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.Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4![[Pohle]](/webx/?30@@1) Pohle - 02:23am Aug 15, 2008 PSTDear TidBITS Talk members: Publishing of photos directly into other people's screen savers is not possible any more! I read MobileMe features carefully, and publishing photos to screensavers is not on the list any more. I discussed this in an online chat with an Apple employee, but there was no information except that this feature was discontinued. He recommended
< http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iPhoto/7.0/en/6330.html>
but that article did not cover the subject. From within iPhoto there was a way to publish photos directly (to your own iDisk) so other people could enter the sender's .Mac account name into their Screen Saver setup and see the latest photos without having to do anything except waiting for the screen saver to start. Getting photos still works - please try out Screen Saver Mobile Me.
Go to System Preferences - Screen Saver - Pictures - MobileMe and RSS - Options - hit "+" and enter "chpohle" - after a short time you should see my pictures in your screen saver!
But I cannot change the pictures any more! iPhoto had a menu
Share - .Mac slides
that supplied contents directly to the Screen Savers on other Macs that did the above setup. iPhoto versions before 7.1.4 could still do the trick even after the MobileMe transition. Only when Software Update changed iPhoto to include "MobileMe" instead of ".Mac", the feature was gone. The pictures can still be accessed in Screen Saver, but cannot be changed any more in iPhoto. The photos are still available in iDisk - Pictures - Slide Shows - Public. There is also a config.plist file, and the picture names have changed to something like "Image-2C581A9C1DBD4840.jpg" during upload. I tried to copy pictures into that folder manually, but that did not help. I even added a line into the config.plist file with the new picture's name, but that did not make it work either. Please, would anybody help me bringing my latest pictures to my family's screen savers automatically again? Grandma will not download files and install them herself... I asked the Apple employee to request this feature to come back. Does anybody have good connections to Apple to help a little on that side? Thanks for your answers and help,
sincerely,
Carl H. Pohle
macgeek417 (apparently)
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Aug 19, 2008 4:38 am
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Re: .Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4
You DO have an iLife DVD, right??
try reinstalling the un-updated iPhoto (after backing up, of course}
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Pohle (apparently)
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Aug 20, 2008 4:11 am
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Re: .Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4
I have that button,
- only in iPhoto 7.1.4 on my PowerBook G4, where I am still using Mac
OS X 10.4.11, with the .Mac icon instead of the MobileMe cloud still
in System Preferences.
- but not on my iMac, where I am using Mac OS X 10.5.4, with the
MobileMe cloud in System Preferences.
Which Mac OS X are you using?
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Adam Engst
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Aug 21, 2008 6:41 am
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Re: .Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4
At 5:38 AM -0700 8/19/08, Nicky Y. Schleider wrote:
>>I love my Mac... but I just don't trust iPhoto. I think it is a
>>flaky app. Am I alone in this regard?
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>i have had the same thing happen. my problem was with photos i
>scanned and with slides of my paintings that i scanned. i no longer
>trust iphoto either. i also keep things in separate folders.
My experience (which is extensive, given the number of book editions
I've written about iPhoto versions) is that iPhoto seldom, if ever,
actually touches the photos on disk, in the iPhoto Library
folder/package (it used to be a folder; in iPhoto '08 it's a
package). What can happen, although it's increasingly uncommon, is
for the database that tracks them to become corrupted.
And for that, if you launch iPhoto while holding down Command-Option,
can be rebuilt successfully in most cases. Other options exist for
recovering photos manually if the rebuild options fail.
cheers... -Adam
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Nicky Y. Schleider (apparently)
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Aug 22, 2008 5:06 am
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Re: .Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4
> My experience (which is extensive, given the number of book editions
> I've written about iPhoto versions) is that iPhoto seldom, if ever,
> actually touches the photos on disk, in the iPhoto Library
> folder/package (it used to be a folder; in iPhoto '08 it's a
> package). What can happen, although it's increasingly uncommon, is
> for the database that tracks them to become corrupted.
