Graeme
As Paul has said, I am sure you will find that your photos will
be in Photos and also in Events.
Originally, nearly 2 years ago, I also was not happy with the
way in which iPhoto sorted out my photos, and I battled (am battling)
on in various ways to try and force iPhoto to put my photos where I
wanted, and as I had them originally placed on my PC. Having actually
lost photos right off the system (because I was trying to cut and paste
as I had done on my PC) I had to accept and give in, still trying to
adapt to the way the Mac handles photos.
This date order that iPhoto works on is actually a nuisance to
me because many of my photos have been taken from old slides; or having
been scanned in from an old/new photo. iPhoto recognises the dates of
these photos as the date they actually are placed into iPhotos., so old-by-date photos, when
imported into an existing folder, place themselves up with the most recent-in-date photos.
(No problems with dates with digital cameras).
Two things that I have found of great help. One, is to work
from Events,
then you can place these - by dragging the folders - in the order you
want them. You can also merge one folder into another when you want
to, by dragging one file onto the top of another folder. EG, I have
Christmas 1979, Christmas 1980, Christmas 1981; Holidays 1999, Holidays
2000; Birthdays 2000, Birthdays 2001 and so on. If I come across more
Christmas 1979 photos I import these and then go into Events and add
to/merge my earlier file. So each section in Events is in the order
and date order that suits me.
The second thing I have done (I have gone over every photo,
nearly 10,000, gradually and done this, - now I do it each time I place
photos by whatever method into iPhoto) - is to rename each photo. This
helps greatly in the excellent search function in iPhoto. (**I have
also renamed, where I think it appropriate) each "file" name. So within Family Tree Smith
file (bearing in mind some of my photos areninserted from slides, or
which I have scanned in) have been renamed so each individual photo
reads, EG "Smith F.T.
Pemberton Pool, Denis, Janet 1940's". Then I can search by
Smith or by Pemberton, or by Denis, and up come my photos.
It is always better to give a time frame whenever you can to
save problems later, EG much better when possible to firstly show
2009-09-11; or even Sept. 2009. With really old photos I try to put at
least, "1940 ish".
Sometimes I have photos given to me by another person and these
may have been put onto a USB stick. Then it is important to also
retain the same name that your source has given to them - EG Smith F.T. Farm, Mum, Gran
1950 ft ks 115619".
Partially meaningless to us, but important if we need to ask our
source any questions about that particular photo at a later date.
Hopefully this also will help you a little.
Have fun
Peta
On 21/12/2009, at 10:29 PM, Paul van der Mey wrote:
Graeme
My experience with iPhoto is that all the images appear in Photos AND
Events.
The difference being that Events groups the photos by time (the default
on import?, Go to iPhoto -> Preferences -> Events to see the
other options)
Go to the events view and slowly drag across one of the images. You
should see a slide show of the images in that Event. Double click to
view the images in the Event.
You should find all Events are groups of images taken on the same day.
It is possible to turn the auto-splitting on import function off when
importing from the finder (a check box in the Event Preferences) in
which case you would see events as folder names that have been imported.
Thank you
Paul van der Mey
p...@interactive-knowledge.biz
Mob. 0419 201 477
On 21/12/2009, at 5:48 PM, Graeme Winters wrote:
Greetings to all
As a very recent Imac user I transferred
all of My Photos from my PC to the new Mac using a Belkin Switch to
Cable system and everything appears to have come across.
I had many years of photos on my old PC and
the transfer took some time
I had over a 100 folders including many
from a recent trip to Europe. These most recent photos were taken on a
Canon and a Fuji.
The Canon downloaded all pictures neatly
into folders according to the date the photo was taken whereas the Fuji
did not and I then sorted each Fuji download into folders according to
the town or place we visited over 70 days. There was nearly 9Gb of
photos from this recent trip
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