Retaining existing file structure when importing into Iphoto 8
Hello,
I'm new to the list and to iphoto. I'm an historian, and I have about 10,000 images of documents on my mac, all divided into dozens of folders, sub-folders, and sub-sub folders, depending on where the documents originated in the collections I was researching. I'd like to be able to work with these images in Iphoto 8. When I tried to import a folder that contained photos in sub-folders, Iphoto simply imported the photos without the files, making them pretty much useless for me. Can anyone on the list tell me how to work with these images with Iphoto without losing the existing file structure, and without me needing to recreate that file structure within Iphoto? Barring that, I'd be obliged for suggestions of other programs that can do this. Thank you!
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. If you must maintain your folder structure then you might want to look at another application for that.Media Expression will do exactly what you want. You setup your folder system and it works with it. You can keyword, set up categories (albums in iPhotoese) and lots more. It's one of the better DAM (digital asset management) applications.
Otherwise you can simulate your folder structure in iPhoto with iPhoto's virtual folders and albums like shown in this screenshot:
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File names changed when imported into iphoto
I scanned thousands of photos and slides. I named them numerically with year and order it was taken (example for 102nd photo taken in 1984 is 84.102.jpg) I used Photoshop's file info to add a description on maybe 20% of the photos. Unfortunately, when I imported into iphoto, iphoto uses this information for the photo's file name. Is there a way to import photos into iphoto where it uses only the original files name and not embedded file info?
The ones that (on the originals) I entered descriptive things into Photoshop's XMP file info's document title line -- well that is what is shown as the name of the file rather than its real numerical name. Example: on a photo saved as 92
iPhoto uses the Exif and IPTC metadata for the photo information. When you typed "Big Snowstorm" in there you put it in the Title field. iPhoto is showing you the Title of the photo. It only shows you the Filename if there is no entry in the Title field. Had you put it in the Caption field you would not have this problem.
Try remove the title, see if that works.
Another commend: This format of filename
92.133.jpg
Is potentially very dangerous. Computers use the period to distinguish the filename from the suffix that tells your machine what the type of file it is. Currently, you're telling your machine that this is file 92, of the type 133 and also the type jpeg. Characters such as periods, slashes, dashes should eb avoided in filenames. Sooner or later your file naming convention is going to cause you problems.
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TD -
File name not importing into iPhoto
I keep my photos on an external disk and import them from that disk into iPhoto. When I import, sometimes the file name is imported into the caption field and sometimes it does not.
Any ideas why? I have search for others posts but can't find any. I did check the permissions of the files representing both results and the permissions are the same.What is displayed in the title field under the thumbnails?
Have you tried selecting the offending photos, going to the Photos->Batch Change menu and selecting Title to File Name option?
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Lion corrupting EXIF information when importing into iPhoto '09?
Hello,
I use DXO to process my RAW images and get them into iPhoto '09.
Since the upgrade from Snow Leopard, my JPG pictures that had perfectly valid EXIF headers before import into iPhoto
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File date : 2011:08:27 12:32:27
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Flash used : Yes (manual)
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Exposure time: 0.0050 s (1/200)
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Focus dist. : 2.79m
ISO equiv. : 400
Whitebalance : Auto
Metering Mode: matrix
end up with empty EXIF after the import:
$ jhead <path_to_file_after_import>/iPhoto\ Library/Originals/2011/100CANON/IMG_0343_DxO.jpg
File name : /Users/Shared/iPhoto/iPhoto Library/Originals/2011/100CANON/IMG_0343_DxO.jpg
File size : 6901712 bytes
File date : 2011:08:27 18:30:39
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This was definitely not a problem with Snow Leopard (same iPhoto '09, I have not changed my workflow for years).
Looking at a picture I imported with Snow Leopard (different camera body, but I checked with both):
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File name : /Users/Shared/iPhoto/iPhoto Library/Originals/2010/Oslo 17 Mai/_MG_7938_DxO.jpg
File size : 10757229 bytes
File date : 2010:05:24 15:59:41
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Flash used : No
Focal length : 300.0mm (35mm equivalent: 486mm)
CCD width : 22.20mm
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Aperture : f/8.0
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Anybody noticing the same issue?hi djiti,
DXO up to date,
Lion up to date,
iPhoto up to date (? I want to hear you say yes),
I am at a loss.
Some apps do not read the same info in the same place in the exif: iPhoto reads the "Creation Date" from "modification date" created in another app, for example; I use "A Better Attributes" app, to change the Exif in that case. But I have never seen that the Exif is "corrupted" by a photo app.
