iPhoto 8.1.2, 557 events, wanting to simplify
ON iphoto lost links I found out that I was running a referenced library. And from the link provided by Terence, it sounds like I can still manage to not get too many duplicates in a managed library. I want to make sure I get these steps correctly. Currently my Pictures folder is in a second partition; both partitions are cloned regularly. I have iPhoto 8.1.2, Mac OS X 10.7.3 with the Flashback patch installed. It is an iMac 5,1 with 2 GB of RAM. Naturally taking iPhoto to merge the events into one is taking forever, and I may end up if necessary just force quit iPhoto, if I can get the relevant info on how to edit my xml file.
Intriguingly enough my Dock shows two iPhoto library entries when I click iPhoto. I've tried rebuilding my library to no avail. I would like to simplify and only have Albums & Keywords as my method of attributing all my photos by date. With 38000 photos and movies all in one library, you can imagine this is a daunting task.
Is there a way to make one event out of the 557 easily by editing the XML file with Textwrangler? Or will that take me longer?
Can I just change to a managed library and will iPhoto clean up all the duplicates correctly? I've had the problem before where iPhoto deleted the actual photo, and not the thumbnail. I want to avoid that happening.
Mac OS X (10.7.3), * Links may give me compensation