I can’t find the answer to this in iPhoto Help, and so I turn to the Teeming Millions. Here’s the scenario:
I have a bunch of jpg’s on the Titanium Powerbook. I wish to burn them over to a CD. No biggie, I just drag them one at a time into the CD.
I can “Title” a jpg anything I want to. Instead of it’s imported name, which might be " DSC00005.JPG", I can title it " Lovely Flowers 1". Apparently, the re- titling does NOT alter the NAME given to that file. Therefore, when I go to drag " DSC00005.JPG" into the CD, and I’ve already dragged ANOTHER JPG with that same name into the CD, I’m refused the ability to import that second PJG. Since I store them on a Memory Stick on the Mini DV Cam, I could easily shoot a photo that is named “DSC00005.JPG” by the DV Cam, import it, and then a few weeks later, shoot ANOTHER shot called “DSC00005.JPG”, and then import that one into the TiBook.
I can Title the darned thing anything I want to, but I can NOT figure out how to truly re-name the file so that I can separate out the images. I want to be able to export ALL of the JPG files onto a CD, and right now I’m stymied because of the random original Name assigned to that image by the DV Cam.
How can I truly Re-Name these images?? Help !! Many thanks in advance to the Mac Genius who gets this one figured out
Which version of iPhoto are you using? According to Apple’s knowledge base (URL=http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/viewDocument?dialogID=133818662&sherlock=ON&extKCID=61612]link),
In short, whatever name you give to the photo should be the name you get when you export it. If you’re using an earlier version of IPhoto, it may be time to upgrade.
I guess I’m missing something. What’s stopping you from going to your Home directory in the Finder, opening the Pictures folder, and renaming the files whatever you want?
I have the latest iPhoto, and changing the name of the photo in iPhoto does NOT change the file name. So you’re right, when you export, iPhoto DOES maintain the file name. But, since you never really changed the file name, all you get is the name the camera gave the file.
This drives me nuts in iPhoto. You can use the (what’s it called?).app to import photos instead of iPhoto, change all of the names in the Finder, and then drag-and-drop folders to import them into iPhoto. A pain? Yes. I tried doing this religiously when I started using iPhoto, and soon tired of it. I now just accept the camera’s names, and live with it.
I’m not thrilled. I did follow the suggestions here, and I was indeed able to find those .jpg files under Home. I re-named a bunch, and dragged them into the CD, so they could be backed up. Fine and dandy.
I went to burn it, and it said a bunch of the files were “invalid”. ( sounds like Windows bullshit to me, since they were all available for viewing and editing moments before ). I said, fine, burn what you can.
iPhoto crashed without warning. When I re-started it, ALL OF THOSE PHOTOS I HAD HIGHLIGHTED AND DRAGGEDINTO THE CD WERE GONE from the iPhoto Library.
And, they are really GONE. Normally I can drag a photo from iPhoto to a CD, and it is not really gone, just copied. These photos are GONE. I can find the little thumbnails in Home just fine, but when I try to replace them back into the Library, I’m told there is no data to support the thumbnail.
Mac OSX deleted those photos for good. They’re not in the Trash Can either, they’re simply not available as a true .jpg any more as far as I can see. I can see the thumbnails, but can no longer OPEN them, Edit them or Export them, OR move them back INTO the Library.
So much for, " OS X never ever ever ever crashes cause it’s Unix-Based and is so bulletproof you could change your baby’s diaper on that OS and it’d not stink blah blah fuckin’ blah, this thing CRASHED, and blew away photos that are now gone for ever.
I imported them from a Memory Stick. Since they existed on my TiBook, and were seemingly safe there, and since I was attempting to copy them to CD to preserve them just in case, I figured they were safe enough.
I wiped the Memory Stick clean. Live and learn. I mean, a memory stick is about $ 35.00, and a CD that can hold dozens of jpg’s is what? Seventy-five cents? Seemed logical to want to store all photos as back-up on a CD, NOT a Memory Stick…
Sounds like you really had some bad luck. I guess it’s too late now, but next time, don’t rename the actual files in the iPhoto library folder system – this confuses iPhoto. If you look down deep through the directory structure, you should see that all of the photos are deeply nested in a wild array of folders. This is really how iPhoto sorts them by date. Please double-check again – maybe they’re there still.
For future reference, try this instead: drag your photos from iPhoto into a folder on your desktop; I think I photo should export them okay automatically. Then rename those files, leaving your iPhoto library alone.
And for what it’s worth, Mac OS X doesn’t promise that applications won’t crash, only that when an application crashes it won’t bring down the whole system. I finally had my very first kernel panic (a real crash) on my PowerBook last night, because of a badly-written Norton kernel extension (messing with the kernel will crash a system).
Thank you, Balthisar. I’ve been out of town without the TiBook ( I was sufficiently aggrivated that I took the p.c. laptop, and left La Ti at home. ).
It’s sad to hear they might be gone. If you’ve any clever little ideas on how I can find out if they ARE really gone, I’m game. I’m stunned that I can open a thumbnail of a “lost” image, and it’ll go to about three inches square, and yet I cannot drag that thumbnail back INTO the Library for iPhoto.
I mean, a memory stick is about $ 35.00, and a CD that can hold dozens of jpg’s is what? Seventy-five cents? Seemed logical to want to store all photos as back-up on a CD, NOT a Memory Stick…