change film roll name in iPhoto
VAXman-
a film roll. It says to select the library then View > Film Roll and click
on the film icon in the viewing area.
This doesn't seem to do anything on my system. Any pointers?
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Garner Miller
wrote:
> The latest iPhoto (6.0.2) help says I can change the name and/or date of
> a film roll. It says to select the library then View > Film Roll and click
> on the film icon in the viewing area.
>
> This doesn't seem to do anything on my system. Any pointers?
Yep: You need to change the name in the "Information" area, in the
lower-left corner of the iPhoto window. (If you can't see it, click
the "(i)" at the bottom of the window.) With the roll name
highlighted, you can then change its title in that information window.
Annoying, I know.
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Dave Balderstone
wrote:
> The latest iPhoto (6.0.2) help says I can change the name and/or date of
> a film roll. It says to select the library then View > Film Roll and click
> on the film icon in the viewing area.
>
> This doesn't seem to do anything on my system. Any pointers?
Yes. Go back and read the help entry again. The info you want is there.
You paraphprased items 1, 2, and 3. Why did you leave off item 4 (which
is the actual answer you claim to be looking for)?
There's even a picture!
Andy Hewitt
> The latest iPhoto (6.0.2) help says I can change the name and/or date of
> a film roll. It says to select the library then View > Film Roll and click
> on the film icon in the viewing area.
>
> This doesn't seem to do anything on my system. Any pointers?
Yes, you need to first open the Info box (in the bottom left corner) by
clicking on the little 'I' icon. Then you select the Roll, and then edit
the title in the Info box.
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VAXman-
>
>
>In article <00A5481E...@SendSpamHere.ORG>, < @SendSpamHere.ORG>
>wrote:
>
>> The latest iPhoto (6.0.2) help says I can change the name and/or date of
>> a film roll. It says to select the library then View > Film Roll and click
>> on the film icon in the viewing area.
>>
>> This doesn't seem to do anything on my system. Any pointers?
>
>Yep: You need to change the name in the "Information" area, in the
>lower-left corner of the iPhoto window. (If you can't see it, click
>the "(i)" at the bottom of the window.) With the roll name
>highlighted, you can then change its title in that information window.
>
>Annoying, I know.
Thanks... OK. Makes more sense now.
VAXman-
OK... verbatim:
1. Select Library in the Source list.
2. If you dont see file roll icons int he viewing area, choose View>Film rolls.
3. Click the film roll in the viewing area.
4. Type a new name in the Title Field.
NOWEHRE does it mention the little (i) to get at this information.
>There's even a picture!
... but it doesn't tell you how to get at that "picture".
Sorry, but the help *IS* misleading.
Tim Lance
(in article <00A5481E...@SendSpamHere.ORG>):
> The latest iPhoto (6.0.2) help says I can change the name and/or date of
> a film roll. It says to select the library then View > Film Roll and click
> on the film icon in the viewing area.
>
> This doesn't seem to do anything on my system. Any pointers?
>
>
'K. I've read all the posts so far. The OP deserves some slack. This is
perhaps the most convoluted thing I've encountered, and I once messed with
DVD Studio Pro 2 with no video experience, having never seen a DVD.
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Dave Balderstone
<lance...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 'K. I've read all the posts so far. The OP deserves some slack. This is
> perhaps the most convoluted thing I've encountered, and I once messed with
> DVD Studio Pro 2 with no video experience, having never seen a DVD.
Well, if you look at iPhoto help, it's organized into mini-tutorials.
The one that's applicaple here is titled "Editing photo and roll
information". The first entry, "Editing a photo's title" gives explicit
instructions, with pictures, on displaying the Information area.
Now, he's excused somewhat for not reading all the entries in the
section. We all skip stuff.
BUT: If he'd included all four of the instructions in the help file "4.
Type a new name in the Title field." which was *right in front of him*,
and then asked "Where the heck is the title field, I don't see it"
someone, possible even me, would have said "Click the "i" in the circle
at the bottom left."
Instead, this is just one more case of someone wanting others to do his
learning for him.
VAXman-
Fuck off! I've come from the VMS world where there are very explicit help
instructions, documentation and *meaningful* and *helpful* error messages.
I put, verbatim, the four instruction here in this thread. NOWHERE do they
state to click on the (i). 3 says: Click the film roll in the viewing area.
and 4 says: Type a new name in the Title field.
It's attitude like yours that keeps people away from newsgroups and affects
the products discussed in said newsgroups.
FWIW, editing Film Rolls data is JUST as chock full of disinformation.
Dave Balderstone
wrote:
> I put, verbatim, the four instruction here in this thread.
