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I just started importing my photos into iPhoto, and I'm not liking the way Events are imported. I use my Mac for both work and personal use. On my PC I kept a folder for Work which contained dozens of sub-folders with pictures of different jobsites and work related projects (I'm in construction). I also kept a personal folder with family photos, sub-folders of different vacations, etc. But now that they are imported, the events screen has these different events lumped together in no particular order.
As it stands now, if I take my MacBook to a meeting with a client and want to show them pics from a perticular jobsite, that event may be next to an event with personal pics of my friends overendulging themselves on the weekends.
I realize that I can use folders to recatagorize all these just like I had them before. But this seems redundant. And if I delete a photo from a folder, I also have to go back and delete it from the event (if I can find the event among the 200 others in the pile). And the folders system doesn't have the style that the event page does (scrolling the mouse across the events).
Does anyone else out there have a useless Event page with 100+ events in no particular order? Can you at least alphabetize them? I realize you can move them around manually to sort them, but that's almost impossible when you have so many.
I also saw that you can create a separate library, but you can't switch between the libraries without restarting iPhoto. What if my camera has personal and work pics on it that I want to download? I have to open iPhoto, download the first set, close iPhoto, reopen/switch libraries, then download the rest. That's ridiculous. And what if my wife decides she wants to start her own set of events? Then I reopen it a 3rd time?
Wouldn't it make sense to allow for the option to catagorize events? Folders are useable--events aren't. How about taking the fancy new interface that makes events page look so cool and apply it to the folders and albums so we could actually use it?
Other than iPhoto, I love my new Mac.
As it stands now, if I take my MacBook to a meeting with a client and want to show them pics from a perticular jobsite, that event may be next to an event with personal pics of my friends overendulging themselves on the weekends.
I realize that I can use folders to recatagorize all these just like I had them before. But this seems redundant. And if I delete a photo from a folder, I also have to go back and delete it from the event (if I can find the event among the 200 others in the pile). And the folders system doesn't have the style that the event page does (scrolling the mouse across the events).
Does anyone else out there have a useless Event page with 100+ events in no particular order? Can you at least alphabetize them? I realize you can move them around manually to sort them, but that's almost impossible when you have so many.
I also saw that you can create a separate library, but you can't switch between the libraries without restarting iPhoto. What if my camera has personal and work pics on it that I want to download? I have to open iPhoto, download the first set, close iPhoto, reopen/switch libraries, then download the rest. That's ridiculous. And what if my wife decides she wants to start her own set of events? Then I reopen it a 3rd time?
Wouldn't it make sense to allow for the option to catagorize events? Folders are useable--events aren't. How about taking the fancy new interface that makes events page look so cool and apply it to the folders and albums so we could actually use it?
Other than iPhoto, I love my new Mac.