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Smart albums have worked well - until now. With one particular album, despite making the criteria very simple, extraneous photos keep appearing, which have no relevance to the specified content. Have tried deleting this one and restarting, but no avail. Why just this one album?
IMac , MountainLion, latest version of iPhoto.
iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1
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Terry:
Thanks for your cogent response to my confusion.
Using a 2.5 gb Intel iMac running Mountain Lion with 8gb of RAM, and iPhoto 9.4.2.
With one, and only one, of my 12 smart albums, the criteria I set appear not to be getting adhered to. Photos with no relationship to the rules appear, and , it seems, always the same gatecrashing photos. Have scrutinised the captions, and can find nothing amiss. I've removed the 'face recognition' condition leaving only names in the text.
What's even odder it that on my new MacBook Pro using the identical versions of the OS and iPhoto, that particular smart album performs perfectly.
Smart album mystery
