I have two cameras of the same model and want to separate out the photos taken on each one. Is this possible?

Do you use the same lens? Hopefully, your husband uses the kit lens and you have a fancy 'L' jobby.

Even though the file numbers overlap, you might be able to use a smart album and sort by filename and date.

Try to separate the photos by "import session".

Assuming you can recognize some of the photos you took - perhaps there are some photos showing your husband and some photos showing you - these photos will tell you the import session. All photos you import into the library will be assigned an import session metadata tag, so his photos should have all the same import session tag.

To show this thag, set the Info panel in the Inspector to "Edit" and add it to your current Metadata view.

Once you found the Import Session for your husband's photos, create a smart album based on this meta data tag.

When I import my husband's photos in my library, I use a metadata preset on import, that will assign automatically a keyword, set his copyright, and adds a color code. So I can see at a glance, which photos are my photos and which are his.

Leonie:

Is that iPhoto or Aperture? This is the iPhoto forum.

Leonie:

Is that iPhoto or Aperture? This is the iPhoto forum.

Sorry, Keith, I lost my way 😊 😀.

Then my recommendation is to upgrade to Aperture to get it sorted.

Did you import your husband's photos directly from the card? And recently? Or a long time ago? What was the iPhoto version, when you imported the photos?

...So, anything above 80 is done.

I am thinking that you would do it in stages. The first 10 or so might be impossible, but hopefully after that you can look for images 11-25 taken on Tuesday to get his, and 11-50 taken Monday to get yours...

You might also punt, export the original images to a folder and use something like ExifTool that can see the serial number. (Canon's DPP might help here, too.) Change the file name and then re-import the images after deleting the first batch from iPhoto

But first just fool around with the Smart Album controls, something might jump out at you.

ETA:

Do you tend to use the same focal lengths? That is another way to sort. I just found an image because I knew I had shot it with my 60mm macro.

Oh, and next time, you can program the Canon to start wtih a particular image number to make it easy to separate.

Hi kyzla,

Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you give them each their own Event Name when you import them?

Cheers,

GB

Because that would be locking the barn door after the horse is gone. That is good advice for the future, but does not help her now.