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ftoledo Author

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iPhoto 9.1.2 splitting events in iOS

Hello,

I upgraded yesterday to iPhoto 9.1.2 and after synching my iOS devices like I normally do with iTunes, I noticed my events in iOS are split into several events with the same name, but in iPhoto they show up as only one event.

For example I have an event in iPhoto labeled "Lake Tahoe 2009" and when I see events in my iOS devices (iPhone 4 and iPad 1) the event is split into:

- Lake Tahoe 2009 (145)

- Lake Tahoe 2009 (10)

- Lake Tahoe 2009 (1)

- Lake Tahoe 2009 (5)

All together they contain all the photos from that event, but I don't understand why it's splitting the event into so many. Some events are split into as many as 15 events with the same name all containing some photos of that event.

Moreover, when I see my device in iTunes, in the Photos section, I originally had it set to "Sync Photos from iPhoto - All photos, albums, events and faces". if I change it to "Selected albums, events, and faces" I get a list with all the duplicated events. (see screenshot)

You see all those repeated events? Again, in my iPhoto application, the events show up as a single one, instead of multiple copies with the same name and only a section of the photos.

This started happening when I updated to iPhoto 9.1.2

iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Apr 27, 2011 9:20 AM

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ftoledo Author

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May 6, 2011 8:54 AM in response to jpatrickn

THAT'S IT! Sorting events manually is what makes it go haywire.

That's probably why this issue is not going mainstream either, it is not happening to anyone who hasn't tried to sort their events manually. As soon as you sort your events by date, Events appear correctly in iTunes under "Selected albums, events, and faces" and also on iOS devices.

Good call jpatrickn! Oh well, I'll have my events sorted by date until Apple fixes this weirdness.

ftoledo Author

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May 6, 2011 9:41 AM in response to ftoledo

Sadly, it seems to only work until you make another modification to any event and then they are messed up again. I just adjusted the time of a couple of photos, synched again and my events were all split like before. I Reset Manuel Sort, and then Sorted by Date again, synched again and now they are displaying fine.

*sigh*

May 6, 2011 10:33 AM in response to ftoledo

Yes - same here with 4.3.3 - had to delete "ipod Photo cache" - sorted events by date - synched fine, with merged events showing properly - then changed sort order in Iphoto and Itunes events list all over the place, with merged events split again.

*sigh as well*

May 6, 2011 11:45 AM in response to ftoledo

The sad song here is that we all are trying workarounds for a PROBLEM CREATED by APPLE and they do not give an *** RAT for this.

May 6, 2011 12:33 PM in response to PauloGuedes

The only work around that doesn't require working around every time you sync -- and the backup that syncing performs is one good reason for syncing before the next update -- is to restore iPhoto 9.1.1 and your iPhoto Library of the same date from Time Machine, then sync your iOS devices and get on with life. No, there is no guarantee that reverting to iPhoto 9.1.1 and to the iPhoto Library that you were using at that time won't screw things up. After all, the photo library isn't the only place that iPhoto writes to. It also stores your preferences in some .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences, and if iPhoto 9.1.2 changed some of those to values which 9.1.1 doesn't understand ...

Anyway, if you catch any screw up soon enough, you can always update iPhoto to 9.1.2 and restore the iPhoto Library that you're now using. I did what I'm recommending here. I have more than 18,000 photos in the iPhoto library, and when iTunes synched my iPad 1 (the whole library) and my iPhone 3GS (selection of events) for the first time after the big switcheroo, it had to erase the photos from both devices first, then optimize the photos for each device before finally copying them. That took a long time. But from now on, if I'm lucky, I don't have to waste anymore time on this problem. Besides, iPhoto 9.1.2 didn't even address the problems (with Places) that urgently need Apple's attention, so I'm not missing out on anything that iPhoto 9.1.2 does (correctly) that 9.1.1 didn't (at all).

Regards,

Richard

May 6, 2011 12:36 PM in response to ftoledo

@ftoledo,

I had the problem before reverting back to iPhoto 9.1.1 (as described elsewhere in this thread), and I did not sort my events manually.

Regards,

Richard

MikeyF74

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May 7, 2011 1:22 PM in response to jpatrickn

Wow, GREAT!

It work's for me.

Thank's a lot!!

greetings

michael

May 7, 2011 6:43 PM in response to MHP493

Thanx for the advice it fixed my events

jc_nyc

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May 8, 2011 5:45 PM in response to MHP493

Sometimes it worked for me and sometimes it doesn't. When I'm in iPhoto and my iphone appears on the left as a device, if i select the iPhone and look at View, the sort options are there, and are set differently than they are if I select events. So - I tried this trick both places, and then ituned, and it worked.

But please, friends at Apple, let's get this fixed properly!!!

Davey155

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May 9, 2011 1:37 AM in response to MHP493

Thanks!

This worked for me too 🙂

May 9, 2011 8:14 AM in response to ftoledo

I went back to iphoto 9.1.1 and all the event sync problems are gone. I hope that 9.1.3 will correct the split problem

May 10, 2011 6:18 AM in response to ftoledo

I removed all my photos from my phone, deleted the iPod Photo Cache (http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1314), rebuilt my iPhoto library (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2638), and then sycn'd.... that fixed it for me... at least for now.

May 11, 2011 12:09 PM in response to ftoledo

For what its worth I have just done an update as well and the same thing has happened to me. I spoke with Apple Support and he told me that it was an iphoto issues because he had never heard of it before.

Hope the do a fix soon.