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Teasswill Started conversation Oct 21, 2007
iphoto is getting a bit clogged up with stored stuff that I don't need to regularly access, but would like to keep on the computer. If a photo is deleted from the library (& trash emptied) does that remove it from the computer totally, or will it just not be loaded when iphoto opens?
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turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) Posted Oct 21, 2007
If you put it in the Trash and empty the Trash it will be deleted from the computer all together.
Better to put photos that you don't access regularly onto and external drive or burn them onto a CD/DVD if you can. You can even upload them to your ISP's server if they give you free web space. Don't ask me how though.
As a last resort you could print those you want to keep! (how twee - a photo on paper).
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 21, 2007
I think it depends if you are talking about iphoto's trash or the mac's trash.
However, the photos themselves seem to be stored in the iPhoto Library folder, so if you delete them from there you will be deleting them completely. Which is annoying. I don't find that library system in iphoto or itunes that useful, although in itunes at least there is a decent search system.
You can export photos to somewhere else though - share -> export.
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Teasswill Posted Oct 22, 2007
Can I just move them to another folder somewhere on the computer? Perhaps change the 'open with' properties?
Yes, I've tried that & it seems to work. Deleted from iphoto, but the file is still in its new location. Of course, if I want to see the photo, it imports back into iphoto.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 22, 2007
You should be able to open the photos using the Preview application. Maybe either by changing all in the get info window, or by exporting the files rather than shifting the folder. I open all my pictures that aren't in iphoto by using Preview.
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Kaz Posted Oct 27, 2007
yeah. If you export them as jpegs and whack them in a folder somewhere they should then open in preview and not iphoto.
Then you can ditch the stuff that's in iphoto but you'll still have copies elsewhere.
What os are you using? I dunno if that makes a difference. I use panther and haven't had much of a problem.
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Teasswill Posted Oct 29, 2007
It's tiger. I've closed all the film rolls, so no thumbnails on starting & that's a big improvement.
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