robbiebushe
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OK this is a relatively complex thing to explain but my problem is:
I have 4500 photos on my old Power Mac G4 400 (original 1999 model). I have just bought a new powerbook 15" and a new iPod video 60g (lucky me). I tried to use the migration tool with firewire to copy all my stuff from the old G4 but after searching, I discovered that this version of the G4 does not support the migration tool. (both machines are running on OSX10.4.3). So I went back to the old method of using a two way ethernet cable and dragging everything over. All works fine now on my new powerbook and in particular all my iPhotos were there in the right place with the rights albums. I had simply replaced the Iphoto Library folder with my old one. So then I plugged in the ipod and enabled it to take all my music (about 30gs) and all my photos (about 4gs) onto my 60g iPod. It seemed to work fine and did put all of my music on, but on closer inspection, it had only put photos on from 2005. It did have all the albums which should have included non 2005 photos, but none where there. I tried to see what would happen if I then just synced some photo albums which do not include photos from 2005. Again the albums appeared but no photos inside. So then I redirected the ipod to instead of using iPhoto to simply tkae from the Iphoto Picture folder. This time it did copy all the photos, but of course it was now double the amount as it copied all the thumnails as well as the orginals.. and no listed albums on the iPod.
I can only presume that there is something currupted on my original iPhoto library. It was started back in the orignal iPhoto and has gone through each update. I even copied the whole thing over a second time to see whether it happened during the original copy. Very frustrating as the same thing happned again.
So - anyone any ideas? As I say I can see and access all my photos and albums fine on both my macs - but only 2005 photos on my iPod.
thanks
Robbie
I have 4500 photos on my old Power Mac G4 400 (original 1999 model). I have just bought a new powerbook 15" and a new iPod video 60g (lucky me). I tried to use the migration tool with firewire to copy all my stuff from the old G4 but after searching, I discovered that this version of the G4 does not support the migration tool. (both machines are running on OSX10.4.3). So I went back to the old method of using a two way ethernet cable and dragging everything over. All works fine now on my new powerbook and in particular all my iPhotos were there in the right place with the rights albums. I had simply replaced the Iphoto Library folder with my old one. So then I plugged in the ipod and enabled it to take all my music (about 30gs) and all my photos (about 4gs) onto my 60g iPod. It seemed to work fine and did put all of my music on, but on closer inspection, it had only put photos on from 2005. It did have all the albums which should have included non 2005 photos, but none where there. I tried to see what would happen if I then just synced some photo albums which do not include photos from 2005. Again the albums appeared but no photos inside. So then I redirected the ipod to instead of using iPhoto to simply tkae from the Iphoto Picture folder. This time it did copy all the photos, but of course it was now double the amount as it copied all the thumnails as well as the orginals.. and no listed albums on the iPod.
I can only presume that there is something currupted on my original iPhoto library. It was started back in the orignal iPhoto and has gone through each update. I even copied the whole thing over a second time to see whether it happened during the original copy. Very frustrating as the same thing happned again.
So - anyone any ideas? As I say I can see and access all my photos and albums fine on both my macs - but only 2005 photos on my iPod.
thanks
Robbie