iPhoto '11. End of archiving on DVD! Sgrunt!

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iPhoto '11. End of archiving on DVD! Sgrunt!

Since switching to the '11 version of iPhoto, I can no longer burn and store my photos on DVD, as I used to do for years.

I am a wildlife photographer and shooting hundreds of photos per month on the trails of the Dolomites (Italy Mountain). With previous versions of iPhoto, once every 5-6 months, I used to gather the images by dividing them into albums and then burn them directly from within iPhoto.

The result was a DVD available on the fly with just iPhoto (in fact creates an iPhoto library on the DVD), which made you see images even in full screen, still divided and albums directly from the DVD without having to re-import into mac.

Now with Photo '11 this is not possible, perhaps because the new iMac no longer have the internal burner, or perhaps because Apple believes that the DVD is outdated technology.

The fact is that the only procedure of filing that Apple recommends is to export the images in a folder outside of iPhoto and burn normally.

But if you think in that folder I had 4-5000 images belong to 5-6 different excursions and wanted a month to review the pictures of a hike in particular. How should I do? With which application?

Thumbs down for this Apple's decision, partly because all the old iPhoto libraries burned with versions prior to '11, are not readable. To make them readable, you must copy them to your desktop, use a utility from Apple that makes it readable and then open them. This means completely redo my entire archive.

I would however understand if any of you know how to re-burn images with the system used by older versions of iPhoto.

I have a new iMac Late autumn 2012 with Maverick installed, iPhoto '11 and Apple bought their external burner to burn my image libraries.

For full disclosure, I make a backup of my images even on external HD but are not classified as DVDs.

Thanks to those who answer me

Maurizio (Italy).

iMac

Posted on Dec 2, 2013 7:26 AM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Dec 2, 2013 8:26 AM in response to fotomomo

This is why:

Apple believes that the DVD is outdated technology.

And it is. They're not the only people who believe who believe. Optical drives are being dropped by every manufacturer. The demand for them is slipping, the use for them is limited and they are no reliable.

But if you think in that folder I had 4-5000 images belong to 5-6 different excursions and wanted a month to review the pictures of a hike in particular. How should I do? With which application?

WHen you export from iPhoto you can devise a folder structure to export to, one that matches your Events, for instance. This User Tip

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921

has details of the options in the Export dialogue.

Preview is a good photo viewer and already on your Mac. As is QuickLook, And there are many, many photo viewers for the Mac.

To make them readable, you must copy them to your desktop, use a utility from Apple that makes it readable and then open them.

They are readable, as you point out. Thye just need to be prepared for the new Library formats. As you can't write to the DVD - and that's another limitation of the format - you have to copy them to a drive. You're not suggesting that the development of iPhoto should be stopped just so your DVDs can be read, are you?

This means completely redo my entire archive.

Well your achive is built on a dying technology.

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fotomomo Author

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Dec 2, 2013 11:08 PM in response to Yer_Man

Using the DVD for storage for over 15 years by keeping them in their cases and in cardboard boxes. It never happened, not even to a single DVD. Instead, I had problems with the Lacie external HD (which I do not buy more) with data loss. So what you say is all relative.

I think that Apple could let users decide how to store their images: DVD or HD.

I have a database made with FileMaker Pro on which I have marked each trip made on the number of DVDs that have been burned. It 's so very convenient and fast to find the DVD, insert it into the player Mac to open iPhoto and quickly display the folder containing all the photos of that excursion.

Now I have to re- invent the whole system, because there is also the problem that creates digital photo by naming DSC_0001 , DSC_0002 , etc. .. When it comes to 9999 , begins again. So, there are no unique names of the images. And since I have now over 70,000 images, this is a further problem.

Sorry for my English a bit 'Baroque.

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Yer_Man

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Dec 2, 2013 11:16 PM in response to fotomomo

If you've never had a DVD go bad in 15 years then you're a very luck person. But again, you have devised a system built around DVD. You could have as easily designed one built around floppy disks. Either way, it's built around a dying technology. The simple truth is that in 10 years DVDs will be as common as floppy disks are now. This is not Apple's doing. This is the way technology works. Users, people like you, are finding less and less use for the medium and manufacturers are responding.

As for the filenames - created by your camera - you can assign titles in iPhoto. You can use those titles as Filenames on export. These can run to 5 or 6 digits.

Again:

This User Tip

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921

has details of the options in the Export dialogue.

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