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In OS X Lion 10.7.5 can I turn faces off in iPhoto?

Is there a way to bypass the automatic updating of faces in iPhoto (OS X Lion 10.7.5.) My iPhoto is full of "faces" of people it has picked up from the backgrounds of my photos, making it so slow and ...
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Compress iPhoto movies for archiving

Is there any automatic way (or a good script) to compress the videos you import to iPhoto? I currently import the pictures and videos from my camera, and the videos are not compressed at al, and take ...
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Manage iPhoto on external hard disk

Most of my Mac hard drive is filled with iPhoto pictures. I have an external USB hard drive. What to do? Just moving pictures from Pictures/iPhoto Library is not a perfect option as I want to have ...
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Sharing large library of Photos and Videos (currently in iPhoto) in different macs at home

currently I have iPhoto on my mac (mountain lion). the library is more than 350 GB (and growing fast). It is only on my computer, but my wife wants to have acces to the pictures too, not only ...
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Can iPhoto create a board book?

I'm looking to make a board book for my 2 year old son. I don't see any obvious settings in iPhoto that lets me choose the paper thickness. It is pretty important to me because my son loves to tear ...
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iPhoto 8 alternative

I kind of like iPhoto 8, but it's unmantained, is there an alternative that: runs on 10.6 imports iPhoto library (events, albums, Facebook albums, hidden photos), and works more or less like iPhoto ...
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Rebuilding iPhoto library causes issues with iTunes photo sync

I recently had a nasty problem with my iPhoto library that I corrected by rebuilding it. This restored missing/corrupted photos and fixed several other inconsistencies, so iPhoto is working properly ...
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iPhoto 9.4.2 crashes on startup and reboots MacBook Pro 10.8.2

When I attempt to open iPhoto (9.4.2) on my MacBook Pro (10.8.2) iPhoto crashes and it reboots my laptop. iPhoto will open if I boot the MacBook Pro in safe mode. What could be going wrong?
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iPhoto refuses to open, even after deletion and reinstall

Here's the error message: Dyld Error Message: Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/NyxAudioAnalysis.framework/Versions/A/NyxAudioAnalysis Referenced from: ...
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Force images to synchronize from an iPhone to a Mac

My sister in law would like to synchronize photos from her iPhone to her Mac. When she connects the iPhone to her Mac, iTunes starts up but photos don't synchronize. I tried taking a couple of ...
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Why is iPhoto for iOS is “updating photo library” so slowly every time I open it?

Every time I open iPhoto on the iPad, I get an "updating photo library" dialog that sometimes takes minutes to process. I often get it again after editing and sharing a photo within the app. I ...
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OSX changing backgrounds- iphoto folder doesn't update

I have the background image on my OSX desktop set to change every x minutes- it chooses a random image within a specific iPhoto album. However, when I remove photos from that iPhoto album, the ...
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iPhoto crashes at launch?

Whenever I open iPhoto, I get this error : Any idea how to fix this ? Error log : Process: iPhoto [52263] Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto Identifier: ...
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Failure in Sharing iPhoto pictures

I couldn't share photo on facebook via iphoto (version1.0.1) using the new ipad. A non-stop loop between iphoto and facebook despite that I downloaded and installed many times the iphoto and the main ...
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Troubleshooting for flash or iLife related beachballs or system hangs?

My wife and I share her iMac, using two separate user accounts. My account is used almost exclusively for browsing the web. My wife's account hosts a large iTunes library, our iPhoto libraries ...
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Show photo dates when reviewing faces

Is it possible to see the date of a photo when I'm confirming additional faces in iPhoto? It's nearly impossible for me to tell my kids apart in some of their photos, but since they were born three ...
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Why did time machine not backup all my iPhoto pictures, how can I know when my backups are incomplete?

