Flagged photos disappear from events

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Flagged photos disappear from events

It seems sometimes when I flag photos within an event and post those flagged photos to facebook, via iphoto, the flagged photos *sometimes* get removed from the event and posted under "flagged photos" folder. Upon trying to copy them back into the event, I have no luck. Must I create an album of the event first, and copy from flagged to that? If this is the case, this is going to be VERY annoying. I had been wondering why I couldn't find the "good" pictures in some of my events, wondering where they all went. Having to make albums of all events is going to be time consuming.

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Posted on Sep 1, 2011 7:53 AM

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Yer_Man

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Sep 1, 2011 8:27 AM in response to cbeck07

Flagged Photos is not a Place, it's a list. Your photos are not moved there, they're just added to the list of photos with a flag, that's all. There's no need to move them back or anywhere else.

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TD

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cbeck07 Author

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Sep 1, 2011 8:37 AM in response to Yer_Man

I understand that, but the items that I am flagging are being "removed" from my events (some of them anyways) and the only place I have found these photos is under the "flagged" place. In order to reclassify them with the other un-flagged photos from that event, I am finding that I cannot simply drag or copy/paste them in to an event, I'm having to create an album from each event and drag them from flagged place to the album. I'm trying to figure out WHY they are being removed from my events, or perhaps there is some setting I need to change. It's not happening with all flagged photos though. I just noticed that my facebook albums, which I tend to make from flagged photos, have images that are no longer in the event page.

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Yer_Man

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Sep 1, 2011 8:49 AM in response to cbeck07

Well this sounds to me like a mildly corrupted library.

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.

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TD

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Apr 29, 2012 9:44 PM in response to Yer_Man

I have the same issue, and the solution proposed did not work. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Ravi

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Yer_Man

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Apr 29, 2012 11:02 PM in response to sunmoonlight

What version of iPhoto? Anything else you can tell us?

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Apr 30, 2012 7:17 AM in response to Yer_Man

iPhoto 11 (9.2.3), Mac OS 10.6.8.

The photos are still in the library, if I look for them as jpeg's in the folder, and they're even in the right folder for their date/event, but they don't show up in the event in iPhoto..., just in the "flagged" folder.

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Yer_Man

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Apr 30, 2012 8:07 AM in response to sunmoonlight

In the iPhoto Window go to the Flagged List and right click on a pic. From the resulting menu select 'Show Event'

Does that work?

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Apr 30, 2012 1:20 PM in response to Yer_Man

Thanks, but no. Photo doesn't show up in original event still.

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Yer_Man

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Apr 30, 2012 1:41 PM in response to sunmoonlight

What happens when you click 'Show Event'?

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Apr 30, 2012 6:46 PM in response to Yer_Man

iPhoto then shows an "event" composed of all the flagged photos. But the event date from which that flagged photo is originally drawn is still without that flagged photo.

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LarryHN

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Apr 30, 2012 7:10 PM in response to sunmoonlight

I'm guessing that hyou used the create event form the flagged photos command - this removes the photos from their old event and creates a new event containing all of the flagged photos

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Apr 30, 2012 7:26 PM in response to LarryHN

No, I didn't do that. I simply flagged the photos in their original events.

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Yer_Man

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Apr 30, 2012 10:51 PM in response to sunmoonlight

Well that's what's happened, however it has occurred.

Regards

TD

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goldfilm

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May 10, 2012 9:43 PM in response to cbeck07

The same just happened to me. This is how I solved it:

1. I went to the "Flagged" list to the left.

2. I selected the pictures that were not showing up in the original event.

3. Events --> Create event

4. Accept.

It created a new event with the flagged photos that were not showing up, and it placed the new event next to the original event with a name based on the date.

5. Dragged the whole "new" event to the original event.

Now it's back to normal... I hope it works...

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TRS-80

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Aug 2, 2013 8:44 AM in response to cbeck07

I have over 18,000 photos in about 400 Events. They represent the last four or five years of my work, and I too lost my Flagged photos folder when I upgraded to iPhoto '11. The new version simply doesn't recognize any previously Flagged photos because, when I go into each event looking for photos I had meticulously flagged, there is no record that I ever flagged anything. It's too bad that Apple didn't see this coming when it created iPhoto '11.

Key photos are another problem for users upgrading to iPhoto '11. I always selected a representative Key photo for each event so I could quickly see in All Events what was in each folder. Unfortunately I lost all those designations when I upgraded. This is not as big a pain as losing my Flagged photos folder, but it sure is discouraging to this photojournalist who makes a living taking pictures and...just as important...being able to find them again later.

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