iPhoto 9.6 not exporting photo descriptions

How are you checking for the descriptions?

As a Test:

Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'

Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?

Post back with the result.

Just did as you directed, same problem. But it is very strange; I have scanned a whole bunch of slides, imported them into iPhoto, some photos were rotated 90 degrees (as some slides were meant to be shown as), and, finally, descriptions added. What is bizarre is that some files that are exported keep their descriptions while others don't. What is odd is that only the slides that were rotated 90 deg (then descriptions were added) kept their descriptions. Very, very weird (and a major failing).

What export settings are you using?

Have tried other File names, makes no difference.

Were these photos edited in any way before exporting? If not, edit one and try again, see if the description exports with them.

That seems to be getting at the issue. I made a duplicate of one of the horizontally oriented slide scans earlier and adjusted exposure, tint, etc.; when it is exported, the description sticks. However, if I then revert to original photo, the description is lost. Testing further, if I edit, change some setting and then go back to the original setting, the description is lost on export. But if I do even a small edit, the description seems to stick.

I have scanned almost 1000 slides in the last few days and I didn't intend to adjust many of them. It will be a lot of work to go into every scanned image and do some minor edit on all of them. This really is flakey.

I *think* this is because the images are scanned. Scanned images (in almost all cases) have no metadata - Exif/IPTC - and no space in the file to write this too. I'm guessing that the edit forces the creation of a new file that has the creation of the IPTC area, and that gives iPhoto a space to write to. But that's a guess.

Thanks. While going into each photo and doing a trivial edit will be a bit of work, it's better than having to input all the information for the descriptions or not being able to export the descriptions at all.

Thanks for sharing

and note it also is More expensive (and for that you get more capabilities), much harder to learn and use and has no integration with other Mac software

LN