
I have iPhoto 11 (v9.4.3 720.91) and have been using faces on it for the last 4 months or so.
I linked my facebook account with my iPhoto and have been sharing albums on facebook happily, assuming the faces I tagged were tagging on facebook too.
However, when I shared an album yesterday I realised the tags on facebook are just names, not links to the facebook pages.
I have spent ages reading posts and other questions like this but have had no luck... When I type a name, I see loads of names with the facebook symbol and those presumably tag correctly in facebook, however both mine and my partner's don't have that icon and aren't tagging correctly.
The full name of both of our 'faces' is correct, as were our email addresses. I tried changing the email addresses to the @facebook.com ones but that made no difference.
I have tried sharing a photo that iPhoto recognises as having two faces but kept them as 'unamed' and then tagged them in facebook instead. When I update my facebook album containing that photo in iPhoto, the photo has both of our names tagged, but in the info bar on the right, neither name appears in the 'faces' section; and both my partner and my 'faces' show one unconfirmed face on that particular photo. I am unable to confirm the faces though, it just keeps saying they are unconfirmed once I have confirmed them.
It is really annoying me, as I don't want to have to upload photos to facebook before tagging faces and tagging them on facebook and then on iPhoto AS WELL!
Anyone have any idea or any help here?
Thanks,
Jen

Ok, thanks.
I think the issues I have are only with people whose faces I tagged in iPhoto before I linked to facebook...
Ill try contacting facebook and see if they can help. Will post any solution I get here for others.
Jen

Iphoto and facebook - most recent photos not showing up in file upload!!

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I just started having this same problem. New events are not appearing in the media browser section of the file upload window. The last event to show up is from October 12th. I tried several different websites and browsers.
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I recently got a macbook pro and don't know how to use everything yet.
When I try to upload pictures from the photobooth folder to facebook, for some reason pictures I took recently don't show up in the uploader. They are still in photobooth but I can't see the ones I took yesterday in the uploader. I thought I could fix this by moving them to iPhoto and uploading to facebook from there but I don't know how to move more than one at a time. Also, the pictures that are 4 in one (I don't know what they're called) go to iPhoto only as the first frame. Is there a way to move many pictures at once from photobooth to iPhoto and get the 4-in-1 pictures to transfer all 4 frames? Or is there a reason my new photobooth pictures don't show up in the facebook uploader?

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You need the Facebook iPhoto Exporter available here.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2238752371
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Syncing multiple iPhoto and Facebook albums

Hallo everyone...
I'm using iPhoto '09 on 3 Macs under the same LAN. Every Mac is set to login to same Facebook account and post photos. In this scenario I have:
• Mac A created a album and shared to Facebook
• Mac B created a album and shared to Facebook
• Mac C created a album and shared to Facebook
When I check Facebook, I correctly see the three album posted, but every Mac "sees" in its library only the album published and not the other two from other Macs...
Is there a way to see on each Mac all the albums posted in Facebook from the others? Since they "share" the same Facebook account, I suppose it would be a great option!
Thanks in advance for your great job!
Raf

Are you going to continue using iPhoto on yoru old Mac? As documented changes made to the ihoto library are synced to Facebook -- if you simply trash the iPhoto library on the old mac then nothing will be changed in FB - if you delete them using iPhoto then then changes will be synced
LN

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where do you see these? When viewing events? when en=larging a single photo? What version of iPhoto? What has recently changed? Have you cleaned your disk or run any cleanup software like CleanMyMac2 or KacKeeper (Hint - Never use those programs - they are not needed and often damage the iPhoto library and the system)
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IPhoto and Facebook - Syncing issues with publication error

I am having trouble with the syncing function using the facebook icon at the bottom right of iPhoto '09. I create a facebook album with several photos, and it seems to take the appropriate time to upload the photos. But when I go to Facebook, there is only a few, if any photos in the album. It did create the album, however. I delete the album and repeat the same steps, and a different amount of photos would upload this time, but nowhere near the correct amount. Also when i try to sync the albums again, usually an error message comes up saying...
"An error occurred with the publication of album "(Album Name)." Do you want to remove the album from your library?
And then in small print
"The feed could not be found or is invalid."
And then the option to remove or keep the album.
Why am I having syncing problems?
For now I am using the Export function and a facebook plugin which works fine, but I want the ability to add photos to libraries and sync rather than using the export function.

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Geoff
There have been loads of problem the last week with Facebook photos. Google Facebook photo upload.
In my case, Sunday Facebook deleted all my photos from recent albums uploaded via iPhoto. Had been working fine. Album uploaded yesterday works fine.
Anyway it appears the problem is a Facebook server snafu that may have occurred during Facebook system maintenance. Facebook hasn't said when or how it will be fixed.

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I've uploaded albums to facebook, and want those photos to stay on facebook. However, I'm running out of space on my computer, and want to backup my photos. Is there a way to do that without losing all the photos from my facebook account?

