I understand iPhoto stores the images by date. When I look into the original files I find that under the year 2015, under the month of April, under the date of the 30th that there are images dated 11/5 through 4/15.
What's up with that?
Thanks.
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), 10.10.4 operating system
You need to stop meddling in there. There are no "user serviceable parts" inside the iPhoto Library. The only way you should interact with the files and their organization is via the iPhoto interface.
Whats up with that - you are messing in a place you do not understand and should not be - there is no reason to be there and it is not designed for human access - it is only a part of the iphoto library and is only for use by the iphoto application
Do not MUCK around inside the iphoto library - there is no reason to and it is very dangerous
LN
Thanks for the warnings - I know it's a mine field. But ... I'm going to switch to Lightroom and I've been researching how to do it. (I've been successful!).
SO back to the question - why are there images in a year/month/day folder other than that particular time period? IPhoto is supposed to store images by capture date and I'm finding mixed dates in some of the folders.
THanks again.
Again there are no user serviceable parts in the iphoto library and there is no defined way iPhoto is "suppose" to store photos in the database
To move to Lightroom launch iPhoto and select all photos and export the originals using the subfolder option to recreate you event structure - import those into LR
And your post leaves the question hanging since you have been successful in switching to LR from iPhoto why are you mucking around inside the iPhoto library - you are done
LN
i Have the "iPhoto '11 the missing manual" book and that's where I read that iPhoto " meticulously arranges your photos within these numbered folders according to the creation dates of the originals" pg. 30. Guess not. Still, it would seem that a folder with the name 20150430 would have images from April 30, 2015? At this point, I'm baffled by the name that iPhoto assigns if the images are from different dates. Anyhow, I've been able to move stuff into Lightroom with losing any of the links between the thumbnails and the originals so that's good. Thanks for helping out.
You are welcome
enjoy
LN
Looking inside my iPhoto 9.6.1 test library the subfolders in the Masters folder are setup buy date imported and not image capture date.
File structure question