My iPhoto library recently became corrupted to the point iPhoto wouldn't load and none of the repair options would fix it (those that come up if you are pressing option+command when you launch ...
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Rotated Photos in iPhoto dont sync rotated to iOS

I imported some pictures from a Nikon camera and then rotated them in iPhoto. I then used iTunes to sync those photos to iOS. They did not sync with the new rotated position. Any ideas on why not?
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iPhoto '08 doesn't play video when double-clicked

When I import videos from my iPhone into iPhoto '08, I can't play the video inside of iPhoto. The iPhoto Help says to double-click a video to play it, but that doesn't work. As a workaround, I select ...
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iPhoto '11 crash on library update after iPhoto '09

I've recently updated iPhoto to the latest version (i've had 8 version before) and no matter what I do it keeps crashing on library update (i've backed up the library before doing anything). After the ...
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Why do only my original photos sync to my iPhone and not the edited ones anymore?

Since I have moved a lot of my iPhoto library to an external HDD, when I sync my iPhone, I no longer get the edited version of the photos on my iPhone. I can manually sync the photos and I get all ...
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how to import collections from lightroom 4 into iPhoto without duplicating them in events?

i have imported all my original photos in folders from lightroom to iPhoto with success. now i have a folder on my harddrive with 'lightroom edits' which contains all my collections ( albums ) how can ...
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iPhoto Face tags causing glitches in Facebook

I've tagged Faces in iPhoto (using their Facebook accounts, not just a generic address book entry), and when I uploaded these photos to Facebook through iPhoto's share feature, only about half of the ...
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Add image to ipad / iphone photo libary using iexplorer or image capture

Im a big fan of iexplorer and image capture, to get files off my ipad / iphone as i find apple default offering, itunes / iphone, quite fiddly to work with. But i was wandering can i use iexplorer or ...
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iPhoto, Textedit, iCal and Preview problems - Keeps crashing when launched

im having issues with my mac i dont know whats causing this problem. whenever im going launch iCal it crashes same goes with TextEdit and preview too. iPhoto has issues too if launched, it it keeps on ...
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iPhoto “A photo Has been found in the iPhoto library that was not imported”

Every Time I launch iPhoto I get the following error message twice... 'A photo Has been found in the iPhoto library that was not imported, would you like to import it now' So i Click yes and then it ...
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Keyboard shortcut for “Add a face…” in iPhoto?

Is there a keyboard shortcut for the "Add a face..." action in iPhoto? Preferably one that can be used outside of the Info view, so you can move quickly from viewing a photo to editing its info and ...
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My iPhone does not show up as a device on my Mac, but it still charges when connected. Can't sync with iPhoto or iTunes!

I'm not using an apple brand cord anymore, because my original cord kept saying "charging is not supported on this device" when plugged into the wall. Now, my phone charges great (even on the ...
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Enabling “Copy items to the iPhoto Library” in iPhoto

I've been using iPhoto for some time but I had disabled Copy items to the iPhoto Library option at the beginning. Now I decided to let iPhoto manage all my pictures. I enabled Copy items to the ...
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Backup and Removal of photos from iPhoto Library

I have a large number of photos within iPhoto 11 and I want to backup and reduce the size of my local iPhoto library to free up disk space on my laptop. One scenario I've tried is: Show iPhoto ...
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iPhoto frequently fails when uploading photos to FaceBook

When I try to upload pictures from iPhoto to Facebook, about 50% of the time one or more photos will fail to upload. I then have to re-upload the failed photos. Sometimes it works, sometimes I'll have ...
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Photostream somehow connected with one of my iPhoto events

All new photos in my photostream from my iPhone are automatically copied into one particular (it is always the same) iPhoto event. I don't think this is how it was working and it is supposed to be ...
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Can't sync iPod Touch 5G with iPhoto, Lightroom

I have a 5th-gen iPod Touch with a little more than 1000 photos. I connected it to Lightroom, and it only shows 159 photos. I tried to import those, and it said the photos couldn't be read. I ...
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Corrupt originals in iPhoto

I discovered that some of my iPhoto pictures are corrupt. Photos from same day a few years ago are organized into 5 folders/events by the photograper. Each of them used different camera, two of them ...
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iTunes does not synchronize iPhoto albums for Apple TV

The one liner here is, my iPhoto albums do not show up on my Apple TV. This only just stopped working. My iPhoto started up the other day, missing all of the albums. All the photos were still ...
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How to force iPhoto to automatically export/save photos to the file location it imported from?

