iPhoto 9.1.2 splitting events in iOS

Hi esther - restoring was very simple - I opened time machine and selected iphoto from applications prior to the update. Once I had highlighted iphoto I then clicked on restore and the iphoto icon floated back to todays desktop and reinstalled - giving the option to keep or replace the current version ( I replaced the current version). After about 2 minutes the process was complete, and when I opened iphoto all photos, events, and albums made before and after the update were present and correct

I can confirm the problem with merged events. I hope this will be fixed soon.

I have sent feedback to Apple as well.

Dear esther pennant hills.

Actually, you have some misunderstandings.

iPhoto application and the library are stored separatedly so restoring the iPhoto 9.1.1 never affect your precious pictures. 🙂

Of course, Apple should fix this serious bug A.S.A.P. with 9.1.3 update but for now, we can use this workaround.

FIY, the application is stored in Applications folder of your account, and the library is stored in Pictures folder of your account.

Same problem here. I think it is more an iTunes issue, because when I look at the iPhoto Library from an other application (via File - Open/Import - Photo - iPhoto - Events) I don't see this duplicate events.

It seems that Apple is not really testing an update before releasing. iPhoto was updated recently, iTunes also. They didn't test syncing photos to iOS. I'm wondering - would this embarrassing error also happen to other, often criticized companies, e.g. Microsoft?

greetings

michael

Thank you Netimoon and duncansby for the help and instructions. I am really relieved though problem is not yet resolved from Apple.

While browsing, noticed another thread may be talking about same thing:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3025390

Those interested may want to read just for more understanding.

This has completely wrecked my AppleTV experience - my events and albums are all over the place.

Please Apple fix it soon!

Major fail. I use events alot and now my iphone is a mess. Please fix it now!

I have the same - or perhaps a similar - problem. Although I have had an iPad (1) since they were released in the UK, I am new to Mac. Until a week or two ago I have synced my photos to a PC. On my iPad they were all arranged neatly in albums, apart from those saved directly on the iPad or loaded onto it through the camera connector which all went into their own separate albums. I have just bought an iMac and have all the latest software installed - eg

iPhoto 9.1.2

Mac OS X 10.6.7

iTunes 10.2.2

I copied all my photos from my onto an external hard drive and then copied them into iPhoto. I then spent an hour or two sorting them into 34 separate events, each individually named. This involved selecting certain photos from some events created (by date, usually) in iPhoto when loading the photos, and merging them with another event. I also deleted a number of photos I did not want. When I was happy with the way it all looked in iPhoto, I then synced my iPad selecting “Sync all photos...etc”. The resulting structure on my iPad was quite weird. All of my albums have disappeared apart from those titled “All Imported” and “Saved Photos”. The 34 events in iPhoto have appeared under the “Events” tab. But so have an additional 17 Events named “100IMPRT”, “101IMPRT” to “117IMPRT”. These additional events appear to contain:

1. the photos that I have moved and merged with different events in iPhoto (they are duplicated in the folder into which I have moved them,
2. video clips which were originally part of my iPad albums. The video clips appear in the named events in iPhoto on my Mac, but have been removed from the events on syncing into my iPad. They appear to have been replaced by a photo of the initial frame of the clip which appears in event on my iPad with the clip itself moved to one of the “1xxIMPRT” events. Interestingly the still photo which is the first frame of the video clip appears in the event in iPhoto immediately preceding the clip itself.
3. photos I deleted from iPhoto when cleaning up and ordering my events after downloading the pix from the external drive. These no longer appear in iPhoto.

Any views as to whether this is the same bug or whether there is another explanation (which may well be the case as I am brand new to Mac) gratefully received.

Hey all, on my macbook pro everything worked great before updating iphoto on the 4/29

first i thought i did something wrong but i guess it's not my fault after all...

any new update from apple ?

i have 300 events on my iphone, normally i have 49.....apple engineers please do something !!!

thx!

I have also confirmed and sent to apple the issue here. However I was able to fix it, since it is only on Merged Events, i dragged those photo's out of iPhoto and dropped them on the desktop. Closed iTunes, deleted the merged event in iPhoto, made a new untitled folder on the desktop and dropped those photos in it. re-open iPhoto and drag that folder to iPhoto, it then sees it as a "new" event created today and puts them all in the same event. Opened iTunes and it sees that event as a single new event. I know its a pain but it is a work around for some of the smaller events I have. Hope this helps some of you, good luck.

CJ

Hey CJ,

I posted the same "fix" earlier, and I can attest it does work, but it's definitely a temporary work around for now. Glad it's working for you too, hopefully others can read your post as well, and find it helpful. Cheers

-Neel

This is probably only a fix if you haven't invested a lot of time in and energy in the photos that you delete, e.g., assigning them new, custom locations.

No, for me this isn't the solution, and I am growing quite tired of these upgrades that seem to fix some things and break others. Seems like Apple should be doing better regression testing on the updates before releasing them.

Richard

Sorry, meant to post this response in the linked discussion...

The thread mentioned by esther pennant hills (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3025390) IS discussing the same issue and I recommend checking it out as well. A lot of different solutions have been tried and it appears that they are temporary at best. I think it will be helpful to those on this thread.