On Aug 17, 2005, at 12:43 AM, Claire Hart wrote:
To the two who suggested that I drag my photos to a CD and then
burn the CD, or drag the photos to a folder, and burn that, I will
tell you that I have tried to do that. However, my group of 1100+
photos is actually a compilation of photos taken by 7-8 families
over the course of a basketball season. Everyone took their photos
to Wal-Mart or Walgreens and then gave me the CD of their photos,
and several times throughout the year as well. As a result, these
photos often have duplicate numbering systems. So when I try to
save them all at once, I am told that "a photo already exists with
that name, and do I want to replace it?" I tried that once, and
ended up with around 600 photos, so that means that about 500 of
them are somehow duplicates.
This is why you should never have the only copy of a photo be the one
in iPhoto.
I've not done this, and there may be an easier way, but:
I'd make a new iPhoto library of the basketball pictures. Take all
your original CDs (hope you have them).
Copy them one by one to individual, nicely named, folders on your
hard drive (bball-JDoe-to-May312005.
For each folder, run an app like FileWrangler or QuickName (see
macupdate.com, I use FileWrangler if I need to batch rename, but I'm
not sure it's the best one) to rename the files, adding a -1 or a -2
or a -3 to the files in the different directories (to make their
names all unique). Use -1 only for one dir, -2 for the next, etc.
Now, you can import to iPhoto, making sure that you set the prefs to
leave the original the heck alone (so your nicely named folders and
files are still intact), and put a copy of the photo in the iPhoto
library. Congrats, you've just doubled your use of file space, but
you can still work with your photos in a sensible manner if you need
to. :)
Now, if you want to select a subset in iPhoto and export it to a
folder, all the names will be unique.
Is there a way to do this within iPhoto already? I think not, since
you're getting the issue of duplicate filenames when you export, one
would HOPE it would have renamed them -1 -2 -3 etc. on export like
when you download the same file from the web with Safari multiple
times, but I guess they didn't program iPhoto like that?
That's at least one way to fix your problem, perhaps not the best
though. For the # of photos you have, it shouldnt be too bad.
B
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