![]() ![]() In this example, the contents of photo albums named Disney World and NYC, which are stored on the iPhoto CD, are being merged into the main Photo Library. ![]() To merge photo libraries, drag and drop albums from an iPhoto CD onto a blank spot in the Source list, or onto the Photo Library icon at the very top. You just can't drag it onto an album or to a blank spot in the Source list.įigure 14-5. You can also drag it into an iPhoto folder icon in your Source list. To copy the entire disc's contents to your current iPhoto library, drag its little CD icon onto your iPhoto Library icon (Figure 14-5). (In the Kenya safari example, you'd begin with the laptop.) One way to merge two Photo Libraries is to burn the second one onto an iPhoto CD or DVD, as described earlier in this chapter.īegin with the smaller library. Method 1: Use iPhoto CDs as Intermediaries No, merging iPhoto libraries is slightly more complicated than that. You'll wind up with duplicates or triplicates of every photo in the viewing area, in one enormous, unmanageable, uncategorized, sloshing library. You'll end up importing not only the photos, but also the tiny thumbnail versions of each photo (which are stored separately in the iPhoto Library folder) and the original versions of any photos that you edited. Your next instinct might be: "Hey, I know! I'll just drag the iPhoto Library folder from computer #1 into the iPhoto window of computer #2!"īig mistake. As a result, however, you lose all of your album organization, comments, and keywords. You certainly can combine the photos of two Macs' Photo Librariesjust export them from one (Share Export) and then import them into the other (File Add to Library). In both cases, you have the same problem: How are you supposed to merge the libraries into a single, unified one? 14.4.1. You're thrilled that you can now fit 25,000 pictures into a single librarybut you still have six old iPhoto 2 Library folders containing about 2,000 pictures each. Or, less dramatically, suppose you've just upgraded to iPhoto 5. ![]() You can't wait to transfer the new pictures into your main Photo Libraryyou know, the one on your Power Macintosh G5 with 2 gigs of RAM and a 35-inch Apple Imax Display. You're jet- lagged and dusty, but your iBook is bursting at the seams with fresh photo meat. Nothing beats Aperture.You've just arrived home from your photo safari of deepest Kenya. I have tried most software packages around for photo organizing. I do find Aperture to be more stable than iPhoto but my iPhoto experience is from before it was upgraded to use the same Library format as Aperture. I used to have just one archive and it was close to 1TB in size. I've used it for years and have way more than 100000 images and videos split into one archive per year. I'm looking for suggestions for the best image organization/archive software for Mac.Īt least with Aperture you can easily store all images as referenced files and you can write back any metadata you add to the original files.įor organizing and archiving I'm afraid you will be hard pressed to find something better than Aperture. I don't need the editing ability of LR, and see no reason to put any more faith in Aperture than in iPhoto. I don't edit in iPhoto, just organize and archive. Have you gone through your library package/folder (or a backup of it) manually to look for any image files? I backed up my RAW files on a separate drive, so I've saved that much, but made the mistake of consigning my several hundred PS and Corel Painter edited files to iPhoto and they're gone.Įven with library being toast, all your edited files should still be on disk (at least in some backups). And the Time Machine backup was also effected somehow so I can't rebuild from the backup folder. I've been using iPhoto '11 for a while, but it has crashed twice and now the Library is corrupted and even Library Manager can't rebuild it. ![]()
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