Searching for events in iPhoto

I have lots of events imported from my Mac. How can I search for them by name?

How can I search for them by name?
There is no search function for event names or album names, sorry. Flag or tag the the photos in the event you are currently working with, so that they will appear in the "Flagged" album or a custom "tagged" album, see: Flag, tag, hide photos

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Search for events in the past

Is there a way to search for events in the past? If not, is there another calendar application with this feature that would be able to sync with my iPod Touch? This feature is one that I must have. I apologize if I come off as whining but my Palm calendar/address book was able to do this.
Thx

Hi helenhopelouise,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The search feature within the Calendar app should show all events, past and present. First, check to see if you are syncing All Events in your Calendar app. Tap on the Settings app on your Home Screen. Then choose Mail, Contacts Calendars. Scroll down to the Calendar section to see your options.
Next, try the "Spotlight Search" of all of the data on your iPhone to see if the calendar event you are looking for appears.
Finally, try quitting all of your open apps and restarting and/or resetting your iPhone.
iOS: Understanding Spotlight Search
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3636
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430
Cheers,
- Judy

How to search for events that collide?

Anyone now a way to find (search for) events, in calenders, that collide?

Hi Lasse,
I hope you don't mind an Applescript solution to your problem. I'm assuming all your events are held in one calendar.
The script here will ask for the calendar name, check all future events in that calendar and highlight any that clash.
Try out the script by pasting the text below into a new Script Editor window (Applications>Applescript>Script Editor) and pressing "Run". If you want to keep it, save it as file format "application".
Hope this helps.
John M
-- Copy below here into Script Editor--
-- Find Calendar Overlaps --
-- John Maisey -- 9 Sept 2005 --
tell application "iCal"
     activate
     set myNow to my (current date)
     set sourceCal to first calendar whose title is (item 1 of (choose from list ¬
          (title of (every calendar) as list) with prompt "Choose the calendar"))
     set {myStarts, myEnds, myUIDs, mySumm} to {start date, end date, uid, summary} of (events of sourceCal whose start date is greater than myNow)
     repeat with myFirst from 1 to count of myStarts
          repeat with mySecond from 1 to count of myStarts
               if myFirst is not equal to mySecond then
                    if ((item myFirst of myStarts) is less than (item mySecond of myStarts)) and ((item myFirst of myEnds) is greater than (item mySecond of myStarts)) then
                         show (first event whose uid is (item mySecond of myUIDs)) of sourceCal
                         display alert (item mySecond of mySumm) message "This event happens during another event in this calendar. The other event is titled " & (item myFirst of mySumm) & "." as warning
                    end if
               end if
          end repeat
     end repeat
end tell

Searching for event names in imovie 11

I have iMovie 11. I have hundreds if not thousands of events, covering 14 years. I'd like to
1) Search for a particular event or
2) Search for all clips in a particular date range, regardless of which event they are in.
I am surprised that I can do this in Aperture and iPhoto, but can't do this in iMovie.

Anyone out there who can help me out?
I only want to know the experiences of other fellow developers.
Help(even if you are not sure) would be really appreciated!

I have absolutely no use for "Events" in iPhoto: can I get rid of this concept? I am importing photos maybe one or a dozen times a day and cannot avoid creating a new event each time. Or can I?

As my long question implies (sorry, should have kept it shorter) I have a problem with being forced to have Events in my iPhoto'11 9.2.3 (629.52) on my MacBook 10.6.8. My habit is to unload the camera constantly, whether I have taken a single shot or a whole series. Each new addition creates an Event which actually bothers me!
Is there a way of avoiding this? If I erase an event from iPhoto the photos will disappear from the Library it seems ... Please help with your advice. Thanks! Sigrid.

Thanks, OT!
When I look at my odd(?) habits of dealing with iPhoto anyone will see that I have a very simplistic approach: I never let one single Library get bigger than 300 or 400 photos, then back it up as is and make a separate, manual backup of the different albums as named by myself on an external HD. Then I delete the Library as such from my Mac but can reinstate it from the backups as I please. The backups are properly labelled, of course.
I get dizzy when I read about libraries of thousands of photos, of keywords, ratings, smart albums etc. because this just wouldn't apply to my so-called system. So instead of using Faces and Places, my album names show clearly what's in them - "skies and scenery" Euskadi, "bugs and birds at Fancourt", "inventories", "people" (separate for my circle of people and characters from media), "my dog" etc., usually a bunch of 20 albums or so depending on my whereabouts. Quite manageable!
I've been doing just fine with this method and would recommend it ... but others are much brighter ;-) and use the offered (and to me too advanced) features of iPhoto, if they prefer these. Now that I know how to get rid of Events by merging them into one, I at least feel a little freer there.
Well, it's 1:25AM my time, gotta go ...

