{"id":3369,"date":"2005-06-14T13:32:11","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/06\/14\/iphoto-quandries\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T21:58:55","slug":"iphoto-quandries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/06\/14\/iphoto-quandries\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhoto Quandries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5573,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20131016010413\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:48:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:48:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A few questions about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ilife\/iphoto\/\" title=\"Apple - iLife - iPhoto\">iPhoto<\/a> &#8212; things that don&#8217;t make sense to me.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Why can&#8217;t I export items that are on a burned DVD (or CD, I assume)? I&#8217;d certainly understand not being able to edit photos, rename them, assign tags, and so on &#8212; it&#8217;s stored on read-only media. But why in the world can&#8217;t I <em>export<\/em> unless the photos are stored on my local hard drive?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>When I drag photos from an archive on DVD into my local photo library in order to export them, why can&#8217;t iPhoto keep track of the correct tags? While the tags are fine in the archive, as soon as I copy them into the main library, the photos end up tagged semi-randomly, usually with only one or two tags (and those often seem to be &#8220;wedding&#8221; and &#8220;family&#8221;, for some reason).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>What is iPhoto doing when it loads an archive from DVD that was created with an older version of iPhoto and it presents you with the &#8220;Updating iPhoto Library&#8221; dialog box? Obviously, it can&#8217;t be updating the database on the DVD, that&#8217;s write-only media. I think that it&#8217;s creating an updated copy of the archive&#8217;s database on the hard drive to use, but if that&#8217;s the case, why doesn&#8217;t it <em>save<\/em> that archive for later use? It seems to me that it wouldn&#8217;t be terribly difficult to do that, and yet every time I try to load an archived photo library, I have to sit and wait for iPhoto to think.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Thanks to these three issues, I may end up re-importing my three DVDs of archived photos so that they&#8217;re all on my hard drive &#8212; and then hope that having all the photos available doesn&#8217;t slog iPhoto down too terribly. Not my preferred approach (especially as, given issue number two, I&#8217;d likely have to go through and re-tag all the photos), but as it is, I dread having to go back to old photo archives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DEarth Wind and Fire%2526albumTerm=Pop Music: The Golden Era 1951-1975%2526songTerm=Shining Star%26 partnerId%3D30\">Shining Star<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1= itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DEarth Wind and Fire%26partnerId%3D30\">Earth Wind and Fire<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DEarth Wind and Fire%2526albumTerm=Pop Music: The Golden Era 1951-1975%26partnerId%3D30\">Pop Music: The Golden Era 1951-1975<\/a><\/em> (1974, 2:50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few questions about iPhoto &#8212; things that don&#8217;t make sense to me. Why can&#8217;t I export items that are on a burned DVD? When I drag photos from an archive on DVD into my local photo library, why can&#8217;t iPhoto keep track of the correct tags? Why does iPhoto have to update an archive&#8217;s database every time it&#8217;s loaded?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2050],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-photography","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}