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How do you restore photos in iPhoto?

 

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This post at the Apple Discussion forums explains how to restore your iPhoto photos. Thanks laverne’s mom.

Your question had me wondering too and so I checked my Time Machine and couldn’t see where any photos were.  I then pulled out a book I got when I first got my mac ( Its called The Missing Manual.  I got it used from Amazon)   anyway, if you open iPhoto, go to File then Browse Backups.  It will show you the photos that have been backed up and are available for recovery.  I hadn’t paid much attention to that before and am glad I discovered it now, rather than when I am in a panic over a lost or misplaced photo.  Hope this helps you find what you are looking for.

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iTunes 10.4 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 does not start automatically when iPad or iPhone is plugged in

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Chelley Vician1 seems to have a working solution.

Ok, here’s what seems to have worked….but will need to monitor to see if this stays “stable”.

1) As suggested by King_Penguin in another Discussion thread [apple support > iPad > Using iPad > Discussions] (https://discussions.apple.com/message/15911962#15911962), I turned off iPhoto startup on the iPhone. Then ejected iPhone from USB.

2) Reconnected iPhone via USB. iTunes did not start up. Started up iTunes manually. Went to Summary page for iPhone, unchecked the “open iTunes” option, selected APPLY button. Let iTunes run its application process.

3) Then checked the “open iTunes” option. Selected APPLY button. Got a dialog box asking if I wanted “iTunes Helper” to be installed; selected YES. Let iTunes run its application process. Ejected iPhone. Closed out iTunes. Reconnected iPhone via USB. AND iTunes STARTED UP AUTOMATICALLY (yay!). Let iTunes do some backup and sync’ing. Ejected iPhone. Closed out iTunes.

4) Connected iPad via USB (on computer). AND iTunes STARTED UP AUTOMATICALLY (yay!).

I don’t know for sure that the iPhoto “automatic launch” was causing the interference, but it seems like the “uncheck/check” the “open iTunes” option seemed to re-set the problem that I encountered. I don’t want to say for sure that this issue is fixed, but it appears to be under control for the moment.

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and assistance. Maybe this info will help someone else out now that it’s in the forums/discussions.

via iTunes 10.4 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 does not…: Apple Support Communities.

Download dupeGuru for Mac – A tool to find duplicate files on your computer. MacUpdate.com

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Download dupeGuru for Mac – A tool to find duplicate files on your computer. MacUpdate.com. This is fantastic software. People really struggle with duplicates. There is even a DupeGuru PE so you can find duplicate pictures in minutes.

Cannot copy iPhoto library from network…: Apple Support Communities

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Cannot copy iPhoto library from network…: Apple Support Communities. wizdomonwheels discovered the solution.

First off, try dragging the file to your desktop or somewhere other than your Photos folder to make sure that it’s not trying to overwrite an existing file.

If that doesn’t work, it’s possible that the file is larger than 2GB and if your NAS is not formatted for the Mac it may have trouble copying.

Either way, right click (or control click) on the iPhoto Library and choose “Show Package Contents”.

Create a new folder wherever you want on your computer called iPhoto Library Copy (you can name it anything you want).

Slowly drag the contents from inside the old iPhoto Library into the new folder you’ve created.  Since it handles the files like a normal folder system, it should give errors on whatever may be corrupted, anything corrupted you can skip.

Once it’s done copying, go to file–> get info, and go down to permissions, unlock it, then make sure you have read/write access to the files.  Click the Cog and choose “Apply to Enclosed Items”.

Once you’ve got everything copied locally, launch iPhoto with the Option key down, and choose to create a new iPhoto Library.  Once a new one is created, quit iPhoto, show contents of the iPhoto library you just created, and drag copy your old contents into the new library.

Open iPhoto again and see how it does!

 

Duplicate ‘com.apple.xxx’ preferences: Apple Support Communities

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Duplicate ‘com.apple.xxx’ preferences: Apple Support Communities. I have never seen this issue, but interesting that it occurs. Barry has the solution below.

This issue has been covered by MacFixit.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20032310-263.html?tag=mncol;title

An AppleScripter provided the following script which I have set up to run automatically upon shutdown or restart. You would need to change widget.weather to quicktime or whatever other preference file is appropriate.

set the_container to path to preferences folder from user domain

tell application “Finder” to tell folder the_container

delete (every file whose name contains “widget.weather” and name extension is not “plist”)

end tell

 

Time Machine Question: Apple Support Communities

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Poster solves his own problem with Safari running slowly and taking excessive CPU’s. Interesting troubleshooting.

Videobox was the culprit! I must\’ve accidentally installed the plugin when I used it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I turned off the plugin and my Safari\’s cpus have dropped to about 10! Amazing. I also took your advice and rebuilt the 1password data file and things are getting faster. I\’m going to keep going through the logs to see what other problems I have and try and troubleshoot from there. The only other program that has gotten slow is iPhoto \’09. Think I should rebuild the library? Thanks again for your help. I will list your answer as the correct one.

via Time Machine Question: Apple Support Communities.

Need fast image browsing in a directory?

 

 

Xee.This is a free source alternative to iPhoto for handling photos. Much faster and almost immediate load. I used a folder full of photos and it loaded them instantly and allowed me to easily page through.

Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS – Smashing Magazine – StumbleUpon

 

Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS – Smashing Magazine – StumbleUpon. Fantastic reasons why the Mac is nice to use. I especially like error messages like this.