Transfer of Mobile Me Gallery

To keep iPhoto from immediately starting to download again, when you launch it, simply go offline - turn off your Wi-fi or unplug your Ethernet, before you lauch iPhoto.

1. Then go to the iPhoto Preferences and open the "Accounts" preference pane.
2. Delete the MobileMe account.
3. Quit iPhoto and connect again to the Internet.

Log out off MobileMe (System Preferences > Mobile Me)

Regards

Léonie

You are welcome. Glad to help 🙂

Léonie

Marilyn,

the albums which appear to have downloaded and appear in iPhono as an event however each one shows "zero" photos in the album

I can only tell you what to do in iPhoto 9.3, since I no longer have an older version. Your version probably is different, if your signature is correct (G4, Mac OS X (10.5.2))?

What I see after downloading is a folder "From MobileMe" with a set of albums in iPhoto - each album corresponding to one MM gallery, and one big event "From MobileMe", containing all downloaded images. It is save to delete all albums in the "From MobileMe" folder; i.e. if each of these albums is empty.

I am not sure if you see empty albums or events - your question is not quite clear to me. If you delete empty events, it cannot hurt, unless you have hidden photos inside. Enable to show "Hidden Photos" in the "View" menu. If the event "From MobileMe" is indeed empty, yiu can delete that as well.

To delete albums or events select them, ctrl-click them, select "Delete album" (or "Delete event") from the pop-up menu.

If your iPhoto version is different from mine, then it would be safer to post this part of your question as a new question.

Cheers

Léonie