Can I search for duplicates in iPhoto 9.2.3?

I believe earlier versions had a "search for duplicates" function.

No, no earlier version did.
For dealing with duplicates in iPhoto check out Duplicate Annihilator or Decloner or iPhoto Duplicate Cleaner

Can't search for events in iCal

I always thought that I could search for an event in iCal by typing a text into the Search space and then would get a list of all events with that text; at least that's what I think did happen in the past.
If I do that now, no matter which text I type I do get a table with Date, Type, and Title below the calendarr, but with no events listed in it. ??? Did I inadvertently change some settings which prevent events to be listed?
Any advice would be highly appreciated.
Cheers,
Veit

Are you saying that the search in iCal (Leopard) will only work when Spotlight has indexed your computer and the iCal events box is checked? That means that iCal is not searching independently of Spotlight, but really it is using the "Spotlight" index/database?
Was this true in TIGER? - I just started my PBG4 which is TIGER and the seach is quick - includes everything if nothing requested. OK it has SpotLight, too-- if I UNtick Events & To Do items in TIGER will I then have no search ability in iCal??? (I guess I could try that and the re-tick it later??)
My MB with Leopard is actually updating right now, and says it has 5 hours left - since I added my HD to the list then removed it (to get it to generate a new index). So in 5 hours I can re-test to see if iCal can search (and find something!) --in Leopard.
Would be great to have a true LIST along with the DAY-WEEK-MONTH tabs in iCal-- we have that with my iPod Touch-- OK it's LIST - DAY - MONTH on the iPod - no "week" but I prefer that to what I have now on the iCal 3.0.6 (Leopard).
Comments welcome - and my little ALARM icon/notifier on the event itself is GONE in iCal Leopard- used to like that in 2.0.5 - could see which events had alarms and see if I'd forgotten to set one. How to get THAT back???
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Wednesday 11 March 2009 at 14:17

Searching for event on calendar?

i just switched from the palm and on the palm - i could do a search and it would let me search for a meeting on the blackberry- if i had a meeting with susan- i could search susan and it would give me a list of all future and past appointments i had with her.
can i do the same thing on my blackberry? it would make life alot easier.

If you select the search icon it will let you select where you want to search, messages, calendar, address book, memopad, or tasks.

Is there a way to search for shots that iphoto is having a problem with?

I have upgraded to ilife 08 and now have more than a few shots in a library of 10,000 shots that are missing their links
have rebuilt all thumbnails and connections and whatnot but still the files that are messed up have stayed messed up
I think I have backed up files elsewhere so I can reimport as need be (I think).
so I would like to do a search (somehow) for the files that have problems
and I would like to replace them/reimport backed up files
is either/both possible?
M

The problem is, Im afraid. that your database has been corrupted. I don't know of anyway to track down the photos that have been dropped from the db in the process, and re-importing them - if you could - would be to import to an unstable and damaged entity.
Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library allowing it to overwrite the damaged file. If not, then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
To create and populate a new library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same film rolls and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, books, calendars, modified versions etc.
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Events to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library Folder on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
Regards
TD

Get-WinEvent is very very slow - More thant 45 minutes searching for event 4729 in a 1 million event log (512 MB size) - Super Hardware

Someone removed a user from a group, we´re tryingo to track down, who made it
I´m using:
get-eventlog -LogName security -ComputerName SERVERNAME | Where-Object {$_.EventID -eq 4729} | Export-Csv -Path c:\temp\SERVERNAME_4729.log -NoTypeInformation
or
get-eventlog -LogName security -ComputerName SERVERNAME | Where-Object {$_.EventID -eq 4729}
The DC have 4 GB of RAM, 4 vCPUs in a Dell PE R420 with SAS 15K disks, it´s very fast hardware/response time
The DC have more than 955.000 events in the last 15 days, 512 MB file size for the .EVTX
The search takes more than 45 minutes to finish
It´s acceptable? I have the felling that this procedure will take no more than 5 minutes to do the search and grab the results

This will be much faster:
get-eventlog -LogName security -ComputerName SERVERNAME -InstanceID 4729 |
Export-Csv -Path c:\temp\SERVERNAME_4729.CSV -NoTypeInformation
The method you used returns every record in the log then filters. This method filters the remote search remotely and in the query. It only returns records that have that ID.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ICloud & Photostream: Not downloading or creating events on iPhoto

