IPhoto/Facebook frustrations

The Facebook auto-sync feature is driving me crazy. I want to be able to upload my pictures to Facebook directly from iPhoto- otherwise I have to export smaller versions of the pictures to upload, lest it take days to do directly from Facebook's site. But, once I've uploaded an album, I don't need it to be "live" forever- nor do I still need it on my computer. Annoying is that if I add info to an image that's in an album- such as adding a rating- it checks with Facebook to see if any synching needs to be done, slowing down the whole program tremendously. More annoying is that if I make visible changes, such as cropping, it doesn't simply make the change in the album- it uploads the photo a second time to Facebook... again slowing down iPhoto, not to mention annoying my friends by putting "new" photos into my news feed. At this point I'd just upload the picture again outside of iPhoto, but then I'd lose all my comments. Is there a way to make changes to pictures that are in Facebook albums without them auto-synching? Is there any way to make the synching only come on manually? Or am I going to have to make sure I've done absolutely every forseeable cropping, captioning, tagging etc on every single photo before uploading? Or will I just have to export the photos and upload them directly from Facebook from now on and just deal with the frustration of the ones I've already done? This is stunningly non-user-friendly from both Mac and Facebook's sides.

Thanks Daiya, maybe I'll give this a try.
One thing I've just thought of- the iPhoto auto updater is logged on to my Facebook profile. If I take out the password so that it's logged off, that should stop the auto-uploading- although, will it make the photos disappear? And of course this is not a long-term solution because, like the other poster, it's always possible that I'll want to make edits for whatever reason that I don't want showing up on Facebook.
I'm very annoyed at how short-sided this program was to not foresee these problems. I suppose I'll go back to my usual method of waiting until any program has been out for a year before buying it so the kinks can be discovered and worked out. Very, very annoying.

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Hey guys,
I know that iPhoto is supposed to two-way sync with Facebook and I'm not going to complain about it (unlike all the other iPhoto-Facebook support threads I've just read through). My question is slightly different...
I switched over all my libraries to Aperture, for the increased organization, features, etc etc. I love it. I even like the third-party Facebook exporter plugin that Aperture supports.
But I still have a few albums on iPhoto that are synched with Facebook. They have comments and tags and such so I don't want to remove them from my account or reupload them, but these photos are also taking up about a gigabyte of harddrive space in the iPhoto library (not to mention being duplicated in the Aperture library).
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1) Just delete the iPhoto library file. Upon launching iPhoto next, it will create a new library file and should not have any ties with my facebook account? This would allow those albums to stay online but remove them from my HDD? (unlock the facebook album info is stored in a preference file somewhere and deleting the library doesn't affect it?)
2) I've heard that I could create a new, empty album on facebook and move all the photos from the old albums into that one... which keeps all the tags/comments/etc. I think this would also make the old photos seem new though, so I don't really want to go this route, if it can be avoided.
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Cheers

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Looks like you still don't get it. Normally if we upload photos using Facebook Exporter for iPhoto, the images would still retain the 'colour information' but obviously lose some quality (like size, clarity, etc.) but the COLOUR stays, thus the photo will look similar to the one we have in iPhoto.
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CptGabok
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and (if you want the file names to reflect what you changed the Title to)
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LN

Iphoto facebook

Iphoto 11 su imac intel metà 2011 correttamente aggiornato quando condivido più di una foto su facebook si blocca il caricamento :
Prima mi scrive trasferisco migniature e poi ne carica 1 o 2 al massimo e poi rimane li , la rotella accanto a facebook gira ma non carica più niente.
Devo chiudere forzatamente poi riaprire e poi a volte ne carica ltre 2 o 3 .
Pensavo che fosse un problema di internet o facebook ma ho verificato e non lo è.

Google translation
Iphoto 11 of intel imac mid-2011 correctly updated when I share more than one photo on facebook freezes
uploading:
Before I write I transfer migniature and then we charge 1 or 2 at most and then stays there, the wheel next to facebook cranks but will not charge anything.
I have to force close then reopen and then sometimes they charge ther 2 or 3.
I thought it was a problem with the internet or facebook but I checked and it is not.
THere have been several reports of this with no reported resolution
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LN

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We are having the same problem. However, I don't think it has anything to do with the software on our computer because the exporter works on my facebook account but not on my wife's. But I can't see what causes it.
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Has anyone seen/solved this problem? When I try to upload photos using the Facebook uploader, it uploads one photo and then stops uploading the rest of the photos, saying "An unknown error has occurred."
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None of my other friends have this problem. I redownloaded the facebook uploader to see if I can fix it with that, but it's still there.
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Michael
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LN

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Hi,
I'm using iPhoto '11 to manage my pictures and I like a lot the "Faces" tool to tag people and find all the photos related to them in one click.
I've shared several albums to Facebook hoping that the tagging was maintained and consistent.
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I have ~ 500 photos on FB and removing by hand all the duplicates would take a lot of time.
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Thanks in advance for any comment/suggestion!
Bye...

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LN

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