IPhoto is exporting entire library (5,900 pics) and freezing up HD!! Help!
Subject line says it all. I bought a new Mac and, in attempting to send all iPhoto library via Firewire, I chose "Export" in iPhoto and never created a folder (I assumed the export would be a folder/file created and not individual photos splashed everywhere), so on startup, all the pics are loading onto my desktop! Now I am beating my head against the psychotic spinning beach ball of death and afraid I will burn up this HD. Mayday!!
Restart your computer with the Command and S keys held down, and enter the following commands:
mount -uw /
cd /Users/username/
mkdir -m 777 -p Desktop/DesktopItems
mv Desktop/*.jpg Desktop/DesktopItems
exit
Replace username in the second line with the name of the home folder; if this is outside of /Users/, the whole path needs to be changed. If the files moved onto the desktop are in a format other than jpg, change the extension in the fourth line. You can run the fourth line multiple times with a different extension specified each time if needed.
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iTunes loses my entire library with artwork, playlists and podcasts every time I close the program. Upon restarting it takes at least 15 minutes to rebuild the library and podcasts and a lot longer to replace the artwork, I also lose playlists. I would really welcome some feedback and assistance here and am losing faith in the Apple product. Since iTunes has been updated to version 11 it seems to have caused a lot of issues for many people. I am hopeful of a reply and a resolution. I have approx. 1200 albums at just under 90 Gb. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Exporting entire library to jpegs
I've been diagnosed with cancer a second time. Long hard battle ahead with chemo and then a stem cell transplant. Needless to say, getting a few things in order and looking at "legacy" decisions in the sense of what I am leaving my daughters by way of manageable digital content.
I am looking at my three Aperture libraries, around 150,000+ pics between the 3 of them. My family isn't into computers or Aperture, but they enjoy the pics. They don't really desire to learn Aperture or any other program. They simply want to "see" the pics or have access to them in a basic manner that they can understand.
I am wanting to export all pictures systematically to an external hard drive in jpeg format. I have my originals primarily photographed using RAW.
Is there a way to take an entire library and export all the pictures by project name to an external drive in jpeg format so that the project names are somehow transferred as a folder to the external drive? Not sure if I'm making sense with my question as chemo brain has gotten to me.
Here's what I did with my first library. It took many days and there weren't that many projects overall. Second library has many many projects.
I created on the drive folders that corresponded with the project name, since the project name describes the content. Then I would go from project to project, select all, then export to the corresponding folder. Wasn't too bad with the first library, second library is disheartening with the numerous projects, some with only 5-20 pics at a time. Third (current) library is enormous.
So can I somehow tell Aperture to export all projects in a library in jpeg format to a corresponding named structure on an external drive without having to manually create the individual folders (projects)?
Thanks for any insight.
-RobertThanks for the kind words and the response. I think I understand. Since this is a huge undertaking, I'm hoping to do this correctly in one attempt (if possible!).
I was studying this library just now. It has 965 projects. Crazy, right? I think this happened when I was migrating from iPhoto to Aperture and merged iPhoto into my existing library. I didn't know what I was doing and now can see that iPhoto had split every day on it's own. This then caused each day to be an individual project.
This library, as you can see from the two attached pics, is rather crazy and random. My newer library has a cleaner simpler structure that works for me.
Question for clarification:
- I am guessing on the left pane of Aperture, near the top, it shows the library name and has "projects, photos, faces, and places." My question is that I guess I would choose "projects" under this option (any other way to select all projects in one move?), then select all the projects, then use the export function as you indicated?
I'm questioning the wisdom of maintaining all the little individual projects that have just a date as a name from the iPhoto import/merge. I've attached two pics, one that shows the overall projects, then one that shows a project expanded with corresponding albums underneath.
I'm not sure I really used any folders technically speaking, just project names with albums underneath to subdivide.
Based on these pics, can you feedback with the best approach? I'm not sure I really want to maintain the "daily divisions" (dates of projects) that happened when I imported the old iPhoto library into this Aperture library. Not sure I have a choice unless I can maybe take the projects that are labeled as dates only and merge them into a large project or folder or album to simplify the structure.
Sorry this is a bit of a mess. I'm open to any and all ideas/suggestions.
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Exporting entire library and its structure.
Hello, I've seen this question before, but not with straight answers. I'm gonna ask one more time just to be safe.
I'm changing my computer, I have my music library stored in a 1Tb external HD. As you may imagine it has several thousands songs and in iTunes they are organized in several hundreds folders, many of them (probably hundreds) are nested folders and so on.
*Is there a "safe" way to export my entire library and ITS STRUCTURE (organization) to my new computer?* so next time I open lunch iTunes in my new computer it looks exactly the same as my old one. (of course after importing and setting everything)
Thanks in advanceConnect the external to the other computer.