No, you put the first three in your post. I added the fourth.
Dave Balderstone
wrote:
> It's attitude like yours that keeps people away from newsgroups
There are people who *should* be kept away from newsgroups, in my
opinion. I'm not saying you're one of them.
VAXman-
alt.revisionist.history is in the other direction.
I did post all 4 and your remark to my original question still did
not answer or help me. Mr. Balderstone provided the salient post.
Dave Balderstone
wrote:
> alt.revisionist.history is in the other direction.
>
> I did post all 4 and your remark to my original question still did
> not answer or help me. Mr. Balderstone provided the salient post.
I didn't help you, yet I did. Wow. I didn't realize I could do both at
the same time. Cool.
Now, in your original post <00A5481E...@SendSpamHere.ORG> you
said:
> The latest iPhoto (6.0.2) help says I can change the name and/or date
> of a film roll. It says to select the library then View > Film Roll
> and click on the film icon in the viewing area.
>
> This doesn't seem to do anything on my system. Any pointers?
Where, exactly, did you post the fourth item from the help page? I see
1, 2 and 3, and they're not quoted verbatim, either, as you claimed in
<00A548B4...@SendSpamHere.ORG>
> I put, verbatim, the four instruction here in this thread.
That statement is simply untrue.
Have fun in alt.revisionist.history...
Garner Miller
on earth that I shouldn't be able to click on the film roll's name in
the browser window and edit it there, just as I can in the Finder, in
iTunes, and so on. The name's right there! Why make me go to another
panel to actually edit the name of the roll? (Or a picture, for that
matter.)
Feedback sent to Apple, FWIW.
VAXman-
>
>
>In article <00A548B6...@SendSpamHere.ORG>, < @SendSpamHere.ORG>
>wrote:
>
>> alt.revisionist.history is in the other direction.
>>
>> I did post all 4 and your remark to my original question still did
>> not answer or help me. Mr. Balderstone provided the salient post.
>
>I didn't help you, yet I did. Wow. I didn't realize I could do both at
>the same time. Cool.
Mea Culpa... I referenced the wrong poster when I looked up this thread
in google.
>> The latest iPhoto (6.0.2) help says I can change the name and/or date
>> of a film roll. It says to select the library then View > Film Roll
>> and click on the film icon in the viewing area.
>>
>> This doesn't seem to do anything on my system. Any pointers?
>
>Where, exactly, did you post the fourth item from the help page? I see
>1, 2 and 3, and they're not quoted verbatim, either, as you claimed in
><00A548B4...@SendSpamHere.ORG>
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.system/msg/349babd9a9e198e0?hl=en&
You really are a fucking pain in the ass over a simple question.
Dave Balderstone
Steiner <mich...@michelle.org> wrote:
> I missed the earlier discussion in this thread, but after reading your
> message I opened iPhoto, double clicked on the name of a film roll and
> was able to edit or change it--just like in the Finder.
>
> Also, like in the Finder, if you press Return while a roll is selected,
> you enter the edit mode. Unlike the Finder, if you press Enter, you do
> not go to the Edit mode.
What version of iPhoto? In 6.0.2, here, double clicking opens & closes
the roll.
Garner Miller
> I missed the earlier discussion in this thread, but after reading your
> message I opened iPhoto, double clicked on the name of a film roll and
> was able to edit or change it--just like in the Finder.
Huh... when I double-click on the name of a film roll, all it does it
close up the disclosure triangle. (This is in iPhoto 6.0.2.)
Or are you talking about the name in the "Information" panel? If so,
that one I knew about. My complaint is that you can ONLY change it
there, and not in iPhoto's window itself. (It'd be the Finder
equivalent of only being able to change a file's name in the Get Info
window.)
>
> Also, like in the Finder, if you press Return while a roll is selected,
> you enter the edit mode.
Ack! I tried that, and it opened up every item in the roll into a
separate window! (Including a few videos, which opened up in Quicktime
Player.)
Wonder why we're getting such different behavior?
Garner Miller
Steiner <mich...@michelle.org> wrote:
> > Huh... when I double-click on the name of a film roll, all it does it
> > close up the disclosure triangle. (This is in iPhoto 6.0.2.)
> I'm referring to the panel to the left of the panel with the preview
> views--the one labeled "source".
Ahh, OK, then. I was referring to the film rolls themselves in the
preview panel -- I want to be able to change them there, not over in
that panel on the side. Since that's where my eyes are when I see that
it's named "Roll 303," that's where it seems logical to make the
change. But in this incarnation of iPhoto, I can't.
Oh, well; I was hoping there was a preference you found that I had
missed. :D