LR 1.1 - Drag and drop keywords niggle

Upgraded yesterday. I'm generally very happy with the program, but in version 1 I used to be able to drag keywords from the keyword panel and drop them on to selected photos. This now no longer works and I have to drop the photos on to the keyword, which I find very fiddly. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing?
I'm using Windows Vista Business with 4GB RAM if it's relevant.

Generally if images can't be dropped on a keyword it is because they already have it applied. This might be happening if one of the images in a batch has the keyword.
Just a thought!
If it still persists - maybe trash the prefs and see if that helps?
Richard Earney
http://inside-lightroom.com

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Drag and drop keyword - you must drag across 'side' of thumnail

Took me a while to work out what was going on here, I thought LR had developed a corruption on me.
Unusually I'd loaded only three picture and couldn't drag and drop keywords on to them. After several hours of experimenting I discovered that if the size of the thumbnails and the number of them means that there is a lot of blank space below them and when you drag a keyword over it doesn't cross the 'side' of an image you can't drop it. Unless you drag the mouse outside the main center pane again and cross into it from the side or the top.
Or to try and explain it another way, if you click and hold on a keyword and drag right, into space below the bottom of thumbnails then drag up onto an image you won't be able to drop the keyword, you only get a 'stop' sign (circle with a diagonal line across it). You have to drag onto the image from either the top or the side.
Curious. Does it on both of my LR installations. Thought posting might save someone else chasing their tail for ages.
Cheers

Ok, I reread, and realized what you meant. Dragging into the empty area where thumbnails would be (if there were more), and then dragging up to a thumbnail, does indeed cause this behaviour for me.

Can NOT drag and drop to combine Events

I've combined Events zillions of times in iPhoto and drag-'n-drop in Aperture 3 also. Today, when I tried to drag one Event into another, it didn't work. It didn't 'release' into the new event when I let go of the mouse button. I restarted iPhoto - same problem. Rebooted my MBP, same problem.
Tried to drag and drop a new photo into my Photostream (from Aperture this time) and the same problem. I click to drag, move the event, and then it appears 'ghosted' and will not release.
I even went into my Sys Prefs to see if it was my mouse, but that looked OK, and I could not replicate this problems in other applications.
I'd love to know why it does this (did I inadvertently check something somewhere) but more importantly, how do I fix this?
Oh yes - I got an error message the first few time about repairing iPhoto, which I let it do - took about 10 minutes, and I've never seen that before in iPhoto. (Aperture, yes, a LOT...)
Oh yes - I can 'Merge Events' from the Menu - that works, but seems cumbersome and the drag-and-drop has worked fine until today...
I am stumpped...
Thanks!
Greg

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)
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

Drag and drop in iphoto library

My MacBookPro from 2006 died this week so I got a new 2013 MacBookAir. I am a digital artist and my iphoto library contains over 13000 images in it which I work with daily. I had them in a specific order but when the files were all loaded onto my new Mac they are all in a huge jumble. I'm at wits end trying to figure out how to make sense of them. In my old iphoto I could drag and drop them wherever I wanted them. I'm not sure what I'm doing now. I don't seem to be able to drag and drop in the library like I used to. I used to ignore the events thing, I didn't like it. Now it seems like events are more important. I was trying to work with them but I have 13000 events too - I started out trying to merge them but it will take forever. This is a real problem for me, for one thing I had them ordered by what rights I had purchased and where I got them from - that's all lost now but I would at least like to get them in order of subject. Any help out there? Maureen

You can sort manually in the Photos mode if you uncheck the option to view the Event titles in the View menu.
You would be best served by using albums and keywords to group the images as you need them. Smart albums can be created to display all images with a particular keyword assigned to them. Makes for quicker access to a specific group.
A little extra work up front can save a lot of effort later on.
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Drag and drop in album?

