[MacDV] Re: iPhoto?

[Dmytro Koval'ov]

>>>>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, "Erica" == Erica Sadun wrote:

  Erica> Create a new album e.g. PicsToShare or PicsToPrint or
  Erica> whatever. Drag all the photos you want to archive to that new
  Erica> Album. (This does not remove them from the source albums).

dwayne_bradley at mac.com said:

  +> For sharing your photos with others, why not just Export the photos
  +> that you want to a folder on the desktop and then use the photos
  +> here to burn your CD?  First, select the pictures that you want,

Actually, one does not need even to export photos to folder as photos
already sorted into folders by iPhoto.

In folder <iPhoto Library> there's subfolder <Albums> with one
sub-folder per each album in iPhoto. These sub-folders have names related
to names of albums in iPhoto.

i.e. If you've created two Albums in IPhoto namely "MyAlbum1" and "My
Album 2", your directories structure will be like this:

<Pictures>
 |
 |
  \
<iPhoto Library> -> <year> -- <month1>--- <day1>
		| 	  |	      |
		| 	  |    	      |-- <Day2>
		| 	  |  	      |__ <day3>
       	       	|          \_ <month2>--<day1>
		|      	       	      
		|      	       	      ....
		|      	       	      
		\_<Albums>----< MyAlbum1 > - [symlink]
			  |
			  \__< My Album 2 > - [symlink]
					    \_[symlink]
					    |_[.....]

All subfolders corresponding to iPhoto albums will have nothing more
in them then symlinks (it's a UNIX thing, think of them as something
similar to MacOS aliases). You can just copy over these symlinks to
another location (in Finder or from Terminal: 
'cp <path_to_album>/* [new_dir]'), they will be copied as files,
not symlinks. 


erica at mindspring.com said:
> Launch Toast and start a new data session.
> Open the Album in iPhoto, select all the pictures and drag them to
> Toast. 


Without Toast:  insert blank CD. After it appeared on Desktop, drag 
albums from <iPhoto Library>-<Albums> to CD. Burn.

Regards,
Dmytro.


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  +> On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 06:56 AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

  +> > The numbers are not that cryptic they relate to the date of
  +> > picture and sort of make sense once you understand it.  I agree
  +> > though that it is not the easiest way to find your pictures.

  +> > On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 04:33 AM, David wrote:

  +> > > Can anyone explain to me why iPhoto creates this labyrinth of
  +> > > folders to store pictures? It makes backing up and archiving,
  +> > > much less sharing with non-iPhoto users a pain. Why does one
  +> > > set of imported pictures end up in a number of nested, numbered
  +> > > folders?  The workaround for my needs seem to be exporting the
  +> > > pictures, preserving their names, storing them in a new folder
  +> > > on the desktop, then burning a CD. I understand iPhoto 2 now
  +> > > has a burn feature built in but I just tried it and it too
  +> > > makes iPhoto- only Albums with nested cryptic folders. The CD
  +> > > is easily readable by iPhoto (nice) but one is clueless to just
  +> > > start clicking through on the CD.

  +> > > Thanks,

  +> > > -DC