about iphoto ?

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I was wondering, if you were to transfer photos from your iphoto onto a HD and then transfer them to another iphoto on another computer. Will the photos, if simply dragged onto or copied onto the HD, automatically reassemble themselves back into the events...

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

No, I don't think so. You'd have to copy the iPhoto library file to the new computer, then use this to have iPhoto load it:

 

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1229

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cap'n refsmmat, i followed the process that your link provided and ended up with, after holding down the option button and opening iphoto, thereby selecting the 'iphoto library file' which i had dragged onto my HD, iphoto opened but creating 'thumbnail caches' i think it was. Is that right/normal (for what should or needs to happen) ?

 

note also that when i looked at the file which i had dragged onto my HD, it was flickering and going weird, but then just went back too normal..

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Sounds right. Does iPhoto work now?

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seems too. However, there is a .01 difference in the file size of the one now on my HD and the original. Is that right..?

 

Also Cap'n Refsmmat, what was the go with the thumbnail caches thing..

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

A 0.01 difference doesn't seem important. Could be anything; I don't know what iPhoto stores in the library besides the photos.

 

The thumbnail cache is a way for iPhoto to store the scaled-down version of each image so when you browse through events it doesn't have to scale down each gigantic image on the fly. Makes iPhoto seem faster.

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ok, sweet.

 

thanks..