Roll Numbering

Can someone explain to me how the roll numbers are assigned. I am a new Mac user and am transerfering my 5000 or so photos from my PC (Adobe Photoshop Album) to iPhoto. Yet, even before transfering, I have been testing iphoto by downloading new images from my camera. The 3 times I have done this, I have gotten roll #1, 31 and 46. I did, between roll #1 and 31, attempt to transfere some images from months past, and then took them off of iphoto. So this may have created the rolls between #1 and 31. Possible, I admit. Is there a way to reset the roll #s?
Thanks!!!
PS - Is there a good link where there are in-depth instructions on how to use iphoto. Thanks.

dadoman:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. I agree. At times there is no seemingly rational reason to the numbering. I've worked around that by uploading to a folder first, dating and naming the folder for the shoot, i.e. 11/24/05-Thanksgiving in Alpine, and then dragging the folder into the open iPhoto window. This gives me a roll titled the same as the folder. Everything is by date, no number. It's just my way of mimicking my backup folder system.
If your photos on the PC are in individual folders I'd import by folder to get the rolls to be titled the same. You can click on a roll icon and then in the info window at the bottom of the Source pane rename the roll to anything you'd like. To get the roll to reposition itself in the list you will have to sort by some other value and then go back to sort by fill roll.

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Hoping someone can help me. I'm a fairly inexperienced Mac user but have been using iphoto and photoshop fairly extensively but not for anything too complicated.
Before I upgraded to iLife 06 I could browse from within photoshop by going into iphoto library and then the year followed by the month and date - just what I needed.
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Claire
Check out the Info Pane (wee 'i', lower left) the name and date fields are editable. Edit a Roll Name using the Info Pane, the Roll Folder in iPhoto Library Folder/Originals will also have the new name.
Regards
TD

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Regards
TD

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Hi Larry, thanks for coming back.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
If I were to delete my whole iphoto library and re-install iphoto with a new library, would that solve the problem?
Well yes, but a: re-installing iPhoto is not necessary and b: you can recover some of the organisation simply by following the advice above, especially the bit that starts
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Many folks do this because they think that it will make it easier to find photos in the Library for us ein other apps. It's unnecessary and pointless:
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*For Users of 10.5 Only*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
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*For users of 10.4 and 10.5* ...
Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
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Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
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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.
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TD

Alphanumericals in Student Numbering

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BAdI: Student Number Assignment
This business add-in (BAdI) is used in Campus Management Administration (component IS-HER-CM-AD).
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CHECK: Check Student Number (External Number Assignment)
GET_NEXT: Get Next Student Number (Internal Number Assignment)
Description
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You can therefore map your rules for student number assignment in the system and, for example, use the check digit procedure and year-specific number assignment.
Parameters
In addition to the current plan version (PLVAR), the object type (OTYPE) and object ID (OBJID) of the student, the system transfers the start date of the student master record and the date on which the student is created. This enables you to use year-specific number assignment and your own number range object. The student number you enter is transferred to the method CHECK in the field STUDENT_NUMBER. When the method GET_NEXT is called, the student number is transferred to the calling program in the field STUDENT_NUMBER.
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Note
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How to re-number Film Rolls

I understand how to change the title and date of a Film Roll, but I would like to re-number the Film Rolls in my library to have them in the same order as their dates. Does anyone know how to do that?
(Reason for me to change the Film Roll numbers: In smart albums, if "View>Film Rolls" is clicked on, the Film Rolls are sorted by roll number, not by the date assigned to the roll. I know that I could sort photos by dates, but then the Film Rolls are not displayed).
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Just upgraded to iPhoto 06 from 04. When I look for photos in Finder I don't see any of my albums listed. The file structure is totally changed, and I don't even have a folder for 2006 but I do have prior years, which I can then look in to see pictures by date. My 2006 photos can be found only under "DATA" by roll numbers, a somewhat annoying new concept.
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Hi dscott1000,
Yes the folder structure/organization has changed in iPhoto 6. The Albums folder in the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder, however, that was in earlier versions of iPhoto has been done away with, starting with iPhoto 5.
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There are some third party applications that can read the xml file and can navigate the iPhoto library and show you the Albums. Hopefully more applications will be revised to read this file.
Until then you will have to Share/Export the photos to the desktop. You can then navigate to the desktop to use the photos (example: web uploading from online photo site)
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For email you can also use the email icon within iPhoto to open a message with the highlighted photo attached.
You can also use spotlight to find images in an Album...
This is what I have done using Spotlight to find my images that are in iPhoto albums without opening iPhoto..
In iPhoto, select the album, then select all, go to Photos/batch change.
Change the comments to text. In the text field I put the name of the Album.
Do this for each album.
Close iPhoto.
Open Spotlight and put in the name of the Album ( you have to remember the names of the albums or have then written down)
In the spotlight search results. click on "show all"
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Make sure you have it in icon view, the icon view box is the last one on the blue images line.
Now you can control click on the image to "reveal in finder", open in iPhoto or Mail, etc.
I am not sure if this is going to make you happy and it is a little more work, but you can find images in albums and even view them in a slideshow (by clicking the play arrow at the end of the Images highlighted blue line) using Spotlight, all without opening iPhoto.
One important thing to know is you can set up a graphic program to be an external editor (when you double click an image in the library} such as PhotoShop or PS Elements. You set up that within iPhoto Preferences. Just make sure you save the image flattened and with the same name. The edits will then be relected in iPhoto when you hit "save".
Two Apple kbs for you to read
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto library folder
About the iPhoto Library folder
This is how iPhoto 6 is organized in the Finder:
iPhoto 6 Library folder in the Finder
As you can see the structure is now related to rolls. Rolls are created for each folder you import and each import session from a camera.
It is very easy to change the names of film rolls within iPhoto to make them easier to find images within. Open the info panel in iPhoto by clicking on the "i" icon. Once it is opened, click on the roll title in the viewing window.
Click on the word "title" in the info pane and type in your new title. I like to use a date and text format such as 12/25/05 Christmas at Mom's, 1/05/06 my birthday, etc. Once the roll names are changed within iPhoto, they are also changed within the Finder, making it easy to locate an image.
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Shutterfly Upload Assistant

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