At 7:21 PM -0800 02/08/2006, Dale Goodvin wrote:
iPhoto is an organizer and a viewer.
Couple of questions.
1. How does iPhoto know where the original image file is?
The location of the library is hard-coded.
The location of the specific image file within that library is kept
as part of an internal index/database, within iPhoto.
2. What happens if you move the orignal image file (i.e., does iPhoto
somehow automatically track the move or do you have to "tell" it what
the new file location is)?
Supposedly, iPhoto will notice the file is missing then just not
display its thumbnail anymore. On my Mac, however, iPhoto crashes.
Sometimes, after such a crash, iPhoto is totally unlaunchable. You
have to delete it's .plist etc then sit and wait forever while it
re-builds its index.
There is no way to tell iPhoto where a photo resides, if it's outside
of its ~/Pictures library.
(I have thousands of image files on my computer so this is a pretty
big deal for me!)
Ditto. That why I use GraphicConverter's browse window. But in many
cases, I've let it add the preview/thumbnails to the files, then set
that Finder window to display large icons.
Supposedly the new iPhoto can now handle libraries with more than a
few thousand files. Not sure what the limit is, but iPhoto 6, at a
local Apple Store crashed when I tried to import a test DVD of 9,000
photos.
- Dan.
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