IPhoto placed 7000 pictures into one event

After recently upgrading to Mavericks and the iphoto upgrade... iphoto merged about 7000 of my 12000 pictures into one event unders the Library/Photos... It's only those 7000 that have been merged and the rest are still as I had put them... Any help on resolving this would be great.

Restore from your back up or select this Event and goEvents Menu -> Autosplit Selected Event

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How do I merge events - not just combining pictures into one event?

I have a iPhoto 09 and haven't upgraded yet. I have a bunch of events and it's hard to get through all of them. Can I combine the events while retaining the seperate events? Sort of an event within an event; not adding all the pictures from one event into anoher event and losing the deliniation.
Or, can I archive them somewhere so they don't appear in my Event list?

Can I combine the events while retaining the seperate events?
No. If you merger events you'll end up with just one event representing those that you merged.
To make selected events invisible in the Events mode do the following:
1 - select the events and double click on one of them to open all in the same window.
2 - type Command+A to select all photos.
3 - right or Control-click on any of the selected photos.
4 - click on Hide in the window that comes up:
That will hid those events from the list of other events in the Events mode and wherever else those photos are, i.e. albums, books, etc.
To makes the Events visible again use the View ➙ Hidden Photos menu option:
To make them permanently viewable you'll need to select those events and follow steps 1-4 above but click on the Show button this time.
OT

I have 20,00 images in my iphoto they have all been merged into one event. How do I restore them to the original events and dates? them

I have 20,00 images in my iphoto they have all been merged into one event. How do I restore them to the original events and dates?

Load the backup from before this happened
LN

I accidentally merged the events on in my Iphoto into one event. Is there a way to unmerge ?

I accidentally merged the events on in my Iphoto into one event. Is there a way to unmerge ?

Restore your backup - the reason you have a backup is to recover from errors made by software, hardware and humans - use it
Short of that the best you can do is use the autosplit selected event command in iPhoto
LN

On iPhoto I can see all the pictures for one event, but about 9 out of 106 I can't move to print or place it anywhere else?

On iPhoto I can see all the pictures for one event, but about 9 out of 106 I can't move to print or place it anywhere else?

Basics from the manual are restrt, reset, restore.
Have you tried each of these?

How do I combine two or more pictures into one?

How do I combine two or more pictures into one?

I found out how to do what I wanted and I'm giving my steps in hopes that it might help someone else. I wanted to put several photos from a file onto a new blank image. This is what I did.
1. Create a blank page.    File/New/ Blank File.   Put in the size. I used 8x10.
2. Bring the photo you want to use into Elements as you always do. It will list along the top next to the blank sheet.
3. Choose SELECT (top of screen)/ Select All.
4. Choose Edit/Copy   or Command "C"
5. Click on the Blank File.   Chose Edit/Paste or Command "V"
6. Click on Image/ Transform or Command "T". There should be a dotted line around your pasted image. You can then move and adjust the image to how you want it. When finished, press the check-mark on lower right of photo.
7.   Repeat this with all the photos you want on the new blank file.
8. You will see on lower right of Elements, the background layer and as many layers as you have photos. These layers need to be permanently placed on the background layer. Go to Layers and press Merge Visible. This will merge all layers to the background.
9. Save as and you are done.

Sometimes after creating an event folder on iPhoto, all my pictures in that event will be gone the next time I open iPhoto. Why is this happening? Is there a way to retrieve the missing photos?

Sometimes after creating an event folder on iPhoto, all my pictures in that event will be gone the next time I open iPhoto. Why is this happening? Is there a way to retrieve the missing photos?
Most events I make on iphoto will still be there the next time I open iPhoto, while other event FOLDERS will be there, but pictures in it gone.

What version of iPhoto? Assuming 09 or later:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

Is there a way of merging photos into one event on ipad mini without syncing from PC ?

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Unfortunately cutting and pasting doesn't work. The margins are so different for each document as the first document is a standard report with the text centered on the page while the second document is in the form of a letter that is off center toward the right side of the page. Cutting and pasting either one into the other (I've tried both ways) alters both documents in a way that causes the images, quotes, etc that are interspersed throughout each of them to show up in the wrong place (and they cannot be moved to the correct location due to the differences in margin.
They really need to simply be placed end to end rather than trying to combine them into one. This is apparently a simple thing with Pages on the Mac itself but it does not appear to be as simple with the iPad app. Thanks anyway for your help.
John

HI. I would like to arrange over 30 pictures into one grid-like ARRANGEMENT. (meaning above, below, left, right, of each other and so forth to form a rectangle)