Backing up your photos does not affect the iPhoto library or facebook any any way - a backup is simply a copy of the contents to protect you against loss due to computer, software or human failure - and you should be backing up often if your photos (and other date) have any value to you - things do happen
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I just transferred my iPhoto library to my new MacBook Pro. I can see my Facebook albums in iPhoto on my new Mac. I need to delete all my photos on my old Mac. Will this delete them from Facebook too? Thanks! I don't want to delete my photos on the old Mac until I know the answer!

Are you going to continue using iPhoto on yoru old Mac? As documented changes made to the ihoto library are synced to Facebook -- if you simply trash the iPhoto library on the old mac then nothing will be changed in FB - if you delete them using iPhoto then then changes will be synced
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How does iPhoto references Facebook photos

Just wondering, I have many Facebook albums that I uploaded using Facebook online
I have just synced my account with iPhoto and its downloading all of my Facebook albums to my library
Is it actually making copies of the files to my library, or just referencing the photos from Facebook, because I really don't want it to download copies to my library
Cheers

I'm having the exact same issue as FBC_21CA (the 1st response to andy.lawrence). I want to remove my Facebook account from iPhoto but the confusing warning message has me completely stumped.
As I've learned from reading a heap of forum posts on this topic, I too am a Facebook/iPhoto album upload user who did not realise the convenient upload function meant permanent syncing between the two.
In January this year [2013], when I unwittingly started making a mess of my FB albums by deleting pictures from my iPhoto library, I stopped using iPhoto to upload pics to FB. Well, I THOUGHT I did, which I've only just NOW realised was still happening! What I started doing to "get around it" (so I thought) was copying/dragging pictures from iPhoto to Finder (my desktop) then opening my FB account > upload new pics > browse to image location, etc. Perhaps stupidly on my part, I never thought to investigate the "WEB" sidebar menu item in iPhoto, which is where I've just found all the "Facebook Albums" that were being created 'behind my back'.
It was only today I looked into this again because I was editing some image descriptions on a Facebook Page (totally unrelated to my personal FB profile) that I manage and noticed a bunch of pics had the description "posted". This is a note-to-self I write in the image description field in iPhoto so I know which images I have published on my website (a Tumblr) versus those I have not. What!?!
Note: Every picture I've uploaded to my FB PAGE has been done using my same "workaround" (which actually didn't work) mentioned above. That is, copying/dragging pictures from iPhoto to Finder (my desktop) then opening my FB account > upload new pics > browse to image location, etc.
So now that this annoying sync function is screwing with my work-related photo albums (on my FB Page), something finally had to be done. I researched the forums and found this post from "jackiefromport hope" - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3514110 - which explained how to unsync iphoto and facebook. BUT when I go to do that, I get:
Are you sure you want to remove [your] Facebook account?
54 albums will be removed from your iPhoto library. They will still be visible on Facebook. Photos downloaded from Facebook that have not been imported will be moved to the iPhoto trash unless you choose to import them.
QUESTIONS:
Is this going to remove the original, high res images or just the "Facebook Albums" I discovered today under the "WEB" menu in iPhoto's left sidebar?
Why would they still be preserved on FB? I don't want that either but if anything they should be preserved in their original location (iPhoto). NB: These are all pics I've taken on my iPhone and imported directly to iPhoto.
Re: "Photos downloaded from Facebook that have not been imported will be moved to the iPhoto trash unless you choose to import them." I don't want to download ANYTHING from FB. I already have the images in iPhoto. Will proceeding with the unsync create hundreds of duplicates?
Please help.

How can you tell if a pic hasnt been tagged by iPhoto, and do you then...

How can you tell if a pic hasnt been tagged by iPhoto, and do you then do you then have to draw "missing box" around them
What I mean is tagged a few faces, imported some more pics, checked a few and they dont show as named faces, but are faces that are in my Faces source list (ie identified and named)
So do I then have to draw a box around known faces to me, and name them again (I think iPhoto will pop up as Im typing the names I already have)
It just means that even when i import and it doesnt name, I may have lots of pics that are of faces but not tagged and so not in my faces source list
please help
cheers
ps when are Apple going to upload the Getting Started manuals for iLife 09? its been a while since released now, ad they give a bit more insight than the video tutorials alone

No-one? It'll be nice to know how many pics of faces that arent yet tagged
cheers

I need help proving the date tag on a photo stored in my iPhoto is from the date it was sent to my iphone/date it was imported into iphoto - and that it is NOT the date the photo was actually taken. Please help!

I need help proving the date tag on a photo stored in my iPhoto is from the date it was sent to my iphone/date it was imported into iphoto - and that it is NOT the date the photo was actually taken. I recieved a photo via text on my iphone and then I synced my iphone to my macbook and now it is in iphoto. I already know that the date on the photo per the tag that shows up on it in iphoto is NOT the date the photo was actually taken. I need article or literature or something confirming the tag is from when it was sent to the iphone and/or when it was imported. I greatly appreciate some assistance!

All I am trying to do is find something on a forum board or article etc stating that the the date showing in iphoto could be the date it was imported or synced or sent to me and not the actual date taken.
The date on the photo could be anything because you can edit the date with iPhoto or any of 100 apps, free and paid for. So, the date on the photo will prove nothing, I'm afraid.
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