Purchase iPhoto Library Manager and get 25% off Duplicate Annihilator
Posted on May 15, 2009 by Brian Webster
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I’d like to announce a promotion that I’m running along with Brattoo Propaganda Software, makers of Duplicate Annihilator. Duplicate Annihilator is a program designed to track down duplicate photos in your iPhoto library. It has several different algorithms for finding duplicates, and also several different options for what to do with duplicates that have been found (delete, move to the trash, mark with a keyword, etc.), and is very useful for trimming down your iPhoto library.
For a limited time, if you purchase a copy of iPhoto Library Manager, you will receive a coupon code for 25% off a purchase of Duplicate Annihilator. You can download Duplicate Annihilator for a free trial to try it out, and if you like it, you can use the coupon code you receive on the receipt page after purchasing iPhoto Library Manager to receive your 25% discount.
iPhoto Library Manager 3.5 released
Posted on May 5, 2009 by Brian Webster
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At long last, iPhoto Library Manager 3.5 is now available! The main focus of this update is providing support for transferring the new Faces and Places data introduced in iPhoto ‘09. If you use the new version to copy photos from one library to another, and you have tagged faces in those photos, those face records will be recreated in the destination library. Similarly, if you have assigned places to photos or events that you’re copying, that data will now also be copied over along with the photos. This was probably the most complex new addition to iPhoto in quite some time, so updating iPhoto Library Manager has taken a good while longer than usual. However, with the help of some intrepid beta testers, the new version is now ready for general use.
You can use the “Check For Updates” menu item within the program to update to the new version, or you can download it here as well. This is a free update for anyone who’s already a registered user, so no additional purchase is necessary to update to the new version.
For those interested, here are the complete release notes for the new version:
iPhoto Library Manager 3.5 release notes
- Tagged faces are now transferred along with photos that are copied/merged between libraries in iPhoto ‘09
- Places data is now copied along with photos when performing a copy or a merge in iPhoto ‘09
- iPhoto Library Manager now creates its own log files and logs progress and error information as it copies photos (accessible from the Window menu)
- When using the “Import Photos” menu command, if the user selects an iPhoto library to import, we now perform a merge instead of treating the library like a plain folder
- Fixed a crash that could occur when copying photos on a PPC machine
- Fixed a bug where copying photos that were imported as aliases could result in an unneeded “modified” copy of the photo being created in the destination library
- A printable version of the help is now available at http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/Help/print/index.html
- Removed the preference setting for double clicking a library – double click now always opens the library in iPhoto, and a single click edits the library’s name
- When the user clicks the Cancel button, we now present a dialog to verify that they do in fact want to cancel the operation
- Removed the preference for relaunching iPhoto during a merge. This pref was for working around a bug in iPhoto 6, so we now just relaunch automatically when merging with iPhoto 6.
- Photos that were published to a MobileMe gallery are now always included in the main library during a merge, and not just in the gallery itself
- Fixed a problem where movies and original versions of photos would not be copied for some users
- Added a “selection” property to the Applescript dictionary so scripters can access the currently selected library
The last iPLM 3.5 beta (hopefully)
Posted on May 1, 2009 by Brian Webster
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After finally tracking down and squishing the last couple major bugs this week, there are now no known bugs left for iPhoto Library Manager 3.5. I’m going to put up one last beta version, which you can download here, for people to try out over the weekend. I’ll be tying up a few loose ends over the weekend, and assuming nothing else major comes up, I’ll be aiming to do a final release early next week.