[larrinski]

is there a work around for spotlight seeing iphoto roll names? I am trying to name certain rolls so that I can find for example xmas or new years and not have to enter metadata in every photo. Spotlight doesn't seem to see it.

[CaptainHaddock]

What version of iPhoto? I remember there was some bug where you had to assign every photo a keyword in iPhoto, and then unassign it, before Spotlight would start recognizing photo and roll titles. A search for it should turn up something.

[larrinski]

iphoto 05.

[CaptainHaddock]

Yes, that happened to me. I found an old MacNN thread that had the answer:

Make sure you have iphoto 5.0.2 installed. If you still get nothing, apply a dummy keyword to all the photos in your iphoto library (for example 'spotlight') Spotlight should now find all your photos with whatever keywords you had previously applied to them. Now you can remove that dummy keyword from all your photos in iphoto and everyone should work great.