Click to expand.The Finder. Set up your folders as you like, watch them as thumbnails, use file comments to add comments (and set list views to show them). Purchase Dragthing and have it set up to show a special dock when the finder is active which contains applescripts for rotate, resize and mail. Use Graphic Converter for slideshows and printing or even iPhoto temporarily. Set photoshop to open your images when doublecliking them.

The only thing missing from this is live queries in the finder, to list recent additions and such. Click to expand.I strongly add my vote to this as well!

IView MediaPro is wonderful! I've got nearly 1000 digital photos organized in MediaPro, and growing fast, and it makes things easy. I can organize photos how I want in the Finder, and the categories let me keep pictures organized in MediaPro. Plus, although I haven't done it yet due to previous lack of a CD burner, MediaPro will let me keep a catalog of ALL my photos, even any that I have had to burn to a CD and remove from the hard drive.

It doesn't really care where the pictures are stored, it's quite happy to catalog them wherever they are. One word of warning - I've changed hard drives several times lately. First was a reformat of my old machine's hard drive and second was a move to a new machine. Each time, MediaPro lost track of all the photos. Fortunately, it's easy enough to rebuild the catalog, but I noticed one disturbing thing afterwards.

I was in the bad habit or renaming photos with a descriptive name for a while, and some of these names are the same, just in different folders. MediaPro, unfortunately, linked all entries to the first photo with the same name that it found! I noticed when I double-clicked a thumbnail to view it full-size and a different picture popped up! IMHO, this is a fairly minor bug. I fixed it pretty easily by just removing the troublesome pictures, changing the name to be more unique, and then adding them back to the catalog.

If you just stick with the name given the file by your digital camera, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. And you can use fields in the catalog to enter descriptive information. I strongly add my vote to this as well! IView MediaPro is wonderful! One word of warning - I've changed hard drives several times lately. First was a reformat of my old machine's hard drive and second was a move to a new machine. Each time, MediaPro lost track of all the photos.

Fortunately, it's easy enough to rebuild the catalog, but I IMHO, this is a fairly minor bug. I fixed it pretty easily by just removing the troublesome pictures, changing the name to be more unique, and then adding them back to the catalog. If you just stick with the. Click to expand.(stuff trimmed above) I think the following is correct: If you clear out an old iView catalog or start a brand new catalog and then (re)catalog a big bunch of folders by dragging them all at once onto the iView catalog window, iView will correctly record and catalog multiple images that have the same file name but are in different folders.

If however you drag additional folders to an existing catalog or try to refind originals in an existing catalog in a situation where multiple images have the same file name, you can, unfortunately, get into some trouble. One of the good things about iView is that the company has the guts to maintain a continuing open user forum in which they both answer queries and let users rant when they want to. I agree it's not all that intuitive, but you can remove a keyword or category (or anything else) by selecting it, then hitting the delete key. Kludgy, but it'll work in a pinch. Alternatively, you can use ActionsAnnotationBatch to replace keywords with others, or with a blank.

Just a guess, but you may be bumping up against something that confused me for quite a time: if you try to move an image into a folder that already contains that image, it seems to just not do anything. In fact, it is preventing you from duplicating the images in that folder. I agree it's not all that intuitive, but you can remove a keyword or category (or anything else) by selecting it, then hitting the delete key.

Kludgy, but it'll work in a pinch. Alternatively, you can use ActionsAnnotationBatch to replace keywords with others, or with a blank. Just a guess, but you may be bumping up against something that confused me for quite a time: if you try to move an image into a folder that already contains that image, it seems to just not do anything. In fact, it is preventing you from duplicating the images in that folder.

A friend asked that I copy several photo collections onto a thumb drive for transfer to her machine. Both my friend and I have iPhoto. I tried using iPhoto Library Manager to copy some of my events into a new iPhoto Library on my friend's 32 GB thumb drive. (I don't want to copy my entire library over, as my iPhoto collection totals over 50,000 photos.) iPhoto Library Manager gave me a warning message that I need to purchase the software in order to copy photos from one library to another. As I have no real long-term use for iPhoto Library Manager, I would prefer not to buy it.

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Are there any freeware alternatives that allow me to copy specific events from one iPhoto library to another? I want to do this to preseve some of the information (including informative Event titles) so my friend can navigate all these photos more easily. An alternative might be to duplicate my entire iPhoto library and then delete most of it, leaving only the stuff my friend needs. This sounds like a VERY laborious route to take. (Unless iPhoto makes it easy somehow.) MY HARDWARE iMac 13,1 (late-2012) 2.9 GHz Core i5, 1 TB HDD, 8 GB RAM MY SOFTWARE MacOS 10.8 iLife 2011 Toast 9. Library Manager will only copy a limited number at a time in trial mode. Once you buy that restriction is lifted.

As for alternatives, no there are none at all, not to mind free ones. That said, what exactly do you want to copy. Copying with Library Manager gets everything - Original, edits, edit history, all the metadata, faces and so on.

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If you don't want everything then you can simply export from your iPhoto to a folder on the desktop. Copy that folder to the other machine and there import. This process will have the following limitations: - you will need to choose between the original and editied version, you won't get both and you'll lose the edit history (the ability to revert to the original, if you export the edted version) - You won't get the Faces. Petty much everything else can be exported. If you wan to preserver the Event titles then simply create a folder on the desktop. Name it for the Event. Export the contents of that Event to the folder.

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