Lex (I use iPhoto, and Photoshop Lightroom, know about DxO and Aperture but only a little experience) -
I had some problems with my MacbookPro and did some clean up and further back-up (time machine already in place for a long time). Now, suddenly I can't access my pictures anymore through iphoto asking me for a library (never asked for before) and I have no clue where the pictures are actually saved when imported in iphoto. Can anyone help me recover my pictures, such as telling me WHERE the pictures are actually stored? Thank you so much!
I had some problems with my MacbookPro and did some clean up
A critical question - exactly what "clean up" did you do and how?
Do you have an iPhoto library in yoru pictures folder? If you depress and hold the option key and launch iPhoto - what do you see in the select library window? Select each library there and see what you have
LN -
TIP: What to do if the Recovered Photos File will not import into iPhoto...
Like many others in this forum, I just upgraded to iWork/iLife '06. When I installed iPhoto '06 it trashed my existing iPhoto Folder and placed all of my other existing photos (those not already imported previously into iPhoto) into a recovered photos file. I tried and tried and tried to import those "recovered photos" into iPhoto but it kept returning an error message on import "Unreadable file"
Finally I selected the "recovered files" then clicked on "Get Info" and found that the permissions were "locked" with a padlock icon. Clicking once on the padlock opened the permissions back to me the "owner" and the iPhoto allowed me to import all of those 425 "recovered photos". Whew! I hope this tip helps someone else out - I had to figure this out on my own...The fact that you can use the Raws from your XSi is of no relevance.
The Raw from every model of camera is different. Note: that's every model not every brand. So, the NEF produced by a Nikon D40 is not the same as the NEF produced by a D60, the CR2 produced by a Canon 350 is not the same as the CR2 produced by a Canon 400.
Changing the Raw specification is one of the ways of upgrading the cameras.
IPhoto and Aperture support - or don't - the same cameras.
Regards
TD -
CR2 files won't import into iPhoto
Have recently done a photographic course and was advised to shoot in RAW from now on. Just taken a load of pictures in RAW using a Canon 70D). But when I try to import them, I get this message:
"The following file could not be imported. The file is in an unrecognized format."
I'm using iPhoto 9.2.3 on an iMac using OS X 10.6.8.
Canon's own software will imprt them but I can't get them into iPhoto.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
G.Hi Rudegar
Followed your advice and looked at Genieo. But this seems to be a front for an alternative web browser. Indeed I'm wondering whether it could be malware because now I can't get rid of it! Every time I drag it from the Applications folder to the Trash bin I get this message:
I've shut down the computer and restarted it. I've dragged all the elements to the Trash bin - and now it won't allow me to empty it - instead I get this message:
So, now 2 questions:
Is there a particular CR2 you would recommend?
And, how do I get rid of this new stuff?
Many thanks.
G. -
Original image automatically altered when importing into iPhoto
When importing photos from a CD into iPhoto (by first saving them to desktop then dragging them in to iPhoto), they are being automatically altered by iPhoto. They appear in their original form on the desktop, but when I drag them into iPhoto, it seems to be doing some auto-enhancing (in this case not for the better). May be missing something simple, but have not had this problem w/ importing photos from a CD before. Any ideas?
iPhoto works best with an sRGB colour profile. From your description of the symptoms you have a different colour profile.
Why is this important? Because the colour profile tells the computer how to display the colours. It tells it, in other words, what this file means by 'red' or 'blue'.
Try attach an sRGB profile to one or two of the pics and import them. See does it help. You can do this using the Tools menu in Preview.
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TD -
Source file structure when importing a qualified table
Hello MDM:ers
I need to import a qualified table into the following repository
(it is simplified to illustrate the problem):
Main table: Products
Fields: ID (int), Name (Text), Part number (Qualified)
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I have no problem creating the map if I manually restructure the file to look like:
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It where a way to import the file directly in MDM without restructuring it?Hi Alexander,
MDIS will not work fine if you have multiple tables as the mapping is saved only for 1 table. If you have multiple tables then after performing the process of Pivoting/Reverse pivoting, you will have to use joins.
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Save all your configuration in a map. And then configure the map in the port.
It should then work with the MDIS also.
hope it helps.
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Longer movie files won't import into iPhoto
I have a Canon PowerShot SD950IS 12.1MP Digital Camera which takes surprisingly video, and I was surprised to see that iPhoto even imports movies to begin with, but there's a glitch. Shorter movies import fine, but anything longer than a minute or two never finish importing. The camera says busy, and eventually, iPhoto stops, but the movie never shows up in the iPhoto window. Is there a limit to video size in iPhoto?
Also, I would like to import videos and photos into separate applications. Is there a way to tell iPhoto not to import or delete movies from a camera, and only work with picture files? That would simplify just using the Canon software for the movie portion (which does work).
One other thing, does iMovie work with USB now, or is it still Firewire only?
Thanks!If you use a card reader to mount the memory card from your camera on the Mac's desktop, you can copy your videos to the hard drive by dragging and dropping, then import them into iMovie or whatever.
