Strangest iPhoto 4 Bug

baumanbauman
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in iPod + iTunes + AppleTV edited January 2014
First, a bit of background: I'm in the process of merging together a about 1000 pictures from a vacation I took this summer, but about 100 of them are from a camera that thought it was in a different time zone. So, I'm needing to roll back the times on these 100 photos by an hour. I start doing it with the text field in the bottom left corner, and I notice that after changing about five photos, iPhoto bogs down. I get a spinning cursor, and the more I change, the longer iPhoto spins away.



So, I quit, and start doing it again. Same thing. I quit again, and this time, I record the length of time iPhoto is maxing out my processor after each change. Here's what I got: (drum-roll)

3

8

24

60

174 seconds, and then I gave up.



What in the world! Why on earth would anything like this be happening? Anyone else ever get this? And it's definitely reproducible, at least on my machine.



I'm using iPhoto 4, and have 3500 pictures...I just don't get it. I thought it was good up to 25000.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 7
    jbljbl Posts: 555member
    Well, I have done the same thing you are trying to do (shift pictures taken with one camera by an hour so that they line up with another camera), and have not had any problems. I am using a Dual G5 which probably helps some. Sorry I can't be more helpful.



    On a side note, this seems to be a common enough problem that Apple might want to concider a time adjusting feature in iPhoto 5.
  • Reply 2 of 7
    hobbeshobbes Posts: 1,252member
    Weird. Have you tried trashing iPhoto's pref + cache, rebooting, etc?
  • Reply 3 of 7
    talksense101talksense101 Posts: 1,738member
    I have adjusted the photograph time stamp on several hundred pictures using the batch change feature without any problems. I use a 1.25GH iMac G4.
  • Reply 4 of 7
    jbljbl Posts: 555member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by talksense101

    I have adjusted the photograph time stamp on several hundred pictures using the batch change feature without any problems. I use a 1.25GH iMac G4.



    Is there a way to use batch change to add an hour to a bunch of photos? I don't see how to do it.
  • Reply 5 of 7
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Hobbes

    Weird. Have you tried trashing iPhoto's pref + cache, rebooting, etc?



    Yup. No changes whatsoever. I'm using an 800MHz G4, so my computer's not rediculously slow.



    And, I'm seeing an exponential increase in time... so, if it does happen on other computers it should show up after a certain number of changes regardless of how fast the computer is.



    I'm not using the batch change, because, unfortunately, it doesn't do time-shifting. And I tried to applescript it, but the date field is stupidly read only. So, I'll just do it the way Apple wants me to do it, and quit after every ten changes to restart the exponential compounding of the time.



    Everybody: Quick... submit feedback! to get batch time-shifting.
  • Reply 6 of 7
    tchwojkotchwojko Posts: 139member
    My "Last Roll" album has been screwed up for a while now. I get around half my library in the Last Roll. I tried changing the number of rolls, I already tried the standard stuff, deleting prefs, etc. I think the metadata is just wrong. If I turn on viewing rolls, I get the correct groupings, and strangely a ton of rolls show up in the Last Roll album.



    Anyone know where in the xml the roll info is stored?
  • Reply 7 of 7
    talksense101talksense101 Posts: 1,738member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by JBL

    Is there a way to use batch change to add an hour to a bunch of photos? I don't see how to do it.



    There isn't a feature to add a delta to each individual photo's existing timestamp. I assign a base date/time and add a time difference between each. That suits my requirements.
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