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Merge old iPhoto libraries on CD with iPhoto 5 libraries
Authored by: Old Toad on Mar 18, '05 12:41:22PM

In burning the older libraries to disk did you just drag the entire iPhoto Library folder to the disk and burn?

I just tried a test of burning a iPhoto 4 library to disk by dragging the iPhoto Library folder to the disk and burning. I then tried, as you did, to open it while on the disk via iPhoto 5 and no luck. Next I copied the "iPhoto Library" folder from the disk to the desktop and opened it with iPhoto 5. It went thru the conversion and I had the library, albums, rolls, keywords and books intact.

Did I create the disk and then copy the library back to the HD differently than you did? Curious.



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Merge old iPhoto libraries on CD with iPhoto 5 libraries
Authored by: ephramz on Mar 19, '05 03:39:35AM

Hmm, I did burn the discs of the iPhoto library directly from the Finder originally, I believe, not from inside iPhoto. But now that I look at them closer it looks like they are actually iPhoto 3 or 2 libraries, not iPhoto 4. So perhaps this is why they didn't work when just dragged and dropped to the hard disk. I didn't see the mentioned iPhoto.XML file in either library, even from the terminal.

Thanks for the info on "ditto". Didn't know about that command. It would've made things easier.

Now I just have to figure out how to remove the duplicates from my photo library. Know any tools for that?



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