Hello,
I want to import some pics to iPhoto and would like to organize them using sub folders/albums under one album.
For example, for a Photo album titled Holidays, i want to have 4 sub folders such as italy, spain, france and ireland.
Can anyone suggest how can i create sub folders/albums/events like that??
Thanks & Regards
Priyank
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Photos go into Albums.
Folders can contain other Folders and/or Albums
So what you need to do is create an Album for each of the four countries
Then, File -> New Folder - call it Holidays
Drag the 4 albums to that folder.
Regards
TD
Thanks Devlin. It was helpful. But i have doubts, hope you can clear them.
So i created a Holiday album (instead of folder as you suggested) and dragged the 4 events folders to this Holiday album created and it worked like a charm.
now if i keep the new holiday album and 4 events folder, will that occupy double space? I am asking this because when i deleted the 4 events folder, (after moving them to holiday album) the photos were still there in the new holiday album.
My query may not be entierly clear to you but i hope you get it.
Regards
Priyank
I'm not sure what you've done there but you do not have a new 'Holiday Album with 4 events folder' as that's just not possible.
You may have a Holiday Folder with 4 albums.
Photos in Albums do not take up extras disk space. They contain pointers to the files in the Library. A photo can be in any number of albums and use no extra disk space.
Albums, books, slideshows, cards, etc. only use pointers to the original file so there is no file duplication on the hard drive when you add a photo to those items in iPhoto. You can have 15 occurrences of a photo in a library with no extra hard drive space used.
Deleting Photos from an iPhoto Library:
1 - from an Event or the Photos mode: select the photo(s) and use the Delete key to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the iPhoto Trash bin as follows:
2 - from an album, smart album, book, slideshow, card, etc.: select the photo(s) and use the key combination of Command+Option+Delete to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the trash bin as above.
NOTE: deleting a photo from an album, slideshow, book, etc., with only the Delete key only deletes that photo from that item. Deleting a photo from an Event deletes ALL occurances of that photo in the library.
OT
But this is exactly what i did.
I imported pics under events in four different folders. These folders are under events.
Now on the left sidebar, i created an album folder by right clicking and dragged those folders (which are under events) in to one album.
A couple of things we only have words to communicate with so it is critical to use them correctly
There no such thing as "an event folder"
You have albums - these point to photos in the ibrary (and no space is used)
You have folders - these hold albums or other folders - they do not hold photos
You have events - these are one way to view all of the photos in your library (the other is Photos with or with out event titles turned on)
What I suspect you did was create a holiday album and drag frou events to it - this would give you an album with all of the photos from those event in is
If you want a structure as you requested select that album and press delete deleting it
Follow TD's instructions and create an album for country 1 - drag all of the photos about country 1 to it
do the same for each country
Then create a folder (file menu ==> create folder) named hollidays and drag the country albums to it -- now if you select the album you will see all photos for all countries and you can select each country and see just the photos for it
You can make this as deep as you choose - so you could have albums for city 1, city 2, etc all in a folder for country 1 - and all countries on a continent in a continent 1 folder -- or any other stucture you want
And a photo can be in multiple albums with no penalty sinc eno space is used to have a photo in an album
LN
Maybe this will clarify how folders, albums and photos relate to each other:
Folders can contain other folders, albums, slideshows, books, etc. but NOT photos.
Album can contain only photos.
If you drag an Event into the left hand pane you create an Album containing those folders.
No matter how many times you add a photo to another album, book, etc. there is NO duplication of files on your hard drive..
How to create sub folders/albums/events in photo
