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From: Mike Lane on 24 Dec 2009 04:38
I have an album of about 400 photos which I have extensively commented in
iphoto '09. I am trying to transfer this album complete with comments to my
neighbour's Mac (who is also running iPhoto '09).

I started by putting the entire album onto a DVD using iPhoto's 'Burn'
command, and then taking the disk to my neighbour's machine. The photos all
display correctly with comments in iPhoto on his machine from the DVD.
However when I try to import the photos from the DVD into his iPhoto library,
the images are transferred correctly with all the metadata, but the comments
are removed.

I've tried different ways of importing the photos - dragging the images from
the DVD into an empty album, selecting the photos and then creating a new
album, etc. but always with the same result - no comments.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a 'feature' of iPhoto?

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Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
email: mike_lane at mac dot com

From: Calum on 24 Dec 2009 09:05
On 24/12/09 09:38, Mike Lane wrote:

> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a 'feature' of iPhoto?

The latter, I think. iPhoto doesn't write comment metadata into the
photo files themselves, but into one of iPhoto's supplementary library
files. So to preserve comments, I think you might have to create a new
iPhoto library, copy the photos you want into that, then burn the
library folder onto the DVD outside of iPhoto itself.

iPhoto Library Manager is a handy little app that can help with this
sort of thing:
<http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/>

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From: Mike Lane on 24 Dec 2009 12:04
Calum wrote on Dec 24, 2009:

> On 24/12/09 09:38, Mike Lane wrote:
>
>> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a 'feature' of iPhoto?
>
> The latter, I think. iPhoto doesn't write comment metadata into the
> photo files themselves, but into one of iPhoto's supplementary library
> files. So to preserve comments, I think you might have to create a new
> iPhoto library, copy the photos you want into that, then burn the
> library folder onto the DVD outside of iPhoto itself.
>
> iPhoto Library Manager is a handy little app that can help with this
> sort of thing:

That's a good idea - a bit long-winded, but I'll try it if all else fails.

I think it's a fault in iPhoto though. It surely can't be that difficult to
include the comment data when importing an album into iPhoto.

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Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
email: mike_lane at mac dot com

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