iPhoto slideshow rotates photos wrong by itself!

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iPhoto slideshow rotates photos wrong by itself!

We have a funeral on Wednesday and have created a slideshow of photos from lots of different people and times in iPhoto on Macbook. When we try to view it in slideshow some photos seem rotated. We've tried manually rotating the photos (so they look 'wrong' in thumnail but 'right' in the slideshow) but it seems it's a temporary fix and next time we go back to this more photos are wrong (different ones!). How do we tell the computer once and for all which way is up for each photo? Help!

Posted on Sep 16, 2013 8:53 AM

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léonie

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Sep 16, 2013 9:14 AM in response to Kralingen

I'd try to generate the new thumbnails first, so that the thumbnails in the Browser match the orientation of the photos.

You can create new thumbnails from the Library First Aid Panel: Launch iPhoto while firmly holding down the key combination option-command ⌥⌘ and select "Rebuild Thumbnails" from the panel.

Then try again to rotate your slideshow images.

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Léonie

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Kralingen Author

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Sep 16, 2013 11:48 AM in response to léonie

Thanks - didn't know about that, but it doesn't seem to have helped at all. Any other ideas?

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léonie

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Sep 16, 2013 12:11 PM in response to Kralingen

Have you quit iPhoto after rotating the photo? In earlier versions of iPhoto has been a problem, that rotations did not take effect immediately. iPhoto first had to write the database file. In MacOS X Lion and Mt. Lion you might even log off and on again to ensure the databases have been updated.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3659

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