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Authored by: jecwobble on Mar 12, '04 12:28:31PM

After various attempts at consolidating multiple libraries (many instructions found at this site), I gave up and manually reorganized all original photos from those libraries into folders and sub-folders in Finder- each folder representing what I deemed a film roll. I then created a new, blank library and imported each folder one by one, so that iPhoto treated each folder as a contiguous import of one film roll.

In each case, the date associated with the newly imported film roll was taken from the first photo in the import, not the date and time of the import. I have film rolls dating back to 2000, and I never had to set their chronological order.

Perhaps it has to do with different methods of importing. For instance, I never import directly from my camera into iPhoto. I may take many pictures on several different days/occasions before uploading to my computer. Then, after putting them all in my ~/Pictures folder with Image Capture, I'll pick, say, the first 10 photos to import into their film roll, and the next 10 into theirs.



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Re: Are you sure?
Authored by: mesch on Mar 13, '04 06:23:14AM

Looks like this behavior changed (to the better) in iPhoto 4. There conceivably is still need for manual roll ordering if the creation date of the picture files is not the creation date of the photos, e.g. importing scanned old photos.

By the way, iPhoto 4 has the useful function "New film roll from selection" (in the "File" menu) to split a film roll in two.



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