Rebuilt library keywords

Ok, After 4 days, and one false start, I managed to get my meticulously organized & keyworded Library rebuilt on an EHD using iPLM... except now all of my events are fractured, some are out of order & all of my keywords are gone! Given that I'm now having to lay eyes on literally tens of thousands of photos, is there any way to repair this? I'd give just about anything to get back my keywords!

I'm guessing that because I have no such file (Keywords.plist) that they're totally missing... this is my original Library:
And this is the rebuilt one:
I'm sorry to be so difficult. I'm in over my head & I really appreciate the help.

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Rebuilt Library in iPhoto 5

Hi guys,
My friend recently "lost" all of her photos on her Powerbook G4 and iPhoto wouldn't open. They were still being used for her screensaver but she couldn't find them anywhere in finder using spotlight.
I helped her to re-build the library using iPhoto Library Manager and the files were moved to another hard drive. (hers filled up before the end of the re-build at the first attempt.)
However, even though all of the thumbnails are now back in iPhoto and the albums are happily brimming with photos again, when she tries to browse the rebuilt library in finder, the directry structure has changed. The albums are divided by year as before, but now have random numbers rather than names and not all of the photos are there. Also, they have been moved to random places chronologically. (photos taken in 2008 now in 2003 folder etc.)
Does this need a 'Repair Permissions'? Will this work if the rebuilt library in on an external drive? Any other tips?
Thank you in advance!

If you prefix a quote with a > then you'll get that italic effect. Good for clarity.
Thanks.
iPhoto is a database. It's not an image viewer.
I had no idea, as on the surface it look like every other image viewer I've used, but point taken.
The point is simple: do you want to manage and work with the files or the Photos? If you want to work with the Files, use the File Manager - the Finder. If you want to use manage the Photos use iPhoto.
I would say the point is that, for other software I've used, "photo" and "file" are not treated as mutually exclusive. But guess this goes back to the database thing. I would question the amount of extra functionality that this "database" offers over a viewer though.
And this way you have exactly a two ways to find your photos: date taken or Filename.
If you use iPhoto you can search for that photo by date, filename, title, filename, keywords, camera model, lens, aperture and more, plus any compound of them.
I think we're at cross purposes here. You seem to be answering a different point to the one I was making. Mine referred to having to open iPhoto in the first place, so the search options offered within iPhoto are irrelevant.
If you were in email and using Apple's Mail programme then click on the Photo Browser as indicated above. Find the photo and drag it to the message window. Or use the Attach command as indicated in the first illustration above. Or use a media Browser. Or just drag and drop from the iPhoto Window or... or... or...
You mentioned Entourage earlier. Is the same the case for that?
If you have more than 100 photos, if they were taken on more than one date, there is no way the rooting through the iPhoto Library Folder is faster.
With the speed at which iPhoto a) loads and b) scrolls the thumbnails for large albums, I doubt that. (I'm speaking from experience here at least, if nowhere else)
Yes I'm aware what the word means. Here's another way of looking at it: Integrated throughout the OS. There is nothing negative about this. Don't want to use iPhoto? Don't. Don't want to use some of the features? Don't. They're opportunities, that's all.
Freedom to choose is all very well, but when the vast majority of casual or "domestic" users make the migration from PC to Mac, or from whatever photo "management" software they are using to iPhoto, I would wager that they are unaware of how much the integration of iPhoto will affect their ability to work in their chosen way.
(I think that, given the nature and number of similar post on the discussion boards, its a pretty safe bet.)
It certain isn't implicit when iPhoto's dialogue pops up to entice you to import your photos with it.
Depending on which version of iPhoto you use, there are some similar tools to Lightroom, but Lightroom is a pro level application, iPhoto is geared for the domestic point and shoot user primarily. There's a price difference too.
You're right, there is. And I think you get what you pay for. Tons of features and tools, and robust file management.
That said, if you find iPhoto difficult, good luck with Lightroom
I do find iPhoto difficult. However, the difficulty is of its own making.
As a user of Lightroom, I have absolutely no difficulty in using the file management part of the software, which is where the difficulties seem to arise for iPhoto. In fact, its probably more intuitive.
I've certainly not had any of the aforementioned issues regarding permissions, having the wrong font installed, disappearing photos and corrupting libraries by either browsing my file manager, or breathing too hard near the directory structure.
The main issue would now seem to be how to get the photos back safely from iPhoto into a viewer that does essentially as much as iPhoto, but with a lot less fuss.
Is drag and drop from within iPhoto (and having to copy everything from one location to another) the only way to do this?
C

What should I do about an icon, "Rebuilt Library" that appeared when I "grabbed" the top of my iPhoto window?

The icon appeared when I "grabbed" the top of my iPhoto window to move it across the desktop. I don't want to delete important files, and wonder what I should do about the icon.
I am using Time Machine.

