Iphoto smart album help

Is it possible to create a smart album that will find all photos of two specific people and no one else? I am hoping to create an album that contains only photos of my two children, together, with no other people… not sure how to set it up. Thanks.

Not really - you can make one for all rules with photo contains each of the the two people and additional rules photos does not contain each of the other names - but even then it will not eliminate photos with people who have not been identified
Suggest to Apple - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback - maybe it will influence Photo next year
LN

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I am trying, unsuccessfully, to export an iphoto smart album- 12,000 photos, no movies- (information is showing 31GB total) to a brand new 32GB scandisk flash stick. A caution msg keeps saying "there is not enough space to complete this" Help!

You need a larger drive or an external drive - they OS needs a minimum of 10GB just for normal operation so you are already experiancing degraded preformance - if yo do not get more space you will start losing data
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN

Smart Album Help

Smart Album help, please! While converting old slides to digital, I am importing to iPhoto in small batches. I have created a "smart album" for the converted slides expecting successive imports would automatically install into that "converted slides" titled smart album. It's not happening. ? ? ? I titled the 2nd imported batch "converted slides". This 2nd import is sitting in "Last Roll" rather than automatically moving to the smart album. How do I move this 2nd batch of 242 photos from "Last Roll" into its designated album? I tried "drag n drop" the whole roll, perusing iPhoto help menu, to no avail. HELP!
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On further review of the iPhoto Help menu, it seems that an "Album" is much more flexible than the smart album. Can I change a smart album into a regular album? Or, I've created a "folder" for the smart album. Now, if I "Trash" the smart album, will the folder of slides remain? My right shoulder aches from too many hours on this project, that now I'm afraid to try anything for fear of loosing all that work. SHEEESH.
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IPhoto Smart Album works with Desktop, fails with Screen Saver

I've created a Smart Album in iPhoto, with my 5-star photos in it, calling it "My Favorites". In iPhoto, there are 116 photos right now. When I go to my Desktop settings, I see all the photos in "My Favorites".
When I go to Screen Saver, I get 5 of the photos in that Smart Album. I've got other Smart Albums, some with thousands in them, and they seem to display just fine.
I've deleted and re-created "My Favorites", even using a different name. I still get the same results.
Any ideas why Desktop would work, but Screen Saver won't, with the exact same Smart Album? How can I troubleshoot this?

Terence Devlin wrote:
As the Desktop section is working, I would guess the problem is with the ScreenSaver. Try trash the ScreenSaver cache and see if that helps.
Thanks.
The only cache I found was ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine/Cache.db. Removing that had no effect; might this have been the wrong one, and if so, where is the right one?

Iphoto-smart album

I can create a smart album...but as a newbie...I can't seem to get the pictures I want into the "smart album"..I think I don't know how to do the batch change thing or what to do....perhaps someone smart can help a novice...sorry & thanks!!

edgewater5061:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. That are the criteria for the pictures you want to be in the smart album and how are you setting them?
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.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), 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. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Screensaver not showing all photos in an iPhoto smart album

Got a weird problem here, done some searching around but can't find a fix.
I have created a smart album in iPhoto 11. This correctly displays 95 photos across multiple events, based on a string match to the event name.
However, if I use this smart album for a desktop or screensaver, it only displays 8 photos, all from the oldest event that is in the smart folder.
Anyone have an idea how I can fix this?

Is Aperture the only app being affected? How does your desktop look? Have you rebooted your systems since this started happening? What is your display setting in System Preferences?
If it's only affecting Aperture its most likely the plist file ~/Library/Preference/com.apple.Aperture.plist.
You should move that to the desktop and restart Aperture. Not sure what file you deleted but moving the plist file won't remove any images from the library. Also take a look at the rest o the troubleshooting tips in [Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805]

Sorting movies in iPhoto smart album

I created an album of our summer vacation which includes photos and video clips. I would like to separate out the video clips and stitch them together. Either in iMovie or otherwise. Any thoughts on how to separate out the movies? I tried the New Smart Album > Keyword > is > movie. It sorted my whole library, not just the album (and I did have all photos/clips selected).
And then, how best to stitch them together? iMovie or is there a function in iPhoto?
Any thoughts are appreciated. Thank you.

