Photos in smart albums missing from "photos"

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Photos in smart albums missing from "photos"

Help! I have lots of photos I can find if I go to my smart albums (I have them sorted by year), but when I go to "photos" in my library, so I can duplicate a photo (I can't seem to be able to duplicate them in the smart album), the photos are no where to be found! Help! Where did they go? Looking in "events" is impossible, because there are far too many events, and I have no idea which event to look in.

A search from the bottom search tool using the file's name produced no results, either. I'm using iPhoto '09 with OSX10.9.1

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OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Posted on Feb 6, 2014 3:51 PM

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Answer 1

LarryHN

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Feb 6, 2014 6:21 PM in response to Melinda Lyons

albums (and smart albums) are simply one of many views of you photos in your library - every photo that shows in any album is also in photos and in an event - you can select the photo in the smart album and show event to find the event

And why do you want to duplicate a photo? Generally that is not needed in iPhoto

LN

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Answer 2

Feb 7, 2014 8:47 AM in response to LarryHN

My main problem is that there are dozens of photos in smart albums that seem to be missing in "photos" - I can't find them by date or keyword search. I understand they are all supposed to be there, but mine seem to be hidden, or misplaced, somehow.

I also realize I don't have to duplicate photos, but I wanted to see both the original and the cropped version at the same time.

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Answer 3

LarryHN

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Feb 7, 2014 8:59 AM in response to Melinda Lyons

you can select the photo in the smart album, right click and show event to find the event

And you can see the current and original sequentially in it mode you see the current - depress teh shift key and you see the original

LN

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Answer 4

Feb 7, 2014 9:50 AM in response to LarryHN

Neither of those things worked for me - when I "right click" I get a list of things, none of which are "show event". I do get a "show file" which takes me to the root file with a long file name in the library.

Also, when I hold down the shift key and select a cropped photo, nothing happens.

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Answer 5

LarryHN

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Feb 7, 2014 9:54 AM in response to Melinda Lyons

I guess that iPhoto '09 did not have show event - thought it did - poke around and see if the command is somewhere - try "Help"

as to seeing the original I know that was in '09 -

And you can see the current and original sequentially in edit mode - enter edit mode and you see the current - depress the shift key and you see the original

LN

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