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iPhoto duplicates photos?
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I'm new to Mac and I'm glad to have switched. However, when transferring my photos, I seem to be duplicating all the pictures that I have when I import them into iPhoto. What I've done is copied my photos from my windows PC to the Mac. I've then imported them into iPhoto. iPhoto then seems to be duplicating all the pictures in its own folder.
Is this right? Can I delete the original photos once I've imported them into iPhoto? Is this the Mac way - to use an application (ie iPhoto) rather than the OS (ie Finder) to catalog photos?
thanks!
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yes, you can delete the originals if you are brave. I keep my originals backed up 'Finder-style' on an external HD, just in case the iPhoto library gets corrupted. I don't have full faith in iPhoto, or any program for that matter.
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what would happen to the photos if the library became corrupted?! Dare I ask?!
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Usually, they would remain intact, you'd just have to dig through the iPhoto file scheme and re-import them. In the worst case, they could end up corrupted (say, if you were editing a pic and it crashed - the JPG may only be half-saved, thus useless.) I'd just recommend you backup photos, if not for yourself, do it for me.
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thanks for the advice, I'll backup photos onto an external hard drive and DVD and delete the originals from the powerbook hd
presumably I can change the programme in a photo manipulation software programme and iphoto won't mind that I've changed an image in its folder?
(Last edited by plasticman; Apr 16, 2005 at 02:42 PM.
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iPhoto will actually update to show your changed file (if you save it as the same filename). I use Photoshop CS to do all my photo work, and iPhoto updates to show the changes I've made in PS.
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many thanks! sorry for the newbie questions!
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Also, note that the iPhoto folder structure, while initially confusing, isn't that bad.
It simply is
~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Year/Month/Day/photoname.jpg
which is a fairly sensible way to file things. Although I balked at first, I like it better now, because before I'd end up constantly moving photos from one place to another (is this photo "2004?" or "Thanksgiving?" or "Grandpa?"). But the Year/Month/Day will never change; so now if I use the Finder to put together some collections or albums or whatever, I just use aliases to the original folders.
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