SPLIT PICTURES BY DATE WITHIN AN EVENT

I have over 5,000 pictures from various people, none of whom had the correct date on their cameras. I have to separate them into the places we visited. Before I do that, however, I wanted to be able to create separate events by date to later merge according to location. I've looked all over but can't find the solution. I highlighted all the pictures and couldn't "split" into events by date. How can I best do this? Any assistance would be MUCH appreciated. I think I was able to do this easily in the older version (but I may be wrong!).

In the iPhoto Preferences select the preferred split (iPhoto -> Preferences -> General)
Then in Events view, select the Event you want to split
Then Events Menu -> Autosplit Selected Event
Regards
TD

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Organizing by dates within an event

I'm not exactly sure how to organize photos by date within a certain event, when photos are coming from more than one camera. For example, I have imported pictures on the day my grandson was born from my camera, and I have also added some, within the same "event" sent to me by email, taken with other cameras. There are lots of pictures taken during the course of a few days, but the photos, by date, are not in order. First, I have some that are in the hospital, then there are the ones taken at home, then after that are some more in the hospital. The dates are correct on the cameras and I've set the photos to be arranged by date in iPhoto. Why won't they import in the order, by day, that they were taken, even though they're from different cameras?

What I'm trying to accomplish is to import photos, no matter where they came from, into an event, and have them all in order by date. Is that possible with photos coming from different sources?
That is how it works - I have many events with photos from different camera's
look at the extended photo into (select two photos and go to the photos menu ==> show extended info) and verify that the date/time are the same - it sounds like they may have been set to different time zones time so are an hour or more off
To see all teh photos from a single camera make a smart album with camera is "the camera" - if one camera's time is off you can select the photos in that smart album and use the photos menu ==> adjust time and date command to correct it
LN

Splitting events after batch date change causes event to disappear

Hi all,
The basic (repeatable) scenario is this:
o I scan in a bunch of old pictures I want to keep in iPhoto (lets say 10)
o I import them into iphoto (no problems with import) 1 event with 10 pictures is created.
o I then take a specific set of 4 photos and split them out of the main event into a new event (everything still ok) - 2 events, 4 and 6 events respectively.
o I open the new event and do a batch date change on the 4 pictures, changing the date to the correct date of the picture
o I exit the event expecting it to move up in the list of events (I sort by date). It's gone! iPhoto lists the 1 new event and its 6 photos
o I change my sort (by time, by name, etc) and still not there.
o I find my library in finder, open the package, and the files are still there.
o I go back to iPhoto and click on "Photos". Walla! 10 pictures!
o I undo the data change and they show up again in events - 2 new events, 10 total pictures.
I've already done all the obvious checks (are you sorting by date, look up by even name, search by file name through all events etc.) I've talked with a product specialist and they said the standard "rebuild the library" which did not resolve the issue.
I can repeat this until the cows come home in the existing library. I've created a brand new library and it does not repeat, do there is something in my library not right. But I don't buy the standard "redo your library from scratch" (36K pictures, 50 faces and hundreds of places). Just like with faces, you can discard the db files, there must be something besides "rebuild automatically and if that doesn't work sorry start over". Was iPhoto coded in Redmond?
Has anyone had anything similar to this? I looked through the forums and couldn't see anything. If I have to rebuild this, I am done with iPhoto after having to rebuild due to faces too many times, and my question changes to what are folks recommendations for a more stable photo management software suite?
Thanks!
HOTG

If the problem doesn't repeat in another Library then obviously the issue is with that library.
As you've tried the basic rebuild: Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
The obvious solution is to restore a good version from your back up and, er, Walla! as you say yourself.
Next least destructive option: Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords 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.
Regards
TD

I'm using imovie 10.0.3 with OS x Version 10.9.2. or some reason I can't double click on iphoto events to siadplay the pictures within that event. I've rebuilt my iphoto library, but nothing seems to work. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm using imovie 10.0.3 with OS x Version 10.9.2. or some reason I can't double click on iphoto events to siadplay the pictures within that event. I've rebuilt my iphoto library, but nothing seems to work. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello All,
Also no answer but am having the same problem. All my catalogueing via folders is up in smoke and no external HDs (where I would normally directly store raw footage when importing) showing up on the iMovie interface. It is a pain the arse to go back to the earlier version - why APPLE, pray tell, do you continue to lower expectations user-friendly functions. Shall try the option+open for a library but this too is extremely inconvenient if it works like iPhoto because you have to log out to log in to a new library whereas I just want to be able to see my multiple HDs directly from the iMovie menu and then the folders within folders I have layered in there - to make it easy to FIND STUFF. Wake up Apple, you are NOT meeting your customer's needs or desires.
Thanks to the posters who are helping the rest of us lost in the dark with possible solutions - free fix-its for Apple which they don't deserve.