When I'm going through an event in order to pick photos for an album, I like to see the photos in full view (not thumbnails). But then I can't drag and drop from the full view to the album folder. And if I go down to drag and drop the corresponding photo in the thumbnail bar below, the darn thumbnail bar gets magnified, and I have to move my cursor once again to get the right photo. Is there a better way to do this??? Can I at least make that thumbnail bar stop magnifying itself?
Julie

One way would be to view the photos in what ever mode you need in order make your selection and then either flag the photo (Command+period) or add a keyword to it via the Keyword pane (Command+k).
Then create a smart album whose criteria is Keyword is XXXXXX or Photo is Flagged. When you've completed your selection open the Smart album, select all of the photos and drag them to the Album area at the left to create a new, regular album. Then remove the flag or keyword from the photos to clear the smart album.
If you go the Flagged route and don't have any other flagged photos in the library you won't need a smart album because there's already one in the Recent area to the left titled Flagged. You can use it.
OT

Unable to share, export or drag and drop

iPhoto Application (problems just started)
1)Can't drag and drop from library to desk top
2)Unable to share or export
3)If library photo is double clicked I get a black frame with a "caution" symbol with ! point in center
4)In the picture menu bar there are framed pictures as well as black frames with a dashed white square symbol in center
What has or is happening? Is there any way to correct problem?
Had a recent diagnosis done on IMac. Was told failing power supply and failing hard drive. Have replaced the power supply.
Is above indication of failing hard drive?
Thanks to the Community in advance

Unlikely.
This is a problem in the LIbrary and not the application. So reinstalling is unlikely to have any effect.
Try rebuild the Library.
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
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.

Can I drag and drop single photos into Events?

Hi guys. I've very recently ordered a new Mac that will have iLife 08 on it. Before I get started with it I've got a question about Events. I've been using iPhoto for the last several years, organizing my photos into albums. I've cleaned up my images to around 1,000 photos, and I plan to only use events for organization. (I don't want to use Events AND albums, don't see the point, I'm going to try using ONLY Events.) But I've got a few scenerios that I'd like to throw by you all, to see if they would work, as I'm hoping that they will...
I don't shoot photos into pre-defined "Events", I shoot photos by what I feel like shooting. "Hey, my dog is doing something funny" - There's 3 pictures, or "Wow that's a big spider!" - 1 picture, or "My little neice is doing something cute" - There's 4 pictures. I do not want 450 events, each containing 1 - 5 pictures.
Can I drag and drop single pictures into different events? For example, have an Event called "Friends" with pictures of my friends in it, that I put there? Or an event called "Concerts" with photos taken throughout the years?
I hope I've made it clear what I'm looking to get out of Events!
Thanks in advance for any help.

Exactly - I think he will want to matain his existing structure -- people are making too much of the name change from rolls to events.
I have events with one photo and events with as many as 2000 photos -- I like this better than rolls but albums, folders and keywords are still the key to granular organization - events are ust the library to hold my photos
To me it is a small step forward that makes organization much easier (and it was not that hard before)
Larry Nebel
PS - now if I could just get all of my edits to save - where are TD and OT to solve that one for me?

IPhoto 09 picture drag and drop form library to an album results in incorrect picture dragged dropped

Hi,
I think that my problem started when I installed ML...
When I import a picture in my library and then drag and drop the picture in an album (for example an empty one)... when I open the album, the only picture there is not the one I draged and dropped, but another one from my library... it's ths same when I repeat that for any other picture...
Any idea how to sort this

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

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When I try to drag and drop to combine events in iPhoto, the drag accelerates out of control when it reaches the top or bottom of the screen. How can I slow it down?

from iphoto Help
Album overview
A photo album in iPhoto is just like one you would create with printed photos: It’s a collection of photos you select from your library and arrange in the order you want.
You can create photo albums to:
Focus on a particular subject, such as your favorite nature photos
Group pictures that you want to send to a friend, post on a webpage, or burn to a CD or DVD
Gather a decade of anniversary photos
iPhoto has two kinds of photo albums:
Standard photo albums: You create these albums (B, shown below) by selecting particular photos. You can add new photos by dragging them to the album (or using the Add To button), and you can remove photos at any time. All adding and removing is done manually; iPhoto doesn’t update standard albums automatically as you import new photos.
Smart Albums: iPhoto creates these albums for you, based on criteria your specify. iPhoto then updates Smart Albums (A, shown above) for you as your library changes. For example, you could create a Smart Album containing:
Photos of specific people, such as your family members. As you import new photos, iPhoto uses Faces to detect your family members, and automatically adds new photos of them to the Smart Album (after you’ve confirmed the matches in Faces).
All the photos of your daughter taken on school field trips in third grade. Use Faces (to name your daughter) and keywords (to mark certain photos or events as “field trips”) to help specify the photos you want iPhoto to place in that Smart Album.
Only photos taken with a specific camera, or photos matching other Exchangeable Image File (EXIF) information.
You can make as many albums as you like, and you can include the same photo in several albums without making multiple copies of it.
After you create an album, such as “Australia Adventures,” it appears in your Source list below Albums.
In full-screen view, the album appears as a stack of photos below Albums.
To further organize your library, you can group several albums (along with slideshows and projects) into a folder. For example, you could create a folder containing several years of birthday albums or a collection of albums with photos of your camping trips.
To create a folder, see “Create a folder in the Source list and move items into it” in “Customize the Source list”.
Folders appear only in the Source list, not in full-screen view.
Note: A photo album is different from a photo book, which is a collection of photos you create to get professionally printed and bound. See this topic: Photo book overview.
Copyright © 2014 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
LN

