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iTunes shows incorrect events to sync from iPhoto

After upgrading my "new" iPad to ios 6 and on my new iPhone 5, i can no longer sync all of my photos from iPhoto to the devices. I have also upgraded the releveant deskyop apps, i.e. iPhoto and iTunes.

When viewiing the list of iPhoto events within iTunes on the photo sync screen for a specific device. the events listed are incorract. When i sync to the device the events syncd are those listed in Tunes, which are wrong.

I have tried the following

Rebuilt the iPhoto library using all the options avavilable when starting iPhoto with option/command selected.
Deleted the ipod photo cache folder within the iPhoto package
Deleted the albumdata.xml in the iPhoto package
Rebooted all devices and desktop
Performed a factory reset on a mobile device.
Syncd all photos, removed all photos and then resync.

I beleive this is an issue with iTunes as there does not seem to be any issues with the iPhoto library itself and the mobile devices are syncing the list that iTunes is showing them, albeit an incoorect list. so the only thing that seems to be wrong is the incorrect list of iPhoto events shown in iTunes.

Is there another cache that iTunes uses to get the list of events to sync fromiPhoto? Any other suggestions that could fix this?

thanks in advance for any help

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Sep 22, 2012 8:53 AM

22 replies

Jan 6, 2013 1:12 PM in response to rhegan

So glad to have seen this. I've been having this issue for a while, and also getting weird pics in my iDevices that aren't really in the events I've synced (or aren't anymore).

I'll deleted and then let iPhoto recrete the AlbumData.xml file and relaunched everything. No dice. I looked at the file with BBEdit, and found all the weird events in there (Events named by the date). I'd bet this is a problem with Photostream since it names events based on dates. Interestingly, the erroneous events appear more than once in the AlbumData.xml file.

I deleted out the erroneous ones (search for the string "AlbumName", and delete from the open to close <dict> tag), saved, and then opened iTunes (but not iPhoto as I figured it would overwrite the newly cleaned file. Strangely enough, the events were still there.

I'm stumped...Apple, please fix this!

Jan 6, 2013 1:25 PM in response to b dizzle fizzle

OK, I tried something else, and it worked - or so it seemed.

I noticed 'events' that were the names of some slideshows and old folders. I deleted all of these out (including Recovered Photos). Most had 0 photos in them, so it wasn't a big deal. I emptied the trash, restarted, quit, and then checked AlbumData.xml...no weird events listed!

Then I fired up iTunes, went to my iPad's Photo screen, and found all the weird events still there. The only thing that changed is that they're now all grouped together at the top instead of being interspersed. That's progress and slightly less annoying, but still not solved.

Apple...you're up.

betsank

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Mar 23, 2013 5:20 AM in response to b dizzle fizzle

I wonder if this was fixed. I too have the same problem.

I just noticed that if iphoto is open, the event list is incorrect on itunes. But if iphoto is closed, it automatically updated and the correct list shows up on itunes. I wonder some one else also saw the same thing.

mattohio

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Apr 1, 2013 5:11 PM in response to rhegan

I also have the same problem and like the last person was wondering if it was ever fixed?

GregoryA

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Apr 6, 2013 3:19 PM in response to rhegan

I'm still experiencing this behaviour. I have 5 versions of an event called 4 feb 2013. When synced to iphone they have random, deleted photos in them. These photos are not in my library. Not that I can find. There are other dated events that are erroneous too.

Jun 3, 2013 3:08 PM in response to rhegan

See the post by Old Toad over here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4920141?start=0&tstart=0

He references using iPhoto Library Manager to create a fresh library. I did it, worked perfectly.

http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/

GregoryA

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Jun 3, 2013 3:10 PM in response to Rendasher

Yes I did that and it did work. Thanks 🙂

iTunes shows incorrect events to sync from iPhoto