IPhoto books archival???

Color photographs I took 20 years ago are now fading and turning yellow in my albums while the black and white pictures in my grandmother's scrapbooks look just fine.
Does anyone know how long iPhoto books last?
Will my kids be able to show them to their grandchildren 50 years from now?
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

mackirk:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. There was a couple of threads a while back with some info on the archival quality of the paper, etc. used in the books. Do a search for book, paper qualtiy, archival, and see if you can find them.
On another note, I make an iDVD slideshow of each of the books pages with iDVD, burn the iDVD project and include it with each book. It makes a nice additional gift and a good way for a group to view the book at one time. Here's how I do it.
1 - with the book complete and open in iPhoto type Control-P.
2 - in the Print window click on the PDF button and select the "Send PDF to iPhoto" option.
3 - the Automator workflow will start. You may need to close all windows so the automator window that asks you to select an existing album in iPhoto to add the page files to or create a new album will be visible. At times it does not come to the forefront and you might think nothing is happening.
4 - when the aforementioned window comes up select or create an album and click continue.
5 - in iPhoto there will be a new album with a jpg file for each page of the book including the cover.
6 - open iDVD, select a theme and in the top menu create a slideshow.
7 - open the slideshow window and go to the Media/photos pane.
8 - select the album in iPhoto with the book pages and drag into the slideshow organization window on the left.
9 - select your transition, music to add, any titles or comments you might want to add and generally finish off the iDVD project.
I was very favorably impressed with the resulting iDVD the first time I tried it. It's a way to give a "copy" of the book to several recipients.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto 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.

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Stephan:
If you want to be able to view the book with iPhoto on the other Mac you'll have to copy the library containing the book to the other Mac. You won't be able to import that book into the other library.
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This will keep the book library small for easy saving to CD or DVD or to an EHD. If you delete photos from your full library it won't affect the book library.
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From your description you left out the most important step: use the Photos ➙ Batch Change ➙ Date menu option and add one mintue between photos.
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Just after printing and binding these books, I created a 100-page iPhoto book of vacation photos. Book came back in about a week and looked superb. Showed it to the coaches -- the ones who work for printing companies -- and they were quite impressed. Still don't know why they resisted going this route for the baseball book.
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FWIW I create a new, separate library for each book. I assemble the photos to be used in to an album in the main library and then copy it to the book library with the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager.
When I'm done with the book and it's ordered I cull out the photos I didn't use in the book and then archive the book library to another HD, a CD or DVD disk (if small enough to fit). This way the book is isolated from the day to day use of my main library and any accidental deletions of photos in the book. If I want to reorder a copy, edited or not, I know the book is intact.

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HI Rune,
That is most likely a shared library issue. The Finder is trying to access your iPhoto library without iPhoto being open. Sometimes when libraries are shared, they can become corrupt.
Go here and read about shared library issues.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sharedlibraryerrors.html#Anchor-Resolving-35326
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Go here and read the instructions for archive and install.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1544
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Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

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How can I share my iphoto book so others can buy it? Created a book for the family but I cannot buy books for everyone. I want other family members to view and buy the book.

You would have to give them the iPhoto library you used to create and order the book and they would have to have a Mac and the same version of iPhoto in order to open and use the library.
An alternative would be to create a PDF file of the book and send that pdf file to other family members to view. Then they could order the book thru you.
To create a small library that would be easy to send to others see this tutorial: 09 - Archiving an iPhoto Book for Editing and/or Ordering at a Later Date.
You then drag the archived/small library onto a blank CD/DVD mounted on the Desktop and burn the library to the disc. Do not use the Share ➙ Burn menu option in iPhoto. Then mail the disc to the family members who would drag the book library from the disc to the Desktop and open it with iPhoto to order a book for themselves. Remember only Mac users could make use of the library.
A possible alternate would be to create a video DVD of the book complete with music. How to accomplish that is described in this tutorial: 06 - Creating an iDVD Slideshow From an iPhoto Book. The book could then be viewed on a TV set. I create one of these DVDs go accompany every photo book I create and give as a present.
OT

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hi
How can I turn my french apple account into an Australian one , to be able to buy a Iphoto book I 've created ?

And you need to set the "Print Products Store" in the iPhoto Preferences "Advanced" to the country you are in. The credit card you will be using with your AppleID needs to be valid in the country your AppleID is registered to. Will you be staying permanently in Australia? Maybe it wuld be simpler to create a second AppleID just for the time of your stay there.

