Assign a place???? - Apple Community

Nov 13, 2010 3:13 PM in response to Old Toad

Not possible to do on the big map? Big map simply for viewing only? That so lame to make us use such a teeny tiny box to place the pin and then an entire screen with no ability to adjust. What a crappy design. I cannot believe no one saw this as a problem prior to release.

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Old Toad

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Nov 13, 2010 5:25 PM in response to millionaire

Have you tried the Window ➙ Manage my Locations menu option and its window?

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Lots of room there.

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TM73

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Nov 14, 2010 10:09 AM in response to Old Toad

Hi,

I'm new Mac user and new to the Forums, but this particular discussions seemed like the closest one to discuss my iPhoto ('11) problem with Places (Locations). Hopefully I get the english terms right so you can follow this. I have to say I symphatize with everybody here having problems with iPhoto's Places, because I feel that so far the this tiny aspect of my new iMac has been the only one, which hasn't lived up to my high expectations of ease of use.

Due to the complex nature of the assigning Places I had to go and clean things out afterwards in the Manage My Locations window. During that process when moving a pin around, I somehow managed to enlarge one of the other pins to a size, which had a radius of several hundred miles. I was working on really "zoomed in" view of about a couple of miles.

This thing happened twice within 48 hours. When it happened, that newly enlarged pin (place) hijacked all the photos within that massive area and I ended up with nearly 2000 photos assigned to a location which was supposed to have about ten photos.

The worst thing was I couldn't find any way to undo this hijacking and wrongly assigned Places. It was very disappointing to notice, that the undo command didn't apply to these changes made in the Manage My Locations window, but only undid changes made in the regular iPhoto window. I also immediately made the pin's radius smaller, but the photos were permanently assigned with this wrong place.

On top of all this I'm certain that despite trying to be extra careful the second time around all this happened with just ONE WRONG CLICK. Again I was trying to drag a pin, but possible missed the handle and all this happened when I released the button. I believe the effected pin was both times the next one in alphabetical order after the one I was working on in My Locations list. Or maybe just a coincidence and had more to do with the geographical location?

Can anyone help me with my 2000 wrongly assigned Places (to possibly undo the changes or at least avoid problems in the future) and if not, I would advice to be careful when working in Manage My Locations... 😉

I'm not particularly familiar with the Time Machine, but first time around with problems I went back two hours and tried to "recover" (is this the right english term?), but Time Machine just brought all my 3600 photos to iPhoto in one nameless event. It didn't have any settings or events or anything. Maybe I don't know how to use Time Machine properly? I think I'll ring the free 90 day help line on Monday...

Thanks for all the good comments in here. They were helpful during a busy iPhoto weekend. Sorry about the long comment. Quite a complex thing in foreign language. I'll keep it shorter in the future. 🙂

TM

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Old Toad

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Nov 14, 2010 10:57 AM in response to TM73

If you mess up a pin's are size it can be reset back to it's original area as follows:

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Time Machine cannot recover a map or album or slideshow as those are virtual objects within iPhoto. The only way to recover the map or other of those items is to recover the entire library.

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TM73

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Nov 15, 2010 8:11 AM in response to Old Toad

Jep. I did resize the pin back smaller straight away, but *the hijacked assignment of nearly 2000 photos remained with the wrong pin, with no way of undoing...*

TM

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Jan 9, 2011 8:12 AM in response to Roger Willems

Yes, you can assign a new place with you own name to the pin.
I'm using iPhoto 11, take the photos, assing a place or city near your place, then drag the red pin to the new location, click the pin, it turns yellow and then it shows a place where you can write the new place.

Saludos desde Sevilla!!

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Jan 20, 2011 4:28 PM in response to Old Toad

in iPhoto 9.1, select the WINDOW pull-down menu in menus bar at the top of your screen, select MANAGE MY PLACES and then manually add every PLACE you wish to apply in your images. Once you have entered a PLACE, you will now be able to select a LOCATION or PLACE in the Info section of an individual image or event... took me a while to figure this one out...

I assume this will apply to earlier versions of iPhoto...

-Y

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May 16, 2011 5:58 AM in response to Yves Asselin

@Yves,

How do you manually add a place in the Manage My Places dialog? I can modify a place: its name, its location, its radius. I can even delete a place. But I can't search for a place, and I can't define a new one, at least, as far as I can tell.

Regards,

Richard

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UpToBat

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Aug 14, 2011 4:02 PM in response to millionaire

I agree with millionaire 100%. What was the engineers working on iPhoto thinking. I have photos with no GPS information, the menu in iPhoto 11 says assign a place to these photos; you click on this button; it brings up a large map; you locate the country on this map but there's no way to move a pin or assign these photos to this country or any other place. Question, what is the point of this, assigned a place to these photos menu?

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Nov 28, 2011 2:39 AM in response to Roger Willems

Yes, it's a very poorly executed feature. Very un-Apple. The problem is that when you see the "Assign a place" there's an arrow button beside the feature, so the tendency is to click on this arrow. Wrong!

Start typing the name of the place over the text "Assign a place" eg San Francisco, CA and the map will open with SF and a pin sitting on it. Zoom and position the pin as required.

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Nov 29, 2011 8:38 AM in response to Phelim Lunny

THANK YOU!! finally an answer... that assignment window action is extremly user un-friendly.

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PJL500

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Nov 29, 2011 9:20 AM in response to Phelim Lunny

Sheez! Now I can finally use this feature.

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sxberry

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Jan 1, 2012 4:34 AM in response to PJL500

I'm really struggling with this feature in iPhoto '11.

Some people seem to be happy that they have found a solution but I haven't. Sometimes I can reassign a position for a photo and sometimes I can't. Sometimes re-assigning a position for one photo, reasigns the position of others.

If anyone has a clear description of how the positions database in iPhoto works including the logic behind it I think that would really help.

Thanks

Simon

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PJL500

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Jan 1, 2012 4:46 AM in response to sxberry

Did you start by typing the name of the place *over* the text "Assign a place" eg San Francisco, CA and hit the arrow to the right? The map should then open with SF and a pin sitting on it. Zoom in and position the pin as required.

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Jan 3, 2012 4:22 AM in response to Roger Willems

I've tried all the suggestions here, still can't find a solution. I try to click on the pin, move it or give it a new name, but it always comes back to original position without letting me save the changes. It is a nightmare, total waste of time.

By the way, I became a Mac user a couple of years ago and was very happy because everything "worked", differently from Windows. Unfortunately it looks as though recently Apple has adopted the "upgrade fever" and keeps changing software that works into user-unfriendly stuff, so similar to the Windows environment I was glad to have quit. Too bad and a big BOOOO to Apple.

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