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#1 2008-10-06 9:54 am
- Oliver Timm
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Importing folder to iphoto
Hello,
I saved all my picture on an external harddisk. All picture are seperated in different folders. When I want to import these folders to Iphoto, I get all pictures importet but without the folders. So all my pictures are stored in "All images"mixed up without any folders. I agree that iphoto creates albums in iphoto but I still want to have the pictures subfiled in folders. Is this possible??
Thanks for any help.
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#2 2008-10-06 10:13 am
- Fracai
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Re: Importing folder to iphoto
If you organize the images into events they will be sorted in the events view, and on disk, by the event names.
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#3 2008-10-06 10:31 am
- Oliver Timm
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Re: Importing folder to iphoto
That sounds good. But how can I do this? I just switched from Windows and use iphoto the first time. I am at them moment marking my picture folder on my harddisk and drag it on the task bar of iphoto. The pictures get importet and an album is creatd in iphoto. What is the difference between an album and an event.
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#4 2008-10-06 10:54 am
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Re: Importing folder to iphoto
An event is sorted by time. If you took a bunch of pictures from 10 am to 11 am yesterday, iPhoto makes a guess that these are all the same event. You can edit events also (move photos in and out of an event), as I understand.
Albums are created strictly by you.
Welcome to the Forum. Sooner or later, we will move this to the regular help section "everyday tech" --- I don't like to move threads until a new user is used to the forum.
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#5 2008-10-06 11:04 am
- Oliver Timm
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Re: Importing folder to iphoto
Sorry for the wrong posting. I thought I am correct in this section. Will be more carefull next time.
I understood the difference of Album and Events now. Is there a possibility to import my folders from the external harddisk, keeping my folders on my Mac Book and give then the albums in iphoto the same name as my importet folders?
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#6 2008-10-06 3:51 pm
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Re: Importing folder to iphoto
Oliver Timm wrote:
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I understood the difference of Album and Events now. Is there a possibility to import my folders from the external harddisk, keeping my folders on my Mac Book and give then the albums in iphoto the same name as my importet folders?
I don't think so (but I'm willing to be proved wrong). iPhoto seems to be oriented to sort photos by date when they are added to iPhoto. Within iPhoto you can combine Keywords and Smart Albums to create sorting within iPhoto: thus adding the keywords "2008," "Jim," "birthday" and "party" to a set of pictures you can have iPhoto dynamically add them to a Smart Album which have all of those keywords.
Since you apparently do not have your photos in date order, you might consider using another program. I understand GraphicConverter has some good browsing features (although you will have to ask others about this--I use GC more for its photo editing capabilities). $34.95 / 29.95€ shareware.
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#7 2008-10-09 9:07 am
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Re: Importing folder to iphoto
To keep your organization, you will need to import folder by folder. Pain, I know, but that is the way to keep the organization you had. Then each folder will be its own event. You can move photos around from event to event if you wish, and you can make albums for even more organization.
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#8 2009-08-07 6:10 pm
- vampyren
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Re: Importing folder to iphoto
I just migrated to OSX myself and confronted the same problem and playing around with the library i found out that if i drag the folders from my external drive to iPhoto then iPhoto creates events and looking into the iPhoto library i see links to the real location (my external drive) which is good.
Although you have too disable the option called "Copy photos to iPhoto library" from the iPhoto preferences menu.
To be honest i'm suppried how smart iPhoto detect the files and update the links when i move them from folder to another location. Since iPhoto only uses links your library will be very small and photos will remain on the external HD (my netgear NAS in my case)
hope this helps you a bit.
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