DO NOT BUY AN IPHOTO BOOK!!!!!!!

I have been going at it with Apple now for over a month! I ordered a book and it came back with blank pages and with photos not scaled properly. (This was my second iPhoto book. The first one also had several minor printing flaws which we overlooked) I sent three emails via the iPhoto support page and received no replies. Apple promises a response within 48 hrs. Then some two weeks later they had the nerve to send me a survey thanking me for using the web support function and please rate "how we did!" You can only imagine how I responded. I next tried contacted a live person at Apple Care to help me out. I provided them my order number. They indicated that was not a valid order number. Turns out that Apple Care cannot track orders made through iPhoto! No one at Apple Care was even familiar with what an iPhoto book was. I then called Apple corporate hq's and spoke to a "customer care" rep. She assured me I would be contacted within 48 hrs (sound familiar) and my problem would be resolved. I heard nothing for over a week. Calls back to Ms. Graser of customer care were met by voice mail. Finally this week I received a canned response back from Apple. They noted that they would credit the charge back to my card. They also asked if I were interested in reordering my book and if so they would "assist" me. I replied that I was interested in trying to reorder the book. So what does Apple do? Without any further contact to find out why the book came back incomplete (such as a corrupt file or incomlete file transfer), they reprinted the same screwed up book and recharged my credit card for the full amount (including $15 for express shipping)!
BUYER BEWARE! Apple provides no support or quality control for this product. DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heidi,
Welcome to the forums, and I'm sorry about your book. I too have ordered a book very recently and also found several photos to be on the dark side, and several too red as well.
But I believe that there's a "but" here.
I don't know your professional background -- I work in the print industry (I design pages) and I know how hard it is to get the color correction on images just right, EVEN if your monitor is calibrated and your particular version of image processing software is optimized for use with your specific output device. And that's when a professional is behind the wheel, which I am not.
My iMac's monitor is not calibrated, I am not trained to make images look their best for reproduction, and I am using a consumer-level application. With a little bit of research on these forums (which you have done), anyone can find out that the reviews on the iPhoto books' quality are mixed... At the very least you'll know you're taking a calculated risk -- as you said yourself.
I would consider myself a picky customer, but I am not disappointed with the quality of these books, especially considering the price, and knowing how difficult and unpredictable color correction can be. If you have some photos that are good (even if it is only 25 out of 142), then I would suspect the problem is with the "pre-pressing" of these images, not the printing. If the printing was to blame, they would ALL be bad.
That said, I am still sorry about your negative experience. We anticipate these books to be great, and it's a bummer when they aren't.
Full disclosure: I am in fact asking for a refund as well on my recent book, and I too don't like the fact that there is no phone support for iPhoto orders. I sent my e-mail 24 hours ago, so it hasn't been 48 hours yet. The reason I am asking for a refund is not due to print quality (I think I am responsible for the color/darkness thing), but because my $57 softcover 8.5x11 book arrived in a flimsy envelope and got bent during shipping. The (cheaper) calendars I ordered the same day arrived in sturdy boxes, so the logic behind that escapes me.
Anyway. For the future, if you've got a project you really care about, I'd recommend spending a little extra and ordering a "test book" with the minimum amount of pages, using only your most challenging photos, so you'll know how to tweak them for the final book. If it matters that much, the extra money will be well-spent, and in the end, the price/quality factor of these one-of-a-kind books will still be more than acceptable.
Just my thoughts.
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So when I try to uodate iPhoto from my applications folder I am told to uplate IT from the App Store and when I go there I am told the updae is not available in Canada.
You can no longer buy iPhoto from the appStore anywhere, and also not update it from the "Updates" tab of the AppStore. You can reinstall it, if it is showing among your Purchases at the App Store and associated with your AppleID.
Sign into the AppStore look at the Purchases tab. If you do not see iPhoto there, try to unhide your Purchases as described on this page: Hide and unhide purchases in the Mac App Store - Apple Support
If iPhoto shows on your Purchases tab, reinstall as described in this User Tip:
Get iPhoto 9.6.1 if you didn't update before OS... | Apple Support Communities
The main idea is to move the iPhoto app to the Trash, so Spotlight does not see it as installed, reload the AppStore, and then to try to download again from the App Store - from your Purchases tab, not from the main page, since you can neither buy iPhoto nor update it, but you can reinstall, if your AppleID is associated with it.
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See this link: Hide and unhide purchases in the Mac App Store - Apple Support

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