Event date does not agree with photo dates in the event

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Iphoto 9.5.1
I have made a new event and put lots of genealogy pictures for one family member in it. I changed all the photos to Jan 4, 2002. These are docs, pics, obits, etc. Thus I have given this one person this date. Other family names have another date. I modified all the original files within each event.
Beside this couples name on the "Event" label it says Jan 3, 2002 - August 23, 2014. Therefore it shows itself in the Jan 3, 2002 group of people. That is about 20 family groups up the page.
I have done the following:
     --Made sure that there are no pictures with the date Jan 3, 2002 in the event
     --Have taken all the pictures in the event and separated them out into new events--census, certificates, pictures, obits, etc. Thought I would trick the event to restarting!
     --Did a "select-all" of that event and created a new event--same thing.
     --Closed down iPhoto and started over again.
I have no idea why the Jan 3, 2002 is showing up. These are one side of the family. The January 4 is the other side!
On August 23, 2014, I did take a couple of the cemetery pictures in this event. However, they were given the new date of January 4 and Modified the original files using the checkbox. I put the same picture in another family member's event and it is OK. I
Hope I have given enough details.

I think I have solved it! After much frustration and then writing for help, I was not to be stopped. I kept looking up other helps and one person suggested that one of the pictures might be a problem. So I tried that approach. I made an event just out of the "possible" problem pix (the August 2014 date.) It was not causing a problem in another event, however.   From that event with the same pix, I exported the pix to the desktop, and then imported the pix back into iPhoto. Then I put them into the event that was having the problem. So far so good. The date of the event matches all the dates of the photos. I will now delete the "problem children."
Maybe this will help someone else.

Order of Photos within an event

Hey all,
I've been scanning in a lot of loose photos I had laying around lately and organizing them into events, but I have some photos that are out of place within the event and I would like to group those photos together (I.E. Graduation photos: would like to keep all the marching ones next to each other and all the ones with friends/family posing together).
I thought that previous versions of iPhoto allowed me to drang and drop photos to re-order them but can't seem to figure out how to do that in iPhoto 08.
Within the event I've tried to go to View/Sort Photos/Manually, but Manual is greyed out.
Thanks for any help.

Events are meant to be a chronological. If you want free reign to move photos around, you should create an album. Albums allow you total flexibility to rearrange photos and delete some (while keeping them in the original event in the library).
There is a workaround, though, if you only want to reorder a few photos: edit the date & time the photos were taken. You can do this on any number of photos, but it's tedious. So if you have a lot of rearranging to do, then albums make way more sense. But for 1 or 2 misplaced pictures, it's worth the effort.
I, for one, don't bother with albums because I almost always want my events/rolls to reflect chronological reality. Sometimes, however, I miss a shot and go back later in the day to get it, causing it to be logically misplaced in iPhoto.
For example, when visiting a national park I always take a photo of the park's entrance sign. But sometimes the sign is obscured by a huge RV or in shadows, or sometimes I simply miss it. If I can get a good sign shot on the way out of the park, then back home in iPhoto I edit the time that shot was taken and pretend the shot was taken earlier in the day, because the sign photo makes way more sense at the beginning of the event, rather than at the end.
Let's say you want to move a photo C to fit between two other photos, A & B. You have to first look at the times A & B were both taken, and then edit C to have a date & time in between both A & B.
To edit a photo's date & time, use the "i" info pane at the lower left of iPhoto.

WPF UI running in seperate runspace - able to set/get controls via synchronized hash table, but referencing the control via the hash table from within an event handler causes both runspaces to hang.