Hold Option and launch iTUnes.
Select *Choose library*.
Select the *iTunes library* file in the iTunes folder on the external. -
I am running iTunes for Windows 10.2.2 on Windows 7 Home. I have my iTunes library on both this computer and another authorized machine running Windows 7 Professional. I have a large but not enormous library, as I'm one of those people who doesn't pirate, use torrents, borrow from a dozen friends, or whatever other shades of gray you might imagine. It's mostly iTunes purchases with my old CD collection imported. I have started using the following technique to sync my libraries between my two authorized computers, an ability which you can probably all agree should one day be added to iTunes -- that would be different from Home Sharing, because the music would be stored locally and thus available on the road. With the added benefit of the entire library being backed up on the other machine in real-time. Anyway, when I switch from my desktop to laptop and vice versa, I use the following technique:
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Run Microsoft SyncToy to synchronize the files between both music libraries; the most recent files win. This avoids copying the entire multi-gigabyte library over the network.
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Go to Music, Select All, Delete. Keep files.
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File-->Library-->Import Playlist. Choose the "Library.xml" file you saved.
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Delete all the duplicate playlists named "Music," "Genius," "Purchased," and "iTunes DJ."
Well, I just upgraded to iTunes 10.2.2 a few days ago and tried to do this again like I've done it dozens of times before. Now, iTunes just goes unresponsive after the library import. It got through the "Importing library" bar to the long wait and stopped. I can still multiprocess and use other programs, but iTunes is hovering back there not responding to clicks. Task Manager doesn't seem to think iTunes is using my CPU, and I don't see my hard drive rattling. Any thoughts on why iTunes might hang up when importing a large library?
... Also, please help lobby Apple to come up with a network sync tool built into iTunes for a user with multiple authorized computers. Something different than Home Sharing so I can pull my laptop off the network and still have the synced library with me. And all my metadata changes will sync. The technique I use seems a little kludgey, don't you think?iTunes isn't an editor. You need an app that's intended for editing audio files, like Adobe Audition (http://www.adobe.com/products/audition.html) or Audacity (free in the App Store).
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Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
Hopefully it's not been too long since you last upgraded iTunes, in fact if you get an empty/incomplete library immediately after upgrading then with the following steps you shouldn't lose a thing or need to do any further housekeeping. Note that in iTunes 11 an "empty" library may show your past purchases with links to stream or download them.
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When you get it all working make a backup!
Should you be in the unfortunate position where you are no longer able to access your original library, or a backup of it, then see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
I've noticed more of these missing library posts of late and a common factor to most since I started asking is AVG Anti-Virus. It seems in some cases it might be at least part of the reason why the library file disappears. Try excluding the iTunes folder from any AV scanning process.
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Exporting a library with its folders and albums
I scanned over 1700 slides into my aperture library. AFter spending a considerable amount of time putting them into folders and albums, I would like to export the project so my husband can put it into his aperture library. I exported the whole project onto my desktop so I could put it in dropbox to enable him to put it into his computer. However, when I exported the library, It came across as just one big library of photos, with no structure. I don't care to reorganize the photos into folders and albums again, as it would be very time consuming. Is there any way to export the library and keep its structure?
Thanks in advance
NancyNancy,
what is your Aperture version, and how did you export?
In the current Aperture version 3.4.5 all projects and albums should be preserved, when you export a library with "File > Export > Projects/Albums/Items as new library"
For example, I selected two albums in the library Inspector simultaniously, made sure, that I only selected the albums in the panel, but not single images within the albums, and then used the command "File > Export > Albums as new library".
The exported library had the two albums, as well as all projects and folders necessary to fill he albums.
Did you perhaps only select one big project of scanned images? Then try again by selecting the albums you want to export. My two albums exported like this: You see, the exported library has quite a few folders with projects inside, as well as my two albums:
Regards
Léonie -
How do I get iPhoto to publish an album with both pics and movies in it?
The built-in link to iWeb seems to assume either:
(a) I have lots of pictures, but no movies, or
(b) I have ONE movie, and no pictures.
This is kinda frustrating.
I expected there to be some easy, clever, way to one-click publish an album with a mix of pics and movies.
Is there a check-box someplace I don't know about? Or a HowTo?
Thanks in advance!
MacBook Pro Intel core 2 Duo, 2.33 Ghz, 2M RAM 200G HD Mac OS X (10.4.8) Parallels with XP Pro (ugh)Hi bdm105!
