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I'm going through the photos from a recent trip and trying to improve them (colors, rotation etc...).
Problem is - iPhoto creates copies for the modified photos instead of changing the originals.
How can I make iPhoto save the changes for the original files?
iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
You can not. That is not the way iPhoto works. And since there is never any reason to directly access the files (direct access is not supported) it is unnecessary
Please describe what you want to do and we can tell you how to do it if it is supported
Also note that iPhoto is a SQL database and there are no user serviceable parts in the library. It is tronly recommend that you never go into it. Doing so as no purpose and is dangerous. Any change can cause data loss.
LN
No I'm not. That's exactly the workflow required to get something that the original poster didn't want.
And your comparison with Word is well off the mark too. The compression artifacts between editing the original and overwriting it with another file can be markedly different.
And while you're not concerned with losing data it is a courtesy on the forum to warn people when the suggestions you make are destructive.
Look, I understand that you're feeling a bit foolish because you've developed this bizarre system of yours and it's all rather pointless, being based on a simple misunderstanding of the application. I know that concepts like the difference between a file and the data it contains are difficult for some people. But don't worry. Take a little time and it'll come clear to you. Millions of other people grasp these concepts very easily, but for some it's harder.
"Unthinking fundamentalism" may not be your way, and I salute you Sir for that. But what that has to do with your learning difficulty I cannot fathom.
How can I make iPhoto change the original files?