In your summer album flag just the video clips. Use the Events ➙ New Event from Flagged Photos to create a new event of just those flagged video clips (assuming you have no other flagged photos).
Or give the video clips in the summer album a star rating and use a smart album: Keyword is Movie and Rating is XX.
OT

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I have a smart album of all my skydiving pictures in iPhoto '08 which I want to use as a source for all my desktop and screensaver pics. The album appears in the desktop preferences, but not the screensaver prefs (problem 1), the desktop is set to change every minute but with over a thousand photos, it's definitely weighted to a small subset of those (problem 2)
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Let’s try and reset that sharing feature in iPhoto. TO do this we’ll need to move a file out of the Library and iPhoto will then be forced to re-create it.
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for a file called AlbumData.xml
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Launch iPhoto.
Give it a few moments to regenerate the file.
The Launch the SystemPreferences.
Regards
TD

Smart Album help - pictures without Keywords

How can I create a Smart Album for pictures that don't have a Keyword attached to them? I'm trying to put Keywords to all my pictures and would like to be able to use a Smart Album to help me get through this project.
Thanks.
Chip

Thanks. I had it on "contains" and there isn't a pulldown menu for that. Never even thought to change it to the other choices to see what that offered.

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When I create Smart Playlists in iTunes, I can set one of the criteria to include/exclude items based on a different smart playlist.
For example,
Smart Playlist 1=all songs by artist a, b, c, d, etc.
Smart Playlist 2=all songs where "genre=Holiday"
Smart Playlist 3=all songs that are in "Smart Playlist 1", but are NOT in "Smart Playlist 2".
This same concept doesn't seem to work in iPhoto. While it does seem to work if I'm basing them on regular albums, the "Album is xxxx" criteria option doesn't seem to even list Smart Albums.
Am I missing something or am I not even allowed to use Smart Albums as a criteria for other smart albums?

You’re not missing anything.
iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback
Regards
TD

Iphoto smart albums failed to import

did anyone else have this problem? my albums came in fine, and i have about a billions "rolls" but none of my smart albums came in. what gives?

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Here's a possible solution if you're unable to restore the smart albums any other way.
1 - rename your current library to something other than it is now, like iPhoto Library Old or whatever.
2 - copy the library from your old laptop to the Pictures folder on the new iMac.
3 - get the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager and use it to merger the renamed library into the library from the laptop. iPLM can be set to not import duplicates.
This should give you a library with the smart albums and any new photos. Once you've confirmed that the merged library is complete and working correctly you can delete the renamed library.

Just upgraded to iPhoto '11...missing Smart Albums and Flags...Help???

I just upgraded from iPhoto '08 to iPhoto '11 via the App Store. While it appears that all of my photos are still on my computer, when I try to open my Smart Albums, it says that they contain "no photos." Also, it appears that none of my photos marked with flags are still flagged. Can anyone help?

How did you upgrade the library? Did you just open it with iPhoto 11 and let it convert the library to the new version? If so then try the following:
Make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Select the options identified in the screenshot.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
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
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
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 but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
OT

IPhoto 9.4.3-keyword "" not working correctly in smart albums

Every May I work on the 5th Grade recognition slideshow (using Keynote) for our 5th grade students. In iPhoto, I always give photos the checkmark keyword after I've placed that photo so that I know it's been added/used. I have many smart photo albums with keywords like "5th graders 2012-2013" and others like the checkmark.
None of the smart albums seem to be recognizing and using the checkmark even though it's one of the smart album criteria. For example, I have a smart album called
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Similarly, I have another smart album called "5th-Still to use" which has criteria Match All: Keyword is "5th graders-2012-2013" and Keyword is not "✔". The photos that I've placed the checkmark on are STILL showing up here.
These smart albums have always worked before. Has anyone else noticed issues with the checkmark keyword not working properly? It has to have happened with an update sometime in the past year.

When I went to open the library using iPhoto Library Manager, it had to upgrade the library to work with this version of iPhoto.
That's normal.
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 Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
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Regards
TD

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Hi, I've just started to use iPhoto 09, after a long long time getting to know my iMac, and organising my iTunes library...
I want a smart album to show photos which have no faces, but also to have photos which iPhoto has not picked up that a photo needs a "face ID" on, what I mean is, if a person is turned away to to the side, iPhoto might not pick up that it needs to be a "face" and so wont show up in the normal smart album Photo>is>unnamed
if anyone can help, would be great, I'm busy slowly importing my photos, and what to do this one step at a time
cheers

A smart album with the criteria "Face is unnamed" will find any photo with an unnamed face on it. It can be either one with a named face or two but at least one unnamed face or a photo with no faces named.
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1 - add a keyword, face, to any photo you name a face in.
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