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remote backup FreeNAS and photos on OS X Lion

I've built a NAS for my home backups using FreeNAS 8 with 5 HDs and RAIDZ1. Everything works great except I haven't yet figured out a long term solution for handling my photos. Currently I'm ...
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IPhoto without using the “photo library”?

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to use iPhoto without having all the photos and movies lumped into one giant archive file but rather store them as individual files in subfolders (similar to ...
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iPhoto & iPhone Album order is different

I can't seem to find any answers to this, I have around 100 albums in iPhoto on my Mac, they are all synced to my iPhone, but on the phone they are just being displayed in a seeming random order. I ...
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Restoring iPhoto files from DVD back to the library

I've backed up iPhoto files on to DVD. How can I copy or export them from the DVDs when I open them in iPhoto? Do I need to import the files back into a new iPhoto Library each time to copy or ...
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Cannot upgrade applications on a used mac mini. “iPhoto is registered to different user”?

My computer was bought from best buy they say they wiped it clean it was a return from less than 10 days. When I put in my details on the mac everything went fine. There is an update for iPhoto and ...
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Why do iPhoto always ask me to turn on photo stream?

When I turn photo stream off, it asks me to turn it on, but when I turn it on, it downloads all of my photos again. Why is this?
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How to publish from iPhoto to windows live?

Is it possible to publish photos in iPhoto to Windows Live Photos? Is there a plugin to iPhoto that will enable this?
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Export iPhoto2011 library

Is there a way to export all my iPhoto'11 albums to an external driver, organizing them so you have a folder for each album with the name of that album? I found this tool ...
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Best practices for organizing iPhoto [closed]

I have been putting off the task of organizing my iPhoto library, with about 25,000 photos. Now that I am finally ready, what is the best method to organize? I like the idea of 'albums', but then the ...
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iPhoto '09 ignores EXIF

When I import photos to iPhoto, it uses file modification date instead of EXIF Original date. iPhoto's Extended photo info (⌥⌘I) shows no EXIF data. However, when I inspect the file using Preview.app, ...
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What version of iPhoto for Mac OS 10.4

What version of iPhoto would I need to run on Mac OS 10.4?
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How can I get a “Show in Finder” context menu option in iPhoto?

iTunes has a nice context menu, where one can right click, and select "Show in Finder". In iPhoto, one must go to the "File" menu, "Reveal in Finder..." (Where "Original" and Modified" are available). ...
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Is there a way to see just the videos from iPhoto?

My library is getting too large. I'd like to remove the videos so I can manage them separately. I suppose if there was a way to sort the library by media type, then I could drag all the videos to a ...
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How do I transfer my iPhoto library with keywords, events, albums and info intact?

I need to make space available on my MacBook Pro. Here is what I tried: I accessed the individual albums, clicked Select All then clicked File → New album on the iMac. It transferred the ...
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importing iPhoto library to Lightroom (preserving rating and events if possible)

I'm trying to switch to Lightroom, currently using iPhoto, so I'd like to import all my existing libraries while keeping photo ratings, events and tags too. Is there a way to do that? Ratings are ...
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Can someone suggest a workflow for transcoding videos in iPhoto from Motion-JPEG to something smaller?

I've shot a lot of video with "still" cameras over the years, and a lot of it is encoded with Motion-JPEG, which uses a lot of disk space per minute of video, compared to more efficient codecs such as ...
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How to migrate from iPhoto to Windows Live Photo Gallery?

I'm moving back from Mac to Windows and I want to take all of my photos with me. I'm specifically concerned about keeping event names, I don't so much care about Faces or Places. Is there anything I ...
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Copying Mobile Me Gallery photos into empty iPhoto

My hard drive died so I lost all of my data. However, I'd uploaded all my photos to Mobile Me Gallery. How do I bring them back from Mobile Me into my now empty iPhoto so they are restored back onto ...
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iPhoto backup on TimeCapsule using encrypted disk image

I have the following setup: Pics on my MBP Backups on my TimeCapsule iPhoto library alias pointing the real library on encrypted disk image Every time I open iPhoto, it mounts the encrypted disk ...
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iPhoto is showing information but not my photos

I have a Macbook Pro with the programm iPhoto, too. One day I tried to open my photos and I couldn't. I noticed then that there were all the information about the photos, but they were not opened. ...
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Move itunes and iphoto library to external hard disk

I'm running out of space on my MacBook Pro and would like to move my itunes and iphoto library to an external hard disk. What are the steps involved?
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iPhoto 09 hangs on startup

Every time I run iPhoto 09 on snow leopard it hangs after displaying the main window. The "beach ball" goes on forever and I have to force quit. Anybody knows what might be going on?
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Does iPhoto do lossless JPEG cropping?

If I crop a JPEG photo in iPhoto and then export it as JPEG, is the exported version re-compressed a second time, or does iPhoto somehow crop without re-encoding, thus avoiding further image ...
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Batch-Remove Specific Text from Photo Descriptions

I've recently upgraded to iPhoto '11 (couldn't resist the pricing on the new app store) and as I'm adding more meta-data to my library and generally organizing things (places, faces, etc... I hadn't ...
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In iPhoto, how can I disable the keyboard play button?

