Private or hidden folder in iPhoto

I am curious to know if there is a way to make a private or hidden folder in iPhoto for pictures that you would not like the general public to see when they bring up your iPhoto library. Or, is there a way to keep certain pictures from showing up in the library?

I respect and appreciate anyone taking the time to assist fellow users in these forums.
Really, because you don't sound it.
There are situations, however, where a known bug is to blame,
Yes, but who knows this is a bug?
The problem with this is that you assume that you have discovered a bug - and perhaps you have - and an awful lot of people who post on here are equally convinced that they have discovered a bug. Yet, about 99% of the time they have discovered no such thing, but really have found either a glitch with their own Mac and application, or have not quite grasped the way the application works.
The vast majority of the posts we respond to here are solved by
1. Explaining a way to achieve the desire effect
or
2. Trashing the Preference File / Repairing Permissions / Rebuilding the Library
or
3. More rarely, recovering and recreating the library.
So, when folks recommend these steps it's based on quite a bit of time spent here responding to people with problems, and knowing that these steps will solve most issues.
When we do find a bug - and the Quicktime/Photoshop bug in v6 is an excellent example - we were quite clear in explaining that there was a defect involved and offering a workaround as well as suggesting that feedback be offered to Apple to let them know about the issue.
This is a User to User forum, with all the strengths and weaknesses of that system. It works because folks give of their time and experience on a broad range of issues. I've seen incorrect advice on this forum (I've offered some myself) but I cannot recall an example of malicious advice, advice that was designed to trick other Users into
time consuming yet ineffective fixes
It's always been given in good spirit.
If you're not content to work within that system, you'll be much happier elsewhere.
Finally,
you distract users from what should be their primary task of reporting the bug to Apple.
That is not a User's primary task. It may be your primary focus, but it's not for you or I to decide what all the other users "should" be doing.
Regards
TD

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I was running low on disk space, so I ran Disk Inventory X and came across and hidden folder in my Applications folder called "private". I can't access it through spotlight or looking through the actual Applications folder, but there it is on Disk Inventory X, taking up almost 7GB. About 2 dozen sub folders with names like "vm" and "var" - inside are cache folders for different websites and big files named "sleepimage" and "swapfile0" - "swapfile5". Haven't run across this before. Anyone know what this is? Tell me I'm just being paranoid here.

drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel 204 Sep 20 2008 private
It appears /private is in its original place, so the incidence of it under Applications would seem to be a copy.
That is has 7 GB within is a large amount of data and is unusual, but put that aside for a moment.
Just to check the system's ownership of it and also to make a comparison, issue these two commands, first one then the other and compare the results.
ls -al /private
ls -al /Applications/private
A duplicate would see identical results. I think you could delete the 'duplicate' one under Applications, and your computer should still function but doing a backup beforehand would be wise, if you have the facility to do so.
The only snag may be deleting the duplicate if it is owned by the system, otherwise known as root. I don't know if Directory X gives you the ability to delete stuff at that level.
Posting the output of those two commands back here will help in deciding how to get rid of it if you run into problems.

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I Migrated my pics from iPhoto to Photos. I've read that the pictures will appear in a "Hidden" folder...not in Moments or Albums. Where is the Hidden folder? I cannot find.

Hi Ohohum,
Happy Holidays! The resource below will review the migration process from iPhoto to Photos for iOS. If you have any hidden photos, they will be in an album called Hidden. Click on the links below for complete details. I've summarized some of the key information relating to your question below:
Migrating from iPhoto for iOS to Photos on iOS 8 - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201386
Photos hidden in iPhoto do not appear in the Years, Moments, or Collections views in Photos, but are placed in an album titled Hidden.
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http://help.apple.com/iphone/8/#/iph3d267610
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Tap Albums to see how photos and videos are organized into albums on your iPhone. See Organize photos and videos.
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Organize photos and videos - iPhone
http://help.apple.com/iphone/8/#/iphf14943e
Album tab includes albums you create and several default albums, depending on which Photos features you use. Videos are automatically added to the Videos album, for example. You see a My Photo Stream album if you use that feature (see My Photo Stream). If you use iCloud Photo Library beta, you have an All Photos album, which includes all your photos and videos in iCloud (see iCloud Photo Library beta); if you don’t use iCloud Photo Library beta, the Camera Roll album includes photos and videos you took with iPhone or saved to iPhone from other sources.
Hide photos you want to keep but not show. Touch and hold a photo, then choose Hide. The photo is moved to the Hidden album. Touch and hold a hidden photo to Unhide it.
Remove a photo or video from an album. Tap the photo or video, tap , then tap Delete Photo. The photo is removed from the album and from the Photos tab.
Delete a photo or video from Photos. Tap the Photos tab, tap the photo or video, tap , then tap Delete Photo or Delete Video. Deleted photos and videos are kept in the Recently Deleted album on iPhone, with a badge showing the remaining days until the item is permanently removed from iPhone. To delete the photo or video permanently before the days expire, tap the item, tap Delete, then tap Delete Photo or Delete Video. If you use iCloud Photo Library beta, deleted photos and videos are permanently removed from all iOS 8.1 devices that use iCloud Photo Library beta with the same Apple ID.
Recover a deleted photo or video. In the Recently Deleted album, tap the photo or video, tap Recover, then tap Recover Photo or Recover Video to move the item to the Camera Roll or, if you use iCloud Photo Library beta, the All Photos album.
Get help finding your Photos in iOS 8 or later - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203082
Get help
If you don't see your photos and videos in the Photos tab of the Photos app organized by Moments, Collections, and Years or in the Recently Added album, contact Apple Support.
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Lorna from Southern California
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Lorna:
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Trying to restore photos from external drive and realized TimeMachine had been turned off. Found in Imac backup folder in iPhoto library a modified folder with many of the missing pics. Can I restore these?

I recently had a hard drive crash on my iMac. After replacing the drive, I discovered that TimeMachine had apparently been turned off for six months, and all my photos from that period were missing after the restore. In looking on the external drive used by TimeMachine, I discovered a folder called Imac backup, and under iPhoto Library was a folder called Originals and subfolders for each year. To my surprise, there were photos covering the missing time period! Somehow I imported the 2011 folder from the external drive into iPhoto, and then I discovered they were small files of less than 100 KB each, not the 1-2 MB original photos. So now all of 2011 is screwed up, not just from May on. These photos also include faces pulled from many larger group photos.
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What you want to do is merge the two Libraries? The only way to do this is to use the paid ($20) version of iPhoto Library Manager
I created a new iPhoto Library on the iMac and dragged the entire iPhoto Library from the MacBook into that new Library. It worked, however it all came over into one big album and my previous album structure was gone
Never import one Library to another. Every version and thumbnail is imported like a distinct photo, you lose all your Albums, Keywords etc., the link between Original and Previews is destroyed, the non-destructive editing feature is ruined and so on. In summary: it's mess.
Regards
TD

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TD

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OT

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