Iphoto syncing12/30/2023 ![]() RKMaster has a column called imagePath which is where the full path of the original image file is supposed to go. In that db there's a table called RKMaster which stores the info about each photo. All the information it needs about where to find an image is now in the Library.apdb SQlite database file in iPhoto Library/Database/apdb/. iPhoto 9 has a totally different folder and database structure. It can't find the referenced images of course, but there's no warning or anything. Start iPhoto 9 on my MacBook and it upgrades the library. ![]() Of course the referenced files were not copied to the MacBook, but everything appeared to be OK. Forgetting that I had referenced files in my library I just copied the iPhoto Library folder from my iMac to my MacBook Air as the Apple support docs say (they don't mention anything about referenced files). Then I wanted to move my library to my new MacBook Air running Lion and iPhoto 9 ('11). In iPhoto 8 this was handled by creating an OS X alias file in the Originals folder within the iPhoto Library folder. This library had a bunch of "referenced" photos, ie, photos whos image files were outside of the iPhoto Library folder. It starts with iPhoto 8 ('09) on my iMac. I've resolved the problem, and it wasn't pretty. I'm using Lion 10.7.2 and the latest versions of both iPhoto and iTunes, syncing with an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1. To summarize, iTunes does not recognize any iPhoto photos which are stored outside of the iPhoto Library folder (referenced), unless that photo has since been edited in iPhoto. If I edit a photo in one of the affected events, it then appears available for sync in iTunes, presumably because once edited, the modified photo is stored in the iPhoto Library. The original files are all there, available and editable within iPhoto. For these events, iPhoto maintains an alias in the library to the original file. In my case these are mainly older events for which I already had folders before I started using iPhoto. Some events are showing as having 0 photos in them, others are showing far fewer photos than the event actually has.Īfter some digging I found a pattern: the problem only affects "referenced" events, i.e., events where the master copies of the photos are in folders outside of the iPhoto Library. Once you’re in the directory, you can copy these files over to elsewhere and it will not impact your iPhoto library assuming the originals remain in the library.ITunes is not recognizing the correct number of photos in some of my iPhoto events. These directories are also the same regardless of the device the pictures originated from, whether it’s from an iPhone or a digital camera. The precise path format varies slightly in iPhoto versions, and older versions may contain full dates in the directory in the format of “August 30, 2011” but it’s not any more difficult to work with. Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2011/August/30/ If you know exactly what import date you are looking for you can specify that as a full path and go directly to it, like so: For example, pictures imported on August 30th 2011 would be in the folder “2011” followed by “August” and then within that directory, another named “30”. Regardless of the version of iPhoto, the pictures are stored and organized by folders based on dates, broken down by year, month, and day. Picture Organization by /Year/Month/Date/ Navigate to “Masters” or “Originals” to find your original iPhoto pictures.Right-Click and select “Show Package Contents”.Open /Pictures/ and locate the “iPhoto Library” file.You can either access the directory from Go To Folder command within the Mac OS X Desktop by hitting Command+Shift+G or by opening the directory manually: Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals/ Accessing the iPhoto Picture Files and Originals IPhoto 8 and prior versions pictures location: This is the same with all new versions of iPhoto. Inside that directory you will find the originals, sorted by date, and broken into subfolders for additional pictures. ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library.photolibrary/Masters/ In the latest versions of iPhoto you will find your pictures stored in the user library Pictures folder inside a self contained Iphoto library package, that file and location is the following: IPhoto 11 (9.0) Photo Library Storage Location: But with newer versions of iPhoto, iPhoto Library became a package file rather than a folder, so in order to access the original picture files you have to go one step further in one of two locations: IPhoto pictures are stored within the home /Pictures/ directory, in a file called iPhoto Library.
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