I am trying to build a proof of concept where a WPF form is hosted in a seperate runspace and updates are handled from the primary shell/runspace. I have had some success thanks to a great article by Boe Prox, but I am having an issue I wanted to open up
to see if anyone had a suggestion.
My goals are as follows:
1.) Set control properties from the primary runspace (Completed)
2.) Get control properties from the primary runspace (Completed)
3.) Respond to WPF form events in the UI runspace from the primary runspace (Kind of broken).
I have the ability to read/write values to the form, but I am having difficulty with events. Specifically, I can fire and handle events, but the minute I try to reference the $SyncHash from within the event it appears to cause a blocking condition hanging both
runspaces. As a result, I am unable to update the form based on an event being fired by a control.
In the example below, the form is loaded and the following steps occur:
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2.) update-textbox is called and sets the Text property of the textbox.
3.) The Text value of the textbox is read by the function read-textbox and output using write-host.
4.) An event handle is registered for the SelectionChanged event for the combobox to call the update-textbox function used earlier.
5.) If you change the selection on the combobox, the shell and UI hangs as soon as $SyncHash is referenced. I suspect this is causing some sort of blocking condition from multiple threads trying to access the synchronized nature of the hash table, but I am
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[Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($XML_Node_Reader)
try{
Add-Type –AssemblyName PresentationFramework
Add-Type –AssemblyName PresentationCore
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Thanks again for the responses. This may not be possible, but I thought I would throw it out there. I appreciate your help in looking into this.
To clarify the "Respond to control events in the main runspace"... I'm would like to have an event generated by a form object in the UI runspace (ex: combo box selectionchanged event) trigger a delegate within the main runspace and have that delegate in
the main runspace update the form in the UI runspace.
ex:
1.) User changes selection on combo box generating form event
2.) Event calls delegate (which I have gotten to work)
3.) Delegate does some basic processing (works)
4.) Delegate attempts to update form in UI runspace (hangs)
As to the delegates / which runspace they are running in. I see the $synchash variable if I run get-var within a delegate, but I do not see the $Form variable so I am assuming that they are in the main runspace. Do you agree with that assumption?

When putting in "time/date" of future events, does not accept?

When putting in "time/date" of future events, does not accept?

I'd also like to ask if it's really necessary that the statuses within the status profile and date profile should maintained in the same positions.
No

How can I sort photos within an event? When I follow the Help instructions, I can sort manually in Photo format, but when I return to Event format, the original order is restored.

How can I sort photos within an event? When I follow the Help instructions, I can sort manually in Photo format, but when I return to Event format, the original order is restored.

Events are organisation for those who can't really be bothered. They are automatic - based entirely on Date and Time the camera records the photos as taken.
You can move photos between Events, you can Merge Events, you can Rename them and sort them in various ways except one: You cannot manually sort in an Event as Events are all automated.
If you want to manually sort in an Event then you've outgrown Events as an organising tool. Now it's time to look at albums (Where you can manually sort) which are much more flexible than Events as an organising tool.

HT4236 My pictures get shuffled into wrong events folders when syncing to iPad mini. Any suggestions?

My pictures get shuffled into wrong events when syncing to iPad mini. Any suggestions?

Photos are sorted by date modified when you sync from iTunes. If you have them arranged out of date sequence, they will not sync that way onto the iPad. You can read more here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4221

SAX parser splits up character data; I expected Ign. whitesp

Im am working on a XML parser for loading data from some back
end systems into an Oracle 8i database. I am using the SAX
parser for this purpose. After doing some tests with larger
amounts of XML data (> 1M), I found some unexpected behaviour.
The parser sometimes splits up character data into two chunks of
data. The XML looks as follows:
<TAGNAME> this is the character data </TAGNAME>
The parser raises the following events:
1 startElement name = "TAGNAME"
2 characters chbuf = " "
3 characters chbuf = "this is the character data "
4 endElement name = "TAGNAME"
I expected an ignorableWhitespace event at step 2. The XML
document contains repetitive tagnames. The strange thing about
the parse process is that the parser splits up the character
data only sometimes, and I can't determine any kind of logica
for this behaviour. Most occurrences of exactly the same tagname
and character data are parsed correctly (that is, as I
expected).
Am I dealing with correct behaviour here, or is it a bug??
Rolf.
null

