Comments on: How To: Access your iPhoto ’08 Library from your browser

By: Jeniss

Jeniss — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:57:10 +0000

Thank You so much! Someone happened to my iphoto and I couldn’t open it and I was in a huge panic Thanks Again

By: Bill B.

Bill B. — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:14:54 +0000

Thanks for the tip bro

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:56:34 +0000

THANK YOU! This has been frustrating me for years, and the "Alias" cheat works great in InDesign, thus solving the need to copy photos when I want to place them. Nice idea.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:08:26 +0000

Thank you. Huge help. It was driving me crazy to not be able to attach to emails or import into InDesign.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:13:36 +0000

you have made me a very happy man.

By: John17

John17 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:41:14 +0000

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By: yury nedelin

yury nedelin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:50:10 +0000

thanks for the tip, another example how things on mac do not just work. also iPhoto gets really slooooow, often, and i got a new mac book pro and I am running the “fast” video card only.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:30:40 +0000

Oops, i messed up on the link to iTerm, sorry! It can be found at iterm.sourceforge.net or easily from a quick Google search. Oh, and I also forgot to mention that rsync is great in the future too. Say you export your whole library of 4000 pictures and then a week later you add a new album to iPhoto. If you do the rsync again, it will build the list and figure out that most of the pictures are already there and only copy the new ones. Neat! Hmm, it also looks like there is a graphical rsync utility for OS X called arRsync, found at arrsync.sourceforge.net, although I haven't tried it to see if it would work for this purpose.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:17:43 +0000

For those of you who are (more or less) savvy with command-line instructions, getting to and exporting photos is quite simple. (Turns out that annoying “package” is just a folder with special bits set.) I have a Mac laptop and recently built a desktop with Linux on it, and naturally wanted to copy all my iPhoto pictures over. This was incredibly simple for me. Here are the steps:

1) Open Terminal.app or iTerm, a great Terminal replacement.
2) Navigate to your iPhoto Libray folder: cd ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library
3) See what exists in the folder: ls
4) Copy the “Originals” folder: rsync -av Originals /local/path/to/export/to/.
5) Copy the “Modified” folder if necessary: rsync -av Modified /local/path/to/export/to/.
6) Done.

Note: “cp -v” can be used instead of “rsync -av”, but I recommend using rsync as it builds a transfer list and picks up where it left off if it is interrupted. I personally used rsync since it will copy files over SSH to another computer. So, in step 4, I typed “rsync -av Originals username@desktop_computer:/remote/path/to/export/to/.” instead. Also note that typing “rsync -av Originals/ /path/.” is different than “rsync -av Originals /path/.” as the former will copy the contents inside the Originals folder, while the latter will copy the whole Originals folder intact. Hopefully this is still helpful for someone. :)

By: Darin Marshall

Darin Marshall — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:31:43 +0000

Okay, after further review, I was able to get this to work. My next question is, how can I remove the movies that I’ve captured with my Canon S3 IS from the iPhoto Library without corrupting or in some way damaging the iPhoto Library?

I don’t want all of those movies files taking up space in my iPhoto Library but that’s where they end up in the new version of the app which makes very little sense to me.

I’ll try consulting the iPhoto help and then see what the toobs have to say about this subject. Thanks for the tip on accessing files inside of a package!