Can no longer drag and drop photos to a backup harddrive.

New to Mac
I have previously been able to drag photos, I don't recall if individually or in events, to a backup hardrive. It appears I have lost the ability to do so. I am unsure if I am now doing it incorrectly or there is some fault in the OS. I was successful weeks ago, then I failed at an attempt. I tried again recently with no luck. I select the pics and get the green + and then the white striped circle as I hold the images over any portion of the backup drive. I tried the Helvetica font toggle and a restart with no luck. I enabled sharing in the iphoto preferences........... Suggestions? Btw the time machine backup seems to be working to a different hard drive.
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What I'm not sure about: Can you simpyl drag and drop to the desktop?
If not the
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 Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords 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

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when am i wondering about drag and drop components in ADF 11g.
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/learnmore/60-table-drag-n-drop-sample-176981.pdf
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http://www.baigzeeshan.com/2010/07/implementing-drag-and-drop-functionaly.html
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http://www.gebs.ro/blog/oracle/oracle-adf-overcome-adf-restrictions-on-copying-components-with-drag-n-drop/
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need is :
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http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/web.1111/b31973/af_dnd.htm#CIHCHGIF
Also, the following book:
has a chapter (chapter 14) on drag and drop
http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Fusion-Developer-Guide-Applications/dp/0071622543/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1343975521&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=Oracle+Fusion+Developer+Guide
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why does only one play?
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What about the product documentation ?
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/web.1111/b31973/af_dnd.htm#CIHCHGIF
Also, the following book:
has a chapter (chapter 14) on drag and drop
http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Fusion-Developer-Guide-Applications/dp/0071622543/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1343975521&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=Oracle+Fusion+Developer+Guide
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Thanks for your reply Andaleeb,
When you look at the numerous discussions on the PSE forum on this Organizer window issue it's not just a problem I had (Thread 14444851) but other users who have Elements 10, 11 and 12 are experiencing similar problems. There appears to be a serious compatibility problem with OSX 10.9.2 and these versions of PSE. Although my issue was fixed by your support staff, the fact that many other users are experiencing this issue points to the need for a universal fix applicable to all Mac users. There is a lot of frustration out there among Mac users and Adobe needs to deal with this problem.
I am really surprised that on all the other discussion posts on this issue, there is not a single comment or response from Adobe staff! Given the lack of response from Adobe, it appears that the Adobe policy is to sit back and let the Mac users determine their own solutions.
Please pass this post on to your management so that corrective action can be initiated.
Thanks for your help.

Interactive drag and drop (right clicks)

I'm trying to create interactive training videos that utilize
right-clicks as well as right-click drag and drops. I hope i'm just
missing something. It's important for our training to include these
abilities. Any suggestions?

