iLife: iPhoto 8.1 bug with Snow Leopard
iPhoto 8.1 bug with Snow Leopard
by scotty321--2008 - 9/20/09 10:39 PMThere is a bug with iPhoto 8.1 and Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard:
If you have multiple photos sitting on your desktop, and you drag them all to the iPhoto icon in your dock, iPhoto ONLY IMPORTS ONE OF THE PHOTOS! It's supposed to import all of them.
How does it behave if,
by mrmacfixit
- 9/23/09 8:58 AM
In reply to: iPhoto 8.1 bug with Snow Leopard by scotty321--2008
you drag all those same pictures into the open iPhoto library?
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iPhoto
by scotty321--2008 - 9/23/09 11:35 AM In reply to: How does it behave if, by mrmacfixit
Excellent question!! Yes, it works jUST FINE when you drag the same pictures into the open iPhoto library. But it doesn't work when dragging these pictures to the dock icon for iPhoto. So it seems to be a problem with the dock icon not processing all these photos properly.
By the way, to reduplicate this problem, this is what you have to do:
1. You need Mac OS X 10.6.1 and iPhoto 8.1.
2. You can't just drag-and-drop any set of photos that are sitting on your desktop.
3. You need to open up an email message (in either Entourage or Mail) that has several photos attached as attachments.
4. Drag all of those photos from your email program onto your desktop.
5. Then, drag all of those photos from your desktop onto the iPhoto icon in the dock.
6. iPhoto will only import ONE of the photos.
The only workaround to this, as you figured out, is to drag all of those photos into the open iPhoto Library instead.
The iPhoto dock icon used to work correctly in 10.5.
Ahh,
by mrmacfixit - 9/24/09 12:25 PM
In reply to: iPhoto by scotty321--2008
If I received an email with several photo attachments, I would not go through all those steps to get the photo's into iPhoto.
I would just select all the attachments, right click the selected group and then select Add to iPhoto.
Why would you need them on the desktop first?
I have no doubt the icon problem is there or that it worked in 10.5
I'll check my copy when I get back to the house
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iPhoto bug
by scotty321--2008 - 9/24/09 1:06 PM In reply to: Ahh, by mrmacfixit
To answer your question:
First of all, I am using Entourage. So there is no "add to iPhoto" option there. But the problem happens in Mail too. Even in Mail, sometimes you don't want to add every single photo to iPhoto so it is quicker to drag the file to the desktop.
Since this is a bug, can you please post this on the macfixit.com homepage so Apple can see it?
Thanks,
Scott
Sorry, I cannot post this on the macfixit.com homepage,
by mrmacfixit - 9/24/09 6:29 PM
In reply to: iPhoto bug by scotty321--2008
I don't write their pages.
Of course you don't always want to add every photo, that's why you have the option of using the Command key when you select them.
However, now that I am at a machine with 10.6.1 and iPhoto 8.1 I can tell you that this problem does not happen here.
I have been dragging and dropping multiple pictures for the last 15 minutes and all of them import correctly when dropped on the iPhoto icon.
If this was a bug in SL, then everyone would have this problem, at least a large number of people would.
If you feel that this is a bug, call Apple and report it as such.
Sorry
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