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[stevebaze]

I want to backup my iPhoto Albums by burning them onto disc using Titanium 7 but it seems that I have to make a folder in the Finder of each album then drag and drop each iPhoto Album into its corresponding Desktoip folder.

I don’t seem to be able to drop each iPhoto Album straight into Titanium.

Am I missing something

Cheers

Steve

[tsantee]

Choose the Data window. Now click the Media button on the top left of the Toast window. Choose Photos with the top button. Choose All Albums with the bottom button. Drag the albums to the Data window. Each one comes over as a folder.

[stevebaze]

tsantee, on Aug 1 2006, 02:27 PM, said:

Choose the Data window. Now click the Media button on the top left of the Toast window. Choose Photos with the top button. Choose All Albums with the bottom button. Drag the albums to the Data window. Each one comes over as a folder.

Thanks Tsantee

Cheers

Steve

[stevebaze]

stevebaze, on Aug 2 2006, 12:09 AM, said:

Thanks Tsantee

Cheers

Steve

Checked Data
Checked Media
Chose Photos

The bottom window is blank - no options available - Do I have to turn something on?

Have eMac.
Toast 7.1.

Cheers

steve

[tsantee]

That must mean your iPhoto Library isn't in the default Pictures folder on the startup drive. Make an alias to the iPhoto Library folder and put it in the Pictures folder. Also, be sure to delete "alias" from the alias' file name.

[stevebaze]

tsantee, on Aug 2 2006, 05:37 AM, said:

That must mean your iPhoto Library isn't in the default Pictures folder on the startup drive. Make an alias to the iPhoto Library folder and put it in the Pictures folder. Also, be sure to delete "alias" from the alias' file name.

As you said, my Pictures Folder was empty. I'm not sure how a startup drive becomes a startup drive or what it starts up but I found two Photo Libraries on my old external LaCie HD one named iPhoto-1 the other iPhoto-3.

iPhoto-3 was the one with "all" my photos on it which I aliased and put in the Picture Folder in the bottom half of the first window (the LaCie HD is selected in the top  half of the first window) and Toast found them.

All well and good and thank you very much.

However, there are now two iPhoto-3 folders in the 2nd to the right window but one of them is also named alias. I take it that I leave this as it is?

When you say, startup drive,  do you mean that my external LaCie HD starts up my eMac or does it just startup my Photo Library? I'm completely at sea with the structure and vagaries of OSX. (Should my startup disc be on my external HD?)

If I now burn my Photo Library, by dragging the Library to Toast, will it burn the Library and Albums or do I have to burn the Albums by dragging and dropping them after having dragged the Library?

Cheers

Steve

[stevebaze]

I decide to suck it and see and - A Problem -

I select All Albums, then I drag the Library onto the drop area there is a pause, then Toast crashes.

When I drag albums with the 2nd and 3rd Album I get:

"The selected items cannot be added, because more than one of them have the same name. The duplicates have been ignored”

Then at about the 6th Album Toast crashes.

My Library is 3.2GB.
My disc is Verbatim 4.7GB

Cheers

steve

[tsantee]

stevebaze, on Aug 2 2006, 12:45 PM, said:

As you said, my Pictures Folder was empty. I'm not sure how a startup drive becomes a startup drive or what it starts up but I found two Photo Libraries on my old external LaCie HD one named iPhoto-1 the other iPhoto-3.

iPhoto-3 was the one with "all" my photos on it which I aliased and put in the Picture Folder in the bottom half of the first window (the LaCie HD is selected in the top  half of the first window) and Toast found them.

All well and good and thank you very much.

However, there are now two iPhoto-3 folders in the 2nd to the right window but one of them is also named alias. I take it that I leave this as it is?

When you say, startup drive,  do you mean that my external LaCie HD starts up my eMac or does it just startup my Photo Library? I'm completely at sea with the structure and vagaries of OSX. (Should my startup disc be on my external HD?)

If I now burn my Photo Library, by dragging the Library to Toast, will it burn the Library and Albums or do I have to burn the Albums by dragging and dropping them after having dragged the Library?

Cheers

Steve

The startup drive is my terminology for the one whose System is loaded when booting (starting up) the Mac. This usually is the internal hard drive, although you can install the OS on an external drive and boot from that if you want. There's a Startup Disc panel in System Preferences for choosing among multiple drives with OS X installed.