I use iPhoto '09 on my Mac. Every time I hit my laptop's play button while in iPhoto, instead of iTunes playing my audio, iPhoto goes into a photo loop. How can I get iPhoto to ignore the play ...
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Can't find iPhoto on my Mac OSX system

Mac OSX: I can't find iPhoto. I can't download any pictures anywhere. I thought iPhoto came with OSX but not all applications. Can I get iPhoto? Should I look for another application to do the ...
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iPhoto printing PDFs sideways

When I print to PDF from iPhoto (7.1.5), my scans (which are all portrait) all end up sideways in the PDF file. I've searched high and low for some setting that will alter this. The only one that I ...
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Move and upgrade iPhoto 09 to iPhoto 11

I have an existing iPhoto 09 library on one Mac, I have another Mac with a iPhoto 11 library few photos in a, I'd like to move all the existing photos from 10 to 11 but preserve the albums and what ...
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iPhoto 5: How can I get the top-level display back in rolls (thumbnails) mode?

This is on my parents' PPC, running OSX 10.4.something, and iPhoto 5 (no upgrade available because they bought the machine 2 weeks before Apple moved to Intel). They used the prefs to show the # of ...
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Why can't I see my existing albums in the Facebook Exporter for iPhoto plugin?

So I've installed the Facebook Exporter for iPhoto plugin. In iPhoto, when I select some pictures and click on "Export..." in the "Share" menu, I have a new tab "Facebook" now. After I click the "Log ...
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Browsing Pictures on a Mac

After many years using linux, I decided to buy a mac. Now my main problem is: how do I synchronize pictures within my linux machines and the mac? I have been using digikam in linux, and I like it ...
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Importing photos on Mac OS X

I recently switched for a PC to a Mac. In Windows I used to download photos from my camera into folders I created in the pictures directory. When I started using iPhoto 09, I imported those folders ...
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Mac OS X: Backup IPhoto 6 while preserving albums

I use IPhoto 6 version 6.0.6. I have organized all of my photos into folders in IPhoto and Albums inside the folders. I would like to make a backup of my phots and I would like them to be organized ...
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How to open iPhoto Library folder on a Mac

I remember that not long ago it was possible to open Finder and navigate to Pictures, then to iPhoto Library folder and then go inside the folder and open individual subfolders with jpgs in them. It ...
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Multiple iphoto slideshows on multiple monitors

I have a 3 monitor setup and would like to run slideshows from 3 different albums on the different monitors. Is this possible?
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How do I back up iPhoto library to external HDD without using Time Machine

I have an external HDD and I want to back-up my iPhoto library to it. Can I just copy the iPhoto file/folder onto my HDD? I don't want to use Time Machine to do this.
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Bulk Transfer of Videos to Online Source

I have a lot of videos that I have recorded on my iPhone 3gs. They are now in my iPhoto Library. In a year or so if I continue I can see myself running out of space. I am looking for a method ...
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How to sync finder folders into their respective albums in iPhoto?

Currently, I have set up in Firefox an add-on which when right clicked on an image toggles and saves this image to a specified folder. I use these folders as a reference library, now on 20 odd folders ...
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How do I edit an image on a Mac [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Best (cheap or free) image editing application for Mac? All I want to do is adjust an image to 72 x 72 pixels but there seems to be no built in programme to do it ...
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iPhone photo download workflow for ONLY new photos onto Mac

I'm finding my iPhone photo download workflow to be a bit cumbersome. Here are my requirements: Download photos+video off my iPhone Camera Roll, but keep photos on iPhone Only display/download new ...
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What are the IP ports to be opened to be able to order photos with iPhoto?

I have made a book using pictures with iPhoto. When I try to order a copy of it there is a problem with the connexion. this is a quite secure network here. What are the IP ports to be opened to be ...
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Safari's “Add image to iPhoto Library” creates new event each time

I recently discovered the "Add image to iPhoto Library" option in Safari's context menu. The problem is, despite the setting in iPhoto saying events are 1 per day, it create a new event for each ...
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What is the simplest way to backup a large (Aperture) photo library automatically to a different physical location (presumably through the cloud)?

I have about 10k pictures, (close to 50GB) on my MacBook Pro, all stored in an Aperture Library. I run time machine (on Snow Leopard if it matters), so they're backed up hourly to my time capsule, ...
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How to view & copy iPhone photos on Mac OS X without iPhoto

From Mac OS X version 10.6 onwards, Apple insists that we buy iLife for exploring photos from the iPhone. In previous versions of OS X, I could easily explore my iPhone photos, using iPhoto directly ...
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Move files from Mac to Canon PowerShot digital camera

When I plug my Canon PowerShot digital camera into Snow Leopard, it automatically opens iPhoto and asks to import the pictures, but does not mount the camera on the desktop (from what I read, it's a ...
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Can Spotlight or Media Browser index metadata contained in iPhoto or Aperture in Mac OS X?

It seems silly to go to all the trouble to assign "Face" data to thousands of photos, but not make it possible to use that data to locate them outside of that application. Is there any way to get ...
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Running rsync on network connect

I have one Mac which is always on and is my main computer. I also have a MacBook and I'm trying to sync my iPhoto library. So I can successfully use rsync to sync files. I'm using a cron to have it ...
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Picture syncing on Multiple Macs, iPhones, and iPad together so each device can update them all

One of the owners of my company has put me to task to sync his pictures between the following devices together. (2) iPhones (2) iMacs (1) Macbook Air (1) iPad Here is what is happening: He has a ...
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iPhoto - add time to photo time

I have taken some photos from a recent vacation, but forgot to set the "away" time, so the time is slightly off. Thats not much of an issue since its only an hour from my home time, but my partner ...
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How do I take photos of myself with iPhoto?

I would like to make pictures from my self with iPhoto, and I do not know how.

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