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.

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I've invested considerable time and energy in endowing photos in iPhoto 7.1 with keywords and comments, only to discover that Spotlight doesn't seem to be using all this information. I'm only able to find photos with names that contain the character string I specify in the Spotlight window.
I vaguely recall encountering a similar problem with an older version of iPhoto. I believe the solution was to select all the photos in the Library, add a keyword to them, then later remove it. I tried that, but it seems not to make any difference.
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Richard:
iPhoto doesn't write the keywords to the image file until it's exported out of iPhoto with the option to include the keyword selected. However, on a one time basis, you can run iView MediaPro in it's demo mode and, following the first part of Tutorial #1, write all of the keywords, comments and titles to the original image files in iPhoto. Then the spotlight search will find the files with those keywords.
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How to copy a files name and spotlight comments to a text file for an entire folder

I have movie covers saved as a jpeg for every movie my family and I own. There is about 700 and they each have a comment of the main actors, release dates, and descriptions. This makes it easy to find what to watch. I want my parents to have all of this info but they have a windows laptop so the comments don't transfer with the file and can't be searched like you can on a mac. Is there an applescript, automator, program I can download, or program code supported in xcode that will do at least one of the following things?
1)Take the name of the picture file and spotlight comment, copy and paste it into a text document like word that looks like this...
File Name1- Spotlight Comment for file 1
File Name 2- Spotlight Comment for file 2
. for all 700 files in a folder
2) It would be equally helpful if there was something that would take the name of the picture file and spotlight comment, copy and paste it to a movie file's comments with the same name but obviously has different extention. For an example
In a Pictures folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.jpeg       Comment: (2008) Genre: Action...             <- copy comment
In a Movie Folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.m4v       Comment:                                               <- paste
and do this for all 700 files
3) Is there a free photo program that works on mac and windows that I can put all my movie pictures in and have a description like I did with the comments? It would also need a place that to search the description for keywords. So Basically an itunes for pictures that works on both mac and windows. If so I still need a way to get the spotlight comments to the description.
4) I feel like this would make things more difficult, but if not I can put all of the .m4v files in itunes so instead of pasting all the comments back into a file in finder paste them in a description in itunes
5) At the very least a code that I can run one by one for every file that will paste the comments into the same document
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Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read all of this and extra thanks to anyone who tries to help.

Clendenen02 wrote:
2) It would be equally helpful if there was something that would take the name of the picture file and spotlight comment, copy and paste it to a movie file's comments with the same name but obviously has different extention. For an example
In a Pictures folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.jpeg       Comment: (2008) Genre: Action...             <- copy comment
In a Movie Folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.m4v       Comment:                                               <- paste
and do this for all 700 files
This Bash script will do it.
Edit "PicDir" and "MovDir" to the location of your Folders
(Note: The comment is written to the m4v file using xattr, so the Spotlight comment field appears blank in Finder, but the comment metadata is still indexed by Spotlight (If you add a Spotlight comment from Finder, it is stored both as an extended attribute and in a .DS_Store file)
#!/bin/bash
PicDir=$HOME/Desktop/Pictures
MovDir=$HOME/Desktop/Movies
for f in $PicDir/*
do
     if [ ! -d "$f" -a "${f##*.}" == "jpeg" ]; then
          comment=$(mdls -raw -name kMDItemFinderComment "$f")
          if [[ $comment != "(null)" ]]; then
               picname=${f##*/}
               movname=${picname%.*}.m4v
               if [ -e "$MovDir"/$movname ]; then
                     xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment "\"$comment\"" "$MovDir"/$movname
               fi
          fi
     fi
done

Raw Search Terms for "Spotlight Comment" and "Locked" Status

Is it possible to do a raw search for a specific Spotlight Comment. I know the option exists in the Other… dialog box, but I need to find files that do not contain comments which is not choice.
Also, is there any way to find only files that are unlocked?

If you go to Others and select Raw Query you can use it find items with a specific comment, and items without any comment. For example, if you have the comment "testme" in the Spotlight field you would paste this into the Raw Query field:
kMDItemFinderComment == "testme"
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kMDItemFinderComment != "*"
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The "File readable" and "File writeable" functions shown in Others, which presumably are what one would use to find locked files, simply do not work. This is not surprising since the information about whether a file is locked or not does not in fact appear in a file's metadata. I guess that will be a future addition. You can use find in Terminal to search for files that are locked/unlocked. Let me know if you really want to do this.
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Spotlight comments and zip archives

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Keywords and Spotlight

Is there a way to have the keywords you assign to photos show up in spotlight?
I know that the ones I create in Photoshop do, just not iPhoto.
Thanks,
"D"

Dana,
I can search in Spotlight for keywords I give my photos. Yours should be working too. You might have to close iPhoto after assigning the keywords to get it going. Spotlight can find my images by image name, title, keywords, and comments and even Albums (I put the album name in each images comment field)
Sometimes you have to force Spotlight to work by highlighting your library in the source column, select all, and give them a simple keyword (I use the checkmark) Wait till it is done assigning the keywords, then close iPhoto.
Open iPhoto, undo what you just did. Now see if Spotlight can search by keyword.

