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Anyone else think apple forgot to make iphoto albums "spotlight-able"??
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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I'm shocked and often inconvenienced by the fact that my itunes photo albums don't show up when i search in spotlight. A photo of my buddy ronni, easy to find? no? not unless i rename every digital picture of him to his name and then a number. This seems juvenile to me, i just installed ilife 06 expecting to gain this feature, but nope.
what gives?
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Why not add his name as metadata to each file?
IMO that's how it should be done, via metadata instead of file names or collection names.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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I think its a bug. I recently formatted my Mac and did a clean install of Tiger and iPhoto 06, yet none of my library is indexed by spotlight.
iPhoto 5.0.2 supported this feature - the thing was that the photos needed to be tagged with keywords after that version (5.0.2), so your older photos would not be indexed. The workaround was to create a new keyword, tag all your photos with that keyword, and then remove that keyword and all your photos would be indexed.
I am not sure if this method works in 6.0 but you can try doing that. I'll try that tonight and see if it works.
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Join Date: May 2001
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There is a spotlight import filter for iPhoto. So it is `spotlight-able'. Although you could argue that it is not spotlight-able enough or a bug may prevent your photo library from being indexed … but in principle, it should all be there.
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