[fobside]

My iPhoto library is getting out of hand in size. I have never, to my knowledge, modified a photo in iPhoto. I may have opened photos up in the editor, but then I never touched them.

My first question is why iPhoto creates a modified folder for images that I have never modified?

I did a PHOTOS -> RESTORE ORIGINAL on my entire library and while viewing one of the modified images folder, I saw them disappear one by one as they originals were used and the modified versions were deleted.

Then, leaving that Finder window opened, I saw image files slowly repopulate the modified images folder. iPhoto was sitting open, but I wasn't using the application. Why does iPhoto think I am modifying my files? Does it have anything to do with the fact that these files are in albums? iPhoto's image handling is driving me nuts.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[fobside]

Anyone?

[peeb]

Well, it creates a folder automatically, but unless you actually modify a photo it should not create a duplicate. I'm not sure what you are seeing - are you quite sure that they are actually duplicates, and that there really are two of them? That does not sound normal.

[fobside]

Well, I am not seeing duplicates in the iPhoto application. I didn't check to be honest, but I've never seen duplicates when viewing iPhoto. Like I mentioned, when I did the restore original command I saw the files disappear from one of the folders inside the Modified folder. So it looked like it was getting rid of the files that were modified. Then with the application open, image files began just reappearing. I wasn't even doing anything. It's all very confusing.