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Manage my places problem

places is great feature since I know it from the past. However, when I click on Windows-Manage my places, there is a list of places I've created. However, most of them are there multiply (10, 20, 30 times). It seems like it's a list of places of each picture? Why is that? I usually click on even, assign one place, so why there is not the place just one time?

MacBook Pro 15.4'', iPhone 3G, Airport Express 802.11n, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 25, 2010 5:48 AM

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Grard92

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Feb 1, 2012 5:15 AM in response to trendyboy

I think that I have found a solution:

If you have 20 photos (for example) to locate in a new place in iPhoto, just select one photo of them, locate it. Then, select the 19 rest of photos and search for the place you've created and add them. That way it seem to be no multiplicity in locations.

Tompert

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Jun 27, 2014 4:15 AM in response to jakudo

I have the same issue. But I am noticing that it involves places with foreign characters or accents in the names. Could it be that the bug is that Places has been implemented with just the basic English alphabet? When I rename a place, say "My First Home" to use only basic letters, no umlauts or accents and assign that place to multiple pictures it works fine and stays as one entry in "Manage My Places" But the ones that have 10, 20 or more duplicates all seem to involve characters like "ß" in Straße or something like that. Can you guys look at yours and let me know if you find this to be at the root of your issue as well? Thanks!

frestah

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Mar 27, 2015 2:57 PM in response to Tompert

Yes, it seems to be an encoding bug. If adding a place with a non-english letter in it to several photos duplicates are created. Also, it is not possible to search your own places using non-english characters. The work-around I've found is the following:

1. Flag the photos with a given place just to make sure you can find them later if you make a mistake.

2. Delete all instances of the place in "my places".

3. Search and add the place to just one photo.

4. Select the rest of the photos.

5. Search for your selected place and add it.

Note: you cannot use non-english characters in the search in step 5, because then your previously added place won't be found and all hits will be new, and selecting any of them will give duplicates again. Most places have at least some english letters in sequence, if not there is no other way than to rename your place to something more "anglified" I'm afraid. I guess you could name it eg. XYZZY and then change it back to the original name after assigning all photos, I haven't tried that.

A rather annoying bug indeed. I guess I'm lucky that I didn't get more than a few dozen duplicates...

Manage my places problem