UREKA! Here's how to remove iPhoto excess baggage

You could save yourself a lot of unnecessary work by using Photoshop Elements for Mac and its built in organizer. That would only require you to put each upload of photos in a folder with the other folders and link them to the organizer. Then you could use PSE to edit, add metadata, etc.

Or use a DAM (digital asset manager) application like Media Pro 1 which can add metadata, basic edits, rename files and a lot more. You can find out about other DAM apps at the The DAM Forum

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As I said on your other thread, it would be a lot less work to just use a different app.

Did I miss anything?

Yes - you are wasting lots of time, losing Non Destrctive editing, losing the capability of reversting to the original and should simply stop using iPhoto and use a porgram that works like you want (like Adobe Bridge for example)

iPhoto simpy is not the program you want - if you love wasiting time and losing the major advantages of iPhoto continue with your method

LN

au contraire mon ami!

If you are using the workflow you suggest you do not have non destructive editing - you are recreating the edited photos with the resulting loss of quality and eliminating the aility to revert to the original

iPhoto simply is not the program you want - if you love wasiting time and losing the major advantages of iPhoto continue with your method

You do what you want - but do not mislead others into mistakenly following your path

LN

You do what you want - but do not mislead others into mistakenly following your path

No one here cares what you do - we do care that others who read this forum get accurate information

LN

It wasn't inaccuarate as much as misguided. It is not a path that is not safe for most less-experienced users of iPhoto. Why kick against the goads? if iPhoto does not do what you want, use another program.

I'll chime in there.

There is no excess baggage in iPhoto. The entire premise of your post is flawed. You're trying to solve an non-existent problem. iPhoto is about lossless processing, version control and safe data management. What you're calling a "solution" is because you don't want lossless processing, you don't want version control. You want a destructive work flow. Fine. All you've done is cobble together a worlflow to defeat all the key elements of an iPhoto workflow. You've made extra work for yourself to undo the very reason for iPhoto existing. What's the point of that? What you're doing makes as much sense as writing a novel in a spreadsheet. It can be done, but why bother when there are other apps out there that are geared to the job.

And remember: Complexity in the workflow is the mother of dataloss. You will lose data doing this someday. You will get confused between what you've previously exported/deleted /reimported and end up deleting something you wanted to keep. It'll happen because you'll get distracted in the process - a phone will ring, a child will need attention, someone will call to the door - and you'll pick up from the wrong place in the process.

The safe way is to use an app designed to work the way you want to.

And again that is fine if you are willing to do lots of extra work and give up lossless editing, etc

and again it is a bad recomendation for most people

No one here cares what you do - we do care that others who read this forum get accurate information

There is no excess baggage in iPhoto and rather than spend so much time trying to circumvent it intentional design - it is much better to just choose a program that works the way you want and use it - there are extremely good reasons for the way iPhoto works and it is inappropriate to mislead others into believing that those postive features are aactually "excess baggage" - they are not - they are an integral part of all Digital Asset Manager designs

LN