Key photos on events in photo app?

Since I've updated to iOS 5 I've noticed that the main photos for my events are just the first photo in the event, and not the photo that I have selected as the key photo in iPhoto. It's small, but it's annoying. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks!

but just doesn't have the features when I have spent hours tagging, editing and sorting all my photos in iPhoto on my iPad and desktop.
You cannot add tags and captions in Photos iOS 8, and you cannot see them when opening a photo. But the tags you added previously are still there when you migrate the iPhoto library to Photos. You will see that, when you use the search field and enter one of your tags or a caption. This will find all photos with this tagged you then can create an album of all tagged photos for each tag. Creating albums with distinctive names is the new way of tagging. You can search for album names.
I share your sentiments entirely, and I hope Apple will provide an update to Photos soon or offer app extensions to add the missing features.

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Showing only key photo from events within an album using iphoto 11

I'm using iphoto 11 and want to show only the key photos from events in an album. I don't want to see every photo from every event in the album, I only want to view the key photos from each event in the album. When I drag the event into the album every photo from each event is shown in the album.
I do have some events in an album with only the key photo showing but can't get all the events to display this way in the album. Any suggestions?

Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder.
(On 10.7: Hold the option (or alt) key while clicking on the Go menu in Finder to access the User Library)
(Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
What's the plist file?
For new users: Every application on your Mac has an accompanying plist file. It records certain User choices. For instance, in your favourite Word Processor it remembers your choice of Default Font, on your Web Browser is remembers things like your choice of Home Page. It even recalls what windows you had open last if your app allows you to pick up from where you left off last. The iPhoto plist file remembers things like the location of the Library, your choice of background colour, whether you are running a Referenced or Managed Library, what preferences you have for autosplitting events and so on. Trashing the plist file forces the app to generate a new one on the next launch, and this restores things to the Factory Defaults. Hence, if you've changed any of these things you'll need to reset them. If you haven't, then no bother. Trashing the plist file is Mac troubleshooting 101.

Erase images and events in Photo app

I cannot erase numerous events in Photo app. Firstly my photos have organised themselves into 30 - 40 events with 3 or 4 photos in each event. This was not how they were imported. Some corruption has occurred. More importantly I cannot erase them. If I set photos in iTunes to sync with nothing, these 30 - 40 events will not disappear. Any suggestions to erase all photos in the ipad Photo app?
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but just doesn't have the features when I have spent hours tagging, editing and sorting all my photos in iPhoto on my iPad and desktop.
You cannot add tags and captions in Photos iOS 8, and you cannot see them when opening a photo. But the tags you added previously are still there when you migrate the iPhoto library to Photos. You will see that, when you use the search field and enter one of your tags or a caption. This will find all photos with this tagged you then can create an album of all tagged photos for each tag. Creating albums with distinctive names is the new way of tagging. You can search for album names.
I share your sentiments entirely, and I hope Apple will provide an update to Photos soon or offer app extensions to add the missing features.

Escape key no longer functioning to back out of photos in Event view

In iPhoto '09, when you drilled down to view a photo in Event view, you used to be able to use the Escape key to step back a level. With iPhoto '11, I have been unable to do this. Is there a setting I'm missing or something?

I just figured out a great solution to this problem! The goal here is to remap the Escape key in iPhoto so that it functions like the Command-Left-Arrow, which currently has all the functions we wish Escape had. The instruction are fairly simple:
Install KeyRemap4MacBook. It's a wonderful program that lets you take control of your keyboard. It's stable and powerful and quick and free.
Follow these instructions which tell you how to add your own custom settings. (Skip steps 4 through 6, which just give you some example settings to add.)
Edit private.xml so that it looks like the following (or at least contains the following "item", if you have other custom settings installed):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
    <name>Escape to Command Left Arrow</name>
    <identifier>private.app_iphoto_escape_to_command_left_arrow</identifier>
    <only>IPHOTO</only>
    <autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::ESCAPE, KeyCode::CURSOR_LEFT, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_R</autogen>
</item>
</root>
Finally, save private.xml, then click "ReloadXML" under the "Change Key" tab of the KeyRemap4MacBook preferance pane. Your new setting should appear at the top of the list. Enable it. Restart iPhoto if you feel like it (you probably won't need to). And now, in iPhoto, Escape should work as you want it to!
NOTE: There is one downside I've discovered. You won't be able to get out of Slideshow mode using the Escape key anymore, as this was the one case where Escape originally functioned sensibly. Rather, you'll have to use your mouse to click the X button to escape. But Slideshow mode is terrible anyway. Just use full screen mode instead.

