Smart Album to find No Description

I am using iPhoto 9.2.3 on OS10.6.8. I used to be able to have a smart album with the condition "Description is" and I would leave the text field blank. This would give me all my photos that do not have any description. Now it does not select any pictures. If I enter some text it will find those photos. How do I creat a smart album that finds all the photos with nothing in the description field?

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Take a look at iMedia Browser . It can view the albums and smart albums of an iPhoto Library and let you drag photos from it into another application.
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the same problem here. I cannot find faces with "Léonie" either.
File a bug report using the feedback form: Apple - Photos - Feedback
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Yes, notice it after i put this support-help on apple suport site, but anyhow Smart Album is a little bit broken and they should fix that little bug.
And yes it works better with "K-5" than "Pentax K-5" that is the original-name in picture info, on import.
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b) With annoying regularity when I try to get to this forum and choose Aperture, I get the following message - in pink, no less: It appears you're not allowed to view what you requested. You might contact your administrator if you think this is a mistake.
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In IPHOTO, in a Smart Album - how di I find duplicate photos?

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OT

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Perhaps your library (libraries) need repairing. Have tried the first aid tools on your library to repair it? Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library
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Semi - Smart Albums - all I want is to update iPhoto every time I add a new

after reading the iPhoto Help files descriptions of Standard and Smart - Im after Semi - Smart.
Standard: You can also create an album by dragging a folder of photos from the Finder into an empty part of iPhoto's Source list. iPhoto creates an album with the folder's name and imports all photos contained in the folder.
- but what iPhoto 6 wont do is automatically update itself every time I add a new pic into the source folder.
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iPhoto automatically modifies a Smart Album when any photo that matches the album's settings is added to or removed from your library."
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a. drag a folder ( for example, cars, gemstones, Klimit art) into the iPhoto source pane, it becomes a semi-smart folder in that it watches every new change I make to the source files on my computer. I add a file, iPhoto 6 adds it. I delete one, it deletes it. I mod it - you get the game here.
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TIA

will try that out, thanks for the tip.
Who would want to have to use Automator or Applescript to make such a rudimentary function enabled within iPhoto ? I would guess 95% of Mac users never use those things. The whole point of Mac is to keep your life from having to descend into mundane technical details, thus freeing one for more time with life's higher level tasks. This should be basic from-day-one type behavior in any photo app.
Will chime back in on how difficult it get iPhoto to auto-update itself with every new pic I add/subtract to these watched folders.

Is there a way to burn multiple smart albums to DVD?

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As I wrote:
There's only one problem, I'm not sure if this will work for smart albums in folders.
so unfortunately I was right. Smart Albums behave differently then regular Albums one of the biggest differences is the way Folders and Smart Albums interact.
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You could manually create the folders in the Finder and export each smart album individually to the corresponding folder you created.
Let us know if either of those work for you,
regards

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You can't really, because you can't exclude enough of the faces.
I would keyword the preferred images as well, so finding the face and the keyword would find the pics of the person alone.
Regards
TD

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