[mskaj]

Anyone else having problems with iPhoto not displaying the preferences? We have a volume license at the College I work at and I'm seeing about 4 out of 10 installs where the preferences will not display when selected. I have seen a thread on Apple's Support Forums with several others experiencing the same problem. Nobody seems to have a fix for it and re-installing it doesn't seem to help either. Apple's tech support has not responded to my email in three days. Hopefully they will respond with an 7.0.2 update that fixes the problem. As it stands now, we cannot deploy it because we need to be able to set the external editor to Photoshop and can't get to the preferences to do so.

[hammer32]

I was replacing our old iWeb photo pages with a .Mac Web Gallery. I've got 63 Albums that I've turned into galleries. When I try to load the main gallery page I get this error from Safari:
A script on the page ".Mac Web Gallery -" ( http://gallery.mac.com/username ) is making Safari unresponsive. Do you want to continue running the script, or stop it?

I think the two options were Stop and Continue, but which ever one I click the alert box just pops up again. Force quitting is the only way to stop them. I had been been refreshing the page after every few album additions and didn't get this error until after the 60th gallery was added.

Another user reports the problem at 40 albums. More info:

Apple Support Discussions
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-Sean

[Photoshop48]

I've NEVER had such an easy time, FINALLY, getting my 50,000 image library into some sort of usable format! Way to go Apple Team! I use Aperture for pro editing, but it's not a strong cataloging program for volumes of images right now. Maybe later. But for now, iPhoto has come to the rescue, replacing iView ((sinking fast under MS control (99.00 for an "upgrade to "MS Expression" and a FREE totally stupid Spash Screen!! which slows load time and looks totally dumb)) and offering so much more not the least of which is a much more intuitive method of grouping images (into Events), sharing w/ OTHER Apple APPS, and snazzy, quick editing. I can't tell you how much this program WORKS for my own particular uses.

[Graeme_Smith]

The Events organization looks nice - I wonder if they will add this to Aperture? I hope so

[icerabbit]

I've read on the web that iphoto now would appear to have a monolithic library?
All photo data and related stuff concealed in one single file.
Could the macworld editors & contributors weigh in on this?

[folklore]

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I've read on the web that iphoto now would appear to have a monolithic library?
All photo data and related stuff concealed in one single file.
Could the macworld editors & contributors weigh in on this?

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If you double-click the iPhoto library in the finder, it now opens iPhoto instead of opening the folder in the Finder as it had done in the past. You can still right click and choose show contents (rather like you can with applications) to see the folder structure.

[folklore]

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Does anyone know if they fix the issue with Share->Burn command? Instead of only getting a disc with one copy of the photos you selected you also get photos like thumbnails and more. This makes this feature worthless since all you want to do is make a disc and have them printed at the local store. You don't want to get there and find out the disc has 3x the amount of photos you selected, which confuses the heck out of you.

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I don't see this as a problem - when you burn a disc that way, it creates an iPhoto disc. This is great for archiving photos to optical discs. Those discs have thumbnails on them to speed the display of photos when you load the disc in iPhoto.
Since you don't like that behavior, I'd suggest creating a burn folder and dragging your photos out of iPhoto to the burn folder. Then, burn the disc from the burn folder. Or, since most of those kiosks have USB ports, drag the photos out of iPhoto to a flash drive.

[smumac]

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Does it have IPTC or XMP support yet? My main objection to iPhoto previously was that it wanted to name all the files by date, and the lack of IPTC or XMP support meant there was no easy way to get my data out of iPhoto again. If iPhoto was iTunes for photos I'd use it.

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Same here, except I do use iPhoto. I hated to add any keywords or anything for it not to show up in Bidge or when I uploaded the photo to flickr.

[JakeB]

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iPhoto is still not part of the family yet. Why in the world did Apple introduce us to Spotlight? After months of careful annotating of Spotlight Comments in my 13,000+ photos, all my efforts are for not because they will NOT import into iPhoto? This makes iPhoto useless to me.

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It's 'for naught,' old boy.

[sjk]

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Also upon exporting, iPhoto will write the keywords, title and comments into the appropriate IPTC filed of the file being exported.

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Do you have an explicit example? I can't find any IPTC metadata in files exported from iPhoto 7 using the File > Export > File Export dialog.

[mretondo]

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Does anyone know if they fix the issue with Share->Burn command? Instead of only getting a disc with one copy of the photos you selected you also get photos like thumbnails and more. This makes this feature worthless since all you want to do is make a disc and have them printed at the local store. You don't want to get there and find out the disc has 3x the amount of photos you selected, which confuses the heck out of you.

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I don't see this as a problem - when you burn a disc that way, it creates an iPhoto disc. This is great for archiving photos to optical discs. Those discs have thumbnails on them to speed the display of photos when you load the disc in iPhoto.
Since you don't like that behavior, I'd suggest creating a burn folder and dragging your photos out of iPhoto to the burn folder. Then, burn the disc from the burn folder. Or, since most of those kiosks have USB ports, drag the photos out of iPhoto to a flash drive.

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Not a problem, just sit you mother down in front of iPhoto and tell her to burn a disc of 5 photos to be printed at a kiosks with no help from you. Then have her go and have them printed at a kiosk. When shes done yelling at you, then tell me that there's no problem. The share command isn't for backup's it's for printing, my god!!!

[paparazzo1]

According the this article we should all be able to upload and download high rez images in iPhoto 08 - one way or another.
NOT TRUE.
The photocasting feature has been removed and using iPhoto 08 there is now no way to send and receieve FULL or almost FULL rez jpegs. (Such as those which would be from a PRO DSLR like a Nikon D2X or even a Canon 5D.
Photocasting and Dot Mac allowed sending and receiving large numbers of images such as might be sent from a photographer on an assignment in the field - where the magazine editor would then be able to come in the next day and download the almost full rez images. This did work with RAW but in photojournalism almost no one uses RAW anyway. Or if they do - they first compress them into jpegs to transmit.
The file sizes one is now ALLOWED to download in iPhoto 08 are vastly smaller - and UN-USEABLE for any sort of professional purpose.
This is BAD.
I do hope APPLE will correct this glaring problem.
it makes no sense whereas Apple has just INCREASED all DOT MAC members storage space ten fold!
What gives?

[griffman]

You might look into using the freeware Galerie to generate your web albums instead. You lose the fancy .Mac features, but there are lots of free templates -- and most importantly, you can check a button labeled "Include full-size originals", and then each image gets a "Download original" link below it.
It's not nicely auto-updating, as were photocasts, but really, I've found I don't often update photocasts anyway, so this works nearly as well. Note that you can't include RAW images; if you do, the JPEG preview (still a very nice image) is used instead.
-rob.