Key photo in events

ATV seem to ignore key photo when viewing synced photos from iPhoto. It just shows first photo in left to event title. Is there a way to fix this?

Key photos are a feature for events in iphoto, the tv does not work with iphoto the way it does with itunes.

When I go into photos or events under library I can not see my photos, only empty squares. I rebuilt iphoto by holding down option-command keys

When I go in photos or events under library in iphoto I can not see pictures, all it shows is the empty squares. The fotos r there cause when I scroll down with the mouse I can see the pictures for a few seconds. I rebuild iphoto by holding down option-command keys and then iphoto ican. need help please

Hi,
You have managed to post in Applications then iChat within that.
iPhoto is listed under iLife
I have not used iPhoto enough to be able to offer solution for you.
You would be better off posting in the iPhoto Forum (in that link above)
7:40 PM Monday; May 2, 2011
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Import iPhotos Events into Photos and maintain previous structure?

I'm a long time iPhoto user and have about 45,000 photos from over a 30 year period that are organized into separate events with the event title being Year-Month-Activity. Such as "2015-4 Easter". It was painful to create those events but once they were done it was fantastic. We can quickly and easily pull-up all photos from my daughter's first birthday from 25 years ago, or look at all of her birthday photos. I probably have a thousand events and want to maintain that event structure when I move the library to any new photo program.
I'd like to use the new Photos program but when I imported the photos using one of my 'test' Macbooks ,Photos did (mostly) get it right and maintained most of the events in an album it created called iPhoto events. That's fine for the legacy photos I'm importing. HOWEVER as far as I can tell, from that point-on I can no longer add an Event and title it the same way in that iPhoto Events album. So once I move my legacy library to Photos, the old stuff will be in the IPhotos Events photos and the new photos will have to be placed into a new Album. So it will force me to split them.
Where this is important is when I point my Plex Server at them so that my extended family can view all of our old photos using Plex. Currently I can just point Plex to the iPhotos library and it maintains the Events structure when it shows them on the TV.....which is awesome. Family can see individual events and open just the one they want to see. Not sure how Plex is going to deal with the new Photos app but that's a question for me to post on their forum...
My question for this forum: is there a way to directly import legacy iPhoto events into Photos automatically so that each Event now becomes an Album in Photos with the old Event name?
Thanks!

Moments in Photo are the new Events. There's a way to simulate events in Photos.
When the library was first migrated there was a folder created titled iPhoto Events and all migrated iPhoto Events are represented by an album in the folder. To open the sidebar if it's not open use the Option+Command+S key combination.
When new photos are imported into the Photos library go to the Last Import smart album, select all the photos and use the File ➙ New Album menu option or use the key combination Command+N. Name it as desired. It will appear just above the iPhoto Events folder where you can drag it into the iPhoto Events folder
When you click on the iPhoto Events folder you'll get a simulated iPhoto Events window.
The downside to the simulation is that the Album/Events can only be sorted automatically by Title. But they can be sorted manually.
Ask Apple for more sorting options and/or other features in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.

I have all my photos both in the photo library by date and as events . When I open I-photo in either format there are just empty rectangles with names. If I click the photo appears. This was not like this before. How can I get it back so that I can see th

I have all my photos organized in i-photo as both photos and events. When I opened in the past the images in each event or album appeared as icons on the sreen. Now when I open I only get a dotted line rectangle and only if I click I see the picture, which is really problematic when trying to see or select nay image.
I don't know if mistakenly I did something with the settings although I couls not find anything in preferences or any of the menus that could relate to this.

Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your iPhoto thumbnails - this may take several tries
Also what version of iPhoto? What recently changed?
LN

I was trying to share some photos and my i photo app is frozen. i can't access it or get it to work.

I was trying to share some photos and my i photo app is totally frozen on the desktop I can no longer access i photo or the photos I was trying to share. Help!

How were you sharing the photos?
Try to backup your iPhoto library and hold down the option and command keys while launching iPhoto - key the keys down until the first aid window appears - rebuild your database
LN

Double clicking on a photo or event does not work

I have to click quickly 3-6 times a photo or event to successfully open it.
I rebuilt the database and I also deleted the iPhoto preferences file without success.
I have no problem with the double click in my other app.
The problem is the same with the trackpad or mouse.
I use iPhoto 9.6 and OSX 10.10.1 on a MacBook Pro.
Thanks

Check your trackpad settings and possibly slow down the click speed (or speed it up). Another user had the same problem and solved it thru the click speed settings.