quote:
Originally posted by:
Captiv8r
Hi katymeredith
I'm sorry to hear you don't view Captivate useful. However,
your post confuses me just a bit.
What is the intent? If you want to just rant, I guess that's
fine. But we are all users here just trying to help one another
out. If you feel Adobe might be reading and making decisions based
on user posts, you would be wrong. They seldom look in here,
leaving it pretty much to us. This isn't a slam against them or
even a bad thing. Just the nature of peer-to-peer support.
I would like to address some of your assertions though.
You said:
The lack of proper right click functionality really makes
Captivate a non starter for serious application training
simulations.
Fair enough. Yes, I agree right mouse click is an issue. But
there are workarounds. Perhaps if the developers hear enough folks
ask about it, it will change.
As does the lack of mouseover transitions.
I'm not sure what you mean. Captivate does have mouseover
effects. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "mouseover
transition". Just last night I posted an example to my site in
order to ask another user if this is what was meant. Take a look at
it and see if you disagree that this constitutes a "mouseover
transition".
Click
here to see example
As does the lack of proper keypress transitions.
Not sure what you mean with that.
As does the lack of proper text entry handling.
Or that either. I use Text Entry boxes all the time with no
issues. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
As does the fact that you can't properly pause a slide (keep
your browser minimised for long enough, and you'll complete the
course without having to do anything!)
Hmmm, I've never seen a movie that has been paused by an
interactive object just take off on its own again and simply
complete with no intervention. Are you talking about a
demonstration and not a simulation?
Cheers... Rick
Hi Rick
I DO find Captivate useful - just really frustrating when it
comes to developing interactive tutorial simulations. And what I
find most frustrating is that it's a really really good product -
but that doesn't quite do what I need it to do
Hence the rant .....
And what I meant was:
1. Right click - probably the biggest gripe. Yes, I know that
there are a few workarounds, but they all seem to require you to
start coding, or work in some situations and not others; if I'm
releasing a sim to 10000 people with varying setups I need to be
absolutely certain that it'll work.
How many applications do you know that don't use right click?
So Captivate must have full right click interactions (and by that I
mean - anything you can do with the left button you can do with the
right button).
2. Mouseover stuff. That example of yours looks pretty
impressive - not quite what I had in mind though - I really mean
transitions on mouseover to next slide, back to start of slide, to
slide x, etc etc. - example: to activate a submenu by hovering over
it, or to correctly show the change in a button's appearance when
you move your mouse over it.
I know you can do this with a rollover image - at least, you
could if it didn't crash my PC when I tried to open the image
- but that's so time consuming to have to manually
grab and overlay an image for every mouseover. So again, I really
need an 'anything you can do with a click you can do with a hover'
interaction.
3. Proper keypress interactions. I need to be able to detect
a keypress, regardless of where the mouse pointer is or where the
focus is. I know there's a partial solution involving text entry
boxes and jiggling with the shortcut key, but there are pitfalls if
the focus isn't in the text box. What I really need is an
interaction that covers the entire slide and simply detects a
keypress and gives me the same navigation options as a click.
4. Text entry handling. Yes, there's the text box
interaction, if you don't mind it not really looking like your
actual application
- but where's the pre entry text? Most apps will
squirt some default (preselected and editable) text into text boxes
- as far as I know Captivate won't - unless you klutz it using an
image - which you then can't edit.
And when you do edit the text in the box, the highlight
colours don't match system settings. And you can't get the text to
wrap properly according to the size of the text box - it sort of
scrolls horizontally. And the multiple correct answers is good, but
it won't give any leeway to spelling errors - other other sim
builders will allow you to allow, say, 6 out of 8 characters as
being enough to count as 'correct'. Oh, and there should be an
option for Captivate to monitor typing and immediately spot the
correct entry's been typed without waiting for an exit key or
click.
5. I might be about to admit I was wrong here ....
- my understanding was that you couldn't keep a
slide active for more than 3600 (?) seconds in a simulation, and
that if the slide reached its maximum time it automatically went to
the next one? Have to admit I haven't really experimented with that
side of things.
So are you saying that if you have a clickbox interaction
that moves to the next slide, and the user doesn't click it, and
you don't have a playbar, then the slide will just stay there. For
ever? If so, that does make Captivate a bit more useful to me!
Apologies if I've got the wrong end of the stick on that one.
I know all this may sound like minor niggles, but it's very
important to me that my sims look and behave as close as possible
to the original app as possible. I'm more relaxed about demos -
which is where I'm using Cap at the moment. In comparison to the
sim builders you get with LMS systems it looks fantastic and is
miles more intuitive - it's just that they tend to have all the
interactions I really need - and Cap doesn't.
If they can get what I've mentioned above into Cap 3 - or,
hope against hope, 2.1 - I'll be abandoning traditional sim
builders.

LR 1.1 - Drag and drop keywords niggle

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