Duplicate iPhoto events in iPhone/iPad sync

I ended up getting my iLife '11 disc back out and reinstalling iPhoto. The installed version wouldn't work until I updated it, but only to 9.1.

Happy to report I didn't have to do anything tricky with photo libraries, restarting iPhone in goofy ways, using Time Machine, etc. This fixed my problem. Now 9.1.2 can wait in Software Update until the fix for this issue comes through.

Thank you so much for this. I was having a problem of some Faces not showing up in iTunes and this finally fixed it!

My experience so far is:

iPhone 4 is Okay

iPad and Apple TV are not. multiple events, past merged events are split.

Now awaiting fix from apple.

The easiest way to avoid this problem for now, until a fix by Apple is released, would be moving your pictures to a folder within your main Pictures folder and this syncing your iPhone to the that folder. On your iPhone you will have only the Places tab but not Faces. Im doing this for now!

@beinkempew1 ,

By reinstalling iPhoto 11 from the CD and upgrading it to version 9.1 you have achieved what others have by restoring iPhoto 11 from their Time Machine backups.

Although I can believe that this can be the solution in some cases, I can also imagine that it can cause more problems than it solves. I installed the 9.1.2 update as soon as it appeared and used it for some time before discovering the problem with the merged events being split during synchronization with iTunes. Now, if 9.1.2 has been writing things in the iPhoto Library that previous versions cannot understand -- after all, updates are often backward compatible, but rarely forward compatible -- then, a previous version might really screw up my iPhoto Library, whereas now it seems that some module of iPhoto 9.1.2 that iTunes talks to during synchronization is overlooking merged events.

Richard

Apple are definatly aware, I have spoken to them also....

Mine started exactly after I updated iPad software if it helps (Apple)

It's still working normal as I have not synced my iPad only phones since I played around and got it back to normal without re-installing anything. (previous post)

😕

thanks a lot! For me it worked when i tried step 1-7 but when i tried step 8 it went back to beeing scrabbled. So i made step 1-7 again and now it works. Thank you for the guide!

@Clear -- Oh jeeze...I've got around 10,000 photos...that's not really an option. As it is, I've had to turn off Time Machine on my wife's Mac which is where I've been doing all the troubleshooting. All that tinkering has TM ready to do a 30GB update. I think, once Apple releases the update, I may revert to the iPhoto library that was in use prior to my trying to fix their bug ;-)

That said, if you have a small photo library, it does seem like a perfectly valid temporary fix.

On a related note...couldn't get that 1-7 step process to work for me, but maybe I messed up a step. Does the poster have any idea why it would work or is it just a shot in the dark that happened to hit its target...at least for some.

Thanks all...will continue to post here with any new info as well as a software update notice should I see one. Apple Engineering committed to calling me no later than tomorrow evening with an update so hopefully we'll know more soon.

@rwross: The original step-by-step guide wasn't created by me. But I can imagine it has something to do with the itunes/iphoto communication. Since the events are messed up in itunes, the communication between iphoto (where it's correct) and itunes (where it's not) doesn't work that well. That's propably the reason why I had to create the temp iphoto library, which was then seen as default by itunes. When I changed it back to my default library, iTunes had to "import" the original events again, which miraculously worked ...

I can only assume ... 😟

well... I did followed the steps (all the way down to the 8th) and now iTunes doesn't show any events at all! hehe... big bug...

Did you open iPhoto with your standard library (while iTunes is closed), then closed iPhoto again and started iTunes?

I tried too (the 8 steps), and it worked.

I already succeeded 3 days ago only by changing faces and emptying trash.

But with time, and other manipulations, the bug came back.

Maybe not this time !

yep, double check every step... since English is not my first language, I had to... hehe... Did it again and got the same result... no events... funny thing is that all of my "Faces" display correctly!

I'm sorry to disappoint those who were successful with my step-by-step-guide. The corrupted event list came back in iTunes 😟

@rwross: yes, if you have a lot of pictures, then it wouldn't be an attractive solution. For me, and whoever has a small picture liberary, don't find this hard to do.

With all the discussion here, nothing will fix this problem for good untill a fix from Apple is released!