When the OS is installed the Pictures folder is created. When iPhoto is installed it automatically puts its library in the Pictures folder. Toast thinks that's where it should be. For people who move their iPhoto library to a different drive, placing an alias to that library in the Pictures folder fools Toast into finding it. If in the process of making the alias you have one alias in the Pictures folder and another on the drive where the library is actually located, you can delete the latter alias.

I'm unsure if you're wanting to back up your iPhoto Library to disc or if you are wanting to back up the photos in the library to disc. The difference is that the former includes all the thumbnails and directory files so that you could simply open the backed up library with iPhoto and all would be identical to the original. But you may just want to back up the photos organized in folders by the album names you created.

To back up the entire Library, choose Mac Only as the format in the Data window, click New Disc (at the bottom) and drag in your iPhoto Library. Toast will automatically burn this content across however many discs it takes. Toast includes a restore tool so the Library can be returned as a whole to a hard drive if needed.

If you just want to back up the photos themselves (the versions that have any edits you made), then use the Media Browser to drag in to the Data window each of your albums. If you choose Mac Only as the format Toast will span the burn across multiple discs.

[stevebaze]

I’ve been trying to backup my iPhoto Library without success.

Initially I could not load the Library into T7. T7 crashed. Then I tried to drop Albums into T7 some dropped but others caused T7 to crash.

In looking at the smallest file that caused T7 to crash I discovered some files that showed themselves only as grey rectangles above a certian size on screen. When I deleted these files the Album would drop into T7 without causing it to crash. I then inspected all the Albums that had been crashing and deleted all the grey squares. I then did the same in the iPhoto library.

After eliminating all the grey squares all of the Albums as well as the Library dropped into T7 without causing it to crash.

However, there must still be some files/pics that are indigestable for T7. In the course of trying to burn the lirary and Albums I received the following from T7:

The Drive reported an error.
Sense key = Hardware error.
sense code = 0 x44
Internal Target failure.

The Drive reported an error.
Sense key = illegal request.
sense code = 0 xx21, 0x02
Buffer underrun.

New disc
The Drive reported an error.
Sense key = Medium error.
sense code = 0 x73, 0x03

New disc
The Drive reported an error.
Sense key = Medium error.
sense code = 0 x OC
Write error.

The Drive reported an error.
Sense key = illegal request.
sense code = 0 x21, 0x02
Buffer underrun.

I’ve since burnt iTunes CDs - using iTunes and a Music DVD - using T7 to check that the burner is working OK.

I assume that I have some files in iPhoto that T7 doesn’t like but what they are I don’t know.

Any thoughts?

I’m using Verbatum DVD-R 4.7 GB/120mins 8x cert

I’ve got my new LaCie external HD but I don’t want to mount my HD or backup my pics to it till I’ve got hard copies on disc.

Cheers

Steve

[tsantee]

It might help to rebuild your iPhoto Library. Click HERE for Apple's instructions. They suggest backing up the Library before rebuilding it, which creates an interesting Catch 22 for you. Possibly you could back it up by duplicating it on the hard drive, though.

[stevebaze]

They suggest backing up the Library before rebuilding it, which creates an interesting Catch 22 for you. Possibly you could back it up by duplicating it on the hard drive, though.
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I backed up - with trepidation - and -
It is interesting to note that the backup from Lacie (my old 160GB HD) to LaCie Disk (my new 300GB HD) showed 17000 items with a size of 16.98GB. Whereas iPhoto shows only 4879 items with a size of 3.2GB!

Another interesting point: When I Exported iPhoto Library all the pictures were numbered consecutively 0002 to 5533 - what happened to 0001? And, 5533 - 4879 = 654. 654 plus one little mysteries! But then, it's all a mystery to me.

I shall go for rebuild now then try for burn. The rate at which I'm chewing up DVDs (9 so far) I'll be able to make a chain mail overcoat.

I don't get back to the post very quickly as I kid myself I have another life - still not mine but at the beck and call of the kids - Daaaad blah de blah de blah. When you DiY it's fatal.

cheers and thanks for all your help - but yor're not off the hook yet.

Is it possible to backup and get the Albums backed up as well?

cheers

Steve