Picasa and corrupt albumdata.xml file

Unfortuantly Picasa does not play well with iPhoto

You can export photos from iPhoto and use those photos with Picasa

What exactly do you want to do with Picasa? Maybe there is a way to do it with iPhoto.

LN

Exactly what do you mean by iPhoto does not share photos and albums as well. IPhoto is very strong at that. What exactly are not able to do?

As to ease of maneuvering around. Very personal. Maybe if you gave some examples of what is easier with Picasa there is help. Maybe it is just your personal choice

And it is not at all strange that they do not work well together. IPhoto is a SQL database and Picasa has no idea how to access it's data which us why you have to export photos from iPhoto for Picasa to effectively use them. They simply can not share the same photos

As to Picasa saying they do, they are wrong. You need to address that with them

Note that the reason you posted here is because it is not working. And it does not work well

LN

The solution is for you to choose the one you want to use

LN

Well - and it's just a thought - you could easily post them on Google+, or Flickr, or SmugMug or any other photosharing site on the entire Internet.

On Google+ click on the Photos icon on the sidebar and then Add Photos - the bit in Red. That give you the uopload page and you can 'Select Photos to Upload from Your computer'

Thereafter... the first one of these

You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.

(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)

You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:

There's a similar option in Outlook and many, many other apps. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.

If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.

If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running:

For users of 10.6 and later: You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu.

Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.

For Users of 10.4 and 10.5 Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser

Other options include:

Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.

File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.

Show File: a. On iPhoto 09 and earlier: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. 3.b.

b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.

Regards

TD

Just in case others run across this problem, some months later, I'll post this ...

This link did the trick for me ...

I used BBEdit to Zap Gramlins in albumdata.xml file (A copy of it) .... then found the found files, fixed WITHIN IPHOTO, then Picasa worked fine after that. 18,000 pics... had about 6-8 really weird file names ... fixed within iphoto.

For those you want to keep and have bad names ..... in iPhoto, under file menu, show pic file in finder, then copy to alternate location since you cant load into iphoto from the iphoto file location, delete from iphoto, then change file name issue, then reload into iphoto )

see : for details

http://geert.vanderkelen.org/fixing-iphotos-albumdata-xml-for-importing-into-goo gles-picasa/

Good luck

Cheers

sd

It is a really, really, REALLY bad idea to hack the iPhoto librarie files - they do not contain user servicable parts and youare very likely to corrupt your iPhoto library making it unusable for iPhoto

And your posted article is 4 years old making it very out of date - iPhoto ahs undergone many updates since then and the structure of the library has totaly changes a few times

had about 6-8 really weird file names ... fixed within iphoto.

Interesting wince it is not posssible to make any change to a file name within iPhoto

I would strongly recommend that no one use that advice - and if you do be sure you have great backups

Again you best choice is to choose one horse and ride it - trying to ride two horses at the same time is not smart

LN

Hi Larry

You misunderstand my reply and likely didn't check the link. It is FINE to use this method ....

To clarify :

1. The Zap Gremlins is done to find the troublesome files in a copy of the .xml file

2. Fixing with iPhoto means deleting from within iPhoto after a copy of the orig. image is made, then changing that file names (where the trouble is), then reloading into iPhoto.

In other words, there is no hacking as you say ....

The first horse needs to be read fully to understand a stable is fine in this case :)

This worked like a charm for me.

Cheers

sd