This suggestion presumes that when you connect the camera directly to the Mac, like most other recent Canon models, the card inside it doesn't mount on the desktop. Using a card reader will mount it. If the card does mount on the desktop when you connect the camera, just drag and drop the movies from it to the hard drive. -
Does anyone know of a JPEG 2000 plugin for importing into iPhoto 6
I was quites surprised when I learned that iPhoto 6 had not been designed with jpg 2000 format in it. With that said, if anyone knows of a method or plugin for importing them into iPhoto I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanx,
-Al-What do you want to do with your .jp2 files?
They import into iPhoto just fine for me. When choosing export leave the option set for the format as "Original".
If you want to convert a .jpg (or other format) to .jp2 you can do that with Preview. -
Exactly where are the files stored when imported off a camera into iPhoto ?
see subject line,,,, but when i use iphoto's ''iphoto'' to import files off a camera versus the ''image capture'' they do not appear anywhere in the picture folder, this does not make sense,,,image capture seems to dumb the files into the picture folder
and,,,,,i understand what iPhoto 08 does with the files that are imported into the library from the picture folder but where are iphotos library versions stored?????
also,,,,,i'm putting time and effort into organizing a ''''library'''' only to have none of those efforts taking effect on the folders and files in the picture folder - this seems odd this is like organizing a 2 sets of books in a library == 1 set you want the public to see and one set you what to keep organized in the basement for future storage and retrival and from duplication
i need convincing this makes sense and help on a better systemalba123
You're confusing iPhoto with an File Manager. The Mac has one of those, it's called the Finder
When you organise things into albums and slideshows etc in the iPhoto Window there is no corresponding folders of images for each album. That would be a waste of disk space. Instead, each album is a virtual entity: in reality, a list of pics that you want to app to display together. So, no, you're not organising two sets of books, what you're doing is arranging the photos as you want them to be displayed while your assistant (the app) is looking after the files.
Events, however, are not virtual. Events in the iPhoto Window correspond exactly with the Folders in the Originals Folder in the iPhoto Library package file (Right click on it in the Pictures Folder -> Show Package Contents).
You can move photos between Events, you can rename Events, edit them, create them, as long as you do it via the iPhoto Window. Check out the Info Pane (wee 'i', lower left) the name and date fields are editable. Edit a Event Name using the Info Pane, the Event Folder in iPhoto Library/Originals will also have the new name.
There are three ways (at least) to get files from the iPhoto Window.
1. Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. Show File: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
So, think of it this way. You do your organising in the iPhoto Window. Let the application look after the basement.
Regards
TD -
I have Iphoto '09, version 8.1.2 (424). I am having an identical problem. All my pictures are imported into Iphoto when I downloaded them from my camera. Until recently, I thought that the pictures were actually saved in the library. Since I need to crop my pictures for the web, and Iphoto doesn't do that, I purchased Photoshop Elements to do that. To my surprise, when I try to get a picture from Iphoto to Photoshop, it can't be done. That was when I realized, after wasting a lot of time, that the photos are not in the Iphoto library.
I started naming the pictures on Iphoto so I had a recognizable file name to open on Photoshop. Couldn't find it. I looked in the Backup folder and the Transfer software folder (I have a Nikon camera), and the names I entered in the Iphoto display, could not be found.
When I am trying to upload a photo to the web, I get the Finder folder showing with an active folder called "Photos" under "Media", which only displays Iphoto and PhotoBooth. This is a folder name that I cannot find in my HD anywhere when I look for it. If I edit a picture with Photoshop, I am not going to save it back to Iphoto (not sure whether it will work properly). How do I get my folder of edited photos to show when I want to upload a picture to the web?
Where (the name of the folder) do I find the pictures I see displayed on the Iphoto library, including any name changes, keywords added, and so on?See my response to your other post.
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After upgrading to MAC OS X 10.10.2 Lightroom 5 cannot read the card (RAW files , converting to DNG) when importing. The card is fine as I can import into iPhoto - any ideas?
It’s usually necessary to trash the prefs after updating OSX to Yosemite. Start by quitting Lightroom 5.
Launch Finder and click the Go menu whilst holding down the Option (alt) key. Then go to:
Library >> Preferences
clear everything relating to LR5 which usually means deleting the following files:
com.adobe.Lightroom5.plist
com.adobe.Lightroom5LSSharedFileList.plist
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I just purchased a Nikon S6300 camera and when I import into iPhoto the photos don't show up in either photos or events only in recent imports.
I have Snow Leopard on my MacMini.Control-click one of the photos under the Recent import and select "Show Event" in the contextual menu. Or you can use the View ➙ Sort Events menu in the Events mode to reset the sort order so the new import will be either at the top or bottom of the list.
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