I asked this question in the iPhoto community, and was sent over here. So here is the problem:
Photostream is not downloading photos to my mac. In iPhoto 11 version 9.4.2 (the latest) on my mac, the photos appear in the left nav bar under Photostream. But when I go to events, there is an event called "November" with no photos in it. Running OSX 10.7.5 on my mac. My iPhone is running iOS 6.0.1. All Photostream sharing options on all devices are ON, and the automatic import box is checked.
The first suggestion offered was that I do a search for Photostream in iPhoto and see if the latest photostream showed up. It did not. The second suggestion was to turn off photostream in iPhoto, log out of iCloud, log back in again, let the photostream download to my mac and see what happened. I did all that with the same results, i.e., there is no November event. The photos won't download. Both my iphone and my mac are on the same wireless network and both are working fine except for this. Here are screenshots of the problem:
This is a display of the "photostream" feed under the RECENT category in iPhoto. Note the little wireless icon in the bottom left corner of each photo.
Below is a display in iPhoto of the Nov. 2012 Photo Stream. As you can see, nada. Why won't the Photo Stream download to iPhoto? Thank you!

Hello tallbubba
Check in System Preferences > iCloud to ensure that Photo Stream is turned on to start the import process of importing the photos.
iPhoto '11: Turn on My Photo Stream
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2710
Regards,
-Norm G.

How can I search for duplicate photos in iPhoto libraries?

How can I search for duplicate photos in iPhoto 9.5.1 library. Installed on iMac 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, Mavericks 10.9.5.

These applications will identify and help remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
iPhoto Library Manager - $29.95
Duplicate Annihilator - $7.95 - only app able to detect duplicate thumbnail files or faces files when an iPhoto 8 or earlier library has been imported into another.
PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
DeCloner - $19.95 - can find duplicates in iPhoto Libraries or in folders on the HD.
DupliFinder - $7 - shows which events the photos are in.
iPhoto AppleScript to Remove Duplicates - Free
PhotoDedupo - $4.99 (App Store) - this app has a "similar" search feature which is like PhotoSweeper's bitmap comparison. It found all duplicates
Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free - was able to recognize the duplicated HDR and normal files from an iPhone shooting in HDR
Some users have reported that PhotoSweeper did the best in finding all of the dups in their library: iphoto has duplicated many photos, how...: Apple Support Communities.
If you have an iPhone and have it set to keep the normal photo when shooting HDR photos the two image files that are created will be duplicates in a manner of speaking (same image) but there are only twp apps that detected the iPhone HDR and normal photos as being duplicates: PhotoSweeper and Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto. None of the other apps detected those two files as being duplicates as they look for file name as well as other attributes and the two files from the iPhone have different file names.
iPLM, however, is the best all around iPhoto utility as it can do so much more than just find duplicates. IMO it's a must have tool if using iPhoto.

I can see my thumbnails for my events in iphoto, but when I click to open the folder, no photos show up. However, when I hover over the thumbnail, it shows the flicker of images that should be inside the folder, as well as

I can see my thumbnails for my events in iphoto, but when I click to open the folder, no photos show up. However, when I hover over the thumbnail, it shows the flicker of images
that should be inside the folder, as well as # of images in each folder. It also occasionally says the following when I try to even open iphoto: "Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iPhoto after the upgrade. The upgrade process for very large libraries may take an hour or more to complete." So, I am scared to hit "upgrade" for fear I will never recover any of the images as the wording in this quote seems odd. The photos are not in the trash. Did I lose them all? Do you know if/how I can retrieve them?

iPhoto 08?
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
To create and populate a new *iPhoto 08* library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.

Events in iPhoto show a purple tint for half a second when scrolling

After installing Mountain Lion my 27" iMac (May 2011) started showing events in iPhoto wahsed in a purple or reddish tint for less than half a second, when I scroll down or up quickly. Then they turn to their normal colors. Every time I scroll up or down rapidly, all new events appearing onscreen are tinted in purple, then become normal. The same happens with iTunes covers or when in Safari I zoom in by double tapping my Magic mouse. Seems to be connected with JPEG files being displayed abnormallyt for some reason.
I know this is not a major issue but it is bothersome and actually it should not happen.
Can anyone help?
My iPhoto library contains 46.000 photos in 950 events.

