reorganising an iPhoto collection

[Peter Blake]

a friend of mine has asked me to reorganise her iPhoto library, eliminating duplicates amongst other as yet un-named tasks. I have never used iPhoto; is there any kind of app or program which can help me in this task?

cheers

 

[Pete Askew]

iPhoto is pretty intuitive and, once you have decided on how to sub-divide the images by Events etc, I don't expect you'll have any problems. Getting shot of duplicates will probably need an external programme though and the one I've used is from Araxis - Find Duplicate Files for Mac OS X It did a great job of sorting out my master image files.

 

[Stephen McCullough]

Hi
I don't use iPhoto much, but everyone else in the family does so I am familiar with fixes.

As Pete has said, removing duplicates is a good start. There are a number of programs for doing this, like the one he mentions.

If you quit iPhoto, then restart holding down the Option and Command keys, a dialogue with some fixes will appear. Run through these. Be patient as it will take some time.

If the iPhoto library is large and the Mac is a couple of years old, it can be worth having a new iPhoto library. You don't lose the old one. Just quit iPhoto, and restart holding down Option. You can then create a new Library. Just call it iPhoto Library 2. This will give faster overall operation.

To return to the original library at any time, just restart iPhoto with Option held down, and select the original Library.

 

[Peter Blake]

thanks. the Araxis programme looks useful

 

[Pete Askew]

It is. It's amazing what crapp it finds!