HI. I would like to arrange over 30 pictures into one grid-like ARRANGEMENT. (meaning above, below, left, right, of each other and so forth to form a rectangle)
Please help...thx

You messaged me that the contact sheet look is what want but w/o spaces.
One method is to actually start with the PSE contact sheet tool. I assume your version has it (mine is PSE 2). Maybe your version has an option to remove spaces; mine doesn't. In this example I created a sheet of 4 rows and 3 columns, with the option to not flatten the layers. Each picture appears on a separate layer.
On each row I moved the left and right pics inward to remove the spaces between the pics:
Activate the Move tool. Click on the left pic and use the arrow keys to move it inward. Same with the right pic.
Now to remove the spaces between the rows. To make this easier. lock together the pics on each row. Here I locked the pics on the top row, then used the arrow keys to move the row as a unit downward. An alternative method would be to merge the 3 pics on each row and move that merged layer. Do the same for the remaining rows.
This method works of course if the pictures are all the same size and all aligned vertical or horizontal.
If you don't want to use the contact sheet tool (e.g., if the pics are different sizes or alignment) you can do this:
Create a blank canvas.
Open a picture, select it (Select > All) and copy to the clipboard (Edit > Copy).
Activate the blank canvas and Edit > Paste. The picture will be placed on its own layer.
Do the same with the remaining pics and use the Move tool with mouse and/or arrow keys to position them where you want.
The advantage of the first method is that the rows and columns are precisely aligned. Using the mouse to align the pictures could be a little tricky.

I want to move a picture from one event to another...how do i do this

i want to move a picture from one event to another...how do i do this

Just select, don't open, the event you want to move the flagged photos to. Then the Events ➙ Add Flagged Photos to Selected Event menu will be active.
OT

Merge multiple pictures into one picture like Photoscape?

Looking for imac software like Photoscape which can merge multiple pictures into one. Thanks!

PhotoShop Elements is a good one
LN

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When creating a new album, why does iphoto 11 separate pictures into untitled albums? I want all designated photos in the album i created..

I'm guessing you're missing the album in the left hand pane by just a bit and thus creating new albums for each of the photo you're dragging. Make sure the album is highlighted as in this screenshot (iPhoto 9.4.2) before releasing:
A sure file way to get an album with the photos is to select the photos again and use the File ➙ New Album menu option
and that will produce a new album with the photos that were selected.
OT

I received pictures in a dozen emails and saved each picture into one file in .pages. I did not import the photos before doing this and now iPhoto won't recognize the pictures because they are in a .pages file. How do I get the pics to iPhoto?

I received a dozen pictures in a few emails and I saved them all into one file in pages. I just copied and pasted. I do not have the originals any longer. Iphoto will not permit me to import the pictures as it does not recognize a .pages file, nor can I simply click and drag from the pages document to iphoto nor from pages to the desktop to iphoto. How can I save each picture I guess back into a jpeg and then import them into iphoto or have i lost them to a pages document forever? This is urgent as I need the pictures made into a book on iphoto for work by Friday!!! Please advise! Thank you.

Greetings,
Locate the Pages document wherever it's located on your computer and click once on it to highlight it.
Go to File > Duplicate to make a backup copy of the file.
Click once again on the file to highlight it.
Go to File > Get Info
In the "Name & Extension" category remove the ".pages" extension and put in ".zip".
Close the info window and double-click the now renamed pages file (zip file now).It will decompress into a folder which contains all the base components including all the images you added. These can be dragged onto the iPhoto icon to import them.
Hope that helps.

Accidently Moved all my events into one event

My Mac was running slow so accidently dropped all my events into one.
I then closed and reopened Iphoto hoping the changes wouldnt take effect.
Urgently need to undo the action. The UNDO button is greyed out.
I clicked on Autosplit events, but how can i get my last copy of the library back and reload? Where is it saved?
Please help

No, it doesn't. You must be proactive in setting up a backup strategy like using Time Machine with an external HD. If you haven't setup a backup plan then you have no backup of the library to fall back on.
So you're only course of action is to split (auto or manually) the one large event into events based on your criteria, i.e. by date, by photo opportunity, etc. It could take a while. One way to do it by date, i.e. by month is to use the Search function at the bottom of the window and do a search by each month of the year, When you get the results for the first month, select them all and use the Events ➙ Create Event menu option. This way you can create an event for each month of each year.

I have several pics of my new grandson throughout the year. How do I combine them into one event

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You can drag and drop photos from one Event to another. Or you can flag them and use the Events: Add Flagged photos to Select Event.
However, why not use an Album for the job?

IPhoto placed 7000 pictures into one event

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