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Weblog:   iPhoto Takes a Backseat to Music Again
Subject:   Roll info and thumbnails disappearing in iPhoto
Date:   2004-01-17 14:28:01
From:   wendellooby
When I passed 3000 photos in the previous version of iPhoto, it progressively got slower and slower until it was unworkable. It wouldn't crash, but would just sit and do nothing with the spinning rainbow. I had nearly 5000 photos in it...then when I opened it one day, all the latest rolls (about 2000 photos) had disappeared (both thumbnails and info). After having a coronary, I did find that the photos still existed in the Byzantine, multiple-personality disordered iPhoto Library folder. Only the rolls have been "erased" in the iPhoto display, and iPhoto says I only have 3000 photos. If I try to export, it says I only have 3000 photos...the only way I've found to get the lost photos is to go into the individual Library folders one at a time and open or copy them.
I need to move to a pro app like iView Media Pro or Portforlio, but first I'm trying to find out if I can reconstitute my "rolls" in iPhoto. Otherwise I'll have to go thru each and every Library folder to find the photos, figure out their date, reorganize them into roll groups, etc. This could take days and weeks, because of iPhoto's bizarre filing structure.
I installed iPhoto 4 hoping it would solve my problem. While the new version is way faster, it didn't rediscover my rolls. Though it did start numbering new rolls picking up where it left off...meaning it must sort of remember the numbering of my rolls at least.
Also, what's the difference between Portfolio and iView Media? And do these programs store the photos in the same jumbled library system, or just read them from existing folders? Are there any file formats these programs can't read?
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  • Derrick Story photo RE: Roll info and thumbnails disappearing in iPhoto
    2004-01-18 09:26:45  Derrick Story | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [View]

    Well, I'm not surprised that iPhoto 4 couldn't fix your earlier data corruption problem. But my guess is that we will hear fewer of these stories with the current version.

    As for iView and Portfolio, I'm most familiar with iView, and it doesn't create the folder structure you expressed dislike for with iPhoto. You have control of the picture folder structure.

    iView is a good app, and I speak positively of it often. But personally, I'm not ready to give up on iPhoto, especially with the progress its showing. Yes, I want Apple to move faster with it, but believe me, they're not finished with iPhoto yet, not by a long shot.
    • RE: Roll info and thumbnails disappearing in iPhoto
      2004-01-20 07:34:55  anonymous2 [View]

      I have a similar problem. I launched iphoto4 and viewed my pictures, made a new album (sons wedding pictures) and then made the mistake of opening iphotolibrarian 1.1 which "upgraded" my pictures making them all disappear so that when I reopened iphoto, I had 0 pictures. I went to my pictures folder and the album and other pictures are still there under iphotolibrarianQ but that won't open and usually results in iphoto either crashing or hanging up. When I tried to import the pictures into iphoto I got a message the files were unreadable. How can I open these important pictures?? Thanks. Jerry Kuhn
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