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TSMIII - Aug 1, 2005 - 12:31 am

i just got a new powerbook and i was experimenting with ilife. i started to create folders for my pictures and so forth. i opeaned iphoto and nothing was there no pictures, no folders, etc. I looked in the "pictures" folder and there were all there so i tried to import them to iphoto but i could not because iphoto said "the following files could not be imported (they may be an unreconized file type or may not contain valid data). so i could not import photos that were on my hard drive but when i put in a flash drive with pictures that were previously on iphoto they imported fine. i pulled up a photo on my hard drive and then the same one on the flash drive i noticed that the one on the flash drive (which imported into iphoto fine) was 108 mb and the one on my hard drive was 508 mb. any siggestions and what i should do?

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thomas

dzurn - Aug 3, 2005 - 11:42 pm

Those files are huge! 508 MB? Those seem pretty big even for RAW format files.

If they are RAW format, remember that iPhoto copies the files to its library, and for RAW it creates a JPEG format copy as well. (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.h...m=300876#three)

Since RAW consists of many different proprietary formats, your images might not be importable. If you had copies on your flash drive, those might be in something besides the RAW format which makes them importable.

I don't have much experience with 0.5 GB files. Can you give a little background as to the files and where they came from/how they were created? Was the copy on the flash drive a down-sampled version using Photoshop? That info would help.

Darryl Z

TSMIII - Aug 4, 2005 - 5:01 pm

well i had photos on my old computer that i scanned on. i saved them on my flash drive and transferred them to my apple and they work fine. then a few days later none of them were in iphoto.

dzurn - Aug 8, 2005 - 12:16 am

I didn't see how the flash images were different from the images on your hard drive. Some difference there is likely the reason for iPhoto to go bonkers.

I would just suggest that photos as large as 500MB are much larger than the resolution of the scanning process. It might make sense to look into downsampling these huge images into something closer to the resolution of the original photos.

Sorry I can't help more.

Darryl