Most likely, this is happening because the Album Artist field is different for each song from Random Access Memories. We have an article about song grouping in iTunes, and it can be found here:
Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1468
There are a couple ways to fix the information listed for Random Access Memories outlined in that article, but I want to point out one here:
Albums in which all songs don't have the same Album Artist information
iTunes 7 and later includes a new attribute for song files called Album Artist This allows you to assign a primary artist name for an album that many includes songs by several artists. It is important that all songs in the album have the same Album Artist name. To assign an Album Artist, select all the songs in the album and choose Get Infofrom the File menu. Next, type a name in the Album Artist field name such that it will apply to all the selected songs. This field can optionally be left blank if all the songs have the same album name.
The Album Artist field is shown in the above picture, but it is not highlighted. You will also want to make sure the Track Number field contains the correct information for the album, and information on that field can be found here:
Fixing Incorrect Song or Album Listings in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ta24677
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden -
How to share one iTunes library with multiple computers AND Apple TV? Help?
It seems like my dilemma may not be easily solved. Hopefully it isn't as complicated as I think it will be. Here's the situation:
My wife hates that, in order to see or do anything with the images she takes, I need to have iPhoto open on my computer (Mac Pro), and she then has to connect to it over sharing.
By the same token, I don't like that she buys iTunes content on her MacBook, which is sometimes a duplicate of content I already have. Now that the App Store is out, that is going to start getting really expensive.
So instead, I want us to be able to:
1) Have ONE iTunes library on the network, and ONE iPhoto library. Both of these would be accessible to any computer on the network. When you launch iTunes, you would get all the media that is in that library.
2) Both be able to access iTunes at the same time to listen to / watch content.
3) Both be able to purchase iTunes content, and when it it purchased, it updates that single library. If I buy a song, the next time my wife fires up iTunes, that song is there for her to listen to.
4) Have our two Apple TV units be able to play content from this library.
So, I know that we need something on the network. I have a Drobo with DroboShare, so that is one option. I also have a spare Mac Pro laying around, along with a copy of OS X Leopard Server.
I just don't know what route we should take with this. All I want is for us to share a library, to be able to both use that library, for us to be able to sync content from that library to our portable devices, and for our Apple TVs to also see that library.
Possible?!I'm sort of in the same boat. We've got an iMac with separate User Accounts set up and are currently sharing the same iTunes and iPhoto libraries along with streaming them to our Apple TV.
Right now I'm the only one with an iPod, however she'll be getting one in a couple of weeks.
We also just picked up a MacBook yesterday and I'd like to be able to sync certain libraries like iTunes and iPhoto so that no content gets duplicated on either the iMac or MacBook and so that we both have access to the current libraries for each program on our iPods and AppleTV.
I have an external hard drive that I back up the iMac on and I assume I could manually keep things current with that but there's got to be an easier way...that's why these are Macs right?
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hi, updated my iphone where in the middle of updated the screen showed i must connect to itunes. after connecting to itunes my iphone was updated but everything was deleted. was first time on itunes , so have no backup. can i recover my pics and contacts? please help
If this has happened more than once the problem is likely on your PC.
See here: http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/itunes/ -
Very disappointed in my LG G2. My screen freezes all the time especially when texting. This started after the update. My husband's phone is doing the same thing. We have done a hard reset, deleted pics and videos to clean up the phone but nothing helps. Any suggestions? Our phones are new.
Lots of Frustration. In some cases the LGG2 is rendered useless even as a phone.
Here is what I did.
Got replacement Phone.
Same problems but I shut down all apps that I purchased even though they worked before KitKat.
Found that If I have both WiFi and LTE Data on at the same time battery chewing stops. Do Not know why.
Then I got 2 CM free utilities. The Clean and Wash utilities. Run them and find the culprits grinding CPU
cycles and running down the battery. Number One is the Verizon Voice Mail service constantly turning on and off
and retrieving data not there. Turn of the extra Voice mail and use the old access with the *6. Unless you have
100 messages a day for business your hosed until this KitKat issue is fixed. Get the CM battery utility.
YOU can see the battery suckers and shut them down when not using automatically.
Start putting back one application at a time you used often and see it they work and if the utilities will tune them
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whatmorecanyousay -
Ever since I did the lastest iPhoto update my picture albums have not correctly matched up with the corresponding photos. i.e. my wedding pictures now show up in my vacation album. The picture thumbnails are not showing me the correct photos.
15 inch MacBook Pro Late 2010
iPhone 4I have iPhoto '11 with the lastest software update. I forgot what number it currently is. I am vigalant when it comes to the latest software updates. Yes, I did restore my iPhoto pictures from a backup since I founf out I could not share any of my pics using my apeture library since they were not the orginals. So, after the back-up of iPhoto all my pictures albums and the pics in the album do not match up, even the thumbnails. I find this quite annoying. All my albums were working and correctly before this update. As for apeture can I re-master all the photos there masters? so i can just do away with using iPhoto all together?
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