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Moved pictures from old hard drive but much more than I actually have !!

I have just been moving my pictures from the hard drive from my now defunct laptop to my new one and it has taken hours to do it with it showing about five times the number I thought I had

When I look now there appears to be several "events" instead of just one. Some of them have a different number of pictures in.

Is this normal ? And has it created a different "event" when I have modified a picture ?

Many thanks

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 21, 2013 9:15 AM

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Old Toad

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Posted on Feb 21, 2013 11:27 AM

How is this connected to iDVD? Shouldn't you be in the iPhoto community?

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Old Toad

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Mar 2, 2013 3:42 PM in response to tonybassplayer

You didn't hide them per chance? While viewing the smart album or Trash bin do this:

Mar 2, 2013 3:50 PM in response to tonybassplayer

No, checked that and all seems fine but still no pics but they must be somewhere as the iphoto file in my pictures folder says there is 73 GB of them

Tony

Mar 2, 2013 3:53 PM in response to tonybassplayer

Just closed iphoto again and re opened and it says there are 32000 pics in it and they momentarily showed up

Mar 2, 2013 3:55 PM in response to tonybassplayer

That was in the smart folder I created

Old Toad

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Mar 2, 2013 3:58 PM in response to tonybassplayer

The "trashed" photos dissappeared right after you applied the rating to them? Give this a go:

Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library

Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.

Click on the Add Library button,

navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.

Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option

In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.

Click on the Create button.

Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost.

Note: your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.

Mar 2, 2013 4:07 PM in response to tonybassplayer

Many thanks, will give this a go and report back

Tony

Mar 3, 2013 6:18 AM in response to tonybassplayer

Hi, set it going last night and looked like a long job so left it overnight but my machine must have gone to sleep twenty mins later so re-set that to three hours and left it again whilst I was doing other things this morning.

Came back to it and its about a third done but iphoto was stuck so I left it twenty minutes with no joy so force quit iphoto and it automatically re started and I thought all was ok but everytime it imports an event it is asking do i want to import duplicates. I respond "dont import" and "apply to all duplicates" but it just keeps asking everytime.

Is there a way round this ??

I have been sat clicking away for half an hour and it is definitely moving forward but dont fancy doing for several hours

Old Toad

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Mar 3, 2013 10:12 AM in response to tonybassplayer

Turn off all Energy Saving if you have to leave the process to itself.

Mar 3, 2013 10:59 AM in response to tonybassplayer

Well its still going through the old library sorting things out but what a huge amount of time its taking.

Must admit that between this and sorting out my iweb files it has meant the time spent on my new laptop has not been quite the most enjoyable first two weeks I anticipated but I feel the end is in sight lol

Mar 4, 2013 1:13 PM in response to tonybassplayer

Ok well it looks like the iphoto library manager programme has done the trick and iphoto seems to be working ok and all the pics look fine. This is the current situation and rather than do anything else I thought I would ask for advice.

The original iphoto library that was on my old hard drive and I incorrectly imported was 30gb and I still have a copy of that on my old drive and also in a folder on my desktop

When it was imported it jumped to 73gb and according to my pictures folder is sat there along with the rebuilt iphoto library at 50gb

Would the increase from 30gb to 50gb be accounted for by the addition of all the "faces" pictures that have been created that were not on my old laptop ?? and if so am I better sticking with the "rebuilt" 50gb iphoto library that is already sat in iphoto and seems fine rather than ditching it ( slowly ) and starting again with the original 30gb file ??

Many thanks

Tony

LarryHN

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Mar 4, 2013 1:34 PM in response to tonybassplayer

Ok well it looks like the iphoto library manager programme has done the trick and iphoto seems to be working ok and all the pics look fine. This is the current situation and rather than do anything else I thought I would ask for advice.

If it is fine then it is the one to use

The original iphoto library that was on my old hard drive and I incorrectly imported was 30gb and I still have a copy of that on my old drive and also in a folder on my desktop

It should be good too and I do not remember why you did not use it

When it was imported it jumped to 73gb and according to my pictures folder is sat there along with the rebuilt iphoto library at 50gb

It has no use unless there are photos in it that you do not have in your current library

Would the increase from 30gb to 50gb be accounted for by the addition of all the "faces" pictures that have been created that were not on my old laptop ??

No - the faces thjumbnails are tiny - it is accounted for by importing your old library into the new one which made each and every version of each photo and each fact thumbnail a new original with the resulting new thumbnail and some resulting new modified versions - that is why that library had virtually no use as noted above

and if so am I better sticking with the "rebuilt" 50gb iphoto library that is already sat in iphoto and seems fine rather than ditching it ( slowly ) and starting again with the original 30gb file ??

Only you can answer that - if the current library is fine and is not missing anything then I would use it - if it is not then you can try going back to the original library and starting over - but why?

Mar 5, 2013 1:57 AM in response to tonybassplayer

I suppose the main reason is to save space and keep things neat and tidy. I am sure the original library was only around 12000 pictures (30gb) but the new one is around 50000 so there must be a lot of duplicates in or would that be all the "faces" that it has added ??

LarryHN

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Mar 5, 2013 7:37 AM in response to tonybassplayer

again

No - the faces thjumbnails are tiny - it is accounted for by importing your old library into the new one which made each and every version of each photo and each fact thumbnail a new original with the resulting new thumbnail and some resulting new modified versions - that is why that library had virtually no use as noted above

If you import an iPhoto libray with 12,000 photos in it then yo ger 12,000 originals, 12,000 thumbnails, a bunch or (maybe 4000- 8000) modifieds plus all of the faces - so it is certainly possible to have 50,000 images in a 12,000 photo library - and in the new library each of these ia an original and gets a thumbnail and possibly a modified version - as explained before - this is why you NEVER import an iPhoto library into another iPhoto library

Mar 5, 2013 8:15 AM in response to tonybassplayer

In that case I think I will try to slowly move all the pictures to trash and empty it regularly then when iPhoto is empty I will follow the instructions to ensure my old pics are put in correctly. I am not in a major rush and would rather start with a clean sheet rather than compromise. I am away for a few days without my mac so will update later in the week. Once again thanks very much.

Tony

LarryHN

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Mar 5, 2013 8:17 AM in response to tonybassplayer

Delete in smal batches - around 100 ro so - iPhoto can have problems with large trash bins

Moved pictures from old hard drive but much more than I actually have !!