Oracle XML Team wrote:
: Rolf van Deursen (guest) wrote:
: : Im am working on a XML parser for loading data from some
back
: : end systems into an Oracle 8i database. I am using the SAX
: : parser for this purpose. After doing some tests with larger
: : amounts of XML data (> 1M), I found some unexpected
behaviour.
: : The parser sometimes splits up character data into two
chunks
: of
: : data. The XML looks as follows:
: : <TAGNAME> this is the character data </TAGNAME>
: : The parser raises the following events:
: : 1 startElement name = "TAGNAME"
: : 2 characters chbuf = " "
: : 3 characters chbuf = "this is the character data "
: : 4 endElement name = "TAGNAME"
: : I expected an ignorableWhitespace event at step 2. The XML
: : document contains repetitive tagnames. The strange thing
about
: : the parse process is that the parser splits up the character
: : data only sometimes, and I can't determine any kind of
logica
: : for this behaviour. Most occurrences of exactly the same
: tagname
: : and character data are parsed correctly (that is, as I
: : expected).
: : Am I dealing with correct behaviour here, or is it a bug??
: : Rolf.
: The behavior is expected and correct. Could you elaborate on
why
: you would expect the parser to treat the whitespace signalled
in
: step 2 as ignorable?
: Oracle XML Team
: http://technet.oracle.com
: Oracle Technology Network
Thank you for your quick response.
In my test XML, there are about 27500 tags containing character
data. All character data starts with a whitespace character.
After parsing the xml, the whitespace of only 5 (!) tags is
treated as a seperate character event (so two character events
are raised in succession). The remaining tags all raise only ONE
character event for the entire character data. I can't explain
the difference in treatment.
null

I would like to renumber photos within an event

I want to renumber a batch of photos within an event but havent been able to find the info

Or, if you already have the photo's in an album and you just want to change names / numbering etc....
In iPhoto go to your album/s click on it / them to highlight the album/s.
Then in top menu bar select 'photos' and from from the drop down menu select 'batch change' and follow instructions below ...
Click on the "Set" pull-down menu and change it to "Title," then click on the second pull-down menu and change it to "Text." A text field will appear that you can type in a base name for all the photos, such as "Zoo" for pictures taken at the zoo. Click on the check box that reads "Append a number to each photo."
Click "OK" and iPhoto will rename each photo with the new base name and add sequential numbers to them.

IPhoto: How can I sort photos within an event? I can't figure out how to activate the Manual Sort.

iPhoto: How can I sort photos within an event. I can't figure out how to activate the Manual Sort button.

Only albums can be sorted manually. Events can only be sorted automatically according to one of the predefined settings "Date, Keywords, Title, Rating".
If you need a manual sort order, selectaall photos in the event and create an album: File > New Album

Moving scenes around within an event?

Can you rearrange scenes within an event in iMovie? I was able to import video from a mini DVD-r with an external DVD drive, but mysteriously some of the scenes got rearranged in the event. I'd like to "fix" the event so that the scenes run as they were shot.

Can you rearrange scenes within an event in iMovie?
Yes and no. If you mean by the common method of simply grabbing a clip and dragging it to a new position and dropping it, then no. Event clips are automatically arranged in a "time" sequence. If imported directly from a camcorder and if the camcorder stores the DTG (Date Time Group) in a manner correctly read by the application, then the files show in their correct order in the event which itself shows up under the correct year. On the other hand, files imported from a camcorder wholse DTGs are misread tend to show up in a randowm order whose Event may even be placed under and incorrect year heading. And lastly, all files imported at the "Finder" file level are sorted by their "File Creation" date. So to get back to your initial question, yes, it is possible to rearrange the files within an Event and to keep the Event under the correct year heading by simply modifying the the file creation date. This can be done in may ways but use of a simple and free utility like "A Better Finder Attributes" is probably the easiest way to do this.

Organizing photos within an event

Is it possible to move around or relocate photos in an event. Example, I have a lot of old family photos I have copied both sides of and would like to keep them next to each other, front side photo & back side names on photo. Thanks

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Not within an Event, no. Events are strictly based on date and time. However, make an Alnum from an Event and you can organise things as you prefer.
You can make a Album simply by dragging an Event to the word 'Albums' in the iPhoto Window. Albms take up no extra disk space. As the simply reference photos in the Library, a pic can me in many albums with no duplication.
Regards
TD

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