iPhoto's library is backed up separately. Then I import to iPhoto and trash the other folder on the hard drive. Then I burn that folder to CD so that I've got an copy of the 'original' images as a back up. Personally, I take my pictures and transfer them to a folder using Image Capture. The danger of having them kept outside iPhoto but using iPhoto to catalogue and make amends is that if you change anything in the Finder with it, whether the iPhoto database will figure out that change is up for grabs. It is a lot easier now that iPhoto labels its folders with the Roll Name rather than the month/date concept it used to use.
Just as iTunes keeps tracks of the music inside the iPhoto library so you don't have to play with the raw files, so does iPhoto deal with pictures. You'd need to delete your iPhoto Library and then uncheck the box and re-import them.Ĭurrently your pics will be store in Originals and Modified folders inside iPhoto where iPhoto will have copied things. not in iPhoto's "roll" folders in the finder.Ĭan i simply uncheck the box in the iPhoto prefs, and it will automatically point to my files? Or would I have to delete everything from iPhoto, uncheck the box in the prefs and then re-import all my photo's? If so, how do i undo this? I want iPhoto to use my organisation and point to the files in my folder structure and file names. Which then leads me to the conclusion - has iPhoto duplicated my photo's (thereby doubling the HDD space taken) by having it organise my photo's? SO, for example, if I edit a photo in iPhoto, it doesn't change the photo that is in my organised folder structure, but it chanegs the photo that iPhoto has stored somewhere it its own "organisation". one of the iPhoto prefences is set to "let iPhoto organise my photo's" (or something to that effect). I've just realised that I may have made a big mistake. and dropping the pictures that i want to keep into the folders and then importing them into iPhoto from the finder folders. Since being on the mac, I have kind of stuck to my winxp ways. then just dropped them into iPhoto (v6.0.2).
When i switched to mac, i just copied all (6GB) of photo's across into the pictures area on the mac. When i was on winxp, i had all my photo's organised on folders using meaningful folder names (eg: xmas 2006, xxx b'day 2004, trip to zoo etc. When you have a keeper image press one key, you choose the shortcut key. no need to put the non-keeper image on your hard drive. You could have FRV do your culling from the SD card. I've got a follow up question to this (rather than starting a nwe thread). I'm definitely liking FastRawViewer, however.
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