Which albums is a photo in?

In iPhoto, there is a Search box in the lower-right corner of the iPhoto window. That helps me search for a photo by name. If I have View -> Film Rolls enabled, then I can see what film roll the photo belongs to. That's great.
However, it's not what I'm trying to accomplish.
Does anybody know if there is a way to find out which iPhoto albums the photo has been put into?
That is, if I add a photo to a number of albums, is there a way to find out which albums it belongs to?

At this point there is no way. That would make a good feedback subject at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html. The more hits the better.

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No there isn't.
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Hello all,
Hopefully this is a simple question. When looking through the photo library, how do I tell which album, if any, a particular photo is currently in?
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Hi, Scott. In iPhoto 4 (and, I presume, earlier versions), you have to open the albums and look for the picture in them. It's not very convenient, but there it is.
Of course if you've constructed your albums so each one has some theme or subject, you probably won't have to look through many different albums to find all the ones in which a given picture appears.
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Apart from the right-mouse click and then "remove from album ...".

In organizer, go to 'View' menu and mark check the option 'Details'
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Dragging photos from the desktop to the "Photos" Library doesn't by default place them in an album or something right?
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Library getting bigger and bigger.
To me it would be very useful sometimes to find out in which album a certain foto has been included, already. I tend to forget.
Since there is a database concept behind iphoto this should be easy. But how? Any clue?
Click a foto in the Library, press a key and there is a list of all Albums where the photo is included. Can even select an Album and press delete if I dont want the photo to be there anymore. Am I dreaming?
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If you named your photos instead of just the default number from the camera you would be able to search for it.

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Is there a way to know which albums a photo has already been added to? For example - if I have one photo in my library in several albums, is there a way to get a list of which albums that photo is in?
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Hi Lori,
Not an easy way, but there is a way.
Highlight each album, select all in the album, give a keyword for that album to all the images.
Do this for each album.
You have to keep the keywords short but descriptive for the album
Now when you view the images in the library you can see by what keyword is assigned what albums they are in.
This is also a good feedback to send to Apple for this feature. I have already sent feedback.

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You can select a photo and click the triangle in the lower right corner. Then select "Show event".
To show the image file in the Finder use the "File" menu in iPhoto: File > Reveal in Finder.
But there is no direct way back to the albums. To find the photo in the albums you could use unique keywords for each album or flag the photo, then filter the abum you are interested in.
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Léonie

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I have the same photo in multiple albums. when I interrogate the photo it does not indicate which albums it is in. Elements 9 did this. what rick am I missing? Tks - Darrell

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Photoshop Elements questions are best answered in the Photoshop Elements Forum here, but I do have a good working knowledge of Photoshop Elements as well as Premiere Elements. So, let me see if my answer here will help.
Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 11 are standalone programs and each has an Elements Organizer. When they are both on the same computer, they possess the intergration perk of sharing the same catalog/database.
Thumbnails that you see in the Elements Organizer 11 (with or without albums) trace back to the hard drive save location for the originals. Thumbnail information is stored in a database/catalog.
When you decide to delete a thumbnail from the catalog, you also get the option to delete the original on the hard drive as well as the thumbnail in the Organizer (with or without albums).
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If it is decided that the photo is not required in a particular album any longer, how can you decide with certainty whether the photo can be deleted from the catalogue and the drive?
It depends on how you respond to the Confirm Deletion from Catalog dialog and that the program does not malfunction in some unexpected and unexplained way. Right now I am fighting a problem with the Photoshop Elements 11 Elements Organizer wherein it refuses to delete certain thumbnails and hits me with an "Unexpected Error has occurred" message. Still working out that matter.
Are you referring to a situation where you have the same photo in several different albums and you delete the photo from just one of the albums? The message that you get at such a time states deletion from the catalog. I have found that in such a case, the thumbnail representing that photo is deleted from all the albums containing it since they all trace back to one hard drive saved original. If I do not select "Also delete selected item(s) from the hard disk", then I still have the original in its hard drive save location, and it can be reimported in the Elements Organizer at another time if needed.
I am not sure that I picked up on the "...with certainty.." part of your question. So, please let me know if I have targeted your question.
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Photo in which album?

Does anyone knows how to find out to which album a certain image belongs?
Aperture can "show in Finder" or "show in project" but, as far as I know, not "show in album(s)".
For me this is a serious issue. How to know in which album(s) a picture has been stored?
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The use of keywords is a good idea. The script I wrote while a bit slow works and will show all the albums an image is in.
The major drawback to a keyword solution is that the keyword must be added manually, there is no automatic keyword addition.
One problem I've always has with regular albums in Aperture is that there is no way to add a selection to an existing album other than dragging. You can add a selection to a new album but not to an existing album.
To overcome this I created a set of scripts that implement a Target Album/Quick collection paradigm. An album is designated as the destination album and then the selection can be directly added to that album. The script could easily be changed to add the album name as a keyword to the selection as the images are added to the album.
If your interested see Aperture Service: Target Album/Quick Collection
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