Duplicate iPhoto events in iPhone/iPad sync

I am not sure what happened. I synced and backed up my iPad this morning and it "auto" fixed everything.

1. It corrected all my iPhoto events in iTunes into a single event.

2. Synced all my events "back" into a single event on my iPad.

Hopefully this works for everyone elese.

No updae for iTunes or iPhoto was needed, it synced and corrected itself.

I have the same problem here.

But here what's interesting:

I was doing 2 thing on iPhoto: completing all faces, changing some photo date.

After that I closed and started iPhoto.

When I plugged my iPad, I saw that photos were uploading ... the duplicated events in iTunes were gone.

So it seems that the bug is not iTunes only...

Disregard-

I re-sycned again and it "broke" all my events in iTunes and on my iPad again! Still a bug issue that requires either an iPhoto and or iTunes update.

😟

Has anyone tried to uninstall then reinstall iLife? I had to reinstall iLife 11 and I just didnt update...haven't been able to test bc I've been at Labor and Delivery for the past 17hrs with my wife...

Same problem here. I talked to Apple technical support and they are aware of the problem and of this thread. It does seem to be related to the recent software upgrades.

@Gary86,

Someone above did reinstall iLife but did so because for an unrelated larger issue that necessitated a complete reinstall of OSX. At that point, they just didn't update iPhoto beyond what was on their original install disks. This method is, obviously, extreme and I don't think the person would have done it just to fix the duplicate Event issue; I know I wouldn't especially since Apple is supposed to be working on a fix.

That said, an easier solution was proposed by someone else by using Time Machine to revert to the 9.2.0 version of iPhoto. Personally, I don't recommend that either because it might mess with future software updates since if you grab the iPhoto.app package from finder using Time Machine you will still have "Receipt.pkg" files in your Macintosh HD/ folders from subsequent iPhoto versions. Software Update might be smart enough to disregard this, but who the heck knows?

For the time being...continuing to add to this thread may be our best option.

1) It keeps Apple abreast of how broad the issue is, especially as new "sufferers" add their experience.

2) Someone may identify a magical workaround...here's hoping

3) Public service to those who haven't yet updated to iPhoto 9.2.1, aka folks smarter/more wary than us 🙂

Anyway...my continued 2 cents...

@rwross

That was me that had to do the clean install...I was just saying that would work for the time being until Apple gets around to it...or like you said use a time machine backup

Throwing my hat in the ring.

I was also accustomed to my Events in iTunes sync being sorted alphabetically (like my iPhoto library), and they are now sorted by Date. In addition to having duplicates of many of the events.

Just an obnoxious bug 😐

Removing the iPod Cache and re-loading 11,000 pictures did nothing to solve this. (That was a waste of an afternoon.) I'm thankful for the forum...that I'm not the only one experiencing this issue...hope a clean resolution will come quickly. I need clean, complete synched Events to share with my clients on a regular basis when I don't have my Macbook with me.

Same here, pretty anoying bug...

This happened to me too! I placed a posted at macrumors.com a few days ago and was subsequently directed here. This is very frustrating, because this is the interface between my Mac computers & iDevices. Apple needs to get on the ball on this one. I'm running current versions of everything. This is definitely a bug.

I am having the same issue. I HATE it! Please Apple fix this!! 😟

Hey all I also contacted support but they seemed to have no idea! After a 50min phone call!

After deleting and playing around I worked out it is to do with syncing my ipad....

I opened iPhoto and played around with some photo's swapping into different events and changing event names, And closed iPhoto down and loaded up iTunes and plugged both iPhones in 3gs and 4g and everything was back to normal... Then i plugged my ipad in and i watched my 40 events turn into 500 events again!

I replicated my playing around with the iPhoto and synced my phones and all back to normal again...

So im not going to sync my iPad again until they fix this problem.....

Mine is associated with an iPhone 4, so it isn't specific to iPads.

Ironic that sync doesn't mean sync. So much for 'convenient' interface. 133 Events in iPhoto turn into 289 Events on my iPhone. I analyzed the changes...no pattern. No specific dates involved tied to recent updated software or "merge event" activity. The split and creation of more events appears to be random. What a mess.