Photos archived to DVD not seachable by Spotlight

My company has recently archived 1000's of photos to DVD. Each photos has in it's meta-data information about the photo, date taken, who's in it, keywords, etc. To our surprise none of this info is search-able once the photos are on DVD A Spotlight search only returns results relating to filename, which for our purposes isn't helpful at all.
Any suggestions?

Hi Jay, and a warm welcome to the forums!
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Iphoto won't let me burn 3.1Gb of photos on a DVD with 5.0GB available. Why not?

I'm trying to clean up my iphoto library and I finally got the pictures ready to burn and make some room, but I get a message that there is not enough room on the DVD for the pictures. Accoreding to the info on the selected photos they are 3.1 GB and there is 5.0GB available on the DVD, which shows it is full. Why is 5.0 GB not enough room for 3.1GB to burn?

Yes, most people dont have a clue about such professional media,...pro photographers and data archivers use it extensively for obvious reasons.   100 pack is usually aroud $40
As for HD, theyre all fragile, and without redundancy, anyone is in serious trouble of losing data. Its ALL about redundancy in case of ext. HD.
Here they are,
http://www.amazon.com/Taiyo-Yuden-JVC-Thermal-DVD/dp/B000NE9BE4/ref=sr_1_cc_3?s= aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1389293161&sr=1-3-catcorr&keywords=taiyo+Yuden+DVD%2BR
They can also be found in Ebay.... stick with DVD+R not -R since +R has several design advantages over -R
True longevity, long-term professional data protection. The Gold and Platinum standard
When it comes to long-term data protection, there is optical and there is NOTHING else, period. While modern notebooks and macbooks have forgone, for the most part internal optical DVD/CD readers/writers, this is most entirely due to the fact that commercial videos and movies have gone to online rentals and Itunes purchases, additionally nearly all software now is online purchase and download. However external USB DVD burners and readers are going nowhere anytime in the foreseeable future,... and until a new optical technology emerges for data preservation, DVD writers aren’t going anywhere.
Online media and software however has no bearing or impact on the fact that the fragile nature of ferromagnetic storage has not gotten any better now than it was 20 years ago aside from improved production specifications in physical hard drive builds. There are many that would point out in incorrect conjecture that “optical is a dying or dead medium”, such people don’t know what they're talking about and are directing their comments at optical based movies and software, not data archiving and protection which in fact is growing in scope, not declining.
While low grade consumer DVD blank media has a life between 8-15 years best case, professional DVD blank media has both a different standard of manufacture and chemically a different read/write layer that has serious professional longevity with 19 years real world testing and age-stress progression testing proving that at the very minimum, 60 years viable protection if stored correctly and in some patented mfg. standards, 100+ years data retention and preservation. While "gold" disks have been superceeded by even better technology manufacted disks, this is still a term of reference as implying professional DVD blank media.
In fact a new breed of disks that use a higher powered write-laser are commercially available and have a rated life of 1000 years and are referred to as M-DISK. Governments, military, and professional businesses have much time and money invested in high-importance data storage on optical media out of necessity given the extremely fragile nature of ferromagnetic storage. Such new optical technology creates permanent pits in the disk surface, which are not affected by light like consumer DVD media which uses a organic dye layer to write and read from of the data.
While DVD media are only 4.7GB single layer in scope, and cannot store massive amounts of data, not even by the 100-pack, most vitally important priority data people own are picture collections, texts, audio, and other small scale media. In such an evaluation, high priority data is necessitated out of prudence, to be written to professional archival grade DVD media, not low-grade consumer DVD blanks. Such professional DVD blank media is only roughly 30% more expensive than low grade consumer DVD blank media.
As for HD:
Hard Drive Warning (all makes and models)
Ironically but logical, new hard drives are far more fragile than one that has been working for several months or a couple years. So beware in your thinking that a new hard drive translates into “extremely reliable”!
Hard drives suffer from high rates of what has been termed "infant mortality". Essentially this means new drives have their highest likelihood of failing in the first few months of usage. This is because of very minor manufacturing defects or HD platter balancing, or head and armature geometry being less than perfect; and this is not immediately obvious and can quickly manifest itself once the drive is put to work.
Hard drives that survive the first few months of use without failing are likely to remain healthy for a number of years.
Generally HD are highly prone to death or corruption for a few months, then work fine for a few years, then spike in mortality starting at 3-4 years and certainly should be considered end-of-life at 5-7+ years even if still working well. Drives written to once and stored away have the highest risk of data corruption due to not being read/written to on a regular basis. Rotate older working HD into low-risk use.
The implication of this is that you should not trust a new hard drive completely (really never completely!) until it has been working perfectly for several months.
Given the second law of thermodynamics, any and all current mfg. HD will, under perfect storage conditions tend themselves to depolarization and a point will be reached, even if the HD mechanism is perfect, that the ferromagnetic read/write surface of the platter inside the HD will entropy to the point of no viable return for data extraction. HD life varies, but barring mechanical failure, 3-8 years typically.
Hard drive failure and handling
The air cushion of air between the platter surface and the head is microscopic, as small as 3 nanometers, meaning bumps, jarring while in operation can cause head crash, scraping off magnetic particles causing internal havoc to the write surface and throwing particles thru the hard drive.
Hard drives are fragile in general, regardless, ... in specific while running hard drives are extremely fragile.
PDF: Bare hard drive handling generic instructions
hard drive moving parts
Some of the common reasons for hard drives to fail:
Infant mortality (due to mfg. defect / build tolerances)
Bad parking   (head impact)
Sudden impact   (hard drive jarred during operation, heads can bounce)
Electrical surge   (fries the controller board, possibly also causing heads to write the wrong data)
Bearing / Motor failure   (spindle bearings or motors wear during any and all use, eventually leading to HD failure)
Board failure   (controller board failure on bottom of HD)
Bad Sectors   (magnetic areas of the platter may become faulty)
General hard drive failure