>
> And for that, if you launch iPhoto while holding down Command-Option,
> can be rebuilt successfully in most cases. Other options exist for
> recovering photos manually if the rebuild options fail.
thanks, adam. i will try that. i get these strange problems, strange
to me at least, and hate to bother you guys with them. i know a good
bit, but i'm not in your league.
nicky
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Pohle (apparently)
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Aug 23, 2008 2:25 pm
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Re: .Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4
Let's get back to the original topic...
(".Mac slides missing" does not have anything to do with "lost
pictures within iPhoto")
I found the solution to my own question.
Lewis  Gmail gkreme gmail.com gave the hint that made me find it.
Thank you, Lewis!
A menu Share - .Mac slides does NOT exist anymore, b u t . . .
the button mentioned by Lewis exists if your screen is w i d e
enough!!!
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Pohle (apparently)
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Aug 24, 2008 2:40 am
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Re: .Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4
ONCE AGAIN WITHOUT THE PICTURE THAT CUT OFF HALF MY MESSAGE...
Let's get back to the original topic...
(".Mac slides missing" does not have anything to do with "lost
pictures within iPhoto")
I found the solution to my own question.
Lewis Gmail gkreme gmail.com gave the hint that made me find it.
Thank you, Lewis!
A menu Share - .Mac slides does NOT exist anymore, b u t . . .
the button mentioned by Lewis exists if your screen is w i d e
enough!!!
If it is not, there is a small popup menu at the lower right end of
iPhoto!!!
It can be accessed by clicking on the >> symbol!!! (Which is not
shown in the screenshot above)
Shame on me...
Thanks for trying to help.
Carl H. Pohle
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George Wade (apparently)
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Aug 25, 2008 2:24 am
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Re: .Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4
On 24-Aug-08, at 3:40 AM, Carl H. Pohle wrote:
> ONCE AGAIN WITHOUT THE PICTURE THAT CUT OFF HALF MY MESSAGE...
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> Let's get back to the original topic...
> (".Mac slides missing" does not have anything to do with "lost
> pictures within iPhoto")
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> I found the solution to my own question.
> Lewis Gmail gkreme gmail.com gave the hint that made me find it.
> Thank you, Lewis!
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> A menu Share - .Mac slides does NOT exist anymore, b u t . . .
> the button mentioned by Lewis exists if your screen is w i d e
> enough!!!
> If it is not, there is a small popup menu at the lower right end of
> iPhoto!!!
> It can be accessed by clicking on the >> symbol!!! (Which is not
> shown in the screenshot above)
Pictures are worth a million words, very often. No shame, if you are
referring to the picture that cut off half your message: TidBits is
Graphic Blind ;-)
George
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Lewis Butler (apparently)
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Aug 26, 2008 2:18 am
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Re: .Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4
On 25-Aug-2008, at 04:24, George Wade wrote:
> Pictures are worth a million words, very often. No shame, if you are
> referring to the picture that cut off half your message: TidBits is
> Graphic Blind ;-)
Unfortunately it is not just graphic blind, but down-right hostile.
Normal mailing lists that don't allow attachments simply strip them
out and post your message (like my own mailman lists). Web Crossing
strips the attachment AND strips anything following the attachment.
So, instead of sending a message to TBT and ccing the OP a copy that
also has a small embedded image (and including a link to same image
for the benefit of the TBT readers) I have to make two separate
messages.
So the OP gets to read my reply twice.
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danielgoldblatt
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Aug 26, 2008 2:48 pm
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Re: .Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4
Backups to Time Capsule external drive?
The person I talked to at the local Apple Store didn't seem sure about this. If I attach a large hard drive to a Time Capsule's USB port will Time Machine offer it as a backup drive, or will I only be offered the Time Capsule's internal drive?
--Dan G.
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George Wade (apparently)
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Aug 26, 2008 11:56 pm
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Re: .Mac Slides are missing after iPhoto Update 7.1.4
On 26-Aug-08, at 3:18 AM, Lewis Gmail wrote:
> On 25-Aug-2008, at 04:24, George Wade wrote:
>> Pictures are worth a million words...
> Unfortunately it is not just graphic blind, but down-right
> hostile.....
Well, Lewis,
I'm not going to try to change TidBits policies as they do things so
very well. What I might do is find somewhere to post graphics and
link to them from a post like this one. Me.com or GoogleApps...
G
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