Uploading photos from iPhoto onto FB

[SurprisinglyCurvaceousPirate]

Have just been given a MacBook for my birthday (it was very special birthday ) and I mostly love it, but it's doing some strange and annoying things that my PC never did!

Number one is that when I upload multiple photos to FB from iPhoto it rearranges them! Why?? How do I stop it?

TIA .

No one?

I'm guessing that it's an unanswerable question then??

Mine never does that. I tend to go into photos & choose an album to upload into though rather than just clicking "photos" on the news feed screen.

HTH.

Can you tell what order it's rearranging them to? How are you getting them into iPhoto, are these photos you're taking on an iPhone?

Thanks for the replies - I click on 'share' within iPhoto and then upload that way. It seems to be only when I'm adding new photos to an established album - if it's a new album it puts them on in order, but if I've already loaded say 20 photos and want to add another 20 then it rearranges the order of the second 20!

Photos are taken on my camera and transferred onto iPhoto from there.

So you mean if there are 20 photos in the album, say 1-20, they are unaffected. But if you add another 20, the one you expect to be 21 may be 28, the one you expect to be 40 may be 21 and so on?

Slight hijack - I'm really struggling with Iphoto on my Mac, if anyone has any links to decent tutorials, preferably not video, I'd appreciate them. I'm just not getting it at all, especially for my old library of photos.

WhoKnows - I found this one for iPhoto 6 and I wondered if you'd looked through iPhoto's inbuilt help. If you go to Help --> iPhoto Help, it will open up a list of tutorials with words as well as video.

Thanks Trib - I have tried the built in ones and found them OK for when you load new photos from the camera, but not found them very helpful with my old photos, I want to be able to set the events into individual months which is how I had them on the PC. I am really struggling to find particular photos in it now, it is just so different and I can't quite make that leap of faith that I will ever actually be able to find anything reliably when I can't see it all set out in folder hierarchies.

I am not finding the conversion from PC to Mac state of mind an easy one!

ps, I haven't come across the one you linked to, I will have a good look at it later on, thank you.

Macworld might be of some help too? And it looks from MacAddict that maybe what you need to do is create a series of Smart Albums? Reading the help file about Events, it seems like the maximum duration you can set these to is one week (iPhoto > Preferences > Autosplit Events).

Btw, returning to SurprisinglyCurvaceous, I've just noticed in the View menu in iPhoto there are options to sort photos by Date, Keyword, etc - I wonder if the setting here could be throwing FB off?

I knew this was your thread Pirate even before I clicked on it . It's annoying isn't it?

Whoknows - I haven't tried this, so don't know if it would work, but can you edit the date function in the photos on your PC so that every photo in a folder has the same date (if you can do it for several photos at once). Then when you transfer them over iPhoto would split them into events based on date thus keeping ones in the same folder together in the same event? I didn't do this for my photos though - I just imported them a few months at a time - iPhoto auto splits into events by dates but it was easy to merge each event in a single month then I could rename it e.g. May 2012.

Thanks Scottish - the PC has gone now, but we did transfer all the folders over as they were into Finder. However the functionality on that is much more limited than on a PC, you can't rename folders full of photos all at once for example (at least I haven't been able to work out how).

I think I totally underestimated how different it was going to be using a Mac instead of a PC. Not so much for the internet, which is my main use but in terms of file management and the other software.

You probably want to batch edit their properties, rather than rename the files, WhoKnows.

But if you were using software like Picasa before, you can still do that - you don't have to go 10 rounds with iPhoto.

I was managing quite happily with Windows File manager (or whatever it's called now) for sorting them, I only do very basic editing as they are just family snaps, so I was using my printer software for that. I really ought to get off MN and apply myself to this problem a bit more!

Yes - learning to Think Mac is a bit of a mental shift away from dear old Windows, but you'll get there!

at SP! You know how many bloody photos I upload Scottish, and it's driving me mad!!

WhoKnows, I can totally relate to your angst - I'm also a Mac virgin and was pretty much self-taught on the PC in terms of managing all my photos (which I also did in months and years). The Mac is soooo much more difficult to use than I imagined - dh bought it for me from an Apple store and thankfully also bought a package of lessons which I will definitely be using! It speaks volumes though that Apple even think lessons are necessary - I certainly never needed any for my PC!

tribpot, yes that's it - 1 to 20 would be fine, then 21 - 40 could be in any order iphoto fancies . I do hate it when computers have a mind of their own! Can I change the settings you mention?

But, if you'd grown up with Mac you'd need lessons on how to use windows

This seems to be a bit of a known feature according to the Apple support threads - this one mentions the randomness of ordering, whereas the other that's linked to within it is a separate (but related) problem where if you try and upload more than 200 photos to one album it selects 200 in total at random from the set.

Have you tried refreshing as per the description in the thread?

The implication in this one is that it's a Facebook problem, although the user in the first thread is posting to Flickr rather than FB. There are a couple of solutions mentioned in the thread, and a link to a blog post as well (which has masses of detail in). You can try ordering the album photos by date actually in FB, apparently, although it all sounds rather hassle-ish compared to uploading them through FB's own uploader or similar?

Glad it's not just me!

Thanks tribpot, I'll have a look at those suggestions - I suppose the other thing to do is not to start a new album each time I upload but that seems a bit of a pain .