iPhoto 6 and Abandoned Folders
Posted January 17th, 2006 @ 04:14pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I've removed the following folders from my iPhoto '06 folder (~/Library/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library) and it seems to work just fine:
2002/ 2003/ 2004/ 2005/ 2006/ iPhotoLock.data Library.cache Library.data Library.iPhoto
Nearly all of the year folders had nothing in them except a few Data folders filled with things like "795" and "795.attr." I deleted those. The other files haven't been touched since the 14th, which was the day I installed iPhoto '06. I've since used iPhoto (importing, renaming, etc.) files, so I must conclude that they aren't useful.
My question is this: why weren't these files and folders automatically deleted by iPhoto?
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Posted 17 Jan 2006 at 5:02pm #
I don't know, but is the same for many people.
And your iPhoto.mdimporter is working correctly? (Search by comments and keywords)
lisa:~ pac$ mdimport ~/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/
*** Parsing file: '/Users/pac/Pictures/iPhoto Library/AlbumData.xml'
ERROR: syntax error (<key>PhotoCount</key>)
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Posted 17 Jan 2006 at 5:12pm #
Yeah,
mdimportworks fine here. Takes awhile, but works fine.Posted 23 Jan 2006 at 3:10am #
From version 4.x to 5.x we've lost the Album folders. Now we loose the by-year folders ? Where is iPhoto storing those files now ? Don't tell me it's in some flat folder structure, or in a hashed and unreadable structure like an iPod?
Posted 28 Feb 2006 at 7:31pm #
Alberto -
Make sure none of the items in your iPhoto Source list (Albums, Smart Albums, Folders, etc) contain multi-line comments. If they do, this appears to cause mdimport to choke on the AlbumData.xml file. I've filed a bug report with Apple.