I have photos in a DVD. In order to visualize them in iPhoto, must I necessarily import them? Can't I see the pictures from the media without importing? If not, is there any application with this functionality? I dont't like pre-visualization for photos.

I have photos in a DVD. In order to visualize them in iPhoto, must I necessarily import them? Can't I see the pictures from the media without importing? If not, is there any application with this functionality? I need an app that allows me to navigate through the photos without selecting all of them. I realy dont't like pre-visualization for photos...

In order to visualize them in iPhoto, must I necessarily import them?
iPhoto is a Database. Before it can work with any data it must be imported to the database, so yes it is necessry to import them.
Can't I see the pictures from the media without importing?
See above.
If not, is there any application with this functionality?
Hundreds. Any image viewer will do the job. On your Mac the Finder has QuickLook and there is the Preview app as well. Online you can download any of these:
http://www.macupdate.com/find/mac/image%20viewer

Delkin Archival Gold DVD's not reliable

I'm burning Delkin Archival Gold DVD's on my IMAC G5. All the pictures burn but the DVD pops out at the end and I get a message that the DVD is unreliable and unable to verify. But when I actually put the DVD in to read it, all of the pictures are there. This is not happening with any other DVD or CD products. Any ideas what is going on and should I be worried about the reliability of those I've already burned? Thanks. Lisa Kyle

Lisa, here is a good guide at present to follow when purchasing quality DVD's.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
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Yes, it is inserted correctly.
Went through the HP "Drive Cannot Read Discs in Windows 7" process. Plays music CD's ok. Just cannot not read a WalMart photo CD or DVD. I can process the photo disk on my old HP desktop with XP. I ran all the troubleshooting steps for the TouchSmart and the DVD-RW (a CDDVW TS-t633P SATA CdRom Device) appears to be working properly. When I put the WalMart CD or DVD in though nothing happens except the bar at the top of the My Computer window eventually turns green, the disk ejects, and I get a window to Insert Disk into E (after it eventually ejects the WalMart photo disk). Again, the Walmart disk works OK on two other HP PC's running XP. Am at wit's end!!!
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Depress the power button 20 times with the battery still out or after putting the battery back in?

HT201788 How do I burn photos onto a DVD from iPhoto?

I am trying to burn photos/folders from iPhoto onto a DVD/CD but when disc utility opens I am unable to burn any of the items or folders onto the disc. I thought that my optical drive was perhaps malfunctioning so I purchased a SuperDrive. However, I am running into the same problem. The folders or pictures within, that I want to burn remain inactive. How can I burn these pictures onto DVD/CD?

What kind of DVD disk do you want to create? A data disk that just contains the image files or a video DVD disc that can be played on a DVD player on a TV set. They are two entirely different types of disks and require different workflows.
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1 - select the photos to be burned to disk and export to a folder on the Desktop File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu. Set the Kind = what you want, the original file or the current, edited version.
2 - insert a blank DVD in the optical drive.
3 - drag the folder of photos onto the DVD disk's icon.
3 - drag the DVD disk icon to the Trash Bin in the Dock which turns into the Burn function:
For a video DVD disk:
Export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. For iPhoto 9.5 and later selct 480p.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best quality video DVD:
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To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
If iDVD was not preinstalled on your Mac you'll have to obtain it by purchasing a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailer like Amazon.com: ilife 09: Software or eBay.com. Why, because iDVD (and iWeb) was discontinued by Apple over a year ago.
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Currently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.

How do you create a photo archive?

I have a photo album already, shown as 2011 photos. I want to move those photos to an "archive" that would show as only a link on the new photo album page (shown as 2012). I do not want the 2011 "archive" to show in the main menu.

Here's one way: use the photos in the 2011 album to create just a photo page. Do not have that photo page listed in the navbar via the Inspector/Page/Page pane:
Delete the 2011 album from the Album page and create a text link at the top of the album page to the new photo page via the Inspector/Link/Hyperlink "One of My Pages" option.
OT

Can I retrieve photos burned onto DVD (I used iDVD)?