Corrupted iPhoto Library prevents Spotlight searches.

Hello everyone,
After upgrading to iPhoto 6 from version 5 I found that Spotlight now fails to show iPhoto results. I've tried all the usual tricks, assiging dummy keywords and reindexing Spotlight, each attempt to get things working again has failed.
After creating a new iPhoto Library I found that Spotlight would work correctly. This has led me to believe that my original library has somehow been corrupted.
Does anyone know a way to create a new library from the old without the need to rewrite all the titles and comments or perhaps have an idea how to repair the faulty one? - I have tried the rebuild options.
I have also tried using a backup I created before installing iLife 06 but this also fails.
Any help is appreciated.
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To Lori and Toad, Thanks for your quick replies. I guess I'll give an example to help clear up what is happening. Something might be just corrupted or a bug in iPhoto but here goes.
I am a dentist, I have hundreds of photos in Albums in iPhoto. Each album has a name. Within each album are folder more specific to the patient.
e.g.
Album: Marlene
Folders: Pre-op smile views, Post-surgical views, Post-op Smile Views (of course all these photos were taken on different days, time, blah blah.
Photos: all have Titles such as Smile Left side, Smile right side, etc.
Keywords: photos are keyworded such as "Cosmetic case" "Implant Case"
Now if I want to quickly find Marlene's photos, I'd like to use Spotlilght. But when I type in "Marlene" I get a list of Folders that say "Marlene" that all look the same. I have to find the path: 1. iphoto original 2. iphoto data 3. iphoto modified 4. other folders named Marlene. (this is a pain of course).
What I expect to see (and used to see in previous iPhoto) was a list of Images related to Marlene. I see no list of Images at all.
But now let's say I pick #3 iPhoto modified folder in Spotlight. I double-click on it and up pops iPhoto but not Marlenes photos, what shows up is iPhoto window opened to my entire library as if I'm happy to scroll down through my photos to find Marlenes.
However, since the photos are titled, if I type in the actual title of Marlene's photo, then I DO get a list of Images in Spotlight. But my problem is that with hundreds of photos titled "Smile Left" "Pre-surgical view" etc., I have to hunt through all of these photos to try to find Marlenes. This simply does not work. The point of spotlight is that I should be able to type "Marlene" and up comes her images in iPhoto and I can pick the one I want.
I tried typing in the Comments in Spotlight related to Marlene and I've tried typing in the Keywords in Spotlight and I get "no results found".
Longwinded and hopefully not confusing, but this is just exactly what I have just finished going through and it is the same for all of my patient's photos in iPhoto.
My feelings are that something in the iPhoto Library new structure is messing things up.
If I place Marlene's photos organized in a regular Finder folder, then Spotlight finds it right away, no problem, but of course opens them up in Preview which is not the purpose for having them in iPhoto. So I feel comfortable with using Spotlight, but it is just not working with iPhoto at all.
Thanks for listening,
Charlie

Delete photo from iPhoto library and HDD

Hopefully I'm not repeating a previous thread...
Not being an expert, am I correct in saying that iPhoto only changes its version of the photo when editing it?
Also, if you delete the photo by moving it to the trash can, it doesn't physically delete it from the HDD? (When you empty the trash can)
This causes a problem for a few reasons.
I have just loaded Medialink PS3 which allows the iMac to serve the PS3. (BTW - Good product)
If you point Medialink to the original HDD folder then this still includes photos I thought I had deleted.
Also If I want to burn a cd with the photo folder external to iPhoto , the "deleted" photos are also burnt.
I copied all of the photos from a windows PC, and Picasa allowed you to physically delet from its own folder as well as the HDD.
Doesn't iPhoto 09 allow this?
What would iPhoto do if I went through and cleaned up the external folder and deleted jpgs or edited using Canon editing software? If using the external editor, would iPhoto reflect the changes?
Sorry if this is verbose.
regards,