I like to keep my photos on the filesystem instead of the iPhoto Library. Is there some way to force iPhoto to save the edited photos back to the location where it was imported from?
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Can't transfer photos from iPhone 4s to PC after upgrading to 6.0.1

I upgraded my iPhone 4S to 6.0.1. Now, I can't transfer pictures I've taken with the iPhone camera to my PC. After the upgrade, when I tried to transfer pictures, I was told that I needed to get a ...
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Editing in an external application

I have OSX 10.8.2, and iPhoto '11 v.9.4.1 My iPhone is 4S, with ios6. I have Camera+ v. 3.5.1 (tap tap tap) My Problem: In iPhoto I go to Preferences/Advanced, and select Edit in Camera+ Then I ...
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How to create a smart album in iPhoto where photos are not geotagged in Europe, or have no geotag?

I am currently on vacation in Europe and am taking lots of pictures. Unfortunately my wonderful camera (S95) does not geotag the photos. So I am doing it by hand. It actually doesn't take too much ...
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iPhoto events view broken after import, images missing

I'm running the latest iPhoto on a 10.8.2 Retina MacBook Pro and experience some strange import problems since the end of last month. My library holds more then 26.000 images right now and whenever I ...
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All of my synced photos/albums and “Faces” disappeared!

I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS running iOS 5.0.1 with baseband/bootrom 05.16.02. I sync some iPhoto albums to my iPhone using regular iTunes sync (wired and wireless). However, this past week I was ...
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iPhoto imports only few photo folders from Facebook

I add my Facebook account to my iPhoto but I have only 2 from 10 folders visible. I delted and connected Facebook account again but the same situation happened. What might be a problem? Is there is ...
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Efficient way to delete photos on iPhone without removing those in albums?

I've got a good number of photos on my iPhone (263, to be exact—may not seem like a lot, but I'm pretty OCD about keeping the numbers low), and I'm about to pull them off of the phone to my desktop ...
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iPhoto doesn't get the gps data of photos

I have a photo camera which store the gps data for each photo. It seems to me me that iPhoto is not aware of the gps data when I import the photos. Is there anyway to make Places to work with the gps ...
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Removing “shared” photo information from iPhoto

I just shared a photo through email and would like to take off the "sharing" tag. How do you do that?
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Video playback choppy in iPhoto

I am using a Sony NEX-5N camera and Eye-fi card to import photos and videos into iPhoto. The videos are very choppy and pixelated when played in iPhoto but when they are dragged to the desktop and ...
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iPad 2 [iOS 4.3.5] missing substantial amount of images in iPhoto?

Figured it was worth a shot asking here... my wife is planning on getting a new iPad tomorrow; and in preparation was doing some house cleaning on her existing iPad 2 [iOS 4.3.5], she went to open her ...
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iPhoto Says Photos Are Shared, but Not Showing up on Facebook/Flickr

I've got recent photos in iPhoto 9.2.3 that say they were shared about an hour ago to both Flickr and Facebook. How do I force iPhoto to share to those two services again.
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iPhoto 9.2.1 crashes on open

iPhoto 9.2.1 crashes within seconds of opening. I'm running OSX 10.6.8. I have tried deleting and re-installing iPhoto. I have also tried rebuilding the library using iPhoto Manager. Any ideas?
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Resolution of pictures hopping from iphoto to imovie to idvd

So, I've got this pretty big (12 minutes, 3sec/slide) slide show. I may be done with it. I may not. The show is composed of ten iPhoto-11 slideshows. Each one was set up 4:3, then exported, with the ...

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