I lost my hard drive last week and am in the process of rebuilding my photo gallery. In Decemeber, I burned a DVD with all of my desired photos from 2012 using iDVD. In addition to the videos and slideshows that I included in the main menu, I made sure to burn the actual photos to the DVD as well. Except now, I don't know how to retrieve the photos from the DVD to re-import into iPhoto. Any suggestions?

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DVDs not showing up in Finder (CDs OK)

I have lots of data archived on DVD. Now DVDs suddenly will not show up on the desktop, data or otherwise. Odd, because I just burned a DVD last night.
Didn't there used to be a CD/DVD control panel in System Prefs? Seems to be gone in OS X 10.34.9

Indeed, because I definitely needed that file.
I ran the combo updater, but no CD/DVD preference pane. I'm not gonna worry about that since things ran fine without it (up till now). Don't want the bother of an Archive and Install, which still might not fix it.
My current suspect for all this is my CD/DVD drive. For several months I've had intermittent problems trying to eject discs and I've done every software fix I can think of and then some. Spent more time working "on" my computer than working with it. So I've ordered the Pioneer version of the Superdrive and we'll see if that fixes it.
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At least you could retrieve important files off the
one DVD! That's something.
I'm mystified why CD/DVD doesn't show up in your
System Prefs. Try the 10.4.9 combo updater but also
make sure you check to make sure you have any
Firmware updates also. If you do the combo update,
download that from the Apple site, not the Software
Updater:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_upd
ates/macosx1049comboupdateppc.html
If necessary, can you back everything up and do
either an Archive and Install or Erase and Install?
Carolyn

Import photos from slideshow DVD.

I made a slideshow DVD and trashed the original photos.
I now want to change the soundtrack - how can I import still photos from the DVD or alter the soundrack please?

The only way I can think of to do that would be to rip the DVD onto your mac into a quicktime format, then - with Quicktime Pro - dub the new soundtrack on and then re-burn it to a DVD.
The problem is the DVD format is a "final" format, not designed for re-editing.
Regards
TD

Can I burn photos onto a DVD/CD for non-Mac users?

Can I burn photos onto a DVD/CD for non-Mac users?

You can burn a plain CD/DVD by just dragging the photos there; but, that may or may not be playable by everyone. To be sure that the result would be playable in any computer or CD/DVD player, it would be better to use either one of the apps already on your system - such as iPhoto. I don't use that myself - I use other third party software - but take a look at iPhoto help. And, you could make it more interesting by creating a slideshow - also in iPhoto, or iMovie. To give it the final cool touch, bring it into iDVD to give it a polished look if you'd like. You can burn it then from any of the above.
If you happen to have Toast (an excellent burning app), you could use that as well (that is my preferred way to work). In Toast, you have multiple choices: burn a data CD/DVD for Mac only, for Mac & PC, etc, burn a picture CD, video DVD, etc, etc.

What software can I use on OS X Mavericks to burn my photos on a DVD? iDVD is too slow and crashes.

I am using a late 2009 13" macbook pro with Mavericks. I want to backup my photos on multiple DVDs. I tried using the iDVD software that came with Leopard. iDVD keeps crashing and is too slow. Is there any good software that any of you has used?

What version of iDVD are you using? If it's version 7 but not the final 7.1.2 version download and run the iDVD 7.1.2 updater on the app.
If you do have 7.1.2 try this basic troubleshooting fix:
1 - delete the IDVD preference file, com.apple.iDVD.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete IDVD'S cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iDVD folder.
3 - launch IDVD and try again.
NOTE: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Home/Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and press the Return key - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
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Burned DVD not as expected

I created a short slideshow with iPhoto '05, added music and set the slideshow to fit the music. Exported to iDVD, added a photo and music to one of the 04 themes. The slideshow previews in both iPhoto and iDVD look fine, it's when I burn it onto a DVD that it doesn't look right. The photos in the slideshow are brighter and more saturated than the ones in iPhoto, there are what look like splotches on the parts where the vivid colors are. I tried burning another DVD with the Best Quality setting switched to the other setting and viewed it with two different DVD players, my PB G4 and MBP. It does seem a little better than the first burn but it's still nowhere near as good as the iPhoto and iDVD previews.
This didn't happen in the previous burn projects using the same settings.
What happened to my slideshow?
Any help is appreciated.
Happy Holidays to whomever reads this.

Hmmm. The preferences are confusing -- if your show is less than an hour, use Best Performance to yield the best looking result (least compression).
TVs can have difficulty showing the brightest reds, deep blacks, etc. Those colors tend to bleed into the surrounding area, and should be avoided for font colors. And it's possible that your computer display will generally look better than the TV when playing the DVD (note: an iPhoto slideshow will almost always look better on your computer -- no DVD compression and a high quality monitor).
Lower quality media can introduce problems -- check this by Saving as Disc Image from iDVD, and play the resulting virtual DVD using Apple's DVD PLayer.
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