You might want to have a llook at the iPhoto tutorials. They cover a lot of these basics.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#iphoto-hero
And the version of iPhoto you are using?
I'm not at all sure that a Referenced Library is what you want. In fact I strongly recommend against it. But however:
*How to do it:*
Simply go to iPhoto Menu -> Preferences -> Advanced and uncheck 'Copy Files to the iPhoto Library on Import'.
*What Happens:*
Now iPhoto will not copy the files, but rather simply reference them on your HD. To do this it will create an alias in the Originals Folder that points to your file. It will still create a thumbnail and, if you modify the pics, a Modified version within the iPhoto Library Folder.
*Some things to consider:*
1. Importing and deleting pics are more complex procedures. You have to to put the files where they will be stored before importing them. When you delete them you'll need to remove the files from the HD yourself.
2. You cannot move or rename the files on your system or iPhoto will lose track of them on systems prior to 10.5 and iPhoto 08. Even with the later versions issues can still arise if you move the referenced files to new volumes or between volumes.
3. Most importantly, migrating to a new disk or computer can be much more complex.
4. Because iPhoto has no tools for managing Referenced Files, if, for some reason, the path to the photos changes then you could find yourself resolving aliases for +each photo in the Library+ one by one.
My own opinion:
I've yet to see a good reason to run iPhoto in referenced mode unless you're using two photo organisers
If disk space is an issue, you can run an entire iPhoto Library from an external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
If you're concerned about accessing the files, There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
*For Users of 10.5 and later*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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*For users of 10.4 and later* ...
Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
*If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running*:
For users of 10.6 and later:
You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu. Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
For Users of 10.4 and later:
Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
+Some Other Comments+
iPhoto will not touch any file outside its library. Period.
It will copy files on import and leave existing files untouched,
It will delete files within the Library but not outside the Library.
When you choose to go with a Referenced Library you are deciding that You want to manage the Files. You want to import them from the camera, you want to sort them however you want and you want to delete them yourself. That's the point of a referenced Library.
I just did a test by editing a photo using Canon Professional and the changes were not reflected in iPhoto. And vise versa.
The point of iPhoto is that you interface with your Photos via the Application. Like Addressbook for your contacts, iTunes for your Music, it's the go-to app for your Photos.
So, you want to edit Photos, you go to iPhoto and use the External Editor:
You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
Note that iPhoto sends a copy+ of the file to Photoshop, so when you save be sure to use the Save command, not Save As... If you use Save As then you're creating a new file and iPhoto has no way of knowing about this new file. iPhoto is preserving your original anyway.
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TD

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Steve:
I second Larry's choice of using an album. You can create a smart album which the criteria that Rating is 5 stars. Then any photo you give a 5 start rating will automatically show up in that album. No duplicating files, no moving files, etc. Really simple.
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I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.≤br>
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IPhoto 11 and Photoshop Elements

Has anyone experienced a problem running PE 8 as the editing program for iPhoto 11?
It's driving me nuts! Every time I want to edit a photo, a duplicate of the original is added to my iPhoto event. Then when I finish the edit in PE 8, close the program, go back to iPhoto, iPhoto can't read the edited photo. I get this weird thing that looks like a stop sign when I try to open the edited photo. I never had either of these issues with iPhoto 9. Help!

That's a change that Apple consciously made. Not a bug according to one user who talked with Apple engineers.
Send your comments and feature requests to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html
The following are tips on how to use PSE from within iPhoto:
Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
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3 - however, if you get the navigation window
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that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
NOTE: With Photoshop Elements 9 the Saving File preferences should be configured as shown:
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I also suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always.
In PSE’s General preference pane set the Color Picker to Apple as shown:
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NOTE: If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and PS without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected PS as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". That will let you either edit in iPhoto (double click on the thumbnail) or in PS (Control-click on the thumbnail and seledt "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu). This way you get the best of both worlds.
Although the above is for PSE 9 it should apply to PSE 8.
OT

I have just installed iPhoto 11 and all of photos on my iphone have now all disappeared and ended up in my photo stream and the library in iphoto does not display all my pictures?? Can anyone help?

I have just installed iPhoto 11 and all of photos on my iphone have now all disappeared and ended up in my photo stream and the library in iphoto does not display all my pictures?? Can anyone help?

And I cant work out why all of my pictures are not diplaying in iphoto?
Is this iPhoto on your Mac? Are you referring to the photos that were in your iPhoto LIbrary prior to the upgrade to iPhoto 11? If so then apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - run Option #4 to rebuild the database.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button and select the library you want to add in the selection window..
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
If that's not what you're referring to then you should describe what is happening in more detail. Remember we can't see your Mac or your iPhone so need detailed and accurate descriptions of what you're experiencing.
Also we need infomartion like do you have an iCloud account and are you logged into it on all of your devices, iPhoto and Mac? do you have Photo Stream enabled on both.
OT

Simple viewer won't export comments and the sequence is wrong

I am stuck....
I have added simple viewer on my site, but the comments of every photo are not there.
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- With iphoto export, i made the simple viewer file. Everything works fine accept from the comments they are just not exported.
- Also the sequence of the photo's are different in the simple viewer. It seems like the photo's are displayed (or exported) at random.
Has anyone an idea how I can find a workaround and to get these two issue's solved?

Hi Dhara,
I've been working with Simple Viewer for a couple of weeks now (you can catch my posting and all the replies on the Boards).
Regarding your issues, my recollections are as follows....but, remember I'm a novice and not an expert on this:
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2. Sequence of Photos: I had the same problem with this. I went back to my iPhoto folder and actually changed the file names to 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc. Then, in iPhoto, I sorted the photos: View, Sort Photos, By Title. I had to move a few manually in the iPhoto display, as numerically sorted some fall out of 'order'. After saving this folder, run iPhoto Export and proceed as you did before.
Again, I am a newbie...so maybe see if some of the 'gurus' on the Boards post a fix as well. And, let me know if this works!
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Make a temporary, backup copy (select the library and type Command+D) if you don't already have a currnet backup of the library and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
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Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #1, followed by #3 and then #4 as needed.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
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Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
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