iPhoto stores picture where and how??

you posed two questions then proceeded on to a RANT - which siply shows that you have no idea how iPhoto works - since you have moved on no matter - but for others

where does iPhoto store pictures? By default and extremey stongly recommended in the iPhoto library

How does iPhoto store pictures? In a SQLite database which is not designed for now should ever be directly accessed.

iPhoto is a photo manager - it totally replaces the finder for your photos - If you use iPhoto you never (and you never have any need to) access your photos using the finder - so your attempts to misuse the iPhoto database by directly accessing its contents are most certainly going to be frustrating - it is like trying to butcher a cow wiht a butter knife - you are usint the wrong tool to do your job

and no you are not the only person in the world who "knows how people need to use their photos" - for most people iPhtoo (and other database systems) provide a far superior way to use their photos quickly and easily - but then they actually learn how it works and why it is superior

LN

what this forum is for is helping people - who want help

You clearly do not - you simply wnat to RANT and argue - go ahead - but unless you learn how to use iPhoto and quit telling everyone how smart you are and how you know better than Apple designers how iPhoto should work you will never learn

and the issues you point out are not to be fixed - you simply need to learn how it works - which I explained but you are too smart to understand

where does iPhoto store pictures? By default and extremey stongly recommended in the iPhoto library

How does iPhoto store pictures? In a SQLite database which is not designed for nor should ever be directly accessed.

iPhoto is a photo manager - it totally replaces the finder for your photos - If you use iPhoto you never (and you never have any need to) access your photos using the finder -

LN

For the benefit of others who might read this thread in the future.

I made the mistake of importing photos via iPhotos on Mavericks... All my iPhone photos, well over 1,000. Not only did it NOT ask me if I want to delete the remaining pictures from the iPhone each time (I did it in batches and I had to click each photo and remove it from the iPhone,

You can delete all or some of the photos on your phone via Image Capture, in your Applications Folder.

If you import to iPhoto by mistake, then you can simplye Export from it - File -> Export. No problem.

This User Tip

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

has details of the options in the Export dialogue.

iPhoto Library -> Masters->2014->03 -> 09 (which goes to folders 20140309-233701) The file ->show in finder takes you deep into a folder inside of a folder inside of a folder inside of a folder.

Coorect. Of no relevance to anything, of course. The innards of the iPhoto Library are not designed for user acess and there is never a need to go in there. Remember that iPhoto replaces the Finder for anything to do with your Photos. That's the point of a Photo Manager.

t would look like photos are stored by year-> month-> date but that is not true. Photos are ramdomly placed in these folders based on sheer randomness. I would expect a folder for month or each date that a picture was taken.

There is nothing random about it, and what you might expect is of no relevance or, indeed, interest as you never access the files this way.

People need to use their photos for like external backups or zipping or whatever, not just iPhoto because they seem nice and tidy there.

For help accessing your photos in iPhoto see this user tip:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4491

The best back up: back up the full library. That gets everything. If you're only backing up the photos check the settings in the export panel carefully.

There are no problems here to be "fixed at a later update". Like any app, you need to learn how to use it.

Please tell me about a better way to export & manage photos from an iPhone to OSX 10.9 + iPhoto 9.5

You can get Photos from an iPhone to iPhoto by

Photostream

Direct Import via the import panel in iPhoto

Image Capture

I'm not sure what you found complicated in the process?

Perhaps we could be helpful instead of just measuring our, well, you know. I am interested in the file location in which the files are stored to which iPhoto points for the simple reason that my hard drive no longer boots but I can access files on another computer as a secondary drive. I need to copy the files from my ailing drive to another drive. I have done this will all my files on this drive except those in iPhoto.

What I would appreciate is a simple and logical answer as to the location of these files and how I can see them. From another discussion it appears they are located in the Users/[username]/Pictures folder, but the path is hidden or otherwise not accessible.

My hard drive failed and could not be repaired using the Disk Utility. I had no recourse but to remove the drive, put it into a drive enclosure, and then attach it to another Mac via the USB port. I found the files for my iPhoto by going to Users/[username] in Finder. I found the Pictures folder and inside of it is the iPhoto Library icon. Right-click the icon and choose Show Package Contents. You will see a list of folders - the one named Originals contains the contents of your iPhoto library.

Heed the warnings of others and do not change the contents of this folder as it may mess up your iPhoto library. I needed to copy my files from this folder to another drive so when I replace my hard drive I can once again have my iPhoto library.

Hope this helps another unfortunate soul.

I found the Pictures folder and inside of it is the iPhoto Library icon. Right-click the icon and choose Show Package Contents. You will see a list of folders - the one named Originals contains the contents of your iPhoto library.

Is that what you want? Retrieve only the original image files and not the edited versions, your keywords, albums, titles, captions, books? Why not rescue the complete iPhoto library.photolibrary package? What you have recommended is the last resort and desperate measure to do, if an iPhoto library is corrupted beyond repair. If an iPhoto library is still working, you can export your originals using "File > Export" in a more orderly manner and export them to a folder structure based on the event names.