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iPhoto Folder Import 1.0
Open Source \| Version: 1.0 \| Script id: 4697 Author: AllanMarcus \| Developer's Web Site Scripting Additions Required?: None Requirements: iphoto Script Type: Editable Category: iPhoto Click here to View Screenshot
Drop a folder on this script and it will import all the files in the folder and create a corresponding folder/album structure in iPhoto. Since iPhoto doesn't allow the creation of folders via AppleScript, the folder hierarchy is flattened. Just back up your iPhoto Library and give it a try.
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On 11.5.2008 Rob wrote:
Great! My iPhoto library of 18000 pictures was corrupt. I still had the library structure and thanks to you all is now back in place. Great script!
On 9.2.2008 Kash wrote:
I have a question (and may be an enhancement idea). I have also about 400 albums that I want to load and who wants to drag 400 times to build Albums in iPhoto. But what happens with the music for the album (to see using Front Row). For me, I put the music in that folder to keep it organized but that doesn't work since iPhoto only gets music from iTunes. So I was thinking to create an Itunes play list that has the same as the Album and "automatically" associate it. Is this possible to do in AppleScript? (Sorry, I know nothing about Apple Script)
On 12.6.2007 icab wrote:
This is exactly, exactly, exactly what I was looking for! iPhoto is not nearly as good as Picasa for Windows, which lets me manage the file/folder structure and group photos by folder when viewing them (not by date, film roll, etc). Now I can have a similar behavior on iPhoto by using the script. Thank you for this script! One suggestion for improvement: This script requires you to drop a parent folder instead of the actual folder that you want to import. It'd be great if it imported the actual folder that you drop into the script.
On 10.10.2007 AH wrote:
This was just what I needed. I lost a disk and had to move alot of photos into iPhoto, but who can manually create albums (for Front Row) for like 300 folders - og "events" as they become, when imported to iPhoto. Using this smart script, I'm importing everything right now. It is saving me days of work - or maybe I wouldn't even have used Front Row, if there hadn't been a solution like this. Thanks alot!
On 9.27.2007 Asher wrote:
honestly this is terrific - awsome - the only feedback i would give is that the 'import duplicate' thing could be handedled at the begining with a import all duplicates - YES NO ASK at the same time as you confirm the chosen folder... but it really rocked - thankyou muchly :-)
On 9.7.2007 didactus wrote:
It worked reasonably well. When it imports your directory structure, it builds one iPhoto folder for each directory underneath the one you drop onto this app. If you have nested subdirectories (A/B/C), the folder names will have dashes for the directory separators (A-B-C). I would have given it five stars, except that the first time I tried importing my old directory structure, it locked up. I had to Force Quite iPhoto, and then manually clean up the halfway-imported stuff. A major nuisance. I think this happened because I tried to keep using the computer while the import was running. I ended up minimizing iPhoto, and the next time iPhoto hassled me with one of the "unrecognized filename" messages (for the descript.ion files in my photo directories), it locked up. So, please be nice to it while it's running; it's finicky. My only real complaint is that it would be better if it also created Film Rolls while importing. I don't think iPhoto 6's AppleScript interface permits this, though; so this isn't really a criticism of this script, but rather of iPhoto itself. Perhaps the iPhoto in iLife '08 has a more full-featured AppleScript interface that would make this possible.
On 7.11.2007 aboxofjosh wrote:
Works great! I should note that it doesn't seem to add photos unless they're in a subdirectory of the folder being imported. That is, if I drop ~/Folder on the script, it won't add pictures in that directory, but only in ~/Folder/Blah/. If the script could do that, and if it could intelligently skip all those junk .db/.lnk/etc files that Windows creates so I wouldn't have to hover over my keyboard and click through all the dialog boxes, I'd give it 5 stars. It's pretty dumb that creating folders isn't scriptable, but the author can't help that.
On 2.14.2007 Peter Baum wrote:
Should this also work with iPhoto 6? Sorry I didn't manage it. Any help would be warmly welcomed, as I'm a novice with scripts. Thank you!
On 12.11.2006 Michael F wrote:
Great script, worked as expected. Save me 1000hrs... ;)
On 11.12.2006 Arrow Chung wrote:
Many thanks to your script. It saves me plenty of time! Knowing it's the limitation of action script not to be able to create sub folder or it would be even better!