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iPhoto-I need help identifying where the photos are

On another forum (Mac rumours), somebody posted:

the way iPhoto works is that when you import pictures into iPhoto, it will be stored on an iPhoto library file, literally called "iPhoto Library". This file is normally stored in your "Pictures" folder, but if you moved it to an external hard drive, thats where it will be. So any stray pictures you can see outside of iPhoto (for example, any pictures you see in your pictures folder) doesn't necessarily mean its in iPhoto, and are not actually linked to iPhoto in any way. So anything you do to those, whether its delete, edit, or move, the iPhoto library will not capture those changes since it has its own copy of the file stored in the iPhoto library file.

My Q is this: I see numerous photos right below the iPhoto library, in Finder (see below): are the .jpg files that I see, the ones that are in my iPhoto library? In others words, if I delete them, will they also be deleted from my iPhoto library? It would seem from the above posting that the "stray" photos are *not* part of the iPhoto library, but I'm unclear as to whether this is so, or whether I've misunderstood what they wrote. I want to know if the individual jpg's (that are listed under iphoto library, *are* my photos within my iPhoto library.

Thanks very much!

Posted on Mar 26, 2015 12:40 PM

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léonie

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Mar 26, 2015 3:13 PM in response to Psych13

Neither. Let iPhoto find the photos for you.

Either send the photo directly from iPhoto by selecting it in iPhoto'S browser and then using the Share button to send the Mail.
Or use the Photo Browser in Mail. Click the Photo Browser button in Mail, and it will show you the events and albums in your iPhoto library directly in Mail.

See Terence Devlin's User Tip: . How to Access Files in iPhoto

Psych13 Author

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Mar 26, 2015 3:19 PM in response to léonie

I use Outlook for Mac; not Mail so I can't use option #2, but in iPhoto......if I share....by Mail.....does that send via the Mail email programme or is a mail function within iPhoto? It must be a mail feature within iPhoto cause I just sent myself a photo and received it, without my Mail email programme opening.

léonie

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Mar 26, 2015 3:56 PM in response to Psych13

It must be a mail feature within iPhoto cause I just sent myself a photo and received it, without my Mail email programme opening.

In iPhoto you can select the Mail client in the Preferences panel:

In the "General" pane of the preferences set the option "Email photos using"

Psych13 Author

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Mar 26, 2015 11:48 PM in response to léonie

Thanks for that-I did discover that myself last night but also noticed that the email ends up in my Drafts folder without an actual .jpg attached-the photo filename is there, as if it's ready to send, but the photo isn't even attached to the email. I've also tried it by sending via iPhoto (what I am assuming is the inbuilt mail programme in iphoto) and that works so I'll stick with that for now.

Many thanks!

iPhoto-I need help identifying where the photos are