Q: Cannot move location pins or manage my places
Hi,
Using iPhoto 9.5.1 (902.17)
I don't know when this happened, but yesterday I wanted to finally organize all my pictures and also make sure they had a location (GEO tag). But when I try to add a location to a picture I do not have the option to move the pin around. No matter how I click on the pin it stays red. So first question is:
1: Why can I not move the pin around in the small map area? It stays red. I have tried under different users on my MAC but it is not working anywhere.
Then I thought I might be able to do something under the menu option "Manage my places" (translated from the danish version so I hope it is correct). But when I click the menu nothing happens. I do not get a new window with my places. The other option in that menu is to "Manage my keywords" and that will open just fine in a new window.
2: Why can I not open the "Manage my places" window?
This is rather frustrating, and I have read a lot on the internet about location problems. But I have not found anything covering the above to mentioned problems a once. I hope someone out there has a clue :-)
iPhoto '11, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Posted on Dec 22, 2013 12:42 AM
Thank you very much for your time Terence, but after trying all of the above I was getting nowhere.
I got so frustrated, that I decieded to make a clean install of my Macbook. I copied the things i needed, and wiped the harddrive. Re-installing Mavericks and downloading iPhoto again. So now I had a completely new untouched operating system (did not move my backed up files back yet) and a fresh iPhoto. Found a few pics to put in and was expecting a miracle. The miracle did not come... Still the same!
Even more frustrated now I started thinking that I was doing something wrong. But what? Then comes the most annoying experience for a long time... I connected my old mouse to use for something else, and voila, using the mouse I was able to take the pin (holding the left mouse button pressed) and then move it around... Then I learnt that when using the touchpad I would have to use three fingers to move the pin (it never turned yellow though).
Thanks for your time anyway and have a happy new year
Posted on Dec 29, 2013 12:26 PM