Downloading Photos

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Downloading Photos

Hi All,
Still relatively new to a Mac, I think I am doing well on most applications - except iPhoto! Very frustrating. I have done some Mac 101 reading on this, but could still use some help organizing my photos.
1. First, I bought a Canon S3, and of course loaded the s/w that came with the camera. Now, every time I try to load photos from the camera to my iMac, even with iPhoto open, the photos load automatically via Canon s/w and not into my iPhoto library. Should I just delete the Canon s/w?
2. I have burned some photos onto CD's. After I load one or more photos on a CD, I cannot put that CD back in and load any more onto that CD. Does anyone know why I am blocked from loading any more?
3. Why are there so many folders and subfolders with all the same photos? For example, I have the same pictures in: Data, Originals, Modified, Library.iPhoto, Library6.iPhoto, plus two more that I named. That is 7 folders, all at the same folder level, all containing the same photos.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

iMac 20", Mac OS X (10.4.7), 2GB RAM, 256MB Video RAM

Posted on Sep 3, 2006 3:15 PM

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AllanP

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Sep 3, 2006 5:26 PM in response to Brian_

Hello Brian and Welcome to the Apple Discussion Boards.

Answers:

1.) The Canon software probably took control of all import functions on your computer (very naughty of it). You can change this easily. Go to your Macintosh HD > Applications Folder > Program called: Image Capture. Once image capture is open go the Image capture menu at the top of the screen - choose preferences. Under general it will say - Camera: When a camera is connected, open: in the menu you may select which program is in charge of imports. Change this to iphoto.

2.) CDs come in 2 varieties - CD +/- R and CD +/- RW.
Visit this article for more info----> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh837.html
If your are burning a CDR you may only burn one time and then you cannot change the disk every again. If you are burning CDRW you can rewrite files again and again to the disk, but these disks tend to be unstable and don't last nearly as long as the CDR. I would suggest sticking with CDR and just burn everything you want at one time.

3.) STOP!! Please do not touch this folder!!! iPhoto library is the brain of the iphoto program. Making ANY changes to this folder can have unexpected results in the iphoto program. If you want to copy this folder onto DVD/CD or an external drive that is fine. But do not drag anything in to it or drag anything out PLEASE!!!
Visit this article for more info --- > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61262

-Originals - are the original images you imported
-Modifed - are any images that have been changed (Cropped, red-eye reduction, etc.)
-Data - is all the thumbnails (tiny versions of the pictures used for organization by the program)

Enjoy using the iphoto program....please save yourself much time and headache and leave the iphoto library folder alone.

I hope that information was useful.

Enjoy your Mac!

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Brian_ Author

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Sep 3, 2006 5:53 PM in response to AllanP

Thanks, Allen! I changed Image Capture as recommended.
I should have said that my CD's are "RW", this is why I am confused. When I try to copy another photo onto the CD (perhaps I am doing this wrong, based on your other comment (#3)), I get this message:
"...could not be moved because "untitled CD" cannot be modified".
Any help is appreciated.

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Brian_ Author

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Sep 3, 2006 6:02 PM in response to Brian_

I also see that you recommend using "R" discs, thanks.

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Old Toad

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Sep 3, 2006 9:35 PM in response to Brian_

You can reuse RW disc but they don't support multiple, incremental burns. It's all or nothing. Then you can erase them and burn again.

Do you Twango?

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AllanP

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Sep 5, 2006 8:23 AM in response to Brian_

CD -/+ RW and DVD -/+ must be erased by a program called "Disk Utility" (Found in Applications > Utilities on your Macintosh HD).

The following is from the help menu in that program:
Please visit the follow article ---> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh6.html

Erasing a CD-RW or DVD-RW disc
Before you can reuse a CD-RW or DVD-RW disc, you must erase it. You can use Disk Utility to erase CD-RW and DVD-RW discs.

When you erase the disc, you can select Quick Erase. If you do, Disk Utility prepares the disc so that you can write over the existing data but it doesn't actually erase the data. If you don't select Quick Erase, Disk Utility overwrites the entire disc with zeros, which takes longer.

Insert the disc in the optical drive of your computer.
Open Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities.
Select the disc in the column on the left and click Erase.
Select Quick Erase if you don't want to overwrite the old contents with zeros.
Click Erase.

Hope that helps!

Don't forget to check out www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials for assistance using iPhoto. Can be very useful.

PBG4 15inch Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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Brian_ Author

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Sep 5, 2006 5:21 PM in response to AllanP

Thanks Allan!

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