Comments on: New iPhoto ‘08 Library Tip

By: Jamber

Jamber — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:39:48 +0000

Wait. I do have a pictures folder in iphoto. I tried that also. Nothing.

By: Jamber

Jamber — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:38:53 +0000

I tried making aliases because I really miss the way iphoto used to allow me to access photos.
I tried dropping the aliases into the pictures folder in the finder window. I don’t have a pictures folder in the iphoto library window.

Its not working. What can I be doing wrong?

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:01:23 +0000

My Iphoto library is 92GB plus big. When i delete out of I photo, do the pictures still remain in Iphoto Library? I have all of my pictures backed up and then I delete them to free up more space.

By: TR

TR — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:30:30 +0000

Is there anyway to open iPhoto library for uploading pictures to Flickr? So far I’m unable to open the contents. I wanted to upload photos from the “modified” folder. (when I upload directly from iPhoto, it does not upload the changes made to the photo, despite the fact that the thumbnail shows the changes.)

By: Jairo Benavides

Jairo Benavides — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:30:00 +0000

Thank you so much for the tip. As almost everyone else I hated not to be able to access my photos on that folder.
:)

By: Software Tips

Software Tips — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:37:54 +0000

Although no new applications have been added to iLife 09, Apple claim it features: “Major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand, and includes iDVD and an updated version of iWeb.” At around $80 for the upgrade however, is it really worth it?

By: Software Tips

Software Tips — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:31:23 +0000

iLife 09 will be on general release at the end of January.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:06:13 +0000

For those saying the alias doesn’t work: Don’t point the alias at the iPhoto Library folder. Point it at the Originals folder inside the iPhoto Library. So the command is like this:

$ ln -s ~/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/Originals ~/Pictures/iPhoto\ Originals

By: Karey Kumli

Karey Kumli — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:12:41 +0000

I have my fingers crossed that you can go one step further and tell me how to use the information accessed to reinstate the albums in iPhoto 6.

In using my collegue’s new computer (OS 10.5), I moved our >4000 manta ray photo-ID files into the new iPhoto while my computer was being upgraded to OS 10.4 – and backed up over the old iPhoto library. I did first look to see if the new iPhoto version was compatible with OS 10.4, and yes it is, but I have to BUY it with a lot of things I don’t need. More importantly, I don’t want hidden files. We’ve downgraded my colleague’s iPhoto to v.6 so we’re once again compatible, but the albums are in la-la land. The files are intact in their original folders, according to photographer, date & location – but with the albums we were able to group the animals by color pattern, by features like wounds and eyes, and to group all the images of each animal that was seen more than once, etc. etc.

You’ve gotten me to folder visibility again, thanks so much, I think… For the other shoe to drop, I neeeeed the photos to be sorted into the albums we spent years to develop! Can we entice the “found” new library to have a chat with iPhoto 6 so that the albums can be restored?

By: Ajit

Ajit — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:11:52 +0000

This is a great tip, but no such package appears on my hard drive! I know that the photos are being stored somewhere because I can see them in iPhoto, but there’s no package called “iPhoto Library” or any file with the extension .pkg that has the photos in it…Anyone have any ideas on that? I looked inside the contents of iPhoto itself, but there wasn’t anything there.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:28:56 +0000

@ tony: doesn’t work for my neither. Alias folder does the same thing as iphoto folder. Tony, did you find a solution?

By: mike

mike — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:29:08 +0000

Does anyone know how to get around this issue when uploading pics to picture printing web sites like snapfish.com? I tried creating the aliases, which work to allow me to see the contents in Finder, but the snapfish upload utility still does not allow me to see or select anything in that folder (similar to what it does for the iPhoto Library).

Thanks

By: zack

zack — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:32:08 +0000

why not just create and ” ALIAS ” in your pictures folder for the originals directory? Then it will be a seamless transition.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:21:10 +0000

Wow, this just saved me hours of time in order to finish a final project! Some how my iPhoto ‘08 library was corrupted, and now I can recover the pictures that I absolutely need, now.

By: Fred Leonard

Fred Leonard — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:20:12 +0000

I liked the new format until I started thinking about something…
I don’t mind right-clicking and showing the contents, but here’s my thought;
I just started using Time Machine, so now, if I change 1 photo in a several gig library, is Time Machine going to backup the one photo from the package, or the several gig library package?
This is something Apple may have overlooked.

By: Pedro Vit

Pedro Vit — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:33:20 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tip
Just didnt know what was wrong and thought I had to search for my pictures God knows where!!!
It now works perfectly

By: tony

tony — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:11:42 +0000

Great tip, but still dosent work for me. The alias folder does the same thing that the iphoto library package does…. what am i doing wrong?

By: Stacia

Stacia — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:48:47 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I started pulling my hair out this morning when I went to access some modified images and didn’t have a chance to Google the frustration till now. Your tip came right up!

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:56:41 +0000

Great tip, but how do I change the name of the files. For some reason the name is greyed out.

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:43:36 +0000

good tip… theres also another work around that I use to use even in the old iPhoto. Just find the photo you want through iPhoto, and drag it to the desktop (or any other folder) and you will then have another copy of that photo in the file system, which is then accessible from any other application.