When the event is clicked, it opens with the photos that I chose for the event.
So when you enter the event you can see the photos, right? Are you able to view the photos in the Photo mode?
Make a temporary, backup copy of your library if you don't already have one (Control-click on the library and select Duplicate from the contextual menu) and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #1, followed by #3 and then #4 as needed.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
OT

Search for records in the event viewer after the last run (not the entire event log), remove duplicate - Output Logon type for a specific OU users

Hi,
The following code works perfectly for me and give me a list of users for a specific OU and their respective logon types :-
$logFile = 'c:\test\test.txt'
$_myOU = "OU=ABC,dc=contosso,DC=com"
# LogonType as per technet
$_logontype = @{
2 = "Interactive"
3 = "Network"
4 = "Batch"
5 = "Service"
7 = "Unlock"
8 = "NetworkCleartext"
9 = "NewCredentials"
10 = "RemoteInteractive"
11 = "CachedInteractive"
Get-WinEvent -FilterXml "<QueryList><Query Id=""0"" Path=""Security""><Select Path=""Security"">*[System[(EventID=4624)]]</Select><Suppress Path=""Security"">*[EventData[Data[@Name=""SubjectLogonId""]=""0x0""
or Data[@Name=""TargetDomainName""]=""NT AUTHORITY"" or Data[@Name=""TargetDomainName""]=""Window Manager""]]</Suppress></Query></QueryList>" -ComputerName
"XYZ" | ForEach-Object {
#TargetUserSid
$_cur_OU = ([ADSI]"LDAP://<SID=$(($_.Properties[4]).Value.Value)>").distinguishedName
If ( $_cur_OU -like "*$_myOU" ) {
$_cur_OU
#LogonType
$_logontype[ [int] $_.Properties[8].Value ]
#Time-created
$_.TimeCreated
$_.Properties[18].Value
} >> $logFile
I am able to pipe the results to a file however, I would like to convert it to CSV/HTML When i try "convertto-HTML"
function it converts certain values . Also,
a) I would like to remove duplicate entries when the script runs only for that execution.
b) When the script is run, we may be able to search for records after the last run and not search in the same
records that we have looked into before.
PLEASE HELP !

If you just want to look for the new events since the last run, I suggest to record the EventRecordID of the last event you parsed and use it as a reference in your filter. For example:
<QueryList>
<Query Id="0" Path="Security">
<Select Path="Security">*[System[(EventID=4624 and
EventRecordID>46452302)]]</Select>
<Suppress Path="Security">*[EventData[Data[@Name="SubjectLogonId"]="0x0" or Data[@Name="TargetDomainName"]="NT AUTHORITY" or Data[@Name="TargetDomainName"]="Window Manager"]]</Suppress>
</Query>
</QueryList>
That's this logic that the Server Manager of Windows Serve 2012 is using to save time, CPU and bandwidth. The problem is how to get that number and provide it to your next run. You can store in a file and read it at the beginning. If not found, you
can go through the all event list.
Let's say you store it in a simple text file, ref.txt
1234
At the beginning just read it.
Try {
$_intMyRef = [int] (Get-Content .\ref.txt)
Catch {
Write-Host "The reference EventRecordID cannot be found." -ForegroundColor Red
$_intMyRef = 0
This is very lazy check. You can do a proper parsing etc... That's a quick dirty way. If I can read
it and parse it as an integer, I use it. Else, I just set it to 0 meaning I'll collect all info.
Then include it in your filter. You Get-WinEvent becomes:
Get-WinEvent -FilterXml "<QueryList><Query Id=""0"" Path=""Security""><Select Path=""Security"">*[System[(EventID=4624 and EventRecordID>$_intMyRef)]]</Select><Suppress Path=""Security"">*[EventData[Data[@Name=""SubjectLogonId""]=""0x0"" or Data[@Name=""TargetDomainName""]=""NT AUTHORITY"" or Data[@Name=""TargetDomainName""]=""Window Manager""]]</Suppress></Query></QueryList>"
At the end of your script, store the last value you got into your ref.txt file. So you can for example get that info in the loop. Like:
$Result += $LogonRecord
$_intLastId = $Event.RecordId
And at the end:
Write-Output $_intLastId | Out-File .\ref.txt
Then next time you run it, it is just scanning the delta. Note that I prefer this versus the date filter in case of the machine wasn't active for long or in case of time sync issue which can sometimes mess up with the date based filters.
If you want to go for a date filtering, do it at the Get-WinEvent level, not in the Where-Object. If the query is local, it doesn't change much. But in remote system, it does the filter on the remote side therefore you're saving time and resources on your
side. So for example for the last 30 days, and if you want to use the XMLFilter parameter, you can use:
<QueryList>
<Query Id="0" Path="Security">
<Select Path="Security">*[System[TimeCreated[timediff(@SystemTime) <= 2592000000]]]</Select>
</Query>
</QueryList>
Then you can combine it, etc...
PS, I used the confusing underscores because I like it ;)
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