Remove photo's by import date
Hi, I imported a bunch of photo's from a USB drive. Unfortunately, I didn't check the drives directory structure (got the drive from Windows user) the drive had a bunch of subdirectories with a bunch of photo's I didn't want (1,700+). Last import only shows the last subdirectory imported, and since the photo's were from all over the place in terms of dates I can't isolate them by events.
How can I
1. search on import date?
2. remove all photo's by import date?
p.chin
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
I'm sorry but I cannot think of any way to do this in iPhoto.
Do you have an up-to-date back up? Can you revert to before this import and then run it again?
Regards
TD
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2) Generate a transparent PNG using the art app Procreate (and probably any app that saves PNGs to the camera roll with alpha channel). All you have to do is scribble somethign into a blank Procreate canvas, then export it to your photo album. There is no need to do anything special to get an alpha channel or PNG format: you always get that. (Unless you used the Fill command to completely cover the canvas.) Now in the camera roll there should be your scribble on a transparent background. You can email it to yourself and see that clearly in Photoshop or Preview.
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5) If you delete all those PNGs and then save some new ones, you'll see the same sequence of old photos reappear again.
Needed fix: removed phtos/thumbnails should be properly purged, and alpha PNGs should show simply black (or some default background) at all times.Ok, I replicated it and I don't like it! I didn't use the one you marked cause I couldn't call it up properly but I did Bing
transparent gifs and loaded up 3, one was totally invisible in the thumbnail and I could clearly see one of my pics perfectly in the thumbnail but when I brought it to page the gif filled the frame.
I have no idea where the pic came from, I mean I recognize it but from where in the album I have no idea.
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What happened now and most probably before was a 'transparent gif' or a partially transparent gif like the one I spoke of first that I could see the edge of or the outer perimeter of, the underlining image with the gif taking up say 3/4 of the thumbnail; this it what it was.
This is totally apparent to me now because of your having me import a totally transparent gif which was invisible over my pic, thus the freaky part I didn't like...keying the thumbnail with one thing and ending up with something totally different when brought to page.
Still doesn't explain where this silly iPad is grabbing these pics from?
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Those others up above us here who mentioned privacy concerns.. this could be whats going on, there's a ghost
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based and can't be blamed for synching issues like you discuss up above unless what I'm grabbing here is old stuff
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This User Tip
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