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Drag and drop photos/folders to iPhoto 5's dock icon Apps
iPhoto 4 and below frustrated me to no end with its lack of a "drag and droppable" dock icon. Due to the nature of my workflow, and the way I manage my pictures, the Import dialog within iPhoto was too inadequate and cumbersome for my purposes. And due to the limited screen space on my 12" PowerBook, dragging and dropping multiple items into an open iPhoto window was implausible.

Thankfully, Apple fixed this issue with iPhoto5. You can now import pictures from anywhere (Finder, Preview, browser, etc.) by dragging and dropping them onto iPhoto's dock icon, even when iPhoto isn't running.
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Drag and drop photos/folders to iPhoto 5's dock icon
Authored by: graf on Feb 07, '05 12:10:41PM

You could use expose to drag and drop photos into iPhoto. Say you have your top-right corner set to show all the open windows on the system. Select all the photos you wish to import into iPhoto in Finder, drag them to the top-right corner, then move over to the iPhoto window. If you hover over the window for a second, it zooms into iPhoto, and you can drop the photos in the appropriate place.



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Drag and drop photos/folders to iPhoto 5's dock icon
Authored by: shavenyak on Feb 07, '05 01:06:39PM

You don't have to have a corner set for Expose to use it for drag-n-drop. You can hit the hot keys while in the midst of dragging files. You can also use Cmd-Tab to switch windows while dragging.

Of course, the ability to drop images on the dock icon while iPhoto isn't running is even better.



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Drag and drop photos/folders to iPhoto 5's dock icon
Authored by: spullara on Feb 07, '05 02:40:38PM

I was also annoyed that I couldn't drop photos on the dock icon when iPhoto wasn't running. They failed to fix it completely in this version though -- you still can't drag an image from Safari and drop it on the dock icon, you have to drop it on the desktop first.

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"The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer." -- Ellen Ullman, Close to the Machine



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Drag and drop photos/folders to iPhoto 5's dock icon
Authored by: JakeE on Feb 08, '05 05:46:24AM

Maddys Daddy: You said "You can now import pictures from anywhere (Finder, Preview, browser, etc.) by dragging and dropping them onto iPhoto's dock icon, even when iPhoto isn't running."
I am not certain what you are talking about when you say you you can import pictures from a browser. Are you talking about Safari? Because on my mac it does not work.
I noticed at Macworld that with Tiger it has a link in Safari that lets you save directly to iPhoto. Thank God
Jake



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Whoops, not from browsers...
Authored by: maddys_daddy on Feb 08, '05 09:00:14PM

Oops. Guess I got a little over zealous when I posted my hint. Turns out that drag n' drop doesn't work from either Safari or Firefox. I'm guessing it doesn't work from any browser. It does work from other apps, though, such as Finder (of course), Mail, and other Cocoa apps. Sorry for the misinfo.



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