Graeme
As Paul has said, I am sure you will find that your photos will be in Photos and also in Events. Originally, nearly 2 years ago, I also was not happy with the way in which iPhoto sorted out my photos, and I battled (am battling) on in various ways to try and force iPhoto to put my photos where I wanted, and as I had them originally placed on my PC. Having actually lost photos right off the system (because I was trying to cut and paste as I had done on my PC) I had to accept and give in, still trying to adapt to the way the Mac handles photos. This date order that iPhoto works on is actually a nuisance to me because many of my photos have been taken from old slides; or having been scanned in from an old/new photo. iPhoto recognises the dates of these photos as the date they actually are placed into iPhotos., so old-by-date photos, when imported into an existing folder, place themselves up with the most recent-in-date photos. (No problems with dates with digital cameras). Two things that I have found of great help. One, is to work from Events, then you can place these - by dragging the folders - in the order you want them. You can also merge one folder into another when you want to, by dragging one file onto the top of another folder. EG, I have Christmas 1979, Christmas 1980, Christmas 1981; Holidays 1999, Holidays 2000; Birthdays 2000, Birthdays 2001 and so on. If I come across more Christmas 1979 photos I import these and then go into Events and add to/merge my earlier file. So each section in Events is in the order and date order that suits me. The second thing I have done (I have gone over every photo, nearly 10,000, gradually and done this, - now I do it each time I place photos by whatever method into iPhoto) - is to rename each photo. This helps greatly in the excellent search function in iPhoto. (**I have also renamed, where I think it appropriate) each "file" name. So within Family Tree Smith file (bearing in mind some of my photos areninserted from slides, or which I have scanned in) have been renamed so each individual photo reads, EG "Smith F.T. Pemberton Pool, Denis, Janet 1940's". Then I can search by Smith or by Pemberton, or by Denis, and up come my photos. It is always better to give a time frame whenever you can to save problems later, EG much better when possible to firstly show 2009-09-11; or even Sept. 2009. With really old photos I try to put at least, "1940 ish". Sometimes I have photos given to me by another person and these may have been put onto a USB stick. Then it is important to also retain the same name that your source has given to them - EG Smith F.T. Farm, Mum, Gran 1950 ft ks 115619". Partially meaningless to us, but important if we need to ask our source any questions about that particular photo at a later date. Hopefully this also will help you a little. Have fun Peta On 21/12/2009, at 10:29 PM, Paul van der Mey wrote: > > Graeme > > My experience with iPhoto is that all the images appear in Photos AND Events. > The difference being that Events groups the photos by time (the default on > import?, Go to iPhoto -> Preferences -> Events to see the other options) > > Go to the events view and slowly drag across one of the images. You should > see a slide show of the images in that Event. Double click to view the images > in the Event. > You should find all Events are groups of images taken on the same day. > > It is possible to turn the auto-splitting on import function off when > importing from the finder (a check box in the Event Preferences) in which > case you would see events as folder names that have been imported. > > Thank you > > Paul van der Mey > [email protected] > Mob. 0419 201 477 > > > > > On 21/12/2009, at 5:48 PM, Graeme Winters wrote: > >> >> Greetings to all >> >> As a very recent Imac user I transferred all of My Photos from my PC to the >> new Mac using a Belkin Switch to Cable system and everything appears to have >> come across. >> I had many years of photos on my old PC and the transfer took some time >> I had over a 100 folders including many from a recent trip to Europe. These >> most recent photos were taken on a Canon and a Fuji. >> >> The Canon downloaded all pictures neatly into folders according to the date >> the photo was taken whereas the Fuji did not and I then sorted each Fuji >> download into folders according to the town or place we visited over 70 >> days. There was nearly 9Gb of photos from this recent trip >> >> >> Curious thing now is that a great number of My Pictures have ended up in >> Photos and the rest in Events >> It does appear as though the Mac may have decided that if the folder was the >> name of a person then those photos went into Photos and if the folder was >> named say by a location then this lot went into Events. This was not the >> case in 100% of cases but simply a guess on my part at the moment >> >> Those photos now in Photos appear also to be sorted by the date the photo >> was taken. >> >> Result is of course that in trying to create a DVD the search is quite >> difficult >> >> Not sure where to go next >> If I could transfer all the Events group into Photos I may at least have >> these then sorted by date which would be a help >> >> Next time I think we will just use one camera rather than 2 >> >> Graeme >> IMac 27 >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
