To my fellow Mac owners...

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 19-03-2009, 02:31 PM

It's time to tackle an issue that has done my head on for some time... I have no less than 8,684 photos in i-photo, three years worth that need either backing up onto disc or ontp my terrabyte ext HD which I don't want to do because it will clog it up with an almost infinite list of SNC17892.JPG's - hiding a handful of backed up movie files within like needles in a haystack.

Firstly, I want to know how many GB all this is taking up on my internal; I figured I could do this by going into Applications, clicking on i-photo and looking at the stats but it only gives you the size of the application itself, (same as with i-tunes but i-tunes I will always keep on my MacBook Pro now matter how many I have as I will always need one from somewhere. To back all 3053 items up would again create an infinite list on an external hard drive that could die on me the same as an internal drive could die on me - either that or it would require a stack of Cd's from my toes to my waist.)

Anyway the main issue here is i-photo, I figured I should flag all the best ones and the ones I may refer back to for Photoshopping, and burn them onto a CD/DVD for starters. This in itself is a horribly time consuming and boring process when you're dealing with close to 10 thousand pics, and it doesn't help that i-photo has apparently no way of batching together all those duplicate pics - I assume because it recognizes pics by their file name and not their appearance.

Once I've flagged the ones I want to keep, I suppose I could then burn all the rest into big chunk categories onto a dozen or so DVD's - I have no idea how many I could get onto one DVD, only that you can get more on a DVD than you can a CD.

It is also frustrating that you can't batch them up into files such as 'Hong Kong' or '2007' or 'LOGOS' without them still having the original in the main cache - thus hampering any attempt to separate the best from the snaps in the main cache.

Is there a shortcut around this or is it the pain in the arse that I think it is?

**Cujo** · 19-03-2009, 02:39 PM

You could just delete the ones you don't want.
Also if you're going to burn them to DVD burn as data files rather than image files, saves a LOT of space.
That's the total extent of my knowledge on the matter so I'm off.

**Butterfly** · 19-03-2009, 02:43 PM

use Google Picassa, it will take care of everything for you, and even organize all the files for you

get rid of iPhoto, not usable

**The Fresh Prince** · 19-03-2009, 03:14 PM

In the finder, underneath the Places sign. Have a look for the folder that contains your photo's. It might be called Original files. Then when you find it, right click on the folder icon and scroll down to Get Info. It may take a while to calculate the file size but it will eventually give you the size. You can fit 4Gigs on a DVD.

**The Fresh Prince** · 19-03-2009, 03:21 PM

I'd like you all to observe a minutes silence for my Macbook Pro which I dropped in the bank on Tuesday. Its not broken but has a dirty great dent next to the cd slot which I didn't notice until yesterday.

**ChiangMai noon** · 19-03-2009, 03:46 PM

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Once I've flagged the ones I want to keep, I suppose I could then burn all the rest into big chunk categories onto a dozen or so DVD's - I have no idea how many I could get onto one DVD, only that you can get more on a DVD than you can a CD

back up a few times.

DVDs don't have a great shelf life.

**slimboyfat** · 19-03-2009, 03:49 PM

It also depends on the condition of your shelf

**baldrick** · 19-03-2009, 03:51 PM

i-tards - kissing jobs' balls is a thankless task

why don't you organise the files into folders with appropriate names and then use toast to burn them to cd - or copy the folders to your Tbyte drive

**ChiangMai noon** · 19-03-2009, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by baldrick

why don't you organise the files into folders

too much like a solution.

i think he'd like it done automtically.

**Butterfly** · 19-03-2009, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by baldrick

why don't you organise the files into folders with appropriate names and then use toast to burn them to cd - or copy the folders to your Tbyte drive

why are you being reasonable here ?

**melvbot** · 19-03-2009, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Is there a shortcut around this

Not that I know of

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

or is it the pain in the arse that I think it is?

Most definitely.

iPhoto isnt all that good at all, too many copies for my liking. When I have pics I dump them in a folder and sort them before it gets out of hand.

Theres a few batch renaming or resizing programs around, I use this one at the mo
as it does both.

EasyBatchPhoto for Mac OS X - Batch image processing (convert format, resize, crop, watermark) made easy!

Digital photo's are a pain the arse sometimes as its quite easy to rack up 200 or so in a day/week. Only way is to keep on top of them, even then its a ball ache.

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 19-03-2009, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

In the finder, underneath the Places sign.

The Places sign?

Originally Posted by baldrick

why don't you organise the files into folders with appropriate names and then use toast to burn them to cd - or copy the folders to your Tbyte drive

That seems the most obvious idea, and the one which i'll have to settle for I think.

Originally Posted by Melvbot

iPhoto isnt all that good at all, too many copies for my liking. When I have pics I dump them in a folder and sort them before it gets out of hand.

Theres a few batch renaming or resizing programs around, I use this one at the mo
as it does both.

EasyBatchPhoto for Mac OS X - Batch image processing (convert format, resize, crop, watermark) made easy!

Digital photo's are a pain the arse sometimes as its quite easy to rack up 200 or so in a day/week. Only way is to keep on top of them, even then its a ball ache.

I'm downloading it now Mel, I've cancelled The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 and the new Leonard Cohen album because it is slowing down my internet thingy, but I have no idea what I'm downloading or what it does, you know I'm a bit thick when it comes to this sort of thing.

What do I do then?

**melvbot** · 19-03-2009, 06:58 PM

Its just a batch resizer and renamer, if you have a load of photos from Chaing Mai you can get them together drop them all onto the program and set it to rename them all in sequence like

chiang_mai
chiang_mai_1
chaing_mai_2

or resize all them by %, width, height etc.

It doesnt overwrite the originals so its making yet another duplicate. No idea if it will help to be truthful, organising stuff on a computers a pretty personal thing.

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 19-03-2009, 07:12 PM

Ah.. I was hoping it would gather up all the multiple duplicates like some kind of i-sheepdog and ask which one I wanted to keep.

**melvbot** · 19-03-2009, 07:19 PM

Hyperbolic Software - Tidy Up!

No idea how good it is or anything, just gooogled. Use at your own peril....

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