Duplicate iPhoto events in iPhone/iPad sync

I have the same issue. I have about 30 events in iphoto and when I sync my iphone to itunes, it divides the events into about 15 different events. If 2010 had 1000 photos, they are now in 15 different folders with between 1 and 200 in each event folder. I work at the Apple store and no one has come in yet for this issue, but I'm sure they will be appearing in droves. Very annoying and I can't solve it by going through iPhoto.

the update is available.

Thanks to the person who posted this:

NO MATTER HW SIMPLE THIS SOUNDS, IT FIXED THE GLITCH FOR ME!!!!!!!!!

I confirmed 1 photo for a face in iphoto, quit iphoto, then synced my ipad 2 !

It worked for me also!!

just did the update.... synced my iPhone....and my events ended up split again. I corrected it by going into

"sort" and changed from manual to sort by date, and now events are correct again. I'm afraid the new update didn't fix the problem. I'll try it again....

Did it fail for anyone else?

iPhoto 9.1.3 Update

This update fixes a problem that could cause some events merged in iPhoto to be split back into multiple events on iOS devices after being synced.

The update is recommended for all users of iPhoto '11.

WOOOOOOT!

Well, it fixed it unless you want to limit the events to the last 20 or 12 months or whatever. Then it will just select a bunch of Random events to sync. Half way there.

iPhoto update 9.1.3 is out !

Thank you all for your help 🙂

@leefromsbh,

That's sad! I've not updated after reverting back to 9.1.1. Can you tell us:

1. Which version of iPhoto did you update to 9.1.3, 9.1.1 or 9.1.2?
2. In iTunes while syncing your iPhone, did you select the option to sync all photos to your iPhone or just some?
3. If some, do the events in the event list already appear split, or do the splits only appear on the iPhone after syncing?
4. If the events only split on the iPhone, what did you select:
   1. Option "plus last ... events"?
   2. Albums, faces, events, or a combination of them?

Thanks,

Richard

@TheScoot,

How did you try to limit the events to "the last 20 or 12 months"? I only remember being able to select and option to include the last so-many events in addition to whatever other albums, faces and events one selects, so if you specify only that option and select nothing else, you'd be selecting a fixed number of the last events, but not whichever events took place during a fixed time.

Regards,

Richard

iPhoto has to write out the corrected version of the XML before iTunes "sees" the change. Once you sorted the Events the XML was fixed and then iTunes detected the changes. You can do the same just by launching and quitting iPhoto after the installation of 9.1.3 before you launch iTunes. I am sure you can re-sort the Events to the original sort order and you will not see duplicates.

@Richard

In the photos tab there is a drop down where you can select various options such as the last 5,10,20 Events or Photos from the last 3,6,12 Months. Things like that. Once you do that you can the select additional events from the listbox.

@TheScout,

OK. Thanks. So, for you, 9.1.3 still does not solve the problem, and you're still getting split events, right? Only on the iOS device, or also in the event list in iTunes?

Richard

Same issue here. Fourteen albums just for pics of my girlfriend, each containing a single photo. Doesn't even show some of them. My list went from 127 albums to 1,112 in seconds... iPhoto is fine itself. Maybe the XML database is messed up, I think that's the one that external programs grab at because it's easier to parse than iPhoto's library. Fix this please Apple, I didn't spend $3k on your gear just to be surprised with this "little" bug!

EDIT: Before anyone asks, yes, I have tried all the suggested solutions above in the previous posts. I do not have a backup of everything (no Time Machine setup on this machine yet, is new), just backups of my music, docs and photos themselves. I have tried restoring them as well, and deleting caches to no avail. 9.1.3 did NOT help me sadly.

EDIT2: A friend of mine (with Time Machine) reported that restarting after the update, then starting iPhoto THEN iTunes seemed to help it apply the patch 100% of the time, whereas just opening iTunes right after the patch installed rarely worked.

So the new update seemed to fix the original problem but now I have another issue.

My events are correct and everything looks great in iTunes. Now on my iPhone I have phantom photos which are not in the events/albums in iPhoto.

Example: I created an album folder called "son pics" and in there I have pics of my son. In iPhoto there are only pics of my son (btw this happens with both with newly created albums and old existing albums and some events) on iTunes it shows 25 pictures, sync, on my iPhone it shows 25 pictures but there are pictures of my Jeep, and random stuff etc. Yes about 90% of the pictures are correct but there are pictures on the iPhone in that event/album that are not in the event/album in my iPhoto.

Anyone else??

Thanks!

After the update I still having the same problem...

Apple, what are you doing?

:-(