I've lost all my events and photos in iPhoto

Recently converted to all things Mac.
I use iphoto to categorise all my photos and events and faces, basically everything. I then use Aperture to create projects and import from my iphoto library the selected photos I want to work with only.
For some reason or another, I cannot tell you how or why it happened, I cannot open aperture anymore cause it tries to open a file only desktop which i think it thinks is a backup file but says " "xxxxxxx.aplibrary" is an iPhoto library and cannot be opened in Aperture". Thing is that I cannot open it on Iphoto either and I lost all my photos in iPhoto. Where can they be stored? There is nothing in the Trash and there isn't a file where photos are kept from what I gather they are stored within the app. If the problem is the app then I need to uninstall it meaning I loose over 2000 photos!?!?!?
Serves me right not to back up on a hard drive.
Anyone understand my dilema and offer a suggestion on how to retirve my photos?

I strongly suggest that you use another application as an external editor for iPhoto. Aperture is not an edior. Like iPhoto it's a Digital Asset Manage - that is, a database. Trying to use it as an extension of iPhoto is adding complexity to your workflow.
In order of price here are some suggestions:
Seashore (free)
Graphic Coverter ($45 approx)
Acorn ($50 approx)
Photoshop Elements ($75 approx)
There are many, many other options. Search on MacUpdate.
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.

No photos in events

I just uploaded 764 photos from a SD card into Iphoto, I did not deleted from the SD card but left themm on the card, and the photosshow up on my last import and also in the librart under "Photos' however when I click on a event it say in the upper right "no photos' this is happening in the new events that were created plus my older events. I am using en external 2gb usb 3 hard drive for my Iphoto library. I have a fairly new IMAC 27in with the buggest hard drive although as i said I am using an external for my library. I has been about an hour or so since my import and when I try to close Iphoto it say it is still importing although as I mentioned the photos show up in photos just not in events. I seem to have problems now I never had with the previous verson of Iphoto.
Help Please

force quit and relaunch iPhoto - are the photos there?
If not Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your database
and what format is the external drive? - what version of iPhoto and of the OS?
LN

Iphoto won't display events or photos

I am not able to access my photos or events in iPhoto - I had connected my iphone 5 and it successfully downloaded some photos from the iphone. THen, I closed Iphoto and a bit later relaunched it to look for some other photos. It doesn't not show any photos - or events - . I did import one photo - and it created an event but, it will not leave that screen. I cannot figure out how to return this page to the home page - or events page ( I'm not sure what it's called).
I was able to slow peruse things in "search backups" and found that the photos are still there but, this is very cumbersome and I need to find some photos relatively quickly. Please advise. Thanks, Thomas - i"m using 10.7.5

Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your iPhoto library - start at the first option and try each one in order
LN

Can't Drag Photos Between Events

Having just upgraded to iPhoto 11, I find I can't drag photos between events. The help info seems to be the same as the prior version, but when I select two events, then select a photo and drag it, the photo springs back to it's current location.
Any preferences or techniques I'm missing? Thanks.

Terence,
Thanks for your suggestions and sorry for the confusion; I misspoke in the sentence you quoted from my last post.
I don't want to drag photos internally within an event, I want to drag them from one event to another.
In prior versions of iPhoto I could do this in Events mode (perhaps Photos mode as well, but I never tried). I opened two or more Events simultaneously, highlighted the photos in one event and dragged and dropped them anywhere inside another. Now, I can only do this by dropping on the event title.
iPhoto 11 help topic "Move photos between events" steps it out. The pertinent points are:
Select two Events: the one you want to move photos from and the one you want to move those photos to.
TIP: Drag your pointer to enclose two Events that are next to one another. To select two Events that aren’t adjacent, click the first Event to select it, and then hold down the Command key as you click the second Event.
Double-click one of the Events.
Both Events open. The photos they contain appear in the window below their Event titles.
Select the photos you want to move, and drag them to the Event you want to add them to.
It doesn't work for me, and I'm wondering what's changed in iPhoto 11, or does my software have a bug? Thanks.
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I've tried renaming "Spring" to Apr 2012 Photo Stream and adding a "May 2012 Photo Stream" but to no avail. It keeps wanting to add photos automatically to what I believe was the original "Apr 2012 Photo Stream" that has since been changed.
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As a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?
If it doesn't and you are able to download successfully into the new library then your existing library needs repairs: apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start
with Option #4 and then #1 as needed.
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, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - 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.
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 and converted to albums. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
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