smitty195

Q: Where is the iPhoto library folder?

Hello,

 

I know this sounds kinda dumb, but I can no longer find the iPhoto folder that has my pictures in it. What I mean is, if I go to a Finder window and I click on "Pictures", it accurately lists all of my pictures that are on my MacBook Pro. However, there is no longer a folder there that I can open for my iPhoto pictures---instead, it's an icon of ALL of my iPhoto pictures. Does this make sense what I'm asking?

 

In other words, let's say I wanted to choose a single photo as my avatar for a certain webpage. Okay, so when the directory window opens up to allow me to navigate to the specific photo I want to use, in the past I have always clicked on "Pictures", and then I could see a FOLDER that I could click on to open it up. Once inside that folder, I saw the long list of picture categories (such as Events, Photos, Last Import, Faces, all of my custom folders, etc, etc, etc). But now, the only choice I have is to click on "iPhoto Library"---all 75 GB's of it! I don't want thousands of photos---I just want ONE. What happened to the folder that used to be there?

 

I am using iPhoto 11 (the latest updates are in it), Mountain Lion 10.8.1, and a MacBook Pro.

 

Thank you!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Sep 11, 2012 4:56 AM

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  • by Manny349,

    Manny349 Manny349 Dec 29, 2015 4:07 PM in response to smitty195
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    Dec 29, 2015 4:07 PM in response to smitty195

    On my finder, where it shows "All My Files" there's an "Images" folder. I know some of the pictures on there are from my desktop pictures, but I'm afraid of deleting all of them because I have Google Photos Backup, Flickr Backup, Photos App and still use iPhoto. Idk why it shows I have 16,000 pictures if on my Photos App, it has 30,000, and on iPhoto I have like 40,000 pictures. I'm just afraid of deleting the wrong thing and I think those pictures shouldn't be there. Ever since I noticed there was so many pictures on my Finder my Finder has been really slow whenever I scroll up or down and my Macbook Pro isn't that old. I just got it last year and it's usually Fast and Furious for everything else. Sometimes even the rainbow wheel appears when I'm on finder. I hope I'm making sense :/Screen Shot 2015-12-29 at 4.05.36 PM.png

    I just hope these are duplicates to the Google Photos App, so that I can delete them without worrying they're the only original files to iPhoto or something

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Dec 30, 2015 12:37 AM in response to Manny349
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    Dec 30, 2015 12:37 AM in response to Manny349

    The Curse of All Files and All Images and False Duplicates

     

    Never ever ever delete anything from an All Files or All Images search. Ever.

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