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iPhoto behaving really oddly?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1631731"><p>Actually, the "command-d" is unnecessary. iPhoto has always and will always keep a copy of the original automatically by itself. You can check this by opening any photo you've ever edited and go to the menu command "revert to original." Only the edited version is displayed, but the original is always preserved.</p><p></p><p>The program's handling of albums is exactly the same as its always been (user since day one here). If you have photos selected when you opt to create an album, iPhoto has always and still presumes that you intend for the selected photos to go into the album. These are not "copies" or "versions" of the photos in the main library -- they are the same photos. You're just changing the view.</p><p></p><p>If no photos are selected when an album is created, the new album will be blank, when you "add" photos to an album, all you are really doing is creating "pointers" to the photos in the main library (ditto with alternative views such as Faces, Places etc). You are simply telling iPhoto that when you have an album selected, only show me the photos I have indicated I want in this album. Nothing actually moves or changes location internally.</p><p></p><p>IOW, iPhoto is basically a database that really only holds two copies of every picture: an altered/edited version (if you have edited it) and the master (original). It organizes these photos internally by their time stamp and other EXIF information. Everything you see in iPhoto is just "views" of the library based on certain criteria (events, albums, smart albums, manually sorted, whatever).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1631731"] Actually, the "command-d" is unnecessary. iPhoto has always and will always keep a copy of the original automatically by itself. You can check this by opening any photo you've ever edited and go to the menu command "revert to original." Only the edited version is displayed, but the original is always preserved. The program's handling of albums is exactly the same as its always been (user since day one here). If you have photos selected when you opt to create an album, iPhoto has always and still presumes that you intend for the selected photos to go into the album. These are not "copies" or "versions" of the photos in the main library -- they are the same photos. You're just changing the view. If no photos are selected when an album is created, the new album will be blank, when you "add" photos to an album, all you are really doing is creating "pointers" to the photos in the main library (ditto with alternative views such as Faces, Places etc). You are simply telling iPhoto that when you have an album selected, only show me the photos I have indicated I want in this album. Nothing actually moves or changes location internally. IOW, iPhoto is basically a database that really only holds two copies of every picture: an altered/edited version (if you have edited it) and the master (original). It organizes these photos internally by their time stamp and other EXIF information. Everything you see in iPhoto is just "views" of the library based on certain criteria (events, albums, smart albums, manually sorted, whatever). [/QUOTE]
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