Thanks LarryHN,
I have iPhoto version 9.4.3, and the "Rebuilt Library" icon is on the desktop.
Interestingly, when I closed iPhoto in order to perform the option startup, I got the spinning beachball and had to force quit—when I reopened, using the option key, a window did ask which library to use—I chose the rebuilt library.
I moved the "Rebuilt Library" icon to the iPhoto Library folder.
Thanks again!
Phill

ReBuilt Library Problem

I rebuilt my Library last year and after I did, the new iPhoto Library - 1 does not have the original info on each photo, date, etc, they all (over 5000) defaulted to the date of the rebuild and all albums were lost.
The original Lib seems to still be there. Is there a way to reconstitute all of the original photo data and album structure to the rebuilt library photos?

Can you provide some more info on your setup: model, RAM, system version, iPhoto version, etc.
I just tried a rebuild on my V4 test library and it seemed to keep the dates. Why did you do a rebuild? If you have the original iPhoto Library folder any reason you can't go back to it and use as is?

Rebuilt library not recognized

My wife is currently managing >3800 photos in iphoto4. Recently had a problem with albums not functioning properly. Looked at the library and found that it was corrupted. That is, I have files that are obvious aliases that have .jpg extensions. Also, iphoto would not import photos -period! I have tried to follow the threads on this forum - I have reinstalled iphoto4 from my original disks and rebuilt the library. Whenever I start iPhoto with the rebuilt library, it loads and indicates no photos. I can still switch back to my corrupted original library.
Do I need to delete the rebuilt library and and rebuild again? Any advice is appreciated.
BTW, this is a G4 ibook, 768M, OSX10.3.9
Thanks,
Jeff
iBook G4, iMacG3, B&WG3 Tower Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Do I need to delete the rebuilt library and and rebuild again?
I'm trying to imagine how a rebuilt library would not be recognized. How many folders whose names begin with "iPhoto Library" do you find in your Pictures folder, and how are you switching between them (particularly if one's not being recognized)? If you've identified a supposedly rebuilt library that comes up empty, I can't think of any reason to keep it.
You mentioned albums not functioning properly... What does that mean? Library corruption often manifests itself by preventing iPhoto from fully starting at all.
The fact that you're making "alias" references suggests you're spending time in the iPhoto Library folder. That may be related to some of the problems you're experiencing if you've made any manual "adjustments" there in Finder. The iPhoto interface gives absolutely no indication of alias files bacause that should be of no concern to the iPhoto user.

How can I assign iPhoto rebuilt library as a main one?

I recently rebuilt my iPhoto library, so now I have 2 files: "iPhoto library" and the second called "Rebuilt Library". When opening iPhoto, it shows me main iPhoto Library by default. Can I replace it with Rebuilt Library and remove IPhoto "main" library forever?

quit iPhoto and depress the option key and launch iPhoto - use the select library command to select the proper library
LN

Ok so how do I delete the "Rebuilt Library" the right way?

I just tried to rebuild a totally messed up library. But the Library Manager failed to import over 1,000 of my photos. (iPhoto telling me it doesn't have enough memory to function.
I imagine I will be able to rebuild the library again once I move the library to my external hard drive. Right? Can someone let me know the right way to set that up? I have been searching through old posts but can only find people talking about problems after the library has already been moved.
Thanks a lot.

Since you speak of a "rebuild Library" I assume that you used iPhoto Library manager and still have your original library too. If this is not correct stop and post the correct information
quit iPhoto and drag the "rebuilt library" to the trash and drag the iPhoto library to your external drive - you might want to wait to empty the trash until everything is done and good. Launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and use the select library option to point to the iPhoto library that you just drug to the EHD. Now you should have iPhoto running with the original (presumedly messed up) library - use IPLM to do yoru rebuild now
LN

How Can I Share iPhoto Library/Keywords Among Multiple Users

Hi there! I am having a bit of a dilemma where I am trying how I can have several users access a shared iPhoto library (as well as retain their own personal iPhoto libraries). Basically, I have a handful of (three) users that need to be able to store/search against a common shared photo library - ideally, in iPhoto.
I understand that I can share albums through iPhoto (users are using a mix of iPhoto '08 and '09) on one account as long as iPhoto is running - a serious drawback. When I tried sharing photos via this method I was able to see the shared albums; however the keywords that were defined for those photos were not available. This presents two questions:
1) Can iPhoto share its library among multiple users (including keywords, etc) so that if a user account (let's call it "media") shares out selected albums that the viewing users (user1 and user2) can search against the keywords in the host library? Or is this not possible with iPhoto?
2) Is there another way of sharing photos that is more efficient and can be hosted on our private servers? The interface in iPhoto is amazing - and if there was an application that allowed for that same sort of feel/tagging we would be good to go...

Well here is the weird thing. If I was sharing out the library from my computer, I could search for the keywords (and obtain results) as expected. However, if I went to another computer that was viewing my shared library, searching by the same keyword did not return any results.

Library Keyword Bug?

