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Problems changing photo location in iPhoto 11

Hi,


Something strange is happening when I try to change the location of photos (either single or batch change) in iPhoto 11. Changes do not take anymore. When I select a photo (or photos) in an event, click the "info" button, find a new place, select this place - the new place does not update. In other words when I go back to the photo, the old place is still there.


The other day, changes seemed to be taking and I spent a few hours updating the location in many photos (from a recent vacation), now even in all those photos, the location info has reverted to the old info.


I find this incredibly frustrating!


I have searched on this support forum and the directions I have found indicate doing what I described in the first paragraph above. But as indicated the changes are not taking.


I also tried resetting the iphoto preferences by trashing the com.apple.iphoto.plist in the library preferences folder as one user suggested in this forum. But that did not work either.


Any suggestions would be appreciated!

iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Feb 25, 2012 1:02 AM

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Feb 25, 2012 2:08 AM in response to Yer_Man

Hi Terence,


Thanks for your reply. I did as you suggested. And I imported a few photos that I was having trouble changing the location on.


Some strange things happened and I am really at a loss...


The photos imported with no location at all (i.e. the old location that I was trying to change was not in each photo). Therefore, when I clicked on info, I was prompted to "assign a location", which I did. I then proceeded to modify the location numerous times (single and batch). With all tests the location change worked. I noticed that when doing this (changing the location by typing over a location - in the fields that appeared in the drop box below, there was small type that indicated something like "renaming the location"). I did not get this before.


I then went into my original library, to the same photos that I was having trouble modifying and that "renaming location" indication now appeard. I of course then made the location change I wanted to this single photo. The strange thing was that as soon as I did this, all of the other photos in the event reverted back to the location changes that I spent hours doing the other day. The changes were not subtle (e.g. this morning locations in all photos indicated "bali", and now the photos have specific different town names in them, which is what I spent hours doing the other day).


I am happy but at a complete loss to what is going on. I guess your tip seemed to trigger something?


Thanks!

Mar 23, 2012 8:07 PM in response to Yer_Man

Terence,


It's been a long time since I rebuilt an iPhoto library - but your suggestion was right on the money. Thanks!


I too had been irritated by places not allowing the place pin to be turned yellow and adjusted/moved. (It would move, but then not stay.) I found many people describing the same problem in various threads dating back at least 6 months. It took several hours to chew through my 25000 image library, but when iPhoto finished rebuilding the thumbnail cache, places worked as described in Apple's document:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2550


I also found this:

http://iphoto.maccreate.com/2010/01/03/how-to-rebuild-the-thumbnail-cache-in-iph oto-11/

(image below from the article) which was a good brief summary of what boxes to tick to get things going.


Josh

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