I am not sure if this is a bug, and if it is not, then I suppose this will be a feature request.
Background: I am using Lightroom 1.3.1 on a MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz on OS X 10.5.1 with 4GB of RAM.
Expectation: When in the Library Module, I'd like to be able to select multiple files from the thumbnail bar at the bottom, type in applicable keywords and then save them to all of the ones selected regardless of whether my main screen is in fit mode or thumbnail mode.
Actual Experience: When the main screen is in fit mod and I save my keywords, they only save to the actual image being displayed in fit mode despite the fact that I have multiple images selected below in the thumbnail bar.
Thanks,
Stephen

Searching in this forum defaults, unfortunately, to the thread you've just been perusing. Just check the other box.
BTW, if we were to vote on it, I'd go with the way it's set up currently. But then, for whatever reason, I hardly ever use the strip. Much prefer grid for multiple ops, and for me, I need to check just how many are selected, anyhow!

Cannot open rebuilt library wrong version of iPhoto

We have Mac OS X 10.3.9. We rebuilt the iphoto library. When we try to open iPhoto, we get a message that the library was built with iPhoto 6.0.6, but the only application we can find on our computer is version 5.0.4. When we review the updates installed, we should have the newer version on the computer. Any suggestions?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
When we review the updates installed,
How are you doing this?
Regards
TD

Rebuilt library & now No Thumbnails in iPhoto

What is the fix in iPhoto when you have Events with no key photo present and no thumbnails when you open that event. The pictures are still in the library, double-click and they appear. I option-clicked and rebuilt every aspect of the library but still no thumbnails.

Thanks, I will try it a few more times. I've already rebuilt twice.
By saying "Back Up", is the Time Machine back-up sufficient or should I have another type of backup that is of every image (not just the iPhoto library database)?
My concern is that the Time Machine back-up is corrupt as well. I believe this corruption is due, in part, to something that Faces did with several images. It extrapolated one photo into multiple depending on the number of faces it detected. So what is really a database of about 2,000 images is now about 10,000 images. (no joke)

Repaired and Rebuilt library, still not working. What now?

Lately I have had many issues with Aperture 3. I have the newest update. I recently called the Apple Support line and the person on the other end had me repair and repair permissions to the library. When this didn't work, I rebuilt the library.
After rebuilding the library, I thought this would fix the issue. I am still running into problems with it wanting me to repair the library yet again.
Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I love Aperture and would dread having to transfer over to Adobe Lightroom.

When this didn't work, I rebuilt the library.
After rebuilding the library, I thought this would fix the issue. I am still running into problems with it wanting me to repair the library yet again.
Then just let Aperture repair the library once more. Since Aperture 3.3 I noticed, that Aperture quite often wants to follow a rebuild by a Repair. Usually a repair after rebuilding fixed the problems then.
What is your Aperture version? If you have Mac OS X (10.6.4) as your profile says, you cannot have the latest Aperture 3.4.1? And where is your library located? On your system volume or an external volume?

Rebuilt library, now 2 of everything

Hi Forum, For reasons I won't go into (irrelevant) I had a mishmash of photos in iPhoto Library. I then rebuilt the library ( only 2000+ photos) and ended up with 2 photos of just about everything. They are not duplicates as even though the name is the same, one copy is, for example, 2112 x 2816 and 2.7 MB, the other is 270 x 360 and 86KB. My question is, do I keep them both and is this normal and is there a reason for keeping them both. I can see that the small one is useful for emailing, the big one for achieving a good quality print.
Is it all going to become unmanageable once my library builds up as the copies do not even'sit' next to each other but rather sit in 'rolls'. It is tricky to find the copies of each photo, how often do others keep the 2 'sizes'?
Machine Name:iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

one copy is, for example, 2112 x 2816 and 2.7 MB,
the other is 270 x 360 and 86KB<<<
Are you making these observations from
INSIDE iPhoto or by using the Finder? (Your answer
is VERY important.)</div>
These observations are from INSIDE iPhoto ie, I open iPhoto and the 'library ' of all my photos can be seen onscreen. It is NOT opening all those little folders.

Rebuilt Library Please Help

Hi. I rebuilt my Library because I was messing in the I Photo files when I shouldn't have and now when I go to view my pictures in full screen they don't show up as full screen pictures as they did before it's like a small picture right smack in the middle of my screen. Please what did I do wrong? Thanks.
P.S. It seems that the program changed my pixel sizes.
Iris

Iris
I rebuilt my Library...
How?
P.S. It seems that the program changed my pixel sizes.
No, it didn't. It seems like you rebuilt the library using the thumbnails that iPhoto uses for display, rather than the full sized pics from the Originas folder.
Regards
TD

Library Keyword Bug - Another example

Lightroom v 3.3
iMac OSX 10.6.7
Here is another example, a pretty egregious example of the keyword bug.
Keyword: Linda shows 811 photos
The Library Filter Shows 801 photos
LR opens 599 in the grid view.
What gives?

I hit Photo > Stacking > Expand All Stacks before taking the screen shot. I brought in 15 more photos. But there still is a big discrepancy between the keyword count, and the filter count on top.
Any experient or suggestions. I DO NOT want to rebuild everything, it will take me weeks.

Rebuilt library keywords

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